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I think it wasgaladhir who reblogged a thing about furoshiki and then posted about making some. I’d been pondering something along those lines, so now I’ve resolved I want to wrap at least some of my gifts this year in something like that. Maybe I’ll make a few gift bags or something, but. Well, at least for my niece, I know if I wrap her smallish presents in a furoshiki then she can use it as a doll blanket afterward and will be happy. So I have one at least cut out. Of course, me being me, I’m constitutionally unable to cut into any yardage of anything, but I have half an old woven shirt and some old bedsheet and if I piece one bit of it I have four equal squares that I can then put together and make uhhh more a bojagi than a furoshiki but still. Then the stitching is decorative too, and boom, I have a quilt if I line it, which I may well not do actually because it’s a doll blanket so really I’ll just do French seams. Actually I think I’ll assemble it on the serger and then spend a brief span at work overcasting the seams with embroidery floss in a chain stitch and then I have a reversible visible-seam embroidered thingy.
So that’s one project.
I still need to buy gifts for my oldest sister, Dude’s sister, and my dad. I have at least one thing for everyone else. Though I think I’ve made the rookie mistake of buying more shit for one of my sister’s kids than the others. So I have to at least come up with something else for them. Maybe the girl, I’ll do another version of the furoshiki as a wrap, because she’d use a doll blanket too. I don’t think I’ll be able to make the stuffed dragon for the other boy, but I’ll take another look today. If I have suitable fabric, I’ll try. Whatever it is has to be mailed, so. I don’t really want to make a giant one. I’m just still not sure. Oh well.
I also got some soda ash at the art store, and a clearance baggie of pre-reduced indigo, and it made me think about my would-be indigo vat where I simmered all my japanese indigo leaves and now have this 5-gallon bucket half full sitting in my spare bedroom, and I don’t know how to start an indigo vat and don’t know if I dare give it a try, but I really ought to. I could justify getting a smallish bolt of cheap narrow cotton muslin at JoAnn’s if I just got that started. But it looks like I also need either thiox or hydro to get a vat started, and I should also re-state that I have no idea what I’m doing… But I could get some RIT color remover and a bolt of cheap muslin at JoAnn’s this afternoon and experiment with that and then not have to piece fabric to make more furoshiki. Hmmmmmm. Tempting.
I think it was
galadhir who reblogged a thing about furoshiki and then posted about making some. I’d been pondering something along those lines, so now I’ve resolved I want to wrap at least some of my gifts this year in something like that. Maybe I’ll make a few gift bags or something, but. Well, at least for my niece, I know if I wrap her smallish presents in a furoshiki then she can use it as a doll blanket afterward and will be happy. So I have one at least cut out. Of course, me being me, I’m constitutionally unable to cut into any yardage of anything, but I have half an old woven shirt and some old bedsheet and if I piece one bit of it I have four equal squares that I can then put together and make uhhh more a bojagi than a furoshiki but still. Then the stitching is decorative too, and boom, I have a quilt if I line it, which I may well not do actually because it’s a doll blanket so really I’ll just do French seams. Actually I think I’ll assemble it on the serger and then spend a brief span at work overcasting the seams with embroidery floss in a chain stitch and then I have a reversible visible-seam embroidered thingy. So that’s one project.
I still need to buy gifts for my oldest sister, Dude’s sister, and my dad. I have at least one thing for everyone else. Though I think I’ve made the rookie mistake of buying more shit for one of my sister’s kids than the others. So I have to at least come up with something else for them. Maybe the girl, I’ll do another version of the furoshiki as a wrap, because she’d use a doll blanket too. I don’t think I’ll be able to make the stuffed dragon for the other boy, but I’ll take another look today. If I have suitable fabric, I’ll try. Whatever it is has to be mailed, so. I don’t really want to make a giant one. I’m just still not sure. Oh well.
I also got some soda ash at the art store, and a clearance baggie of pre-reduced indigo, and it made me think about my would-be indigo vat where I simmered all my japanese indigo leaves and now have this 5-gallon bucket half full sitting in my spare bedroom, and I don’t know how to start an indigo vat and don’t know if I dare give it a try, but I really ought to. I could justify getting a smallish bolt of cheap narrow cotton muslin at JoAnn’s if I just got that started. But it looks like I also need either thiox or hydro to get a vat started, and I should also re-state that I have no idea what I’m doing… But I could get some RIT color remover and a bolt of cheap muslin at JoAnn’s this afternoon and experiment with that and then not have to piece fabric to make more furoshiki. Hmmmmmm. Tempting.
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Date: 2019-12-08 09:40 pm (UTC)