Thread Unleashed

Posted on | June 8, 2009 | 5 Comments

I’ve never been all that into watching YouTube videos, but I’ve seen the light. I LOVE how you can type in the name of a stitch that you need to learn (today it’s a ladder stitch) and a nifty demonstration comes right up. Bless these people for doing this!

I’ve made another cat. Once again, it made my family laugh. That is my criteria to judge whether it is a good cat or not. I intend to be a cat lady of sorts, it seems. I’ll post a photo of that one once it has clothes. Right now, we are in cat body assembly line mode. Sage gets paid $2 to turn and stuff the arms and legs. Nothing like having a bit of child labor at your disposal…

I’ve also made a couple of other things. Another bag…

It is made out of some 60′s vintage fabric that I purchased on eBay a few years ago, some fabric I bought in Mexico ten years ago and yet more fabric that I scored at an Austin thrift store. It’s about time I started using some of my stash!

I also bought some more Amy Butler fat quarters and made this little crochet hook organizer. I can never keep track of my hooks, in part because I keep giving them away to people I have taught to crochet. (Hurricane refugees, students.) Now I can tell if I’m missing one in a particular size. By the way, does anyone else think that this fabric looks like the Internet?

I found something pretty amazing in American Craft magazine. One of those things that I absolutely wish I had thought up myself, because it’s totally up my alley. I found a link to it–just click on the photo to read about it. Unfortunately, the photo is too small to do the work justice. The entire background of this work is made of tiny baby dolls. Seeing this just hit me in the gut…

The artist is Gyongy Laky.

On another note, we watched Inside Man last night. We’re still catching up on movies we haven’t seen… What a cast. What creativity. What cool film noir tweaks. I absolutely loved this song, also used in the Bollywood movie Dil Se. (Here’s another reason I’m loving YouTube…)

I am just now realizing that quite a bit of Indian music has that Eastern sound that I had thought was only associated with the Middle East specifically. What a pleasant surprise!

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5 Responses to “Thread Unleashed”

Kamsin
June 8th, 2009 @ 5:45 am

I’ve been feeling a strange urge to start sewing stuff lately, and am somewhat frustrated so far by the fact that the pattern books in the store are in like Japanese. So anyway, I’m taking seeing your post today as both destiny and inspiration.

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Michelle
June 8th, 2009 @ 5:48 am

Wow, Japanese patterns would definitely be frustrating! Everything I’ve been sewing so far is from patterns I’ve made up, or a series of squares and rectangles. Easy.
Kelvin Kao
June 9th, 2009 @ 2:18 am

Yeah, I learned quite a few things from Youtube and just web videos in general.

I’ve always found Indian music to be very interesting sounding, even though I usually have no idea what they are singing (unless it’s one of those rare cases where they are subtitles).

Here’s a blog with more bags to look at:
http://u-handbag.typepad.com/

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Margaret
June 9th, 2009 @ 3:12 am

Your stuff is amazing and that soldier (made of baby dolls) was heart-wrenching. YOU MUST BE ENJOYING YOUR VACATION! *sniff*

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Michelle
June 9th, 2009 @ 4:56 am

Kelvin–I LOVE u-handbag! Great minds think alike….

Thanks Margaret!