Newest project

In my attempt to finish nothing this year, I'm starting a new project. A Georgian Corset.

I looked thru my patterns, and I had a pattern I had bought years ago, for a renaissance / Georgian corset, but I have the wrong size, mostly I stumble along blindly until by trial and error I discover something, this time I discovered if you read, you can see a size 16 standard pattern, isn't a 16 dress size.

I like the renaissance - Georgian (think Marie Antoinette ) because its conical, and more about a foundation shape, rather than hourglass.

I have had some striped fabric I have been saving for this project, and I joined a Facebook group about historical sewing challenges, the first one being stripes. I'm not very far though. I think I might pick and choose the first set of challenges, and do them in my own time.

Anyway, I have started cutting out the interlining, which you use as the mock up to check fit.

I also got copies of the train block patterns and the raccoon mitts, so I can work on that. Plus, I need to have a chart done for Christina by Thursday. So she can test knit my mittens.

Here are some pictures.

Again, it's been a while

So, I've sewn three more blocks for the quilt, I need to examine the measurements for the caboose, since it came out weird. I think I only need to make five more. Maybe I'll do them all at once, when I figure it out?

I also covered two bolsters, I got impatient and while I'm sure there was a way to do it with less hand sewing, I couldn't be bothered to track down that info. No picture of that.

And I'm in the process of making a carrying case for my kindle. Out if a book.

Bad blogger

Long time no post.

I have reasons but they are boring.

Instead I have some pictures.

First, a pair of baby socks for a friend who is having a baby in the fall. I will also make a sock monkey receiving blanket. She likes red.

Next up is a dirty Girl Scout from Tini bigs. And I plan to try to recreate this cocktail and they make it as a Jell-O shot.

Craft Mistake Swap

I want to write more blog posts and I want to document my excellent ideas for future reference. It's only posterity if you're famous. Anyhow- a craft mistake swap! Haven't you ever made something that didn't fit, wasn't right, or just didn't match your original vision? Can't take it to the thrift shop because really, they don't want a half sewn bodice of mismatched plaid? Craft swap! Bring your UFOs or no-longer-wanted projects and exchange them for something else! A wealth of new ideas or scrap fabric! A chance to overuse exclamation marks like a manga writer! What do you think? Monthly? Yearly? Special occasion? Limit to fiber artists? Tell me what you think in the comments! I couldn't resist that last exclamation point.

Craftermath

A hurricane of fabric has left scraps all over my workroom. Apollo has made himself a little nest of them. This is a prime example of craftermath- the stuff I have yet to clean up during and after my most recent projects. I will share my current quilting projects. My epic mountain of half-finished knits deserves a separate post. This pile of scrap will eventually become these blocks: However, because that quilt is complex and fiddly, I have also started cutting this quilt: And because both those quilts are ginormous and composed of straight lines, I made a tiny applique baby quilt: All of this quilting has left my craft room looking like this: And I don't even have room for all of my fabric, thanks to a recent Goodwill trip. Here is the hall outside my craft room. Despite all of the mess and interminably slow progress, I did finish a pair of curtains. Sometimes you need a quick finished object.

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Yesterday I spent hours ironing fabric. Hours!

Irritating.

But today after a nice afternoon knitting and drinking, I sewed three blocks.

Here they are.

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