Current Mood : Sleepy-happy
Busy day, even if it was just fun little things. I got both Folding Pretty houses together and took the phone / lantern off the Spring Break one and put it on my nice one. Mine had the phone and lantern, but it was missing the handset. I also appropriated the faucet for the bathtub, and the oven rack. Yep, I paid $5. to get a doll phone, a doll faucet, and an oven rack. But I'm happy with my house now - I hated how incomplete the phone looked - so it was worth the five bucks. It's still missing a weather vane, a bird perch, the door wreath (this I don't care about), the grill rack, and the windowsill / lamp assembly, but now that the phone's fixed, I'm happy.
Only problem is, I hate to get rid of the donor one. All last year I wanted a Folding Pretty house, and scored one fairly late in the year. Now I have two. I really should let go of the parts donor, but the closest I've gotten is dumping it in Molly's trunk, since there's not much room for it in the Lab. Give me a week, and I'll be ready to donate it. Dunno why I'm being so greedy lately.
Used the snowflake stitch-out to make Brody's USB cable bag, and when I couldn't find a good, recent picture of Beloved Hubby and Dearest Son, decided to continue with the narcissistic theme of the Lab and put the ‘crowned D' stitch-out into the newly cleaned sewing machine frame. It actually looks pretty good there !
After I cheap-serged the latest few new pieces of fabric - tomorrow's laundry day ! - I decided to make a little sewing kit for the KJ machine. I already had a small box from Dearest's Wall-E figurine set, so I filled it with scissors, a loaded pincushion, the bobbin box, some thread, and the little cat-themed bag I can use for thread and sewing trash. It drapes over the chair next to mine very well, and comes in handy. Fits on top of the fridge, out of the way.
After lunch (and later dinner - those Pizza Hut Panormous things are HUGE, we still have leftovers !), I got a bit bored with the computer, and my guys were napping. So I decided to embroider a bit. I'd intended to do at least a Wall-E stitch-out this weekend, so that was on the agenda. Took me a while to find some leftover sweatpants material, though - I used a lot as rags while it was just sitting around. It came out pretty well for being a bootleg and a freebie ! Dearest watched it sew out, near the end, and was entranced, with both the process and the final result. Beloved even came in and watched a bit, asked a few questions. I'm just glad I had the right colors - I used the embroidery thread on this one. It's not as ‘filling' as regular thread, but I'm sure it tastes great (80s beer jokes, from a darn-near alcohol-phobe).
Still, the embroidery thread stitched out a lot smoother, with no snarls or pulls, and the sheen is gorgeous. Too bad all I have are yer eight basic colors, white, black, and a medium grey. According to Brody's manual, 40wt. thread is preferred, so I'm gonna go through all my thread - yes, all four boxes ! - and pull any thread labeled ‘40' I find. Then, I'll wait for Hancock Fabric's next big thread or notions sale, and get some fill-in colors. I need at least a light and a dark grey that I know of...
I'm thinking tomorrow, while clothes wash and dry, I'll test stitch the Teacher of the Year design, and the bootleg Barbie appliqué design I bought. I'd do it tonight, it's still early, but it took me over an hour to stitch out Wall-E, and cut all the jump threads. Brody is jealous even of the thread, so I can't take my eyes off him, lest he snarl. So my eyes are a bit strained, because I barely even blinked for that hour.
Plus, the Wall-E design required nine thread changes, and seven colors. I admit, I've been sticking to one or two color designs, ‘cause I'm lazy. But seeing Dearest's joy and delight, well, I'll just hafta get off my round rump more often, huh ?
