Monday, July 30, 2012

Twin set.

I love twin sets.... sometimes I have to realize that a twinset may not be the top and over shirt that comes together in a pattern, but sometimes its what  you put together... this set  is the jacket form  Vogue 8559 and a self made top,  the material is a slightly heavy sweater knit,, actually a little heavier than I wanted, but it will work, for now..........I don't just love it, so I am definitely going to make the pattern again,, cause I just like the casualness... (is that a word) of it,,, besides, any thing that hides tummy fluff it a good thing,, lol...

Oh,,, I found something to do with my dress form,,,, HA...I don't have a mirror to take pix of myself, so this is the next best thing,, problem is, clothes look better on the form than on me,,,, oops, did I say that...




 Ok ok,, so I went a little overboard with the pix,,  I had such a hard time deciding which ones to post,, I posted them all,, well not ALL,, I did delete about 5 or 10 or,, oh you know,,,,




Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Felting wool.

Now this is something totally new to me,,, I felted wool....... 

I have seen and read about it being done,, but never tried it.. I was cleaning out a storage room, and found some wool I had purchased from Fabric.com,, 3 years ago,, I know,, I am slow,,, uhem,, so slow in fact I forgot whether I had pre-washed it or not,,, well I obviously hadn't ,, cause this is what happened....


I  washed it in cool,, and dried it,,,a side view,, see how thick it is, now this is just from the washer,, the piece on top is before,, the one on bottom is after it was washed,, I was going to take a pic after it came out of the dryer,, but drying it didn't make any more changes....

It literally fluffs the material up,, 
 Trying to get a good picture, sometimes you need to take several,, sometimes you even need to post several,,, ha...
 I also isn't as shiny, now I could have dry cleaned it and kept the flat shiny look,, but i don't dry clean my clothes hardly at all,, so I pre-wash and dry everything the way I am going to use it after I make it,,
This was so much fun,, I think it is nice when you read or see something in blog land that you would like to do,,but are maybe afraid to try,, then you say what the heck and do it anyway,, 

So now I can say I have felted wool.....

I have 4 yards each of the green and blue,, now what to do with them,,, that is for a later post... he he....





Friday, July 20, 2012

Getting things done..

Wow, it feels so good to sew again,, I have sewn more in the last 2 weeks than I have in the last 2 months,, almost the last 2 years,, oh well maybe not THAT long,, but it feels great,, I have got the sewing bug again,,, and  I LOVE IT.....pix will be posted soon........:-)