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
I keep meaning to cut something new out to sew, and keep not having time. But in the meantime, I thought I’d show something I started several weeks ago. About two years ago, a geography project that was in our curriculum was to create an embroidery design, the unit was on Ukraine and this had to do with traditional embroidered garments. So my oldest made this design, and asked if I’d use it in my own sewing sometime. I had to sit on this one for awhile to plot what to do, but I finally started it. Last year’s ice dyeing had this leftover sweatshirt fleece from some shirts I made when the boys were younger, but it only dyed on the back side. So I’m using reverse embroidery to put his design on the front piece of this sweatshirt, so I can also use that piece of fabric in a way that won’t look like my clothes are inside out. I also have a back yoke piece cut, but I’m only getting to work on this around once a week right now, so I’ll need to either speed this up or drop that ...
I just need to vent. I was hemming some jeans today and one leg was perfect. Did it in one try. The other? It took 4 times of sewing and picking it out! I’m done now but that was such a pain. I hate stretch denim so much. Can anyone else relate?
Almost time to start quilting panels for my jacket pieces. I have one more front section to piece and I need to lengthen the hood pattern (why does everyone always draft hoods too short?) and then I can make "sandwiches."
I took this photo before I stitched a strip of background fabric to each side of the stripes so that the pattern piece of the jacket back is completely covered.
