Holidays and birthdays bring out the crafty in me. Handmade gifts are kinda the best kind of gifts anyway.
For Christmas, I decorated these tea towels for a friend. She always quotes our favorite wise subway lady in Coming To America.
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Before the company I work for enforced a textile recycle program, I used to grab fabric from the trash bags other designers threw out. Literally, so. much. fabric.
I came across a small bag of fuzzy material that was being trashed and I couldn’t just leave it behind. I took it and ran.
As for the dresser, I had this wooden dresser since as long as I could remember. Knobs were falling off, the drawers got all scratched up – it was a bit of a mess and I wanted to fix it real bad. I thought to glue on the fuzzy material and buy new knobs and BAM – a fresh and fun dresser.
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After being absent for a month, I’m feeling confident coming back with some new projects, words, and pop culture sharing.
I’ve been quite into the “rag” projects lately. There’s nothing like using fabric you don’t have a use for. This rag rug is a good project to make a dent, especially when you make multiple. I made another one for a friend and I may potentially make an area rug size for another friend. It feels good making space in your fabric scrap drawers.
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I have a lot of fabric scraps and not enough projects to use them for. While Googling some random craft projects, this rag rug project popped out at me and I thought to make a small one for myself. ~ Anything to use these fabric scraps ~ I looked up ways to make this rug and I came to realize it wasn’t so hard. Like it was actually pretty super easy. Just time consuming, that’s all.
I bought a decently big size non-slip rug mat, the kind that you put under rugs to prevent slipping. Because of the small squares, it makes for a good base to tie fabric strips through each square, or every other square. Since it was big, I cut it to the size that I wanted. It came out to a random size – about 22 inches X 17 inches.
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A few months ago, I decided to embark on a frustrating journey to make a pillow with one side covered in pom poms. I had the fabric, I had the yarn, but I didn’t have the pom poms pre-made, so I had to spend the time to make them.
I wanted to make a generously large pillow, so I knew that it would need a big chunk of fabric and ton of pom poms.
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Last week I posted about a Stranger Things tapestry I created and uploaded to my Redbubble account.
After double checking to make sure the size of the file was correct, I ordered the smallest tapestry size because it fits our wall best. It didn’t take too long to be delivered, but we were on the edge of our seats waiting to see how it’d come out.
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Where have I been lately? Finishing up crafts and getting ready for this event I’ll be selling a bunch of my goods at on Sunday. Events always stress me out. I want to do so much, but because of unnecessary stressing and poor time management, I rarely get to accomplish all I want to accomplish. That’s why this time around I kept things simple for myself and I mainly had one goal. ↓
I shared how my dad made me a loom? Well, I’ve been using the crap out of it and I turned my weavings into tote bags.
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Last week, my mom threw out the idea of me looking into weaving, but more specifically rag weaving. I don’t think I’ve spoken about how much fabric I have, but let’s say I probably am set for life. Containers in my room, under my bed, in unpacked boxes I brought back from Portland, racks in the basement, and a whole load in my Grandma’s basement (let’s say I have no idea how much she has but it’s more than the amount than I have). Yea, I’m set for life.
So my conclusion is that rag weaving is a good way to use my fabric, otherwise it’ll sit around long enough to burden my future grandchildren because I’m a hoarder and I don’t like to throw anything out.
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