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Jill de Fae
So this little ol' corset is for me. Yay! I found some beautiful steel satiny/silky fabric (a synthetic, but who's counting since this is for me and I don't mind one little bit!), and some gorgeous grey taffeta-ish fabric to use for the bindings. One part of it has like a windy sort of embellishment, kind of ropey, but I'm tired and I can't ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Need to finish bottom binding and lacing on that piece, as well as making pasties. Will do pleather pasties with binding. Will make the fronts look like gears with gold permanent paint markers, and then the tiny propellers in the center. Have to make them in a more "finished" way than what the instructions were on FR. But they were definitely a ( Read more... ) -
He's home
So, yep. I'm weird. My son came home yesterday from Afghanistan. Every 15 minutes I was texting other moms, checking facebook for updates, checking my emails for updates, etc. So basically, I did nothing all day other than neurotically stalk my son's airplanes. lol Trust me. You would too if you've ever had a soldier gone for practically a year in ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Morning came too early today. And my head is foggy and buzzing. Working on a headache and it's only 8 am ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Obviously, I'm trying to catch up with my "journaling" because I rarely journal anymore. I'm just too busy. But I'm realizing right now that this is a very good thing. It's a way to keep my thoughts in order and to look back and remember, oh, yea, I want to do that! Or I had that idea that one time when I was at the grocery store. ;) Btw, do you ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
I look at my sketch again and then start laying things out on the corset. THAT would look neat. No. Too over the top. The drawer pulls look so cool on this and match the bronze binding so well. I want to use the belts. With the grommets. However, there isn't enough length with grommets and snaps to make it around the sides of the corset. The belt ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Next day: I start thinking about bindings. What color. . . black? Nah. Silver? Maybe. Purple? Not this one. Bronze? I put it up against the vinyl and it's AWESOME! Incredible. Spectacular! It's looking like something magnetic! Tools. Junk. My dad's garage. Resident Evil (I rented it from redbox the other day). Well, really not Resident Evil, but I ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Okay. So the test on the vinyl and coutil was pretty nice with tension set at about 6. Still worked when I doubled the coutil and doubled the vinyl. Looked good. The thread dents in a bit on vinyl, but you can still definitely see it. Not like velvets. As I'm stitching under the "lights" I noticed that the vinyl looked metallic. Not with the little ( Read more... ) -
Daddy's Junk Drawer AKA Tony Stark
Okay, so here goes with my dress journal ( Read more... ) -
Scramble
Today is scramble day for me. After spending the last several days reducing clutter, rearranging my sewing area, moving furniture about and generally decluttering the entire house, I'm feeling much more relaxed and with it. It seemed as if all of the clutter was taking away my focus and in general, just frustrating me to the point that I was frozen ( Read more... )