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July 6, 2006
Battery Drain
The batteries in the camera died, so all I have to show for the past few days is this little pincushion. Little is, perhaps, misleading because it is actually the biggest pincushion I do believe I have ever seen. I went a little overboard with it, though it looks pretty good in the craft room... I mean the bedroom! I also covered a couple of shoebox lids with fancy paper from Paper Source and after a Mod Podge fiasco they look alright. I don't think decoupage is for me (though it worked well as normal glue...) The decoupage turned out looking like something I would have made in third grade. I had this very chic concept in my head of fancy-looking storage boxes. How do you do decoupage without it looking like a 13 year-old's Tiger-Beat-Meets-Craftster explosion??
I also finished four more pairs of 1337 b0xx0rz (aka boxer shorts to the rest of the known universe) for J. I got the hang of the pattern pretty quickly and so they went fast (at least for four pairs). I like the idea of whipping him up some new ones to put in periodic care packages.
Last night's project was a circular needle roll. I saw so many cute ones on Etsy and thought I would give it a whirl. I am not extremely experienced in the intricacies of such sewing, but I think it came out passibly well. I used leftovers from a maroon geometric skirt and brown twill. Not perhaps as neat and tidy as the ones for sale, but it holds them well and they are organized. I can hardly believe it. I had been using one of those huge Altoids tins for so long and it is cute, but a mess to dig through. Now I can sort them by size. Very handy. The interfacing looks a little wonky to me, but I'm sure I won't notice after a while. I can never seem to get interfacing to go on without an overabundance of texture. Impatience, perhaps. Maybe my iron is too hot. I don't know, but my dislike of interfacing is second only to my dislike of zippers. That's saying something.
Posted by loyd0008 at July 6, 2006 8:59 AM