2023

New E-Project, Basic Berry Basket Weaving

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Basic Berry Basket Weaving E-Project

$4.95

Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item.  Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish.  All steps are included with detailed photos.  Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!

Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item.  Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish.  All steps are included with detailed photos.  Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!

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Fish Decoy Carving

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Burning and Carving Fish – Free pattern included
Wood Carved Ice Fishing Decoys

Pages: Learn how to wood carve your own Ice Fishing Decoy, a free wood carving project by Lora S Irish. Folk art fish decoys can become much more than realistic wood carvings of minnows and fishing bait.  This gallery of wood carvings by Lora Irish offers more samples of what you could do with your own whittled fish decoy.

Ice Fishing Decoy Carving – Four page free tutorial
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery One
Ice Fishing Decoy Gallery Two
Sun Fish Carving – Includes free pattern

E-Project: Learn folk art ice fishing decoy carving with this in-depth step-by-step project taught by Lora S. Irish. This sixty page e-book includes an introduction to the history of ice fishing decoys, the six basic carving cuts needed to create these fun fish, and two complete projects. Complete your decoy with the painting steps and by creating a simple wire hanger. 60 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas included are 20 small decoys patterns with fin variations, 4 long minnow decoy patterns, and 21 large full-sized decoy patterns accompanied by full-colored photos of the carved samples. Comes in Adobe Reader .pdf format!

Whittle Fish E-Project by Lora S Irish

Fish Related Digital Patterns: ArtDesignsStudio patterns by L S Irish

Fishing Lures

Fresh Water Fishing Patterns

Hook, Line, and Sinker

Just Goldfish

 

 

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Chip Carving Wooden Spoons – Free Pattern

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wood carving wooden spoonsClassic straight-handled, hardwood wooden spoons are a fantastic theme for the wood carver.   But there is so much more than you can do with that handle as chip  carving, oven rack hooks, and relief carving.

 

Click on the images for a full-sized free spoon carving pattern.

Chip Carving Seminar by Lora Irish
Chip Carving Seminar
Chip Carving Supplies
Chip Carving Graphed Patterns
Chip Carving Hand Positions and Grips
Chip Carving – Triangles and Square Chips
Chip Carving – Straight-Wall Chips
Chip Caved Game and Chess Board
Chip Carving Sampler Pattern Layout
Chip Carving Common Mistakes
Chip Carved Shortbread Cookies

 

 

Wood Carving
Four Methods to Cutting a Wooden Spoon Blank
Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving
The Art of Spoon Carving by Lora S. Irish
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Wood Carving Wooden Spoons
Wooden Spoon Burning Patterns
Beginner’s Wood Carving, Spoon Carving
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Styles of Wood Carved Spoons

 

 

Oven Handle Spoon Carving PatternThis oven rack spoon handle is one of the many spoon patterns in Lora S. Irish’s book, Art of Spoon Carving, available at Amazon.com.

For your next new wood carving reading about chip carving, please see Lora Irish’s book, Chip Carving Workshop on Amazon.com.

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Wood carving, Pyrography, Crafts

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Over 600 webpages of free fun, ideas, techniques, and projects.

Today’s focus project: Chip Carving Seminar

Chip carving has become for the woodworker an art form complete in itself. This technique uses triangular shaped cuts that create intricate and intriguing designs dancing across the surface of the wood. Patterns for chip carving are defined by a few basic elements, as the triangle or free form line, yet by varying the size and position of these elements new patterns are created.

Chip Carving Seminar by Lora Irish
Chip Carving Seminar
Chip Carving Supplies
Chip Carving Graphed Patterns
Chip Carving Hand Positions and Grips
Chip Carving – Triangles and Square Chips
Chip Carving – Straight-Wall Chips
Chip Caved Game and Chess Board
Chip Carving Sampler Pattern Layout
Chip Carving Common Mistakes
Chip Carved Shortbread Cookies

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GatorWorld Carving Foam

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Ya’ kno’ how sometimes you can feel in total control of your project and direction in which that project is headed.  Then sometimes it feels like the project is totally in control and you are only along for the ride.

The carving foam shanty house was meant to be rustic, dark, and part of a gaming terrain design.  But somehow … I don’t know when or where … it suddenly took a left hand turn to end up as GatorWorld.

The shanty is constructed with 3/8″ foam board, 1″ thick cuts from insulation carving foam, and cereal box cardboard for the windows and doors.  Carving foam balloons are suspended on 18-gauge copper wire.  The palm tree with paper leaves is also carving foam; wood beads become coconuts, and a string of fairy lights is wrapped around the trunk.

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