During the last post I had said that a piece was coming in for Sewphie, and that she would be fixed. Well, the piece came in and we put it in, but then realized that the piece was backwards. Since we put it into the machine, the plastic part gear was ruined, and unable to be sent back. So instead of spending another $25 at the moment to get the piece, I think I'm going to hold off. I've looked on Kijiji and I've also had someone offer to let me see if an old sewing machine of their's might work. So for now, Sewphie has been laid to rest. In the mean time, between Sewphie dying and me deciding what to do, my sister-in-law has lent me her sewing machine (**happy dance**). I was going into withdrawl (I know... pathetic). The night she dropped it off I started and finished a purse which I will show later in this post.
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| poor Sewphie :( |
The silver belt on the silver dress (which isn't pictured) was the biggest pain of the whole thing! I had made the belt, I was lightly ironing it..... and then the iron MELTED A GIANT HOLE in it about 30 minutes before I was taking them over to the director. Fortunately it was on the inside of the belt. Later, when I got the costumes back to adjust them, I was adding velcro to the silver belt with my mom's old (in need of a tune-up) machine.
Needless to say the belt went flying across the room when I threw it in rage when the machine wouldn't sew the velcro on properly.
The last time I used that kind of material was to make my Batman costume for Halloween, and it was just as much of a pain! Other than that though, things went smoothly, and I had so much fun doing it! I got to practice sewing in boning which was also cool.
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| The dress that almost got the better of me! |
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| I figured I'd add this picture in for fun! I love it:) This was the first time I really made costumes, and the costume satin on Batman was SO FRUSTRATING- Steven's Robin costume was much easier, as it was mainly all t-shirt material (except for the cape, which was a giant yellow dress in it's former life)! I love how they all turned out:) |
After Sewphie bit the dust, and after I'd given up hope on my mom's machine I decided I needed something to make that didn't involve sewing. These cute little paper towel roll bunnies looked great this past weekend when everyone got together. We had a celebration which can only best be referred to as a "Happy Gradu-Birthster-Gagement", as we were celebrating my mom's, dad's, grammy's, and my birthday, as well as my younger brother's graduation from post secondary school and his recent engagement, not to mention Easter, which we decided to celebrate early, when everyone could get together.
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| Super simple to make! All you need is craft foam in pink and white, assorted buttons for the nose, googly eyes, fabric paint (or a black marker) for the whiskers and teeth, pompoms for the tails, and paper towel tubes covered with white paper. Add some hot glue and Presto! they'll be multiplying like bunnies in no time ;) |
I also had a plain white bangle (I think I got it at Value Village). One night, I decided to paint it with bright nail polish colours for fun!
Then, like I said earlier, my sister-in-law lent me her sewing machine! I have been able to finish my clutch that I was half way done, and I also made a purse- which turned out to be one of those projects that you surprise yourself with because it turned out way better than you thought. My sister-in-law wants to buy one from me too because she liked it so much! So when I make that one, maybe I'll take a few more pictures and post how I did it. Until then though, I'll just show you the final product!
Whew...... that was a lot of updating!
I hope to post again soon, as I have SO MANY projects all swirling around in my brain right now, and with the loaning of the sewing machine, which my sister-in-law said I could call Kendra (it's also a Kenmore), the possibilities are endless!
If you've stuck with me to the very end of this post......thanks!!
and 'HOPPY' crafting!
~Becca
