lots of craftiness
Nov. 29th, 2009 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eisoj5So this Turkey Day break has been full of making things. Mostly food, actually. :) For Thanksgiving dinner, I made red bean paste buns...not very, uh, "traditional" but whatever, I spotted a can of "aduki beans" in the store for the first time on Tuesday and knew I had to try making them. This week in cooking, therefore:
Tuesday night: bean paste.
Wednesday night: dough.
Thursday: red bean paste buns.
Friday: quiche (spinach, bacon, and turkey)
Saturday: pumpkin pie
Sunday: pumpkin potato onion cheese soup.
Yay, food. :)
In other making-stuff news, I've been sewing. Since Halloween, I finished another wrap shirt, made a skirt and matching socks from a turtleneck (from a tutorial on craftster.org), reconstructed the heck out of the ugly pink sweater (also based loosely on a tutorial from craftster.org), made a couple of sleeves, started a light purple top from scratch that is taking a lot longer than originally planned since I'm improvising on the fly :P and....started the replacement duvet cover. Eep. Oh, and I started sewing scraps together to make a rag rug. It's kinda ugly as hell but I don't care. :D
Things I've learned in the process:
-My pattern for sleeves does not include seam allowance. Oops.
-Ruffles are surprisingly easy and somewhat meditative to make, even though I'm not really a ruffly kinda girl.
-Wal-mart has a "remnants" pile for sale that is *so* not remnant-y; I bought a good bit of yardage from under there that really wasn't small at all! (Also, they play O Tannebaum a LOT.)
-Fabric glue is my friend.
-Sewing on a bigger zig-zag stitch is way easier to seam rip when I fuck it up. :)
Pictures...are on Facebook, sorry.
(Oh, and the impostor on said Fbook is really and truly gone now. Yay!)
Still in the works:
-CCAC hoodie (I keep scaring myself off of this one. I did prove to myself that I can, in fact, sew sleeves onto a top properly, today, but I'm still nervous about screwing with my really beloved shirts. The purple top? One of the cheap-ass remnants, so that's not so bad.)
-Brown satiny skirt from a button-down shirt...want to finish this by the holiday party, but we'll see.
-The aforementioned duvet cover needs to be finished
-Deciding what to do with the too-tight sleeves I made for the purple top...cut and make into short sleeves? Leave open and dangly? I dunno!
There are dragons hiding back here! ;)
Tuesday night: bean paste.
Wednesday night: dough.
Thursday: red bean paste buns.
Friday: quiche (spinach, bacon, and turkey)
Saturday: pumpkin pie
Sunday: pumpkin potato onion cheese soup.
Yay, food. :)
In other making-stuff news, I've been sewing. Since Halloween, I finished another wrap shirt, made a skirt and matching socks from a turtleneck (from a tutorial on craftster.org), reconstructed the heck out of the ugly pink sweater (also based loosely on a tutorial from craftster.org), made a couple of sleeves, started a light purple top from scratch that is taking a lot longer than originally planned since I'm improvising on the fly :P and....started the replacement duvet cover. Eep. Oh, and I started sewing scraps together to make a rag rug. It's kinda ugly as hell but I don't care. :D
Things I've learned in the process:
-My pattern for sleeves does not include seam allowance. Oops.
-Ruffles are surprisingly easy and somewhat meditative to make, even though I'm not really a ruffly kinda girl.
-Wal-mart has a "remnants" pile for sale that is *so* not remnant-y; I bought a good bit of yardage from under there that really wasn't small at all! (Also, they play O Tannebaum a LOT.)
-Fabric glue is my friend.
-Sewing on a bigger zig-zag stitch is way easier to seam rip when I fuck it up. :)
Pictures...are on Facebook, sorry.
(Oh, and the impostor on said Fbook is really and truly gone now. Yay!)
Still in the works:
-CCAC hoodie (I keep scaring myself off of this one. I did prove to myself that I can, in fact, sew sleeves onto a top properly, today, but I'm still nervous about screwing with my really beloved shirts. The purple top? One of the cheap-ass remnants, so that's not so bad.)
-Brown satiny skirt from a button-down shirt...want to finish this by the holiday party, but we'll see.
-The aforementioned duvet cover needs to be finished
-Deciding what to do with the too-tight sleeves I made for the purple top...cut and make into short sleeves? Leave open and dangly? I dunno!
There are dragons hiding back here! ;)
