Current Mood : New-project eager !
Spent on fabric Monday : $3.34
With everything going on this week, I've shamefully neglected the kitchen and dishes. So I got off my lazy butt and did dishes and counter-and-floor cleaning for a couple hours. I have a unique rule - it's time to take a break when the dishwasher's full of clean dishes ! I hand-wash everything, ‘cause the built-in dishwasher doesn't work very well, but I use it as a dish-drying rack, and every couple of weeks, run a cycle to clean it. I hate having towels with dishes drying scattered around, so I wait until the current load's dry, put those away, and then tackle the rest.
And that kind of work always leaves my mind free to ponder - unless I have my Mp3 player blasting ! Today, I did, but I still pondered. I'm figuring out how to do the directions for the Wristlet Key Fob I mentioned Sunday. It's not really a doll craft, so it doesn't belong on Somewhere That's Green, but I want it posted where folks can find it. I'm thinking of starting up a second site for just crafts and stuff that aren't doll-related. That way, the crafts don't vanish after a week or two, the way they would hosted on other sites. I'll let ya'll know first, and where to find it - I know you really wanna get a jump-start on all those Christmas '09 key fobs.
Got another invitation to Toy Fair this year, from the same toy company who spams me every few months to invest with them. Ah, well. Dream big, I always say.
I should be working on the Wristlet Key Fob Directions Project, but I don't have any D-rings. I swear, you don't think about having no transportation until it trips you up in some way. The one I mocked up has a large blue paper clip standing in for the D-ring. Hope to obtain some today or tomorrow. But while that's temporarily on the back burner, I started another craft project - the fleece Leia hat.
I've been enamored of the crochet Leia hat since I got a photo of it - gosh, who sent me that ? - but I can't crochet. I've tried several times, but just get massive headaches. So, it hit me about two weeks ago that if I can't crochet it, perhaps I can sew it. Haven't been near a fabric store in months, though, and the local Mal-Wart didn't have brown fleece.
Until Monday. It's cheap fleece, but it'll work for an experiment ! Scored a yard at $2.84, and a winter remnant for a quarter. Well, the remnant had little ice skates in the print, I couldn't resist ! So, anyway. I was thinking that, with a good base hat, you could make almost any sort of wig-hat you wanted. Imagine - a yellow fleece Sailor Moon hat. Or a classic Barbie ponytail hat. Dreadlock-hat. You could get darn near any effect you wanted, provided it's over the top and doesn't require a lot of starch.
There's any number of free fleece hat patterns out there. I've printed up a really basic design, and the first one's cut out. Turns out, a half-yard makes two hats, so with the ‘earmuffs', probably a half-yard would have done. But hey, you can always use a spare fleece hat in the middle of winter. And I'm learning that about half my initial prototypes are functional and useable, so go ahead and use at least the semi-good stuff, and matching thread. So that's what I'm up to. I hope to have the base hat sewn up tonight, and work the earmuffs tomorrow. Ordinarily, I'd wait to sew the earmuff parts first, but they'll have to be hand-sewn to the hat, so I might as well make sure that works first.
Wish me luck !
