The Beginning of Something New
I have never been much for making resolutions, with one exception. For the past 2-3 years I have made the same resolution to sew & create more. I know that I am happier when I do. I look at it as a learning adventure, experimenting in creating what I design or personalizing a pattern that I have. However, I typically have a difficult time sitting down to create, and all excuses I have are lame. So the short of it is that every year I have made this resolution, I have not kept it. The only projects that I do complete are ones with deadlines, which I always finish under the wire, sometimes stitching myself in. Then once the deadline has arrived, I'm usually so fried from focusing solely on that project that I can't touch anything for a couple of months.
I need to change my sewing habits, so I am starting this blog. My goal is to do a little sewing each week, whether its mending, embellishing or making something from scratch & to post it here. This way I have some accountability since promising myself to do it is getting me no where. Along the way when I come across a learning adventure that I think is interesting, I can detail it to help out others. That's what I love about creating. You may have an idea of what you want & where you want to go but sometimes the project has a mind of its own that may or may not turn out better than what you expected. In the end, you learn something new, like the importance of padding mannequins to better imitate you (future lesson) or that satin is very particular on how it takes dye (another future lesson).
Well now you see where the "Adventure" part of my blog title comes from. Now for the "Attire & Accessories." Firstly I am not a quilter, majority of my projects are clothing ensembles for either myself, friends or my dolls usually with accessories that go with it. From time to time, there may be a project that doesn't fall under the category of "attire" or "accessory." Often winds up being pillows. Be warned I have a tendency of naming everything either a hippie name or a girl's name.
Here are some of the projects that I have completed in the past...
Maid Marion Sunflower Forest Cloak (Butterick's B4377)
Cassandra doll in her Clarise Christmas dress of my own design. I created a rolling stamp with my own pattern, advice do not roll the stamp back and forth for stronger imprint, kinda winds up a lil messy, or at least in my book.
Nobuko doll in my Oriental Flare design, with headband, coin purse & shoes.
Nobuko in Spring Breeze Yukata, where I stenciled & free handed the designs using Jacquard paints.
My Snow "princess" dress, button ring, hair clips, choker & bedazzled shoe clips. I called it just "snow" but when I wore it out everyone kept tacking "princess" to it. It is also one of the projects that I had to stitch myself in to be wearable, but I was going to wear it to the "Nutcracker" that year.
Well I think that's enough for now. So I will see you in a week, where there will at least be mending on the list, hopefully something else too. I've lots of projects that I have prepped & started but never finished so I have plenty to pick from.
I need to change my sewing habits, so I am starting this blog. My goal is to do a little sewing each week, whether its mending, embellishing or making something from scratch & to post it here. This way I have some accountability since promising myself to do it is getting me no where. Along the way when I come across a learning adventure that I think is interesting, I can detail it to help out others. That's what I love about creating. You may have an idea of what you want & where you want to go but sometimes the project has a mind of its own that may or may not turn out better than what you expected. In the end, you learn something new, like the importance of padding mannequins to better imitate you (future lesson) or that satin is very particular on how it takes dye (another future lesson).
Well now you see where the "Adventure" part of my blog title comes from. Now for the "Attire & Accessories." Firstly I am not a quilter, majority of my projects are clothing ensembles for either myself, friends or my dolls usually with accessories that go with it. From time to time, there may be a project that doesn't fall under the category of "attire" or "accessory." Often winds up being pillows. Be warned I have a tendency of naming everything either a hippie name or a girl's name.
Here are some of the projects that I have completed in the past...
Cassandra doll in her Clarise Christmas dress of my own design. I created a rolling stamp with my own pattern, advice do not roll the stamp back and forth for stronger imprint, kinda winds up a lil messy, or at least in my book.
Well I think that's enough for now. So I will see you in a week, where there will at least be mending on the list, hopefully something else too. I've lots of projects that I have prepped & started but never finished so I have plenty to pick from.
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