Right now I'm working on a few projects -- a pair each of these adorable baby shoes:
But I think I'll do buttons instead of bows, kind of like these:
(except the fabric I'm using is COVERED in little flowers)
And just the ballerina flats in this pic:
(the fabric I'm using is yellow with strawberries and hearts and flowers)
I'm also finishing putting together a burp cloth on which I've embroidered a large butterfly (picture to come soon).
And finally, a new school bag for me -- a messenger bag in purple corduroy with patchwork inside and patchwork accents and cool buttons. Here is a glimpse in to my design process -- my sketch:
I've chosen the fabrics for the patchwork and pockets. I'll post pictures of those this evening.
I won't get home from work until probably 6:30 this evening because I have a leadership team meeting and those usually last a couple of hours. I really enjoy being on the team that thinks about how to make the school better every single day, but it is definitely a time commitment. FD (my foster daughter) has a track meet this evening and won't be getting back to the school until 10 pm. Since we live an hour away, and I can not bring myself to stay that late, she will be spending the night with her BF (bio-family, NOT boyfriend -- I'm not crazy or stupid, and she claims to not have a boyfriend anyway). What that means for my evening is that I'll be able to work on my projects some! I do have hours worth of paper grading that I need to finish, but a person can only do so much of that in one day, reasonably. I will have done about 2 hours of it today and I think that's enough to be considered reasonable (considering that's on top of 5 hours of actual class time, plus around an hour preparation for actual class time, and probably 2 hours of meeting time -- I think 10 hours of work is enough for one day -- agree?).
So, later this evening, I will post the embroidered butterfly, my progress on the shoes and the fabrics for the messenger bag. Fun! :)
peace out --
me, the chick who's a teacher, wife, therapeutic foster mom, reader, and modern sewist -- I should probably come up with a clever nom de plume.
good luck with all that
ReplyDeleteI know, right? The shoes so far seem pretty easy. They are all cut out and the directions have been studied... The burp cloth is practically finished. I just have been wanting to fold the fabric I backed it with over the front so that it makes, in effect, trim on the front. The messenger bag is merely planned -- well i've cut the patches for the accent patches on the outside, but that's it.
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