Current Mood : Crabby
Spent on Machine Embroidery today : $2.00
Allow me to state right here and right now that I despise, loathe, and eagerly seek to destroy the stupid ‘custom' of Daylight Savings Time. It just means Dearest Son gets on the bus in the dark, and more people leave lights on when they leave the house. I have no idea how that's supposed to conserve energy.
Unless I sew tomorrow - and I hope to ! - I'm caught up. This is the All American Crab I stitched up Friday. Bought the last two designs I've had my eye on from the SiCK site while they were on sale. The way the site owner's changing stuff around, I figured I'd best get the last of it while the getting was still cheap.
Beloved Hubby had to work today, catch up on everything that got put off during the Big Car Shuffle of '09. While he was out, he found a sad-looking Blazer that was within our budget for DFIL, so... after we take Molly-car to the shop, he'll be working on it tomorrow. He's off from when he's home tonight ‘til Wednesday morning.
As for me, I'm not sure where the day went. After weeks of downloading, I finally organized all those patterns, and that took a bit of time. I also looked at a bunch in Ambassador. It's amazing how many I can subvert for my own nefarious purposes, even though I can't change them. I can leave off colors, or alter the use - the flame jobs on the line art trucks can be left off, the bottom of the kinda-ugly floral basket makes a nice ornament, I can omit the stitching around the shape and use the inside for my own designs, and the wine-glass coaster could easily make a small change-purse.
One thing I'm noticing in my ME design hunts - folks who create ‘em seem determined to force regular sewing projects into embroidery hoop patterns. One that I've reverse-engineered in my mind is a small pouch that holds a smaller mirror. The machine embroidery for the pouch is simply a long oval. The mirror frame is a circle with words in it - and half of them are unusable since the dates on ‘em are "2007". Yet the ‘design package' is $50. Um, I can make that on a regular sewing machine on satin stitch, freehand, and I don't need to download anything, just draw a good oval. There's several pouches, pockets, and even doll clothes and accessories like that. There's no good reason for it to be ME, except that instead of selling it for $20. to Workbasket, you can flog it for $50. per person. It doesn't require a $500. sewing machine to make an apron and matching pot-holder for Barbie. But yeah, there's a ME ‘design set' for that, too - $15. Another $18. if you want the American Girl size set, and another $20. for the kid version. (sigh)
I really need to start learning to create my own stuff.
