Does today count?! I dragged the husband to the fabric shop, he was not amused. I am making a dress for our Thanksgiving celebration, which is a formal-ish affair. I guess I haven't really started, but I'm excited because I purchased all the materials today. (coupons hooray!) It's Simplicity 3673, which I had bought a while ago and filed in my stash. I'm going to try and do some interesting bead applique around the neckline, which is something new for me. (but I like that detail, fiddly kind of work) I haven't decided on a pattern for the bead work yet . . . I'll probably spend a couple hours ogling vintage cocktail gowns on the internet before I begin.
2. Project started the longest ago:
I'm quite ashamed to answer this one. . . It's the embroidery I have been working on to celebrate Katie's wedding -- so lets see -- it's a little over a year old. I bet I have worse ones than that but usually they fall into the category of "abandoned" rather than "unfinished." The satin stitch on this baby is what's killing me. I will finish it though, gosh darn it, before she comes for Thanksgiving!
3. Project that is scaring you the most right now:
Hmm I don't really know if I have one that is scaring me, but I do have one that I am super frustrated with. I'm making an infant soaker sac out of a scrumptious Paton's seafoam yarn but my round joins are so ugly -- I have not been able to find a tutorial that tells me what in the blazes I am doing wrong and have tried doing it as neatly as I thought humanly possible. I tore out about 1/3 of what I had done because it was unacceptable. I don't want to scrap the project because I really want the resulting garment for my hope chest -- so it's been at a standstill for quite some time.
4. Biggest craft failure (in the last year or so):
I think Katie is going to talk about this soon but as you can see mine is still sitting unfinished in a box. It only needs one more seam, but boy that seam is quite a doozy. It is supposed to be a crinoline using this vintage tutorial -- but tulle is a cruel cruel master. . .
5. Most recent project completed:
This blanket -- I think I'll talk about it soon so I won't bore you with the details twice. (I had fun photographing it. That's my grandmother's rocking chair set up in the ditch behind our house. I looked like a crazy person, knee deep in weeds with a camera.)
6. Craft you would most like to make but cannot:
THIS, oh this, a thousand times this! Alas, I don't think I have quite reached the skill level required yet. Katie tells me I should wait and usually she's all gung-ho about giant seemingly impossible projects. Also I took a look at the written pattern got dizzy, and felt like I was standing on the edge of a large canyon. (the kind of canyon that if you fall down and manage to survive there is no way to escape, etc.) So I think I had better just drool over it for a while and wait for my skills to catch up to my tastes. Bummer.
7. Most useful thing you've created:
I think it would have to be this wallet and checkbook cover -- I know, super boring, but you should have seen me trying to buy root beer and bok choy with the old slapdash mess of a method I had for storing my cards -- coins and old receipts and bits of paper and my lucky shamrock pin all tumbling out and the clerk waiting, just waiting. . . (It's this checkbook cover and this wallet) I've made a couple of these wallets as gifts and helped my sister and a friend make them for themselves as well.
8. How long is your craft "to do" list:
I'm super ashamed to say I really can't find the end of it. I have a list written up right now that takes up an entire page of yellow legal paper -- but I know for a fact if I were to go and wander around my craft room I would find several more projects that have been neglected or all-out forgotten. While it is insanely satisfying to be able to cross something off the list, in true impetuous form I much prefer the planning and starting.
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