MC Hammer Dance in a Store

Corinne posted this on the Threadbanger page, and I thought it was funny.

Fun Blue Dress

Well first I wanted green... but then I decided blue. I don't know why... but maybe my next one will be green.

So yesterday was the first time I ever went to a fabric store and bought fabric for one of my projects. It was definitely an experiment, but most of the things I bought were on sale, so it wasn't a waste. :)

*side note* Hancock fabrics had their Vogue patterns for $3.99!!! Even though I've never even touched a pattern, I bought one that had three different shirt varieties, I bought one for pants, one for purses, and one for a dress with a really cool collar on it. They'll probably sit around for a while because I have no idea how to use them. but oh well. How could I resist when they retail originally for $20.00 average?

So back to my project... It was completely made just by measuring my body and drawing shapes straight onto the fabric. I didn't make a pattern first or anything. I just knew what I wanted it to look like (I had seen a Gianni Bini dress online at Dillards.com I had liked and wanted to make it for lots cheaper). I knew my good grades in geometry would come in handy.

I used this material to make the straps and the belt. The straps were the main thing that I wanted to be different. I just wanted the rest of the dress to be drape-y.

And then after about 6 hours of hard work, I had a dress! This isn't the most flattering picture ever, but it does look nice in person.

The back looks crooked in this picture, but that's because of the way I'm standing. However, if you're up close to it, there ARE a lot of mistakes. But it was my first time attempting this, so voila! (p.s. ignore the bra strap)


Lastly, this is what I would call my attempt at taking a fun picture to spice up my blog a little bit :)

And then just a plain ol' cute picture. haha maybe one day, I'll make an outfit inspired by a rubik's cube! (hmm.....)

slacking...

So since I've started my internship, I've had less time to be artsy and such. You can kind of see my creativity decline going from my oldest blogs to my newest ones. :-\

Well! I have off this weekend, so maybe I can come up with something good!!! (I hope so, at least)

Crochet a summer cap

So I had a ton of extra yarn leftover (I believe I bought a skein of 223 yards or something)... so I found another pattern for a hat! This one is a bit more summery. But I still think its plain and I may add something to it.

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added a brim:

---EDIT AGAIN!---

I crocheted a huge flower but haven't attached it yet. 1) because I'm still deciding if its too much or not... 2) because my mom stole the hat and wore it, and now she doesn't remember what she did with it. I'll get a picture up soon.

--LAST EDIT!--
I found it! haha my mom had somehow not remembered she took the hat upstairs??? Here's what the hat looks like with the flower on it... not sure if i'm going to actually attach it or not.

Crochet in the Summertime! -crochet a beret

HIP HIP BERET! (get it? haha rhymes with hooray)

Haha I've never crocheted anything in my life, but once again, Threadbanger has come to the rescue. And I know that knitting and crochet are usually winter trends, but I was excited to try this out!

It came out suprisingly well, and it only took me a few hours last night and a few hours today. :)

For the tutorial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIH0ntfwzCk

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hey hey! I youtubed instructions on how to make a flower, and just added that! I'm going to learn how to make a big one, now and attach it maybe to a hat with a bill!

I Thought This Was Really Funny... -Drawn on Six-Pack

GRRRRR!!!! hahahaha I saw someone do this on youtube once. Oh the magic of eyeshadow and bronzer. You can fake some pretty nice abs!

t-shirt into a tank top --- not the best project ever.

Well I was trying to decide what to do with that pretty yellow shirt I have. Good thing I decided to do a sort of rough draft on a reject softball t-shirt. I didn't really like how it came out. My plan was to have like a racerback style with a flare at the bottom so its real loose-fitting and light. I ran out of T-shirt, so it didn't turn out as flared and flowy (<--word?) as I would have liked.

The beginning

The reason this shirt is a reject. Funny fact: Its impossible to heat transfer backwards... its a 55 upside down. lol

The pattern, sorta. Its a paper grocery bag, and it wasn't wide enough to draw the flare I wanted, so I was going to free-hand it. Turns out I didn't have enough fabric anyway.

The finished product!

The back... haha.