In the spirit of taking on some new sewing projects in the new year, I was inspired by the holidays to try making a colorful, fun ornament to gift to people. So above is a sampling of a series of fun little fabric holiday ornaments (inspired by Crouton Crackerjacks) that I look forward to sharing with friends and family
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes the beholder has cataracts. This winter, I produced a set of several coordinated monstrosities, made out of my aunt's terribly awesome harlequin, mother-of-the-bride suit which she wore to my unfortunate cousin's wedding in the early 1990s. The whole family (but perhaps myself most vocally...) have been making fun of her for this fashion choice for many years. Now I am not a fashionista by any stretch, but even I could see that the only people impressed with her outfit were all of the closeted harlequins hungry for the day when they could emerge from the shadows and take up their place again in modern culture. Well, my aunt's brazen fashion statement did not precipitate this cultural revolution, and her harlequin brethren remain cloistered in the shadows. But I digress. After suffering many years of ribbing, she decided to unburden herself of this fashion disaster one Christmas, and gifted me the fabled suit. Well, in true harlequin fashion, the joke is on her! This year, I turned the offending suit into a variety of handy reminders of the fashion slip for the whole family: a tie for my uncle, an elegant scarf for my aunt, 3 sets of bunting for her grown children, and a bonus set of coasters for good measure. This project gave me pause however-- was I unleashing a new wave of ugly on the world by perpetuating the life of this fabric? Only time will tell... (December 2015) When it comes to my go-to sewing projects, my default tends to be blankets, placemats, runners, etc... One of my goals going into 2016 is to branch out and try making some different sewn projects. One of these was experimenting with a set of oversized coasters for Mom. They actually turned out not too badly as a first experiment without a pattern, and came out more evenly sized than the pic shows, with ruffled edges and a colorful palate. In retrospect, I should have trimmed the centre where the pieces come together-- it is a bit raised, and with a flat bottomed cup, they don't always sit flat. But luckily the coasters are oversized, so hasn't proved to be too much of an issue in practice. (December 2015)
Color! Pattern! Awesome! A very simple table runner made with a variety of fabrics from my time living abroad. Mixture of batik/ wax patterns and cotton prints from Western and Southern Africa, given to my sister Lesley
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