Apparently, I've gotten worse at updating this. The time between posts seems to have flown by! Jeez, what happened?
What have I been doing with my [crafty] life? Well I'll begin to tell you, starting with the most recent past.
This weekend I was a recluse--a happy one. I felt good on Sunday night as I went to bed, reflecting on the things I had accomplished or furthered along. Just me and my own company, some random TV, music and some text messages received throughout, reminding me of the outside world. This made me smile as I thought, "hoh hoh people, if you only knew what I was workin on!"
Since we all frigging love lists of accomplishments (and inevitable haasome-fashion mini pitfalls in parentheses), this weekend I:
- 85% completed a purse, only because I had to wait for fabric glue to dry. (Of course the glue sort of...made the spot on the felt where the glue was applied somewhat see-through. Maybe I'll glue more felt on top.)
- Cut out fabric for a new apron using with cute vintagey fabric scored from the
Repro Depot booth at Renegade.
(Would've sewn more but I need more colors of thread. D'oh.)
- Turned my new Against Me! shirt into a girly fit tee, just taking in the sides a bit.
- Finally fixed a thrift store shirt to fit me, and already wore it today.
- Finished something for a swap. Probably shouldn't mention it here yet...
- Hung
a print by
The Black Apple, purchased at Renegade.
- Got some house stuff done. Installed new wall-mounted pot rack with some elbow grease and a regular screwdriver. Cleaned the dirtiest half of my bedroom floor and top of bookcases, made dusty by a superintendent mishap and never really thoroughly cleaned until now. Cleaned bathroom. I still have more to do but spurts are good.
Somewhere in there I jogged for a good while. Something tells me that starting to exercise again is helping. Now I have another busy couple of weeks coming up. I hope to accomplish some more stuff somehow, including cleaning the other half of my room & closet, buying more thread and finishing bags and aprons.
Up next (once I recharge my camera batteries), a post about the Brooklyn Renegade Craft Fair and the goodies I bought. Tally-ho.
Labels: apartment, busybusy, motivation, sewing
Let's rewind to Memorial Day, shall we kids?
That Monday was a mix of successes and failures. Satisfaction tainted with a bit of "arghh". By the end of the day, I finished Jen's bag! But what a humid, arduous all-day affair it was. See, I like to take my time with new things, and I generally don't mind working on it throughout the day. Monday was just *special*.
+ I woke up at a reasonable hour and got to work after breakfast. Planned out the bag, cut the pieces, ironed, pinned, and got going.
- Machine kept going on the fritz, requiring multiple re-threading; then things went downhill from there. Seam-ripping the entire top of the bag and the newfound inability to thread a needle or load a bobbin ensued. Oh, and I effed up the lining measurements and had to re-cut that fabric.
+ Good lunch break. I can has Boca burger with bacon, cheddar cheese and dijon mustard? And my new love, chocolate Silk?
- More sweating and grumbling at sewing machine.
+ My super finally showed up to put my air conditioner back in my bedroom.
- Air conditioner is junk, thanks to what must have been a massive cloud of disintegrated brick dust that filled the room, and my air conditioner, when said super fixed my bedroom window frame. (Since then, I've gotten a new A/C and had it installed.)
+ Shortly thereafter, the bag was complete. Woot! It looks great, just like the inspiration bag. Thank goodness for Annie's mac & cheese in the cupboard. Coulda used a beer, though.
- The magnet snaps I used are REALLY STRONG. So, um, just a warning, Jen.
+ I took off the following Friday to go help my sister move to a new apartment, making it a 3-day week.
Behold, the fruits of my labor (with Mellow Being modeling her bag!):
There's more where that came from!
I had a realization at the end of the night. I recovered quickly from the intense disappointment of the A/C failure. It went a little something like, "Oh hey, Jess, it's not the end of the world. How can you fix it?" It rolled off my back quicker than usual. I hope this summer to be one of trying new things. Not getting overly upset and anxious being one of them. Knitting an intermediate pattern being another. Hey-o!
Yay, I've crossed off yet another
to-do item. The remaining aprons are now in my Etsy shop.
That was quite a delay, in between finding the time to take pictures (a lengthy process when you're modeling the stuff yourself AND acting as photographer--thanks self-timer function), cropping and posting.
Check 'em out, refer a crafty friend, add me to your favorites and I'll return the favor :)
I've got a lot more up my sleeve, thanks to a good trip to Rag Shop in Jersey this weekend. Keep checking back!
Labels: clothing, etsy, sewing, shop
