This is an old Levi zip up that has a ton of holes and the elbows are completely worn through. I cut off the bottom layer of a crotchet skirt (I still don't know whether or not I like the skirt...) and sewed it onto the zip up to cover the elbows. This is my second elbow-patch project and this one is definitely done much better.
My friend Mac contacted me to help design skirts using Pendleton fabric. He already had prototypes of the skirts made and all I have to do now is let people try them out, give me feedback and figure out how to make the skirts better. Jessica is wearing the small tall, for girls who are 5'8 and up. The small regular is 5'7 and shorter, but it really depends on how you wear your skirt.
There's a huge line behind her to try the skirt and tomorrow I'm handing it off to another girl. The goal from now until the end of school is to let as many people try the skirt out to get a lot of feedback on it so I can figure out what the sizing will be. Then I'm going to a seamstress with a few friends to get the skirts redesigned and make new prototypes. Hopefully the next set of skirts will be perfect so we can start selling them. In the meantime, I'm making myself a pair of loose white summery pants. Super excited right now, two projects going on at the same time!!
In case people haven't noticed, my posts recently have not been of me and my (not really) clothes, mainly my little random bits of sewing here and there. Welllllll that is largely because all the outfits I wear that I deem cool enough to post consist of 89% of Mariel's clothes, the ones that she has no room for at college and leaves home (PS Mariel, I have been doing a stellar job at putting everything back).
So I put to use my one yard of chiffon and made you (Mariel) a shirt!! I basically took that London Marc Jacobs shirt, made a rough outline of it on the yard of chiffon folded in two and grabbed my scissors and cut away!! And then I clumsily sewed everything together. I'm not yet finished with the right sleeve and the neckline but I will be done in a few days and you will have a new shirt coming in the mail soon.
That is the shirt (above). I tried to get the entire shirt in backlighting so you could see the see-throughness of it but it was not working.
Okay and now, in order, is the completed sleeve, the bottom hemline and the unfinished neckline.
Sweet! I cannot wait for you to get it because then you can wear it, figure out what works with it and what doesn't and when you come home for summer I can wear it!!
Mariel showed me this girl's blog: Adeline Rapon. Well, as it is now my newest favorite blog, I have taken it upon myself to personally stalk her like crazy. Adeline (yes I am on first name basis) posted this sweater yesterday.
I really really liked this whole bow-on-the-back-of-a-sweater deal she was doing. I also realized I had just finished my homework and I had late opening the next day. So I set out to make my version of her bow-on-the-back-of-a-sweater. Only I'm using a tank top because I don't have a big white sweater and I'm using blue and white striped fabric for the bow.
It's still too cold to wear it outside on its own and considering all the big stuff is in the back, I am just going to have to save it for later.
PS I spent 30 minutes during my free period looking for a fabric store and once I did I went in and they didn't even have lace. So I bought chiffon to make something (you'll see later!!) THAT WAS 13 DOLLARS PER YARD. I do not know if this is a good price or not but it seemed ridiculously overpriced. But I wouldn't know.
PPS I just realized I did bows two posts ago...I was debating between one huge heart or a bow. Huh. I might just go and make myself a heart-shirt.
The weather's so chilly I finally have reason to wear this scarf! I knitted it over winter break out of two kinds of yarn. The pattern looks complicated, but once you get a hang of the diagonals it becomes quite easy. I made one long strip and then sewed the two ends together to make a circle scarf.
i love the chunky softness, and for any knitter out there: the thicker the yarn, the quicker the stitch
You know that post Mariel did about her studded sweater? Well, I made a studded shirt while she made her sweater. Kind of a sisterly bonding time during Christmas Break. We both agreed we're a little over studding and we need to watch how much we do but this shirt I studded kind of looked like a dentist's smock so I needed to do something with it. I cut it to a few inches below my belly button so it's a crop top and I put circle studs around the sleeves.
And just so this isn't too redundant, I'm posting pictures of two new pieces of jewelry, both only 5$ from Cost Plus World Market. It's actually my favorite place for rings/earrings/necklaces/little nicknacks that don't mean much.
Big project for the season has been going through my stuff, mainly seperating out workable projects from ruined attempts. I stumbled upon this headband I made out of a yard of lace trimming. Basically you just measure it around your head and then sew the remaining amount into some type of flower looking thing. Then TADA you end up with a turban looking headband.
I found this blue cardigan in my mom's closet the end of last year and for some reason I was really into it (super weird, it's just like any other blue knit cardigan) and I wore it so often that holes formed in the elbows.
And then I had to stop wearing it.
Guess what?? Just yesterday, I was back in my mom's closet and found patches for her blue Chanel suit.
Those were originally together but I had to cut it in half so it would fit my cardigan.
DETAIL SHOTS:
Here's the finished cardigan. The light was super bad so you can't really tell what's what on the cardigan but the patches show up really nicely.
It's taking me so longggggggggg to finish that other shirt. I realized, when I was doing the cardigan, that it's taking forever because I won't even be able to wear it once I'm finished with it.
It's sub 32F and I still have to walk to school and walk home, down three hills, up three hills. My hands are completely raw.
I started this project a while back. The process is simple, you might have even made these in fourth grade. To start, cut long thin triangles (isosceles) out of paper. The two longest sides are equal and then the base determines the width of the bead. Wrap this base around the handle of a pen and roll it up, attaching the last pointy inch or so with a glue stick. After I made as many beads as I could handle, I covered them in a thin mixture of Elmer's glue and water and waited for them to dry.
Later I found inspiration in this metal fence, and realized I wanted to contrast the crafty look of these beads with metal chains.
Regardless of whether or not you're a Halloween fan, themed manicures for all occasions are quite easy to achieve. For this look I simply painted my nails orange and then placed little nail tattoo-decals over them, before finishing the whole thing off with a top coat. Its a fun look that catches enough attention and the best part is you can do it at home for cheap. Sheets of decals are around 5 dollars.
Here I have birds on my thumb and ring finger. A camel on the other thumb, and the very blurry thing on my right ring finger is a unicorn. xx
I finished the shirt on Monday actually but haven't posted it because I have this funny feeling inside that it's not completely finished but I don't want to do that classic mistake where you think it needs more and once you put more it just looks trashy and horrible.
So I gave myself a few options. I quickly finished braiding up the entire dress to sew onto the shirt and tried to figure out what to do with it. Here are my thoughts:
1. do i continue with the original plan: sew the braids on the bottom seam and the armholes
2. or do i just do the armholes. or just do the bottom seam
3. sew vertical braids all around
4. or do the hem where i cut upwards toward the side seam, kind of like a half circle
HELP give me advice because i don't want to ruin my hard work
I've been needing to save money recently, so I've gotten into craft projects. You'd need to find a button machine, but besides that the other materials are easy/cheap. Look at what I made from October Vogue!
