Greetings sea turtles! I finally got around to taking pictures of my recently-made jeans and I’m starting my seasonal binge of utilitarian sewing and have a stack of cheap jersey and a New Look t-shirt pattern ready to go. Let’s just jump to the first picture, shall we? Here are the jeans and my first t-shirt from the New Look pattern.
Showing posts with label Utilitarian sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Utilitarian sewing. Show all posts
Sorry folks. I agree. Dresses are more interesting than bags. But the only dress sewing I’ve done this week is the cutting out of Parfait, a supremely unsatisfying task. I hate cutting. I use a rotary cutter and mat, which makes it slightly easier, but I still hate it. And it doesn’t make for blog photos (unless you’re in to looking at piles of scraps…) So I’m going with a recent project. My super-utilitarian messenger-slash-tote bag. Here’s me modeling it in a Willy Wonka-esque manner.
While Mr. Bug spent Saturday and Sunday shoveling our (and total strangers’) cars out of snowbanks, my mom and I amused ourselves by building an army of turtle and tomato pincushions! It was super fun and the final tally was eight tomatoes, four turtles and an apple. And I can report that crushed walnut shells are indeed an excellent filling for pincushions!
Yet another utilitarian sewing project. Pincushions. These were made mainly as samples for the shop, but they were so fun and so cute I took some time to make one for my sewing room (it matches my new ironing board cover!) Here’s the one for me… more eye candy and the pincushion tips I’ve managed to glean after the jump!
Back to my recent spate of utilitarian sewing projects. I have a confession. I have actually spent time photoshopping the stains out of my basic white ironing board cover before posting pictures to my blog. Yup. Ten minutes of using the clone stamp so that all y’all don’t think I let Lucy the hound use the ironing board to take care of business. I finally decided to do something about it after finding a nice bolt of red ticking at a local fabric shop (red ticking! how awesome!) First, an action shot. Then after the jump, how I did it…
OK. So does anyone know about moo.com?? It’s a company that prints business cards. Really cool business cards. Less business card, more trading card. They come in two sizes. Regular and mini. The regular size are normal business card size (3.5 x 2 inches, or about 8.89 x 5 cm.) Mini moos are teeny tiny and awesome – around 2.75 x 1.125” (6.98 x 2.85 cm.) ANYWAY. The cool thing about them is that you can upload different files as your ‘artwork’ – so you can get a pack of 100 cards with 100 different pictures on the back. They are especially nifty for working artists and crafty sorts – in fact, the site even allows you to download image files directly from Etsy! I ordered a bunch with my little hand drawn (ok, drawn in Illustrator with my clever fingers and my mousepad) illustration set against some of my favorite colors. The flip side just shows my name, my email address and my website. I meet a lot of people and always am looking for a pen to jot down my email or web address – now I have a little mini moo to pass out! Once I got my cards I realized I really wanted a case that could hold some of my personal cards as well as some of the full size cards from the shop where I’m working… here’s a picture of what I came up with – along with some shots of my mini moos…
More utilitarian sewing. Still playing catchup in Snug Bug-land! Last Saturday when I bundled up to head out into the snowstorm of the decade, I realized that my BASSET HOUND had systematically gnawed off various fingers from all of the (apparently delicious) toasty gloves in the house. So I made myself a nice, toasty pair of mittens (no fingers, possibly basset hound proof?) All wool and flannel and purple. They were dubbed the grimace mittens (remember Grimace, the furry purple hamburger lover and ham radio enthusiast from McDonalds ads??) by a friend. You can see why!
Back to sewing. Sort of. Part of what’s taken up my sewing time over the last week is the construction of cases for our new laptops. It was a fun project and allowed me to indulge in my affection for funky Japanese import fabric. Here’s the result. Can you guess which one is mine and which belongs to Mr. Bug?
[two snug laptops]
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