T-Shirt Customising Again

Bought another T-shirt to customise, this time in a delightful dark red colour (the same colour as one of my long sleeve tops that I basically live in).  I was planning to iron on some transfers my sister bought me ages ago and embroider over the top to create a totally awesome design.  Anyway, to cut a long story short the transfers didn't transfer and I have a bright pink burn mark on my carpet (doh), and I had bits of carpet stuck to the top corner of my t-shirt...

My solution was to use the bits of t-shirt I had cut off, the neck was too tight so I cut around it and the sleeves a little to long so I cut them shorter, to make a flower for the top of the t-shirt. Not sure I'm happy with it totally, but tbh it's so frigging rainy I ain't gonna be wearing a t-shirt anytime soon.

Before

After

Mini Bunting

After the astounding success of my regular sized bunting for my room, I moved on to mini bunting to go in my* locker at work.  It should have been a ten minute job but my sewing machine was not playing friends and it took a frustrating amount of time. I also didn't have very good ribbon options, and none of my threads seemed to match colour wise. I found an old piece of ribbon I used to wear in my hair.  I ended up gluing it :(

It looks ok, not super cute, and you can see the glue, but we'll see how it looks in the locker.  


*I share this with my colleague and we decided to stick up some pictures of stuff we like.

Back to Nature Look Book

Well Spring has sprung, or is sprunging anyway, leading me to a nature inspired look book.  The background is Snake Charmer by Henri Rousseau- the French impressionist painter of course- which I quite like and seemed apt.  I liked the playing around with the 'tulip skirt' concept, that's the kind of photography magic we all wish we could do.  The rose shoes are just a bit silly though. 

Birthday Fabric

My sister bought me some lovely fabric from the Victoria and Albert Museum (well she ordered it online but same diff), and some nice buttons. 

There's a metre of each fabric, so not enough for a full dress, and honestly I'd struggle to make much but I saw this pattern on the interwebs:

I could use a pattern like this, and buy a plain blue cotton fabric.  I'll use the flower fabric my sister bought me as the skirt and the plain blue for the bodice.  And made a nice summery dress...watch this space.

Under the Sea Look Book

It's my BIRTHDAY!!!! I am currently in Barcelona having an awesome time (hopefully), I have written this in advance and scheduled the post.  Everyone that knows me knows I dream of becoming a mermaid so it was something of a joy and frustration to put together this on-land sea themed look book.  I think this is the most coherent of my look books, you can put together an outfit as well as adding oceanic décor to your home; an arty Wave cushion or toy octopus anyone?   I personally favour the shell bag, but the Issey Miyake dress is something else, not sure how wearable it would be around town?

Do 25 awesome things today to celebrate the first 25 years of my life :)

New Sewing Storage

So this was my sewing stuff pile before:

And then a trip to Argos for cheap plastic storage unit:

And here's my sewing stuff now: