I did do some crafting while on my blog hiatus, and today I realized I even took pictures of some of them.I made two great shirts from Simplicity's Built By Wendy pattern #3835. As I remember, they came together pretty easily and the simple gathered neckline is a really nice shape. I got this beautiful fabric at a local fabric shop, Mulberry Silks (sorry, I have no idea what the name of the fabric was or who made it). For this shirt I added the 3/4 length sleeves with the little ties at the ends. Very very cute but for some reason (probably my own error), when I put the shirt on, the sleeves were so tight in the arm that I could barely get it on, much less bend my arm at the elbow. So I ripped it out and added in that massive keyhole that you can see in the picture. Kind of cute but also kind of strange. Although I like that you can see the little dimple in Twin's elbow. awww.
I also made the same shirt (minus the strange tie-sleeves) in a blue linen. It really looks much better when it is ironed.
At Christmas time, I made a framed embroidery piece for Matt. Since getting to know him, I have been introduced to the strange and wonderful world of professional wrestling. He grew up loving it and as a kid spent many hours crashing through coffee tables (and once a wall, so I am told) and creating tin-foil championship belts with his friends. If he were a wrestler, his alter ego would be Cleetus Jones, the Great American Lovebomb. And so I embroidered him a little luchador. Sublime Stitching has a whole set of Lucha Libre patterns. I also bought the Sexy Librarian set of patterns for Twin. I'm thinking she needs some sexy librarian embroidery to hang in her office once she's a full-fledged librarian. She is always saying librarians have an image problem, so that should help with that.
cute!
ReplyDeleteit's not your fault on the sleeves though. that pattern is notorious for poor drafting in the sleeve/fit area.
I love the blue top! I'm definitely tempted to make a fabric store run now...
ReplyDeleteI think the keyhole on the sleeve looks cute! Love the embroidery too. Hmmm, now I'm thinking I need something to improve my image. You think I could find a sexy middle-aged mother of two project manager pattern? probably not. never mind.
ReplyDeleteYes, I need librarian embroidery! Let's make that a priority. ;)
ReplyDeletep.s. are you saying my arms are a little doughy? huh, huh, are ya? hmphh.