I finally stepped foot back in the studio!
If my sewing project book is to be believed (and since I made the entries in it I think I have to believe it) I have not been in the studio since April 2011. I am not even going to do the math on how long ago that was because its closeness to a whole year is hurting my soul. Suffice it to say that it was tooo long, much tooo long.
I had grandiose plans for my first day back at my guru’s house. But like all grandiose plans, real life got in the way of fruition. Instead of a whole day of playing with fabric and thread I had a mere four hours, including travel and set up.
I made hay with the sunshine of my couple of hours and got the bits and bobs for three scarves cut.
alexander henry fabric
The first scarf is to be for my friend Amanda. But don’t tell her, because it won’t be finished for at least another month as I am off to Mexico for three weeks and then Whistler for a weekend before I can get back to it! I promised her a scarf last winter. No, not the before New Year’s last winter. The one that began in 2010… Anyway, it is going to be 60ish inches long and 6.5ish inches wide, with a dark brown flannel backing.
The front side will feature various sized patches of lots of great skulls and paisleys!
michael miller fabric
I also cut the pieces for a further 60 inch scarf with brown flannel backing and an 80 inch scarf with sage green herringbone flannel backing. Alas I do not have photos of these works in progress as I just got a new camera and I’m having some trouble figuring it out! My previous Lumix had an unfortunate accidental meeting with the ground. Fortunately it was still under warranty and rather than sending it out to be fixed, Future Shop just gave me a new one. A shiny new red one! Its pretty, but its entirely touch screen and I admit that I am having trouble fiddling with the settings to take a half decent shot. So rather than keep trying, I just gave up and kept on cutting my fabric pieces.
patchwork pieces
Hopefully I will have the new camera figured out before the end of my Mexico odyssey and in time for my next crafternoon at the guru’s studio.
