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BLING! BLING! BLING! BLING! BLING! Just some table scraps? NOT! It has one steering wheel, 18 wheels, 19 mudguards, multiple grills and more.
I do not know what it is but before I use all of the mudguards and wheels for the two triple axle trailers and a triple axle dolly, I thought I would do something that was like something that made no sense at all, and here it is!
I just had a few scraps of paper and played with some watercolor, ink, prismacolor, etc.
Started with a poem titled Cloudburst by Octavio Paz.
We must sleep with open eyes,we must dream with our hands, we must dream the dream of a river seeking its course.
Scraps Stitched N Sewn
My absolute #1 favorite lalaloopsy of all time (since the moment I laid eyes on the mini when she first released for halloween of 2012), finally in big size, and finally mine.
Lala-oopsie Saffron has a similar color palate which is while I love her so much as well.
* the large size does not have the four buttons on the front of her dress, I added those in photoshop so she would better match the mini size. If I can find the correct style and size of buttons, I will probably add them for real to her dress.
Pattern is the Ten-Stitch Blanket which goes around in a spiral until it's big enough or you run out of yarn!
I wanted to kick off the new year with moving my sewing machine in front of a window where I can enjoy beautiful morning light and at the same time I wanted to use the old sewing table as a cutting table. For a few days everything went well, but quite soon the cutting mat vanished under piles of new fabric - my favorite Christmas present - and fabric lying around that I hadn’t gotten to dealing with.
So between the holidays it was about time to reorganize my stash. While I was sorting fabrics by color and folding it, I threw all the small fabric pieces - smaller than a fat eight - into a basket below the sewing table. After two afternoons the surface of the old sewing table was looking quite good, the cutting mat was ready for the next sewing adventure and my cupboard was as tidy as possible. However, now every time I wanted to get to my cutting mat, I had to step around an overflowing scrap basket.
To cut a long story short, I needed another scrap busting project. Therefore I sorted the scraps by color and cut the light colored ones into 2,5 inch squares. When I looked at the different sizes of the piles, I got aware that it would be best to make bags in different sizes - the larger the pile, the larger the drawstring bag. This blue one will be the largest one by far. Now I need another medium sized bag for the yellow and orange scraps.
I'm planning on having two bees make scrappy blocks for me so I end up with a quilt like this one!! (Although not all in Hometown fabric...cute as that would be!)
Used 98% scraps for this projects - yay! I fussy cut the centre so I have a fork, spoon and strawberry - yum!
a page of scraps from my work table. i always like to make something when I clear it off rather than just throw away all the delicious little bits
I work from my scrap bins...bits and strips left over from larger projects get used in smaller items...placemats, totes, mug rugs, and tiny scrappy art pieces. #cy365 day 270 'scraps'
My most recent letter to the Titian Sleuth took me a long time to write. Not because I am a thoughtful, contemplative genius, but because I kept getting distracted. I started it and then re-started it several times, with gaps of a couple of weeks in between. Finally I began again with a clean draft of the letter, finished it, mailed it away, and shredded the old drafts with scissors. The shreds looked kind of neat as they went into the trash. It's a bit time-consuming to write paper letters, but it's also weirdly satisfying.
I won a 'bag of fabric scraps' on eBay - last night I sat & hand-sewed this dress. It's the same pattern as the one Sindy is wearing in the other photo, but this time my headless Malibu got into it first :)
The boa is made from another scrap. It wasn't intended to be worn with this dress but I thought they looked cute enough together to merit a joint photo.
You might remember that I like to store my scraps in vintage enamelware. One really sweet reader recently sent me this gorgeous blue and white vintage casserole dish. I love it! Blogged here.
Although these birds of a feather appear to be different they are classified as "California Gulls". A young couple was throwing scraps of food to a group of ground squirrels and the Gulls couldn't get in on the action. Frustration set in and the beak locking Gull gave his buddy the business. A little foot to the chest too...no bandages were need while taking this shot!