I live with a band, well 2 of the 4 bandmates, and so while practice is happening I try to find something to do while wearing earplugs. It just happens to be the perfect time for crafting.
This week's band night project: A GUITAR STRAP
I
needed a guitar strap that better matched "Luna", my ol' Seagull Folk guitar.
This one is made from fabric scraps and recycled leather scraps. The inside is some brown fleece I found and is so comfy on my skin. I just quilted a 5 in wide and meter long line of fabric and sewed the same size piece of fleece on the front. I turned it inside out and cut 2 pieces of leather for the ends. Sewed the leather onto the end- leaving some on the inside to also sew a "strength square" so the leather would not detach from the fabric part of the strap. I then cut a hole in the leather for the strap-locks and sewed along the edge for a clean look.
Voila! A funky and fun, one of a kind guitar strap just for me!
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The winter blues are hitting both Dan and I and we have decided that once a week we need an escape.
We shall take a "WEECATION."
This week's weecation: The Franklin Park Conservatory and a late lunch at El Arepazo.
Now that we don't use Styrofoam anymore our locally-owned coffee shops serve their yummy sustainably-harvested, shade-grown, fair- trade coffee in paper and include a funny cardboard sleeve to protect our fragile skin.
Bring Your Own Coffee Sleeve
Save a tree and make your own- out of recycled materials. It is the easiest project ever!!
I am keeping this one, but I think this would be a neat gift along with a coffee gift certificate.
What I did:
I took the cuff of an old wool sweater that was accidentally felted (washed on hot and dried) cut it off and added my own touches. The decorations are made from a ripped fleece blanket that was going to be tossed. I "loop stitched" the sun on and machine sewed a tree onto the blue fleece as well as a bird on the sun. Nothing more. It was THAT easy!
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sewing
I promised a project today...
Earth Friendly Cat Toys-
3 Blind Mice
I made similar ones a couple of weeks ago and they were destroyed by my large catnip fiend feline, Charlie. I did not put kitty crack in these ones so they will last more than a day. Instead, there are rattles in them to entice the kitty curiosity.
Hope (the kitten above) likes to take a nap wherever I need workspace.
The mice are made with old jeans, leftover quilt pieces from the quilt I made my mother for Christmas (pictures soon,) an accidentally felted wool sweater, beer caps and black beans (rattles) and old leather bootlaces for the tail.
Kitten tested.
Mother earth approved.
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craft,
sewing
Ok... so the election took a little more time out of my life than I anticipated (at least we won!) Which means I had no time to create or blog about it.
Here it is a NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!
I will blog.
Starting tomorrow. ; )
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