My first cute reconstruction: white & green heart applique fitted tee

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Yay, I'm so proud. All of my reconstructions up to now have looked like crap. I suppose I was starting out ahead since the wet seal green top was already really cute, just too short and plain! Now it's definetly much better, in my opinion.

The only really challenges with this tee were the stupid applique heart shape, which was finnicky and didn't want to fold over properly, and w and the non-stretchy hem versus the stretchy tshirt. But all in all I'm pretty proud. You like?

Jolly Roger Chef Pants

[christychristy.livejournal.com]

Before Christmas, I said I would post with the results of my quest to make chef pants with pirate flag type skulls on them, so here we go. I wound up buying black pants and stenciling the skulls.

( photos )

While I enjoyed this as an experiment, and I love that the recipient likes them, I am not sure I'd recommend this project to anyone else unless you don't mind the fairly time consuming process. I used speedball screen printing ink, which must be heat set for 3-5 minutes on each side of the design. 3 minutes x 9 skulls x both sides = 54 minutes of ironing. Each skull must be stenciled separately, of course, so you can't do the entire garment at once. Although if you have a large craft table (which I don't) maybe you could do several at a time.

One issue that I encountered was the progressive degradation of the stencil, which I had cut into a fairly thick piece of transparency film. The first five stencils look great. Crisp outlines and so forth, but after that the spray adhesive and paint built up around the edges, making crappier prints. If there were going to be a next time, I would cut two identical stencils. Hopefully you can see what I mean in the photo of the stencil itself.

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[ewwie.livejournal.com]

Hi. 
I've been watching this community for ever, but I've never posted. 
I'm Meghan and I'm 16.
I love crafting. I'm not very good at it, but I love it. 
I tried my hand in knitting and crocheting and can do just a basic stitch in each, but thats about it.
I'm still working on my sewing skills, But I can make a mean handbag.
More recently I'm into jewelry making. Nothing extreme, just earrings so far, But I want to make more. 
I don't have much for pictures of my stuff. But I have a few of the earrings I made lastnight. 
Alot of the work you girls do is AMAZING.
So, keep on crafting!

( Earrings behind here. )

Shirt recon...

[ginalikewhoa.livejournal.com]

Yesterday my friend Holly gave me a bunch of scraps, an old white t-shirt and some vintage buttons. I resized the shirt and added bias tape, buttons and a heart applique. The sleeves are runched with elastic

( Detail shots inside )

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[exousia.livejournal.com]

I found an awesome unbelievable I couldn't pass it up even though I was broke deal at the dollar store. I bought every single one of these plastic containers they had, for a buck each. I got home and asked my dad to build me a rack to hold them off my table. And now I have a neat display, and MUCH more table room for beading. I went through and organized all my beads today. So I guess I'll attempt to keep my obsession more organized now!


As you can see I'm not completely finished yet due to the large mess of stuff on my table. :P I have a lot more to go through. I'm also working on tidying my room.


I've been wanting to do this forever.

Originally I wanted them to feel like an art project. My big idea at the start was to really have wooden box shelves with plexiglass tops with lights on the inside so that when you turned the lights on they would shine up through all the bead containers like a custom light. But I'm not quite there yet. When I move out maybe I'll make that a long term project :)

Yet more shiny leaves.

[rhiannontherose.livejournal.com]

Maybe after this, I'll finally get the recent BRC posts into my actual gallery LJ. This is an appease-Bryony post. (It's already posted for her, but there are probably others that will go, "Ooh, shiny!" though, so I figured it was worth posting publically. Heehee.) She was getting kida twitchy, seeing me post finished pieces belonging to people who aren't her, so I told her I'd take a photo of the leaves thus far made, which will end up used in the jewelry sets she commissioned.

( A few disclamors... )

( More shiny leaves...I can't wait to make the butterfly that ate these as a caterpillar! )

I hope you feel better, Bryony! ;-)

Camera Questions

[nightingayle.livejournal.com]

This is my very first post! I didn't see any rules about needing to introduce myself, but if I've missed something, please let me know and I'll rectify it immediately.

Ok, I took some photos with my cameras and I can't quite decide which is the best. I seem to have fixed whatever I did to ruin my Canon, so it takes good pictures again; but the Pentax is pretty good too.



Which do you think is the best option? The lighting is identical, the only thing I switched was the cameras. Obviously the Optio needs its white/colour balance fixed, but other than that, which is actually the best picture?

sock sheep

[atreegrows.livejournal.com]

hey everyone!

here's the sock sheep i mentioned in my post yesterday:



( one more behind the cut )

he was given to my sister for christmas. the pattern was from a japanese book of different sock and glove animals. now i'm trying to come up with my own patterns for different animals so that i can start selling :).

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[yblehs-x.livejournal.com]

So I feel worthy of posting here now ...

( A bag & an apron )