Sunday, September 28, 2014

Finished Monster Backpacks

            Here are the two finished back packs, except that the green one is still missing eyes. This is a very simple step so I consider them pretty much finished at this point. Attaching the teeth is the longest and hardest part, but even that is easy enough that a novice such as my self could do it. The felt is a key component to the ease of this project, because felt does not frey. This means that as long as you attach the teeth securely to the project you are good to go. This is unlike any other fabric, which you would have to put a seam on the prevent deterieration. 


            The backpacks are already in use and both his cousins seem to like them. They used them on the first day of school. Each of the monsters are their favorite colors :)


Below I included some images of what it looked like while I was sewing on the teeth, incase someone was interested in exactly how I sewed them. I opened the zipper and just sewed along in a line along the shaoe of the teeth. 




Hope you enjoyed this and I'll post again soon :)

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Birthday Yarn Bomb 2

          I continued my tradition of yarn bombing on my birthday with this on Wednesday. I started it Tuesday night at 9 pm and had it finished and up on the pole by 3 am. Its not my best work, because the 22 looks kinda funny. 
          I sewed them a distance that looked appropriate while i was making it, but when wrapped around a pole the 2's got kinda far apart. 
          The balloons are pretty cute though. I started by chaining 3, I put 3 stitches in the stitches on both sides and one in the middle. 
          Then I only expanded in the end stitches: 
                  2nd row= *1 sc, 2 in next*
                  3rd row= *2 sc, 2 in next*
                  4th row= *3 sc, 2 in next*    Continue until the balloon is the size you wish by increasing the red number by 1 each row 

If you would like to see my first yarn bomb you can find it here. Post again soon =)