My last project was this blouse I turned into a little bag.
It's hard to see, but I left the row of buttons on it.
And turned the sleeves into little buttoned down handles. (And I put the handles in the right direction!)
I didn't have a pattern--just winged it. Made lots of mistakes, but learned from them all. I even lined it! With other scrap material. Watched back to back episodes of Arrested Development while doing it.
(It's not un-ironed--it's the material that's ruched.)
Now I'm working on an owl pillow and an organizer for my car. And thinking up a wallet for Fernando. ...I can't say how at home this sewing and crocheting feels. I don't mean it comes naturally, the way writing does; but the creativity, the freedom to make a design exactly as you want, re-purposing old items... it all feels very Moi. I've always wanted to be that hippie chick who makes her own shit.
____LOVE SONGS OF THE DAYS____
Just noticed I'm short one song. Today here are two Melodramatic Fall Upon the Thorns of Life I Bleed!* songs.
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through the brain!
Yes I would die for you baby
But you won't do the same
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep keep bleeding love
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* My lit buddies and I thought the Romantics were hilarious:
As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
- Shelley
6 comments:
Wow, you have become a sewing maniac! I want to be able to make some of my own clothing and lots of my own home decor stuff. I don't currently have a sewing machine, however, and am not too into hand-sewing for such large items. It's one of those "later" things for me.
I think it is so great you are doing it and finding so much pleasure in it!
I used to make my own clothes when I was youger. Now I save my eyes for the writing. : ) Doubt I could thread a needle on first try.
Adore the music choices.
I love The Romantics.
Right now I've got Cosmic Love by Florence and the Machine on replay and I think it just might inspire a whole book.
Your sewing projects are fabulous. I have material for curtains but I haven't done the work yet.
I always suspected the key was to have the machine permanently set up somewhere. None of this storing it in the closet BS. I can't handle that.
Love that fabric for the bag...it's so happy!
Yes, I love cheerful prints!
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