#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
More on the Michael's purchase of JoAnn. "Ever-expanding" plus it went on to say they will be carrying sewing machines, notions, and thread in stores. And there was a 50% off one item coupon - let me know if any of you need that.
I'm kind of surprised I have to sign up for emails (not sure if I want to yet) considering how many companies sell email lists.
I finally finished the patchwork jeans! @SewBrooke , the elastic in the waistband suggestion worked brilliantly. I ended up taking it as close to the button/buttonholes as I could, because the waistband I originally picked had the buttons on the wrong side and I had to piece it together/the second waistband was also collapsed in from wear. I really don’t know why, I checked against all of my jeans and I did put the fly on the correct side! Anyway, it’s done, and I’ll be happy to come up with a project that takes much less time. After I clean up the leftover bits— it looks like I used 7 pairs of jeans/shorts, so I have a lot of tops and leftover leg/waistband scraps!
