Hello friends! A dear school chum of mine recently came by with an interesting request.She held up a well-loved blouse (replete with signs of wear) and asked if I could duplicate it. WHO AM I TO REFUSE SUCH A CHALLENGE??? OF COURSE I SHALL TAKE IT ON. And, in the process, discovered what a well
Category: modern
Winter Hats, Part III: Mathematical Shapes (Mobius and Klein bottle)
Part III of winter hats is here! And this time it’s math-based. Remember Part I? It featured a blue hat? Well, I had yarn left over, in prodigious amounts. So I decided to make something for myself. I had seen a Mobius scarf, which I had really liked the idea of. As you’ll see, mine
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Winter Hats, part II — Jayne’s Hat
Ladies and Gents,As promised, part II of the Wooly-Hats Spectacular Spectacular!I’m trying the pictures in a larger size, let’s see how this looks!In this case, I made a Jayne-inspired hat, copying a hat that the character Jayne Cobb got from his mom on the TV sci-fi/western Firefly.The cool thing about his hat is that it
THE DREADED SOCK
Yep, Ladies and Gents, I once tried to make a sock.…. the yarn is now incorporated into an afghan… Garment Data:– Type: SOCK– Date made: Well, it was never finished… (I don’t actually know when I started. I unraveled it in 2008 or so)– Pattern: None, I made it up as I went along!– Fabric/Materials:
Winter Hats
Dear friends!By request, I’m posting pictures from a few years ago that I hadn’t gotten around to posting yet. These are hats I made for friends and (when I get around to posting them) myself. They’re quite warm! I tested them 🙂 Garment Data:– Type: Winter Hat– Date made: Some time during the years 2003-2008–
A hatbox!
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, I got fed up with finding my bonnets squashed at the bottom of my trunk. I sprang for a cardboard, undecorated hatbox at the craft store, and just spent the day with a bottle of Mod Podge, a sponge brush, some paper napkins, and some tissue paper. What fun! Garment Data:–
County Fair
Dear Readers, This year, for the first time, I entered some items in the fair! SPOILER ALERT: I didn’t win. That’s ok, though! Most of the pieces I submitted, I could tell you exactly what’s wrong with it. The frustration is that the judging criteria are not publicized, so there is no way of knowing
Golden Spike Triptych
Posting some older items, to catch up with what I’m working on now! Item Data:– Type: Acrylic painting on canvas– Date made: August 2011– Pattern: used photos of each engine for accuracy– Fabric: canvas– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: several days– Notes: The engines are painted using photographs of the original engines that participated in
Iris Painting
Posting some older items, to catch up with what I’m working on now! Item Data:– Type: Acrylic painting on canvas– Date made: July 2011– Pattern: Painted freehand, using photographs as inspiration and as a guide– Fabric: canvas!– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: Don’t remember. one or two days, I think, including drying time.– Notes: Kelly’s
Denim Skirt
Hello once again! I’m back, making a few updates and making some more clothing. I may also get around to restructuring old posts…In this post you’ll also see me using a new template of data to make sure I tell you everything relevant about the garment.Here goes! Garment Data:– Type: skirt– Date made: Actual skirt,