tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79044184081817186592024-03-19T11:50:12.247-07:00FlairilySewing and crafting in the 'burbs.Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-33219060567715157122015-05-26T17:47:00.001-07:002015-05-26T17:49:10.058-07:001. Moulage 2. Sloper. 3. Dress!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised, here is result #1 of making clothing from my <a href="http://flairily.blogspot.com/2015/04/moulage-and-sloper.html" target="_blank">moulage and sloper</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another challenge was drafting everything by-the-book(ish.) It's a simple design; I didn't have to follow the rules, but it was good to prove to myself that I could and test out my moulage and sloper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are still a few kinks. I'll work on 2 (including the sleeves) and live with 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall, I like it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In these pictures I'm nearing the full results of Aunt Irma's upcoming visit I discussed in my last post. You can tell it most in the photo directly above. Not bad! I'm so happy!</span></div>
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Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-82867121844781953132015-04-18T11:26:00.003-07:002015-04-18T11:32:06.549-07:00Moulage and Sloper<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while! I was in a crafting slump.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">A moulage is like a body-double, a sausage casing made for your body. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It's made out of woven fabric. </span><span style="background-color: white;">It has just enough ease so you can try it on and not bust it! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago, I was in sewing school and had the opportunity to take a moulage class. So. Much. Fun! And so easy! Getting a sloper to fit had taken days and tears. The class itself took days, but the process was like a breath of fresh air. Instead of multiple fittings I made 1 version, a couple of small adjustments, tried it on to make sure, no adjustments. Yes! I was sold.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, or, rather, mostly fortunately, that moulage no longer fits. It hasn't for a while. I'd been meaning to make another, but it just didn't happen...Until now!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can't tell, but I'm happy! Some issues with the bottom are because of sewing when tired. Lesson learned. They were fixed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what version #1 was like:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adjustments were needed in the front and back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember that lessoned I learned? I forgot it when I went to do the sloper:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you've fixed the mistakes your tired self made, you can use the paper pattern of the moulage to check the fit of clothing, make a sloper (but not when sleepy) and use it to check the fit of other clothing patterns, make your own patterns and other things. Awesome!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I don't like talking about stuff like this, but someone may find it helpful so I'm going to go ahead. As you may have noticed, I have a unique body. We all do! Mine gains about 10 pounds of water weight at a certain time of the month that then goes away until next time. Between that and other temporary changes, getting things to fit around that time is not fun. One thing that might look like a mistake but isn't is the extra room in the sloper. It's there for this issue. I want to see how clothing made to accommodate it will look month-long. Stay tuned for the results...once I do some other things that I really should do first. Until then, thank goodness for leggings, knit dresses, and lacy cardigans for warm weather wear!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow! January is almost over!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slowly I've been chipping away at the list of projects I want to do this year. Participating in <a href="http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=436872.0" target="_blank">this craftalong</a> has certainly helped keep me motivated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another aid is being able to work and watch TV at the same time. I heard of people doing this a while back and thought <i>man, they must be nuts. How does that work? </i>But then I tried it. Double the entertainment! I'd try it with audio books, but, while I love books, I hate being read to. I prefer to be in control or something. I'm not sure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...and already sold one! That makes me feel so nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so, yes, I need to work on my food photography skills (make that all photography skills), but these, apparently, Japanese-style hot cakes were delicious!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't beat the eggs as much as the <a href="http://www.tarasmulticulturaltable.com/hottokeki-japanese-hot-cake/" target="_blank">recipe </a>advised, which may account for them being a bit on the tough side, but that did not stop the stack of tall pancakes from being reduced to 0. They were even good reheated!</span></div>
Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-58415038271676239082014-12-31T09:51:00.002-08:002014-12-31T09:54:43.751-08:00Year-End News<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy (Almost) New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In real life this Captain America-inspired Christmas present is less washed-out. I had to surreptitiously take pictures in a dark corner as the sun was going down to avoid ruining the surprise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know it's been a bit of a popcorn-fest on this blog, but I made these "popcorn baubles" up and wanted to share.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this fantastic <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/" target="_blank">Firefly</a>-inspired dessert idea <a href="http://tikkido.com/node/926" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love fabric boxes! All kinds...I think, anyway. But what's so special about these ones? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Etui simply means a small case. I use mine for storing sewing supplies, but they can be used to hold stamps, makeup, etc. Can you imagine one as a little dollhouse, a woodland scene or a city needing saving by some tiny </span>action figures<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">?</span></span></div>
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<br />Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-83552198707493250622014-11-29T14:27:00.002-08:002014-11-29T14:27:36.486-08:00Happy Thanksgiving Weekend Snow!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It snowed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Around here, we don't get a lot of snow. Some people like that, but I am not one of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I got up this morning and saw snow, I ran outside. This happened:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy snow day!</span>Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-84615883003120836352014-11-23T09:53:00.002-08:002014-11-23T09:54:28.061-08:00That Season Has BegunIt started off non-festively. I entered the mall looking for a geeky card of some sort to send along with this exploding sewing kit...<br />
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...which I ended up not finding. However, I did end up leaving with my first Christmas present purchase of the year.<br />
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Since then, I've started Christmas crafting. Boo. But, hopefully, I'll skip the last-minute rush and, you know, I get to craft so yay!Carriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10097304574178597058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7904418408181718659.post-40306233191718113992014-11-16T14:17:00.002-08:002015-01-30T11:27:54.135-08:00Aaaaaand done!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did it! I actually did it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been making these for ages- not kits, just the surprisingly handy little </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">macaron (or macaroon if you prefer) coin purse key fobs</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I love how they're a little (1.5"!) canvas. The perfect size for a tiny design! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've hand-drawn or painted my others, but, for the kits (<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/211418952/diy-radiation-symbol-masquerading" target="_blank">this one</a> now available in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/FlairPlay" target="_blank">my shop</a>, more to come), I learned to make designs to upload to Spoonflower. It's not nearly as scary as I thought it'd be! I didn't have to learn Photoshop for it either. I have developed a kind of block against learning Photoshop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two whole test 'croons were made: One for the photos and one to make sure my instructions made sense. The white and yellow one is the latter. I wanted a kind-of blank sample, but I do love yellow so much. And orange. Red is good too. Warm colors make me happy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Fabric for the outside (and fabric paint, masking tape, sponge brush, etc. to paint the stripes on the muslin if you're doing that. There are tons of great </span>tutorials<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> out there for painting fabric. This tutorial is just for the bag part. You can jazz it up or tame it down anyway you want!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After settling on a plan of action, I snagged a paper bag from the pantry and cut it open like this to use as my pattern:</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With seam ripper open the side seams sewn into the hem. Slipstitch the inside side and the bottom 1/4” or so of the outside closed so the opening is only on the outside and the 1/4” raw edge inside is covered. These will be the openings for the drawstrings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slip closure piece on the outside piece, aligning edges and side seams, right side facing right side of outer. Slip lining piece on, right side facing wrong side of closure, aligning edges and side seams. Sew around top edge using your seam allowance. Turn through lining and press, poking the rounds (and everything else) into shape!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up: Let's extend the season a bit with a tutorial on making your own drawstring "paper" bag. Popcorn bag stripes optional!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ps - check out <a href="http://sewgeekyseries.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/geek-spectacular-round-up-and-linky.html" target="_blank">Sew Geeky's linkup</a> for some brilliant costumes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've thought about blogging for a while, but, meh, it just wasn't on my priorities list. Now, though, I think it might be fun! Among a few other things, I plan to share my crafting adventures, so</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, without further ado, here's a tutorial for customized fortune cookies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Print/write your fortunes before you start. These are about 3 </span><sup style="text-align: left;">1</sup><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">/</span><sub style="text-align: left;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> inches long and a </span><sup style="text-align: left;">1</sup><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">/</span><sub style="text-align: left;">2</sub><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> inch wide. I had to fold mine to get them to fit in the cookies so you might want to make yours less than 3 inches. Get your store-bought cookies out of their packaging as well.</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Wrap 1 fortune cookie in a damp paper towel. Tuck the ends of the towel under it. Make sure it is covered. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Put the cookie in the microwave for about 15-20 seconds. Mine took 20 seconds to start and 15 toward the end when the microwave was nice and steamy. You do not want to over cook and you do not want to let the cookie cool off.</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gently open that sucker and take out the old, boring fortune. Quick as a wink stuff in the new, awesome fortune! Needless to say, caution: hot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">As soon as the new fortune is in the cookie, gently but firmly hold the cookie closed and folded in the correct fortune cookie shape until it is pretty cool and holds its shape on its own.</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Presentation is everything! Or, at least, freshness. Store your cookies in a baggie or something or eat right away. The Chinese take-out box and packaging is totally your call.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Enjoy! And come back soon for more (hopefully!) interesting posts!</span></div>
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