this is fantastic! you did a really swell job of sewing something bias to something that looks like a simple straight weave. i love that green, looks super comfy!

YAY!

YESSSSS! i love these, i also make myself a rediculous amount of skirts... one of my favorite things to use is old sheets... you can find so many awesome prints as well as weaves of fabric. I found this one amazing portuguese cotton set with striping, like this:
 http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/589/057/384/384057589_662.jpg
and used it to practice bias sewing, and made myself a jumper and skirt, both on the bias. it was so rad, i feel like i leveled up.

I'm curious, are those a 4 panel a-line? they look wonderful on you.

YOURE MASTER BLASTER NOW! 

did you use a serger or sewing machine? often times on a serger, you can change the differential to accommodate a knit, and prevent puckering like that. it might be worth your time to either: needle felt the edges together and then remove the stitching, or change the tension and needle and stitch length on your sewing machine using a scrap of the sweater, and then re-sew the seams. 

yay!

thats what i was thinking, too! ^_^
also, its cotton and totally washable, which is equally important

these two peices are of the few that i did this semester that are worth showing y'all.

jungian archetype, water soluble oils, 3x4 feet


and here is le narrative, acrylic, 3x4 feet


i feel really good about these. the polar bear just came along so smoothly, under pressure. almost a fluke, but really, i always work best under pressure.
 
y'all like?

my good friend monica is having a baby two weeks(ish) from now while i am in europe, and im pretty bummed about it, since i was going to help out at her home birth. so i made her Peanut a couple of squishies to keep em company till im back.

these are the same style i used to make with me mam back when i was a kid. i could never get over the simplistic cuteness of 2d squishies.

i made an elephant and a lil daruma kitty to stand guard.



lookit! he has a tail!


the daruma is re-purposed t-shirts, and the elephant is an old turkish cotton sheet with watermark-style jacquard striping. (im making a bias cut dress out of the rest of the sheets, so in <3). next time around for the daruma, i think i will put beans or rice in his butt so he can stand up better.

at any rate, im pretty stoked, and monica got all teary eyed with glee and asked if she really *had* to give them to peanut. mission accomplished/qua'pla!

this is epically amazing. like, whoa. hell yea for all your work put into making the pattern for this! i know for a fact that you could market the pattern, hella people would wanna make one!

if you dont want to deal with the curling on the edges, just hand stitch it to a piece of flannel, and knot it down like finishing a quilt. itll also make it so you dont have to weave in all those ends!

omg, you are so awesome.

that is absolutely fantastic. out of this world! omg, i covet the ability to make airbrush looking so easy.

*applause*

so truly brilliant! you really embraced the goal of the project. what grade did you recieve?

super awesome! you rocked it, girl. i wish you luck in your future exploits.

just remember, measure measure measure. i rarely use patterns anymore, but i do draft and measure just about everything. oh, and i totally take apart other items to figure it out. ^_^

well done!