Sewed bag, dyed yarn, knitted hat.
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creativityAfter 2 years of having a Brother sewing machine that was erratic to the point of being unusable, I took the time to troubleshoot the problem online, and figured out that I needed to buy actual name-brand Brother bobbins.
Having grown up on recipes that specified "Pillsbury brand all-purpose flour" and the like, I had assumed the manual specifying "Our brand bobbins only" was a marketing gimmick. Let me tell you, it's NOT. I spent $3 on new bobbins and my machine works again.
Here is a tutorial for making a nifty bag out of a piece of handwoven fabric.
I don't weave, but I put together a strip of blue floral and a strip of yellow solid fabric, turned all the edges under, pinned them, and FULLY intended to hand-sew the edges. Three weeks later, I ran it through the sewing machine, so it got done in under an hour.
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Also, last week I dyed some yarn using Kool-Aid drink mix and some tea (some generic buck-a-box teabags). I did the colors first and then overlaid it with the tea for a muted effect. Here's the first pass with the colors:
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And after that, I overlaid it with tea and got this:
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Also, I found my head! My glass head, I mean, so I could take a picture of the hat I finished last week:
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The thing at the crown is actually a loop for hanging or clipping to something. The colorful yarn is some Jojoland Rhythm superwash. The brown double-knit bottom cuff (brim?) is Berroco Vintage Wool (which is part wool and part acrylic). I didn't knit it from an actual pattern, just winged it, so there are things I'd do differently if I were to knit another (like do a provisional caston and knit the bottom all at once, instead of the inside and then the outside).
I am really, really excited that my sewing machine works again. I have some quilt bits I cut out two years ago that I can now put together!
Having grown up on recipes that specified "Pillsbury brand all-purpose flour" and the like, I had assumed the manual specifying "Our brand bobbins only" was a marketing gimmick. Let me tell you, it's NOT. I spent $3 on new bobbins and my machine works again.
Here is a tutorial for making a nifty bag out of a piece of handwoven fabric.
I don't weave, but I put together a strip of blue floral and a strip of yellow solid fabric, turned all the edges under, pinned them, and FULLY intended to hand-sew the edges. Three weeks later, I ran it through the sewing machine, so it got done in under an hour.
click for embiggening
click for embiggening
Also, last week I dyed some yarn using Kool-Aid drink mix and some tea (some generic buck-a-box teabags). I did the colors first and then overlaid it with the tea for a muted effect. Here's the first pass with the colors:
click for embiggening
And after that, I overlaid it with tea and got this:
click for embiggening
Also, I found my head! My glass head, I mean, so I could take a picture of the hat I finished last week:
click for embiggening
The thing at the crown is actually a loop for hanging or clipping to something. The colorful yarn is some Jojoland Rhythm superwash. The brown double-knit bottom cuff (brim?) is Berroco Vintage Wool (which is part wool and part acrylic). I didn't knit it from an actual pattern, just winged it, so there are things I'd do differently if I were to knit another (like do a provisional caston and knit the bottom all at once, instead of the inside and then the outside).
I am really, really excited that my sewing machine works again. I have some quilt bits I cut out two years ago that I can now put together!
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Date: 2011-01-25 05:20 pm (UTC)Congratulations on the sewing stuff. Neat to see someone who actually made the Doni's Deli bag... that looked easy but the sewing was insanely advanced for my skills. Yours came out nice.
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