May 6, 2011

Well, today was a semi-busy day. Finally picked up a better material for the bridesmaid dress I am making. I also picked up the cutest fabric EVER!! There was a 50% sale at Fabricland... so I had to. Now I just have to find something to do with it. :P
I also, after ripping a ribbon out of a wedding dress for a friend, came home and finally finished the cutest night cap--supposed to have been made for last halloween, but never finished.

It's cute too :D

Basically, it was a circle that I cut out of a piece of fabric, probably about two feet across. Then, I took an elastic, pulled the elastic taut, and sewed it in on my machine. I used pins to hold the elastic down until I got to it, unpinned it, and then stretched out the material and elastic and fed it through.

After that, I added a cute lace-y ribbon to the outside by hand tacking, mostly because I'm lazy and it's only a costume after all.

If you are interested in repeating this, I would advise NOT waiting until the end to do the ribbon-y lace, because it was a pain to keep the wrinkles from showing up in the lace, and also it would have been infinitely easier to do on the machine.

Also, I got all of the final marks from my year of school--I did significantly better than last year (considering I almost flunked out last year, that's saying only a little), and I got two 75s and an 87. An 87! In University, in a full year course, in a linguistic anthropology course! There are exclamations, because that's a really high mark, considering how 75 ish I did. I also got a 78 or something like that. Still, that's an awesome set of marks. :D I'm happy about those. I start some more courses on the 9th--BIOL 1020 apparently. Yay!
So, now I think I'll paint or colour something, I'm feeling quite crafty and I like to finish things. Then I'll go to bed, as I have to work in the morning.