Recount of Productivity Tuesday.
Yesterday was a fairly productive day.
First of all I took a pair of black and purple stripey tights, and sewed them into baby leggings with the help of the serger. I didnt snap a pic, but I promise to post one soon.
Later I dropped off some stars and hats at Boomba Toomba and picked up my first check! hooray!
Of course, as soon as I get money, I go spend twice as much as I made at the fabric store. BAD ME!!!
The other day I essentially started 4 quilts, We have a friend who is giving birth in the next few weeks and I would love to give her a quilt, I'm a little afraid it will be over the top though, I've only met her and her husband 4 or 5 times... But the husband is Joel's friend from grade school, so... yeah. I feel like it would be nice, but I dont want them to feel.. weird. ya know? The other options for the quilts is to try to sell them at Boomba Toomba but since it is a consignment store, it would jack the price up on the quilt to the point where it might be cost prohibitive for someone to buy.
Of course another option is to list some or all of them on my etsy store, as its currently empty. I've had pretty limited success on etsy though, and its really SUCH a pain to list things.. also, because its competitive there's a lot of sales undercutting and my products would probably even seem expensive in that venue because I really DO want to be paid for my time and materials.
Taking a bit of a cut for Boomba Toomba is okay, because it sorta gets my stuff out into the local population, also, its great to support local businesses, and part of that is being able to provide great products at decently affordable prices.
Anywho, I picked up a few fabrics for the quilt tops (I was able to start them with just my stash, and picked up just two bits of fabric for the tops where I needed a certain color hue) I also picked up fleece backs for them, even though they were on sale, I'm always a bit sad at how much fleece costs, and how much quilting really costs in general.
I also picked up some knits, black for a project I'd been envisioning for laurel, and some red to be the edging for some pajamas as well.
After I came home I worked on one quilt, completely finishing the top, due to a ... computing error its a bit smaller than I was planning, but instead of slapping on some more borders I might just fleece back it and have it closer to "receiving blanket" size. It'd be the perfect size for over one of those basinet style carseats and such.
I'll photograph and post pictures of the quilt when its finished. (hopefully I'll finish today and post tomorrow eh?)
so, still feeling creative I pulled out some old socks I had.. red and black argyle socks that I'd bought at like.. Target some 4 years ago or more. They'd become holey and I'd cut the toe out to repurpose it as arm warmers for myself, but I stopped wearing awesome weird bits of clothes a while ago, so... I finished off the cut edge and made repurposed baby legs for Laurel!
So cute! a bit saggy, but I dont mind, I love to use her babylegs all scrunched up in leg warmer style anyway.
Still feeling the creative bug I moved on to the black knit! 20 minutes later I had one of the best, quickest results I've ever had with a project. Now.. I'm sure to you accomplished sewers out there its no big deal, but seriously I was so pleased with myself. (I still am!)
and now, pictures of them all together!!!
I will totally be making some more super cute speedy outfits soon, maybe for sale, I'm always looking to make a buck. Will try to think of some easy, washable, adorable embellishments to put on them as well.
Oh! and after that I went to bed and crochetted a quick hat. I meant to make it for the boutique and bought what I thought was an awesome chunky wool But silly me I looked at the label after I was nearly done and saw it was 80% acrylic, ah ha, wool-ease is only 20% wool, still lovely looking and lovely to work with.. but even with chunky wool it took an hour and a half to create a hat, so really, too much labor for such a small outtcome. Laurel can only wear hats that tie on now, because she yanks other ones off, so the ones I made for her for this year will not work, so.. I made the one last night with ties and will most likely just keep it for laurel. Pictures of that to come as well!.
First of all I took a pair of black and purple stripey tights, and sewed them into baby leggings with the help of the serger. I didnt snap a pic, but I promise to post one soon.
Later I dropped off some stars and hats at Boomba Toomba and picked up my first check! hooray!
Of course, as soon as I get money, I go spend twice as much as I made at the fabric store. BAD ME!!!
The other day I essentially started 4 quilts, We have a friend who is giving birth in the next few weeks and I would love to give her a quilt, I'm a little afraid it will be over the top though, I've only met her and her husband 4 or 5 times... But the husband is Joel's friend from grade school, so... yeah. I feel like it would be nice, but I dont want them to feel.. weird. ya know? The other options for the quilts is to try to sell them at Boomba Toomba but since it is a consignment store, it would jack the price up on the quilt to the point where it might be cost prohibitive for someone to buy.
Of course another option is to list some or all of them on my etsy store, as its currently empty. I've had pretty limited success on etsy though, and its really SUCH a pain to list things.. also, because its competitive there's a lot of sales undercutting and my products would probably even seem expensive in that venue because I really DO want to be paid for my time and materials.
Taking a bit of a cut for Boomba Toomba is okay, because it sorta gets my stuff out into the local population, also, its great to support local businesses, and part of that is being able to provide great products at decently affordable prices.
Anywho, I picked up a few fabrics for the quilt tops (I was able to start them with just my stash, and picked up just two bits of fabric for the tops where I needed a certain color hue) I also picked up fleece backs for them, even though they were on sale, I'm always a bit sad at how much fleece costs, and how much quilting really costs in general.
I also picked up some knits, black for a project I'd been envisioning for laurel, and some red to be the edging for some pajamas as well.
After I came home I worked on one quilt, completely finishing the top, due to a ... computing error its a bit smaller than I was planning, but instead of slapping on some more borders I might just fleece back it and have it closer to "receiving blanket" size. It'd be the perfect size for over one of those basinet style carseats and such.
I'll photograph and post pictures of the quilt when its finished. (hopefully I'll finish today and post tomorrow eh?)
so, still feeling creative I pulled out some old socks I had.. red and black argyle socks that I'd bought at like.. Target some 4 years ago or more. They'd become holey and I'd cut the toe out to repurpose it as arm warmers for myself, but I stopped wearing awesome weird bits of clothes a while ago, so... I finished off the cut edge and made repurposed baby legs for Laurel!
So cute! a bit saggy, but I dont mind, I love to use her babylegs all scrunched up in leg warmer style anyway.
Still feeling the creative bug I moved on to the black knit! 20 minutes later I had one of the best, quickest results I've ever had with a project. Now.. I'm sure to you accomplished sewers out there its no big deal, but seriously I was so pleased with myself. (I still am!)
and now, pictures of them all together!!!
I will totally be making some more super cute speedy outfits soon, maybe for sale, I'm always looking to make a buck. Will try to think of some easy, washable, adorable embellishments to put on them as well.
Oh! and after that I went to bed and crochetted a quick hat. I meant to make it for the boutique and bought what I thought was an awesome chunky wool But silly me I looked at the label after I was nearly done and saw it was 80% acrylic, ah ha, wool-ease is only 20% wool, still lovely looking and lovely to work with.. but even with chunky wool it took an hour and a half to create a hat, so really, too much labor for such a small outtcome. Laurel can only wear hats that tie on now, because she yanks other ones off, so the ones I made for her for this year will not work, so.. I made the one last night with ties and will most likely just keep it for laurel. Pictures of that to come as well!.