I also made her a Hello Kitty Pin cushion because she likes to sew clothing.
(excuse the man arms, John modeled for me)
This was made from the head pattern out of the book Hello Kitty Knit Dolls and Goods Vol. 3. instead of leaving the bottom flat (because you're not sewing it to a body), I did some more decreases and left a small opening to round it out some more. I then stuffed the head and closed the opening. I cut the face and bow out of felt, embroidered around the bow, and glued everything on with super strong craft glue. I made the head out of baby weight acrylic with a D hook. The wrist band was made out of Lion brand jiffy yarn with a G or H hook. Its basically a 4sc across bracelet then at one end you make a button hole big enough for the buttons you want to use. I sewed on two buttons for adjusting, since I didn't know how big her wrist was. Connect the head to the bracelet and you've got a super cute pincushion! Again, I should have made two. I'm really needing one of these now that I've been sewing more.
Bringing up sewing, I worked some more on the jean skirt I made last week. I'm off work all this week so I've been crafting. As you can see on my progress chart to the right I've finished two knitting projects. Today was the skirt. I really wanted to start embroidering on it today. I wore it on Thursday last week and noticed that the back of it was sticking out unattractively and it was too long. So I took the whole back of it out and resewed it. It looks much better and more like a pencil skirt (which is what I wanted in the first place). Now its in the wash. I'm just itching to begin sewing on it. I'm sooo excited. This will be my first big embroidery project since I was little. I used to be addicted to cross stitch and embroidery when I was about 8-10 and then dropped it, because it wasn't cool. What in the hell was I thinking?
Labels: crochet, hello kitty, sewing, swap
