So last night, I finally stayed up past 8pm and got some work done on a few projects.
One was this bag for my good friend Amy.
I get to visit her in Tucson in about a week (without the kids!!!) and had to get my hiney in gear because I promised to make her this bag a really long time ago. See, Amy's trying out for the Tucson Roller Derby and needed an appropriately awesome bag to carry all her gear in. (If you must know, I am completely jealous and if Lawrence ever has a Roller derby team, I AM THERE!)
Luckily, Lori directed me to this rockin' Roller girl fabric and the bag was born! I still need to add the lining and finishing touches but I think it's turning out pretty well.
Sadly, This did not.
I had found this cute striped shirt for Maisy for only $1.74. While I thought it was a little boring, I figured I'd just add a quick freezer paper stencil and spruce it up. Weeeell, that didn't work so well. I should have gone with my instincts. Originally wanted the Anchor to be huge and take up most of the shirt. But I was impatient and only had this little anchor and just couldn't wait one more day to enlarge the picture. It had to be done last night! Oh, well, next time I'll plan a little better and play around with the colors a lot more. Maybe I'll even go back and see if they have any more shirts, for less than 2 bucks you can't go wrong.
6 comments:
there's roller derby in kansas city, isn't there?
Hey, the bag is coming along! And I think if you outline that anchor with a running stitch of embroidery - maybe in red? - it would look great. Wha da ya think?
I like the shirt. And I agree with Lori about the red stitching.
Cute shirt! And I love the bag. Hope we can see the finished thing.
I saw a segment on TV about a roller derby in LA, and man, those gals are tough! They really get beat up! I'd be too much of a wuss. :)
You could do another layer of color around the anchor (like a border) with a freezer paper stencil. I don't think the anchor is too small.
I like the anchor the way it is. I thought that was a shirt for a grown up and I was jealous because I love stripes and anchors!
wow, I couldn't do the whole roller derby gig. Do they wear teeth guards? Because I don't mind some bruises, but I have nightmares about losing my teeth. Because my teeth are bad and I'm certain I'm going to lose them by the time I'm 45 years old.
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