CynthiaWVirginia
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Joined: 2/28/2010 From: West Virginia, USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Toppingfrmbottom I admit, I am working on what will hopefully be a cute wrap top. It is a very simple design and will hopefully work out well. You just get some fabric you like, get enough to have it roomy if you like, wash iron hem, and then sew straps and buttons on and, if it turns out right, it will be adorable. Hancocks had some broad cloth royal purple on sale for 1.99 a yard, and yeah it's really plain even though it's a pretty color so I bought two iron on daisies in a teal ish blue color to add some pizazz. This is the first time I have ever done this, and I am so hoping it turns out right, I will be crushed if it doesn't. I went and bought some fabric to make my tops with, and if they turn out nice, I'll go splurge on the fabric I really liked, it was 11 dollars a yard, and way over priced, but cute! It was purple halloween print it had stars on it. Good for you, Toppingfrmbottom. I envy your having Handcocks...I only see that place when I go to Dayton, Ohio, maybe once per year. All Piece Goods stores closed up years ago here in my area of WV, and the only places with fabric are one Joann Fabrics and the Walmart in the next town over. As for patterns, I suck at reading them and do better when I seam rip or cut on the seams and add half an inch to it then use it as a pattern. My mumu pattern came from a dress I wore when I was preggies with my son over 20 years ago, lol, and I have half a dozen as I enjoy making loud, holiday dresses, as well as Pokemon ones. Have you signed up at Joann Fabrics for their mailing list? You get a 40% off coupon on one cut of the regular priced fabrics each month. This is the reason I have so much fabric at home in endless tubs...I tended to buy out whatever was on the bolt, lol. Any chance of your sending me a pic in my mailbox when it's done? I wonder if I have some of that fabric myself. If we lived nearby, I would be offering a trade of some sort for scraps of that fabric, if I didn't have it and it was cute...I have a Halloween quilt I've been planning for years but I've had to snag about a 12 inch strip of dozens of varieties over the years...it's almost ready to start but I still feel like something is missing. I am not ready to finish the Harry Potter quilt yet...I put it away a few years ago when my quilting table broke. I finally found a replacement but the work is top stitching and tedious and boring, not like how much I enjoy making my crazy quilts. I will probably start on my Halloween/Autumn one, or the Christmas/Winter one before getting back to the HP. Ok, now to the I admits... I admit I have felt very burnt out lately. I admit that I am BROKE and I haaaate it, lol. Fixing the car only to have something else go wrong, putting $40 something into the old XP computer I have and it has improved (there is power now, yaaaay) but still doesn't work. I want to spend a hundred on clothes, darn it, but the cats need tapeworm pills, car needs repair, computer needs repair, son's birthday is coming up, Christmas is coming up... I don't need to buy anything, it's just the can't part that chaps my arse. I admit that I am in a much better mood because...someone in the message boards who lives half the world away wrote a letter and knows about Pokemon. All the other games in the world can go hang...it was so good to ramble on and on about something I love. I admit a neighbor borrowed my chainsaw days ago, and if he doesn't bring it back soon after I phone him tomorrow... I admit I am going offline to play some Pokemon Diamond while watching Babylon 5 or more Scooby Doo...or Halloween movies. We have a large crate to work our way though this and next month. The next crate of Christmas DVDs we will be watching from December through January. I've got a lot, lol. I admit I need to learn some things about Goth, so I know if I cover a black potholder with some skull fabric that my cousin in Ohio will like them. I admit I had a new idea for a quilt...using fuzzy black blanket material to applique black cats onto it in different positions. Silhouette squares of scenes...cat napping in window, cat playing with ball of yarn.
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