Archive for the ‘Craft’ Category
August 10th, 2010
I started writing this post a week ago, at which time I started it with the line, “Well August is upon us. How on earth did that happen!?”, and now we’re two weeks in. How on earth did THAT happen?!
Back in April we (read: our craft group) started working on a teacup quilt. It was one of those things where we loved this pretty tea party fabric, and wanted to make a wall hanging out of it, but it didn’t belong to a pattern we liked (or as far as were aware, any pattern at all).
So Nana set out to make her own pattern with the odd shaped sections of fabric we had. Lets just say that it has NOT been an easy task, hence it being August already, and we’ve not started it.
Last Tuesday at craft group we decided to bite the bullet and sacrifice parts of the fabric in order to easy the planning and quilt making process.
I think it’s going to work well once it’s all put together. We’ve divided the quilt into three sections, so tomorrow we plan on putting the first section together, and then I can start the embroidery for it as well.
This is going to make my list of quite big projects rather long… Hopefully I have them all finished by the end of the year!
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Tags: planning, processpledge, quilt, Sewing, teacup, wall hanging
August 5th, 2010
I always look on in awe at the awesome ‘
Frock by Friday‘ creations that people make via
Grosgrain‘s instructions. I’ve never followed the process before. I always feel like I wouldn’t be able to dedicate the time each night to making part of it…
It’s true that I really can’t dedicate time each night to doing it, but when I saw how dang easy this dress was going to be to make, I figured I’d be able to make it happen! It’s Wednesday night (well, Thursday morning at time of posting!), and I’ve only just started, but because it’s an American site, they’re a day behind. Technically I am only a day behind, yay! I don’t actually have any fabric prepared, so I will be hitting the shops tomorrow night to pick something out!
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Anyway, so far all I have done is print off the pattern and cut it out. It’s one of those BurdaStyle ones, so I spent forever sticky taping it all together. I would seriously rather pay the (in this case) 4 extra dollars to get one from Spotlight that I didn’t have to sticky tape together, but that would have meant waiting and waiting till I got a chance to actually go out AND have money at the same time.
What sort of fabric do you think I should get for it? I’m thinking a pattern of some sort. Maybe floral? I guess it depends on the price. The other thing I liked about this dress (or more specifically the pattern) is that it was made for larger sizes, which fits me perfectly! Nothing worse then taping and cutting out an entire pattern only to find out that it’s not in your size!! Yes, I do realise I should have checked before I ever even downloaded it!!
Has anyone ever done one of these before and actually stuck to the time line?!
Tags: dress, frockbyfriday, Sewing
August 4th, 2010
It’s a question I’m asking myself. Is it a bag? Or is it a clutch? I don’t quite know what to call it…
Do you have any ideas?
You can buy it here.
Also, do you want me to show you how to make your own?
Tags: bag, blue, clutch, etsy, questions
