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Life is One Bix Mixer

December 6, 2010 30 for 30, pattern 2 comments
Due to a combination of (disgusting, horrible) wintery weather and working on new combinations for my 30, I am taking a jaunt into Patternville. I need color and layers!
Day 20
I’ve mixed this floral skirt with this scarf before, I really love the combo. I wasn’t really thinking about two busy florals going together, but they are so similar they looks really nice together. I can also tone down the rest of the outfit with some of the darker colors in the background.
Day 21
Stripes, ombre, and lace-look tights (all the trend with none of the frozen legs). I love this ombre skirt with stripes!
Day 22
More floral, this time with plaid and skulls, because nothing goes together like a lovely spring day and death. I felt like the blue in all of these was enough to pull them together. There are small blue flowers on the tights, a blue background on the skully scarf, and grey blue in the skirt, and a solid blue skirt. Or more likely I just felt like wearing all this at once and I’m now just making up a reason that I match. I guess we’ll never know.
(Also, yes, I am pretty much that white. By January I might glow in the dark.)
Also, I was kind of a naughty little cheater. New glasses are medical, they don’t count!
(I really did need them, I haven’t had new ones for about five years and my poor little eyes were suffering for it. Please don’t judge me!)

Feelin’ Stitchy

May 28, 2009 embroidery, pattern 2 comments

I discovered free form embroidery not too long ago, and it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite hobbies. I love the portability, the freedom, and of course the fact that it is darn near free. Why is everyone not doing this?

Bats’ mum visited over the long weekend, and unfortunately it rained about the whole time and we were stuck watching movies. I am unable to simply sit so I took the opportunity to finish the project I’m working on for my mom’s birthday.


Now I just need to find cute frames for them and they’ll be all set. Does anyone know where I can get cute oval frames fairly inexpensively? I am having no luck.

I’ve also been working on some new patterns, that will hopefully be for sale soon.

The first is a set of cryptozoology creatures. It includes Bigfoot, Fiji Mermaid, Deer Woman, Tailypo, Mothman and a jackalope. I think Tailypo is my favorite, but that’s probaby because I had a book about him/it when I was little and spend several days creeping around saying “where is my TAILYPOOOOOOO?” Plus he has a tiny cabin of unspeakable horrors, so cute!

Also, silly bugs in the hood.

You’re a Dollface

January 19, 2009 crafts, dolls, handmade, pattern One comment

I started these waaaaaay back in October, dolls of Bats and I. Between lots of more pressing projects they got sort of pushed aside, languishing in their undies. But I finally got around to making them decent.

I’m so happy with the way they turned out (excuse the picture, the lighting was terrible but I was too excited to wait). Here is a picture of us for reference. Bats is about 19″ tall and I’m about 17″. I used lovely soft fleece and stuffed them loosely, so they’re kind of floppy and nice to cuddle. The arms are jointed and the legs are made so they can sit nicely. Bats has a wee little jersey of course, with numbers made from felt and attached with fusible webbing (I was worried glue would go through the mesh). He also has a little sweatshirt made from an actual sweatshirt that was ruined. His socks are made from the finger parts of a pair of mittens, although I need to find some white ones to get the proper color. We each have little felt shoes.

Our little glasses even have lenses of clear plastic. I need to figure out how to attach the glasses, I want them to be able to come off, and right now they’re just pinned onto our heads. Any ideas?
I like the simple embroidered faces, they don’t compete with the other things going on. Doll faces are always so hard to figure out, since they contribute so much to the personality of the doll. Realistic eyes or felt or embroidered? Nose or not? We do both have mouths, his is just a bit hard to see with the beard. Bats has the absolute softest hair too, cut from a big piece of fake fur I found at the thrift store ages ago.

I wanted these to be able to take along when I go to visit my family. All my family and friends are on the other side of the country, which means when I go see them I’m gone for about a week. Which leads to much pining for my favorite superhero, and some limited pining on his part I imagine. I’ve been taking my Ninja Ice Bat, which Bats got me on our first date, but it’s not quite the same. (He thinks I ought to get a little recordable voice box for the doll of me so he can have a doll that talks all the time for the true expeirence, the jerk.)

I was actually good with these and did my best not to fudge the pattern as a I went along. I’ll be posting the pattern with instructions for a limited time, as I’d like to sell it eventually and would love some feedback. Please let me know if you’re interested.