Current Mood : See-saw (and other playground delights)
Kind of a up/down day. Finally, as time's getting short, I made time to sew a prototype for the Christmas ornaments I hoped to distribute as gifts at Dearest Son's school Dec. 19th. Nothing like waiting ‘til the last minute to find out your idea won't work. (sigh) I'll probably do the same thing in a different fabric. I'd seen these sort of rough-fabric lightly stuffed soft ornaments on a craft site that were frayed around the edges, and they looked interesting. It'd certainly be easy and time-friendly - no turning right-side-out, and no hand-sewing that last bit closed !
Well, let's just say it's not gonna work the way I wanted. Spent about two hours looking for the ornaments on craft sites I frequent, and various web searches, and never did see the original inspiration again. So, I'll keep most of the idea, but I'll try felt. Still no right-side out, but I can trim the edges close to the sewing instead of fraying them (since felt doesn't fray or unravel) and still machine sew the closure. I just have to work it up tomorrow. Don't much feel like messing with it any more right now. Also got the last few bits of fabric cheap-serged and ready for the wash.
And while trying to excavate the lab from all I've crammed in there, I had to keep shifting the bag of doll clothes that needed washing. You'd think, with all the laundry I've done this week, I could have just fit it in, but I hadn't. So today, I did a load of whites and doll clothes, and a load of blankets in dark colors and more doll clothes. And the last of the fabric bits.
The paper-clip pinch on Skipper's ‘Platter Party' collar seems to be working.
