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So somehow real life got in the way of my crafting. So alas this is my first post without pictures!

Quick status update:

• Corset
• needs holes for ties
• needs the bottom hand sewn
• Skirt
• needs to be cut
• needs to be sewn
• needs to be dyed(again)
• Scarf
• needs coins sewn onto it
• Still not quite sure where these coins are coming from
• Hair
• needs to be cut
• needs to be slightly curled
• Underskirt
• again needs to be cut
• needs to sew on the bottom white section
• I'm thinking just a ruffle for now
• Accessories
• Need to get the fabric for the headband
• need to fuse together anklet somehow

Also need to track the hair for the remainder of my friend's wig.
All before Halloween with a midterm and research to do!
Since it is Tue I'm still optimistic :)

got to enjoy playing with caulk

I promised a friend of mine that I would help her with her halloween costume. She is going as Turanga Leela from futurama.

So she got her wig this past week and today we tried to put it up in a high ponytail using these lovely directions.

We started with a long wig and chopped it off

We started with a small pony tail in the middle then gradually built it up.

The stub in the middle is a bit thick but I don't think it matters. She has a blackish gray hair tie that should hide a good portion of the caulk base.

You can see the bangs are clipped out of the way and the two on the side are the front parts that will eventually go back.
There is quite a bit of caulk and hairspray in that wig.




It took quite a while to get the last layer up because I was working piece by piece with the caulk, hair spray and hair dryer to get things to point in the proper direction.

So the entire back is up but waiting for the caulk to dry a bit before trying to put up the last front section, then I can make tracks for the actual ponytail that we'll attach to that stub. I want to shave off the stub a bit but no clue how to go about doing that.

A bit of a cinch

Instead of dying the fabric for my corset I decided to just buy duck cloth that I found at a Joann Farbic store about 45 min away from me. Since I had already bought the white duck cloth I decided to use it as stiffening instead of buying interfacing and spending more money.
I cut out 4 of each pattern piece from the pattern I had altered and made out of muslin.

I cut the white close to the size of the pattern and cut the blue slightly larger.

To put it together I used double fold extra wide bias tape in canary.

I decided to sew each piece together by sewing it to the bias tape then afterward I sewed the fabric together making a case of yellow at each join in the pattern

As you can see in this picture I managed to sew the last two pattern pieces upsidedown.
I realized this before sewing the front to the back so I had to take out all the stitching for the once casing and switching it around. Next time I must make sure I label my pattern pieces better.

You can see that the yellow looks like a part of the corset!

I sewed the front to the back. I thought it would be a great idea to use my serger to do this since I used it to make the casings with the yellow, however I now realize it won't sew through 6 layers of duck cloth on top of 2 layers of fabric.. I found this out when my needle broke. Tomorrow I look to see if I have extra needles.

After sewing across the top sides and the bottom of the first section and turned it inside out, Then I took the boning and sewed a bit across the top of the white boning case and slid it all the way into the yellow case. I cut each with about 1/2in for the hem.


Next I must add either snaps or some other way to close it and hand sew the bottom .

Spiraling out of control

One night I was on the internet... which is never good in the middle of the night.. I tend to buy things. Well this time I decided I wanted to buy a larger crochet hook. (This might have something to do with the tiny stitches in the last blanket) So ebay sucked me in with a set of about 10 bamboo crochet hooks for $5.00 shipped. It shipped from Hong Kong and took just under 20 days to arrive. Although after about 15 days I decided I must have a project, something simple since I haven't followed many crochet patterns so I settled on a nice quick baby blanket.

I ordered 5 balls of yarn from MaryMaxim website. 2 in this cream color and 3 in the nice berry blue.







It took about 2 hours to ball 2 of the balls and to start the blanket with the spiral pattern

This pattern works with both colors at the same time so once I used each I don't have to add in any other I just crochet with one till I catch up to the other and then switch.

 You can see how the center spiral starts

This shows the white catching up with the blue. I started using paper clips to hold each color in the right place. But quickly realized i should switch to safety pins because of how easy it was for the clips to either fall out or split the yarn.

The blanket is going fast it consists of about 26 little triangles of a specific pattern. 

one more strip!

I managed to finish the remaining strip for that blanket I've been working on for the past few years. 
At the moment I have no idea what type of yarn I was using and thus no idea of the sizing since I was sizing it by just using the entire ball of yarn.

So the next thing I might do is change color or maybe make different looking stitch for other strips to make it longer.

You can see the length of the strip since it is folded over and has a normal mechanical pencil next to it.