Oh look, we have new weather! IT’S RAINING. I don’t think I’ve seen rain since I left Florida.
We both had a mostly good Tuesday. I started things off early, and fired up a hot bath after Shawshank headed out to work. I fried my hair with my new straightener last week, and it feels like I’ve done nothing but slathered my head in conditioner since. Shawshank had left me a selection of nighties on the bed, so I generated a bit of content when I was done.
Once I put on some proper clothing, I set out to do the crafty things. Shawshank‘s mom let me borrow a sewing machine. I told her I wasn’t doing anything more than a straight stitch, and I didn’t need anything fancy. She sent me home with something that has a LCD display and 287 stitches. To be fair, Shawshank told me that it probably is her least-fancy machine. Thankfully, Singer is made for idiots, and once I followed the correct sequence of numbers to thread things, I was ready to go.
My first project was cutting apart some jeans to make the base of an upcycled denim skirt. I pretty much made them into something less than Daisy Dukes and then snipped the crotch apart. Shawshank suggested crocheting a granny-square ruffle on it, so I set the denim aside to add some yarn later. But, since I have the machine, I may as well get as much use out of it as possible while it’s here. I altered a bodysuit I bought a while ago, changing its horrible bell sleeves into normal sleeves. I fixed a bathing suit bottom, because it somehow had too much crotch. Honestly, there’s a lot going on with that thing, and I still need to do a little adjustment to it.
The biggest alteration was hemming a thrifted dress that was too long for my liking. I thought long and hard about whether or not I wanted to shorten it; it’s a vintage 90’s dress and I don’t like “ruining” vintage clothes. Eventually, I decided if I hadn’t worn it because of the length, I should do it or get rid of it entirely. Because I’m a hoarder, I took 6″ off the bottom, and now my ass comes dangerously close to hanging out of it.
Shawshank came home with a massive bag of fabric samples from work. They’re all sorts of weights and colors. I’m doomed if I like any of them because they’re all discontinued. I found several that mostly went together, then cut and prepped them to use as the jean skirt’s ruffle instead of crocheting something.
Today, I’ll sew the ruffle together. I looked online last night for ideas on what I could do with the rest of the squares, and found a couple of interesting and easy patterns. Right now, I’m thinking of making a kimono-style spring jacket with a big ass hood, I only need to find something to use as a lining.
