I would like to thank…

I have been under a black cloud for a while.  Everything is wrong.  You know how that goes.  Despite my moping about, I managed to get a few craft projects off my to-do list!  Shocking!  On a whim I thought it would be nice to post my progress on this blog.  Low and behold, when I signed in I found that TWO (count them TWO!) people had linked to my blog!  Oh, I think I shall be overcome with joy!  Like Steve Martin in The Jerk I feel like shouting “I’m somebody, I’m somebody, I’m somebody!!”  Thanks toAlice and Marion for the link love and helping to lift the black cloud!

Now about my project.  About, um, a year and a half ago I thrifted a sweater during a clothing market where there was lots of grabbing going on.  I pawed the piles of sweater and looked with shifty eyes at the competition.  Surprisingly, no one had snatched up this awesome sweater!  I took my treasure home in a big sack, beaming with self-satisfied thrifty goodness.  Imagine my surprise when I found the one-buck-sweater was full of holes.  Oh.  That’s why it was a buck.  Not too worry, my mind immediately whipped up a number of solutions to hide this little foible.   Did I act on those ideas?  No.  Instead I moved the sweater from bin to box to corner.   It was never lonely, always surounded by my other unfinished or unstarted projects.  But today I felt the need to fix that sweater.  And I fixed it good!

Here are the holes.  One on the back and holey patches on both sleeves. Probably the result of Oktoberfest debautchery!

I shoulda known!

I had been wanting to try inkjet printing on fabric for a while.  I have had the printable fabric for about two years.  But I was afraid to use it.  This is where my mania comes in.  I don’t use my materials because, a) I will use it up and I won’t be able to get anymore or b) I will do it wrong, then be pissed at myself.  Today I gave myself permision to just go willy-nilly and use some supplies!!  I was out of control!  No not really.  So I scanned some old skiing photos and printed them on the fabric.  Voila!  Piece of cake, really!  I then cut out the images, ironed them onto scrap wool creating patches (nifty!).  Then I sewed the patches over the holes in the sweater.  I was blown away by how easy this was.  I had been dragging my feet for what reason??  I hope you don’t procrastinate like I do!

Here's the front

Here's the back

And a close up

Thanks for looking!