Trying to sort, tidy, sew mostly getting distracted.

 In a effort to be able to sew again without having to dig my way into my sewing room I started to organize. Then distraction hit. I attacked the pile of sweaters reclaimed form various places mostly by my mother June Cable. I dissembled them and organized them into colour groups in bins. 

Made a video of me cutting a sweater apart.

(you may need to ask to follow me on IG to see video)

 Then saw the bag of leather bits I got from Erin Templeton (leather bag wizard and vintage clothing finder extraordinaire). I wondered how my machine would handle the leather. My zigzag machine had a little issue so I got the straight stich one set up, it had been sitting on the cutting table not put away from Michelle Leone Huisman project (I sewed her butterfly together). The straight stich machine was fine with the leather.

So I made a simple glass case.

 After that I put the straight stich machine away and had a freed up cutting table. Knew I had a swim suit pattern, reworked the bottoms and came up with a prototype undies pattern. Hauled out the factory waste merino and sewed up a pair. 

New Undies. Sample pair complete.

These days it is not just slow fashion but it is also a limited clientele, actually mostly me. I am thinking about maybe, possibly, in the future, one day taking my stuff to a shop again. Until then it will be by request (prepare to wait for me to get it together). Right now the floor is covered in paper from pattern making and fabric form cutting out. So better get back to the tidying up because heaven knows distraction will hit before I know it, actually it already has (thus the blog post).

Togo Cup Sleeve

togo cup sleeve

Togo Cup Sleeve

Made from reclaimed woollen sweaters this togo cup sleeve is almost zero waste. I used the bits leftover from larger projects to create it.

Cheers!

(Here is to using just a little less paper with your hot togo beverage)

quincey erin

go find them at Ainsworth on Granville Island

Hair ties.

Two buns and one pink eye

Another almost zero waste project. I love my long hair but it truly is a pain and I need to keep it up when I work. So while I was home sick I worked on how to make some funky hair ties with some of my leftover scraps. I thought two would be good and then I could have two buns. Well I got carried away cutting out circle and I think in the end I had 35 or so.

the many circles

 

a few on cards all ready to go to shop

Working on zero waste projects

Wanted to make babies for work for my charges to play with. Wanted something simple, one because needed to make a lot, two because needed to use up existing fabric, and three because wanted the children to use their imagination to decide about babies feelings might be (no features on the faces).

Snuggle Babies

So after having the babies in the centre for a while I decided maybe I would make some for sale (still have an abundance of waste fabric to use up). So Lovely Karin at Ainsworth said she would sell them along with my many other sundry items she stocks in her Grandville Island shop.