self-motivation

I've been meaning to sew more and cook more and generally do things for myself to avoid spending money. The necessity (read: being broke) is potentially a blessing in disguise. I have skills I've been meaning to improve upon and I'd like to start selling things to supplement my part-time job. I'm hoping that having this blog to update will keep me working on things, you know, the self-absorbed desire to show off and all.

Anyway, blah blah blah, ramblings aside, I'll get to the point.

I made these!



I worked off a tutorial for honeycomb smocking I found here. I had been wanting to make cushions with this exact texture for ages, but had no idea how to do it (even though, in retrospect, it's totally simple and obvious). I found the instructions on a fluke boredom-induced search through the tutorial archives of whip up, one of my favourite sewing blogs.

I added invisible zippers to the covers, so they can be removed and washed. I am not yet at 100% with my zipper skills, but I'm pretty okay at making it up as I go along. Zippers are definitely on my list of things to improve on.

Including doing a practice-run of the pleating/smocking and some late-night quasi-perfectionism, these pups only took a couple of evenings to put together. It's rare that I like something I've made, but I'm into these for sure.