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Green Christmas
Dec. 17th, 2009 02:37 amI'm trying to be a tiny bit environmentally conscious this year, though I will also admit that my laziness is figuring in there. I'm making a collection of assorted cloth gift bags to use to wrap the presents. Christmas fabric was on sale 60% off at Jo Ann's this week and I just couldn't resist. Many of the prints are at least as cute, colourful and even as sparkly as wrapping paper, but I won't have to fiddle with tape, or try to salvage and fold big pieces for re-using later, or have to cart it all the crumpled or torn stuff out to a recycling place. I will have to sew all the stupid things to begin with though.
Tonight I sewed a large-ish one and two small ones. I've quickly determined that the small ones have rather limited usefulness and the large one is not quite as large as I'd like. No worries, the whole idea here is to have an assortment after all. I'll finish up the last bag I cut out of that fabric (a medium sized one) and start on version 2.0 tomorrow. I also picked up a bit more christmas flannel to make more bibs and burp cloths for Georgia, this time pink christmas trees. She grinned at it in the store so it was hers.
As flannelette was on sale I also picked up enough to make gifts for the pregnant neighbour. She's going for a jungle theme in her nursery so I'm going to make two sets of useful baby stuff in jungle theme, one for each boy. The first print is monkeys with bananas, the other is various jungle animals in brown on a light blue background. Both are rather neutral in scheme. I'm thinking receiving blanket, burp cloth, bib and gown for each child. A bit ambitious but I have several months yet.
That project however should come after the bunting bag I promised to Hel. I might have to make the next size up at the rate I'm going. Honestly, I'm rather daunted by the fabric. It's heavy and stretchy, two things that make me nervous as they increase my margin for error. I just made myself a tree skirt out of a medium-weight stretch velvet and I wanted to gnaw my limbs off to get away from it the whole time I was working when all I was sewing was a circle! I swear that stretch velvet is a conspiracy. You see something in velvet that you like, whether it's clothes or decor, and you think "I bet I could make that", but when you hit the fabric store, the only velvet-like fabric that is affordable is that damned stretch stuff. And working with it is just sooooo frustrating that eventually you'll have to give up, toss it in a corner and go back for the finished item in the store. That said, the tree skirt turned out fabulous, so I might actually be able to get up the confidence in the new year to try the bunting bag pattern.
I'm undecided as to how I should spend tomorrow... get more Christmas sewing done or work on getting the house clean as my family should be arriving some time on Sunday. We all know what I'd like to be doing, but we also know what I should be doing - sigh. Fun filled day of cleaning, here I come.
Tonight I sewed a large-ish one and two small ones. I've quickly determined that the small ones have rather limited usefulness and the large one is not quite as large as I'd like. No worries, the whole idea here is to have an assortment after all. I'll finish up the last bag I cut out of that fabric (a medium sized one) and start on version 2.0 tomorrow. I also picked up a bit more christmas flannel to make more bibs and burp cloths for Georgia, this time pink christmas trees. She grinned at it in the store so it was hers.
As flannelette was on sale I also picked up enough to make gifts for the pregnant neighbour. She's going for a jungle theme in her nursery so I'm going to make two sets of useful baby stuff in jungle theme, one for each boy. The first print is monkeys with bananas, the other is various jungle animals in brown on a light blue background. Both are rather neutral in scheme. I'm thinking receiving blanket, burp cloth, bib and gown for each child. A bit ambitious but I have several months yet.
That project however should come after the bunting bag I promised to Hel. I might have to make the next size up at the rate I'm going. Honestly, I'm rather daunted by the fabric. It's heavy and stretchy, two things that make me nervous as they increase my margin for error. I just made myself a tree skirt out of a medium-weight stretch velvet and I wanted to gnaw my limbs off to get away from it the whole time I was working when all I was sewing was a circle! I swear that stretch velvet is a conspiracy. You see something in velvet that you like, whether it's clothes or decor, and you think "I bet I could make that", but when you hit the fabric store, the only velvet-like fabric that is affordable is that damned stretch stuff. And working with it is just sooooo frustrating that eventually you'll have to give up, toss it in a corner and go back for the finished item in the store. That said, the tree skirt turned out fabulous, so I might actually be able to get up the confidence in the new year to try the bunting bag pattern.
I'm undecided as to how I should spend tomorrow... get more Christmas sewing done or work on getting the house clean as my family should be arriving some time on Sunday. We all know what I'd like to be doing, but we also know what I should be doing - sigh. Fun filled day of cleaning, here I come.
