Niece1 was asking me about how to dye a garment for her Halloween costume, and the conversation turned into a discussion about if I knew someone who could make her an Optimus Prime custom plush doll because what she wants doesn't exist. That's the problem when you're a 16-year-old girl who likes what's considered more of a boy thing! (I loved Transformers when I was a kid too, but the idea of any toys based on it besides figurines never occurred to me because that just wasn't a thing back in the '80s.)
Long story short, after she texted me a bunch of cartoon drawings from different angles that had wrong proportions ("his head is too big, but this is what I want" ) I looked at her Amazon wishlist because I remembered she had a handful of figurines on it.
So I bought this cute little guy who is basically the right proportions (legs just need to be a little longer) with the promise she will get him for Christmas after I use him to make a pattern I can enlarge to 18 or so inches tall. And the plush will probably be her birthday present in May.
#OptimusPlush
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!
