1. Shirt Lap Quilt, 2. Liz * Imagination, 3. Merry Christmas!, 4. Superhero Cape
Just a quick reminder that we will discuss Alicia Paulson’s Stitched in Time on Wednesday July 1st. Check out the Book Club Rules for further details. A few submissions have already made it into our Book Club Flickr pool. So you might want to stop by there.
In other matters, I’m proud to announce that Lisa of U-Handbag allowed me to guestblog for her. Check out my little posting on her awesome blog this week.
Remember this garment? I finally finished my refashioning project. (Well, I still have to cut off all the little threads, but technically it’s done.)
I’m quite happy with it. For the interior facing, I cut up the yoke of the original shirt. I then embellished the collar with a bit of rickrack as planned.
I used the original sleeves. To adjust the length, I marked the correct length at the top and the bottom of the arm opening and gathered about 8 inches of the fabric from the middle of the sleeve to match it to the arm opening of the top. After that it was just a matter of inserting the sleeve and sewing it into the arm opening.
For a final touch, I replaced the buttons with something a little brighter.
Now I’m eyeing the remainder of my husbands shirt collection. There’s that little blue and white striped number I’m quite fond of.
Don’t forget, the book club will meet next Wednesday on July 1st to discuss Alicia Paulson’s book: Stitched in Time.
It’s the end of the school year and time for small tokens of appreciation for my daughter’s teacher. She wears bracelets, so I decided to combine the femininity of a dangly, sparkly charm bracelet with the functionality of a watch. I hope she likes it.
. . . when you craft?
I’m currently waiting for my Audible credits to come in so I can download my next book club book, Olive Kittredge. Until then, I am mostly listening to WNYC, but sometimes I just need a break from the grim economic news. So here are some of my other sources of entertainment:
Blip.fm allows you to satisfy your D.J. ambitions. Blip lets you search for a song, provide a brief comment, and blip or share your music with others. You can string together a collection of songs into playlists. You can discover new music by listening to other D.J.s and if you really like a song that someone else blips, you can show your appreciation by giving that person props. Two Blip D.J.s I like are lethebashar and fernfiddlehead.
lala is a cross between itunes and blip. On lala you can listen to an entire song or album once. After that you have to either purchase the music in web format, which continues to live on the big lala server in the sky and is accessible to you wherever you are, or you can buy a drm free mp3 track. Through lala I’ve discovered Laura Izibor and Rhett Miller. Like blip you can listen to other people’s playlists without restrictions.
Then there is of course Pandora, the original music genome project where you can pick a song and are then provided with a stream of similar type of music.
And don’t forget your library. My library has a quite extensive collection of downloadable books and music. Chances are your library also subscribes to Overdrive’s service and allows access to its collection of audiobooks.
So really, what do you listen to when you craft?
My friend bought this necklace because she really liked the beads, but she wasn’t too crazy about the necklace part. We thought of different ways to replace the gold/string design and decided on organza ribbon. Norma of Assortedgoodies.etsy.com was somehow able figure out our vague sketches and provided us with the necessary organza ribbon and attached the findings. Once the ribbon arrived in the mail, the transformation took less than 60 seconds.
It went from BLAH
to AAAHH
Maybe you’ll spot it at Keiko’s students’ recital this weekend.
I spent last Sunday at the Atlantic ArtWalk finishing up this bag while enticing passersby to visit our pop-up shop.
The bag basically consists of two large granny squares crocheted out of plarn with a 9 mm hook. I then crocheted the two squares together, went around the top a few times to create a handle and voila! I guarantee you, you will never look at a shopping bag quite the same way again once you get started.
Well, it’s been a whirlwind week. Today I dropped off a batch of bags at 93 Nevins Street. My Etsy team scored a pop-up retail space as part of this year’s Atlantic Avenue Art Walk. If you happen to be in Brooklyn this weekend, do check out this event. It’s a self-guided tour of open artist studios and area exhibitions along Atlantic Avenue. 93 Nevins Street stood empty for 20 years until two Brooklyn developers decided to transform the space into two townhouse residences that were as green as possible. In keeping with the theme, artists with environmentally friendly products will participate the team store. Here are some of the products you may find:
