Day: 6 August 2007

miscellaneous, musings

Thank you

I don’t have as much time as I would like to properly respond to the lovely people that leave comments on my blog!  Please accept this as a thank-you!  There are a few people that regularly comment, and I really get a kick out of what you have to say.  This blog is all about “show and tell”, so I’m glad that some of you are enjoying it!  Thanks to (in no particular order) Jodie, Abby, Toni, Charli, Nikki, little miss meshell, southergirlmusings, carlafibers, judicreations, imperfectalia, lilbooger, appliejuice, Amy, Linda, the domestic diva, Donna, Claudia, Melly, and apologies to anyone I’ve inadvertently left out.

flowers

I do keep up with your blogs too – you all do fantastic work!  It is really inspiring to see the creativity of others and to share ideas.  Thanks again!

adult's clothing, embroidery, planned projects, refashioning, sewing

Awaiting refashioning

I don’t have anything new to show you.  I have started the embroidery on the baby dress, but it will take me ages.  I think that I might have to break my vow already and start a few other projects to do at the same time.  Maybe there isn’t a valid reason to finish one project before starting another – different projects meet different creative needs, so maybe it’s good to have a few different things on the go at once!  Well, that will be my justification anyway.

I embroidered and constructed these pants for myself some time ago, following an idea in Inspirations magazine.  The original outfit was pants and a top for a little girl.  They did get quite a bit of wear, but aren’t really my style now.  They look a bit too much like pyjamas (possibly because I did use a pyjama pattern to make them).  Gee, it would have been a good idea to have ironed them before taking the photo . . .

Embroidered pants

They’ve been in the op-shop bag for a while, but somehow I just couldn’t bear to get rid of them – probably thinking of the time spent doing embroidery!  Now I think that I will refashion them into something else.

embroidery close up

Possibly a couple of simple tote bags?  One from each leg?  Using the rest of the fabric for lining and handles?