Happy
Thanksgiving! (Day or so late :) )
Despite
all of the business that’s going on (cooking, cleaning, spending
time with cousins I haven’t seen in two years), I’ve still
managed to write about 5,000 words this weekend (yes, that does
include this blog post). I’m supposed to be at 41,667 words, but
I’m only at 37K. Four thousand words behind is fixable, though.
Five thousand words today, and I’ll be back to where I need to be.
Almost to 50K!
Came
to my parent’s house to discover that my sister is using an old
glass coffee pot as a tank for her fish. Isn’t it cute?
I
recently bought a sewing machine, and used it to finish up a couple
of projects I’d started a couple of months back with my embroidery
machine. You can purchase machines that both embroider and do
regular sewing, but you’ll get products that are a little bit nicer
(if more expensive) if you just get one machine for the embroidering
and one for the sewing.
The
first project is a bookmark (I’ve got about three different
versions of these on my Etsy store – I’m a reader and a writer,
after all). This bookmark was embroidered onto felt, and then I cut
out the rectangle, cut out a plain one, inserted a cardboard piece
between the two of them for stiffness, and sewed all of the pieces
together.
Since
I’d used gold as the border when I embroidered this, I used gold
thread for the top, and purple thread for the bobbin thread. I’m
really happy with the result! It is a bit on the small side for a
bookmark (just about five inches, not including the ribbon), but it’s
about the biggest that I’m going to get with my embroidery machine.
I also placed this embroidered owl on a small tote bag.
Came
out cute! I didn’t make the bag or anything, but in order to have
a flat single layer of the bag (otherwise I'd just embroider right though the whole thing), I had to rip the stitches out of the
sides, embroider the owl, and then re-sew the sides back up. Very
easy to do, just needed a sewing machine. So that’s why I had sat
on this project for so long.
Both
of these are in my Etsy store now, but, though I need to adjust the
pattern for it, I also made a cloth headband that I want to put up
for sale soon.
It’s
reversible, so you can switch it around for a different pattern:
I’ve
played around with making these before, but this time I included some
embroidered designs. They’re supposed to sit just a few inches
above the right ear (did it wrong for the brown side, as it places
the flower designs above the left ear). The headbands are only about
2 ½ inches wide, which means the designs have to be no more than
about an inch wide. Turns out I don’t have a lot of tiny designs,
but the ones that I have came out nice. I also think I should’ve
done a bright yellow for the daisies, instead of the orange, as it
kind of fades into the dark brown of the fabric.
I
also don’t want the fabric to come to a square end when it connects
with the elastic – I want it to be more of a point. I’ve got an
idea for how to do that, but haven’t had the chance to work on it
yet :).
The
elastic is a thick and woven type, so it won’t pull uncomfortably
on anyone’s hair or skin. I always hate it when I find a hair
decoration I like, but then it hurts too much to wear. For this one,
I made the elastic too long by about an inch, so that’s something
else to adjust.
Most
of the fabric I have is cotton, but I do have some satin, so I wonder
if that is something people would like? At any rate, I think these
will make a fun addition to my shop.
Word
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