Light Drapes

I screen printed some cotton to make drapes for my room. 12 prints per drape, 4 drapes, and a whole lot of work.

THE Dress

As many people know, I enjoy watching Project Runway. I often have fantasies of making outfits in record timing. Of course, this dress took more like a total of four days. Regardless, one of my proudest moments was when I first tried on the finished piece. That is what I feel is the truest type of pride: the type that originates directly from the object itself, not from the comments it receives (even though I did get a lot of complements). In the making of this dress, I used a pattern but had to drastically alter it in order to make it my size. The easiest way to get the print on, I found, was just to print it onto the finished dress. All I had to do was iron it flat and lay my silk screen on top of it.

The Stuffed Animal Snowballs

 After getting the book Softies by Therese Laskey (highly recommended) my window to the world of stuffed animal making was broadened. I learned valuable stitches, and got some ideas. This animal above is my attempt at a teddy bear. Since normal teddy bears are highly constructed and involves a lot of different pieces. I didn't try to take more than I could swallow, so this is my flattened version of a teddy bear, known as Potato.

Stuffed animal making was a huge phase for me. When making this one I wanted to get slightly more elaborate. I went crazy with the pockets. There is a fancy front pocket bejeweled with small glass beads, and two ear pockets (used for stashing candy). 

Laskey, Therese. Softies. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2007. Print.

Humble beginnings

I forget what I called this one, but I know it was the first stuffed animal I made aside from the Build-a-Bear ones (though those barely count). I saw the instructions to make this in some kids craft magazine, and was determined to make my own. So I found some loose shreds of felt, a couple cotton balls from my moms cosmetics stash, and sacrificed some buttons from my button and bead collection. I used my sewing kit that I usually used to sew doll and stuffed animal clothing. It had never occurred to me before that I could make the stuffed animal that needed to be dressed.