#HolidayPhotoHop2020 Day 3: Sparkly
This is another project that isn't exactly Christmas, but the beaded starbursts I helped make sure look Christmasy by themselves!
These were for the Queen's gown for Tyler Rose Festival in 2019. My mentor and I tambour/couture beaded the starbursts (I think there were 16 or 17 total) and then a few other local costumers took what we did and appliquéd them to the dress they built. I love the crunchiness of all the different beads and crystals together. They were blindingly sparkly to work on.
It wasn't my favorite costume execution overall, but I'm sure the dress was amazingly flashy on stage with all the other heat-set crystals!
(This type of beading with a frame is what my mentor and I plan to officially start a business doing in the coming months.)
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
Merry Christmas, everyone!
If you're looking for something Christmasy to listen to/watch over the next few days, here's the most recent episode of my favorite podcast Blurry Creatures. It's a really fascinating (and nerdy) deep dive into the Biblical story of the Magi.
Two days after my son turned in his last paper for his bachelor's degree, I finished my shirt sewing project. Eight shirts, made to measure. Most of the fabrics are linen. Yes, regrettably you can tell exactly when I got my sewing machine repaired... but I hope these help him as he moves through his master's program and in life.
We had a very quiet Thanksgiving, and I'm doing palate cleansers between the shirts in my shirt gift project, so I ran through the scrap pile and made myself an apron.
Aprons, IME, should be made of thicker fabrics in order to actually prevent splashes and stains from getting to your real clothes. Both of these were skirt leftover bits :)
