diy – Zoopolis

The Hoard

My fabric stash and I recently had a chat about the Meaning of Life. It was impromptu–all right, it was an intervention. She cornered me in my den and threatened me with death by asphyxiation under a mountain of cotton. She is not enormous by First World standards, which is to say that if it wereContinue reading “The Hoard”

sneaky

A while back I crocheted a sweater that turned out to be too big for me, and I fixed it by ribboning the back. But when I wore it, I spent the day hauling the thing back on my shoulders regardless. Said cousin Shauna: “You should take your leftovers and make another to give away.Continue reading “sneaky”

Me-Made 2014: Week 4 + The End

We’re all getting bored of this, aren’t we? Or is it just me? I’m getting really, really bored with it. Hey, I’m wearing stuff I made myself! … again! It’s, uh, the same stuff I wore last week! So I’m going to add the last few May days into Week 4 and only torture youContinue reading “Me-Made 2014: Week 4 + The End”

Me-Made May 2014, Week 2

I had so many plans. Plans that nice weather would come and I would be able to wear skirts–that I’d made–to work. And then Frances got sick. And then her stepbrother got very seriously sick, and Frances spent an extra day with me, sick. And making sure I wore my me-mades was maybe no longer quiteContinue reading “Me-Made May 2014, Week 2”

Me-Made May 2014, Week 1

Day 1 Subtitled: I was just running some errands and thought I’d stop off in the backyard to admire the non-greenery in the freezing cold while wearing a bunch of stuff I made myself. Everything you can see in this picture, I made. Pants (V1266, fabric a light italian wool), shirt (Colette Jasmine, Liberty lawnContinue reading “Me-Made May 2014, Week 1”

Me-Made May ’14?

I’ve been sitting on this fence so long my butt fell asleep. So Me-Made May is an annual thing whereby you commit to wearing a certain number of your own hand-made garments each day/week/over the month during May. Just because. On the plus side, I do like to show off my handmade pieces, even ifContinue reading “Me-Made May ’14?”

Leather

Last week, I finally got around to buying a big piece of cow skin to experiment with. It’s brown, which isn’t my first choice, but I wanted something less fancy to make mistakes on; it’s embossed to look like ostrich skin and should distress well, so I hope whatever I make will be successful enoughContinue reading “Leather”

Oops

So here’s what happened: I got within spitting distance (or sleeve distance, at any rate) of finishing the light blue sweater, and realized three things: a) for some reason, even though I followed the directions exactly, the top of the sweater is looser than the bottom, and b) for a probably related reason, the left-handContinue reading “Oops”

The Someday Shelf

This is a Post that might become a Page: a list of all the things I’d like to make. At some point. When it’s fun. No pressure. The Colette Meringue skirt. (Done!) (Also on the Someday Shelf is the Taffy Blouse and one of the dresses, also from the book, but they are farther down theContinue reading “The Someday Shelf”