Tuesday 25 June 2013

Updates in crafting

Has it really been this long since my previous post? Eep I'm as bad at blogging as I am at procrastinating over my crafting projects.

The problem I find is that I lose motivation so all the projects I PLAN to do fall by the wayside in preference to other things (like playing World of Warcraft).

However sometimes other projects pop up and lately we've been focusing on rennovating our back bedroom and were given some slightly tired IKEA bedroom furniture. Long story short, we sanded off the tops of the bedside tables, got a colour match pot to match the wallpaper, painted them then I traced a design onto them and used acrylic paint to paint it. We then used car body lacquer to 'Varnish' them. They look AMAZING and when I can get around to uploading the pictures I will post about it.

The next project is a Game-of-Thrones inspired cosplay gown in a sumptuous Olive green taffeta. It is going very well and is my first properly solo dressmaking experience. I have learned a lot from lurking on other blogs though so suddenly the sewing instructions and phases like 'selvage edge' and 'with nap' mean a whole lot more to me and my mock-up went really really well. I hope to have something to post about that too.