I did a swap with someone, they knitted me some lovely socks, and I made them an apron (using fabric they chose) – it turned out lovely I thought.
…and a pad…
These are the socks I got! Neat hey!!! I dyed the yarn (it’s 100% bamboo, dyed with procion dyes)… and she knit them into socks for me.
A few months back we went to Steampump – a steampunk thing (not sure what you’d call it – an event… a one-night- nightclub of sorts…) It was part exhibition of steampunk inspired clothing, gadgetry, jewellery etc. part tearoom (as in they served tea – in teacups with saucers even!!!) and part general loitering about looking nifty. There was even a display of bare knuckle fighting (not my cup of tea), burlesque, punch and judy puppets and a belly dancer (though not very good). All in all, a fun evening and I hope they do them again!!!
So of course, costuming needed to happen…
(well… a cheap knockoff ipod :D)
After seeing this, and being inspired….I made this set for hubby for Xmas. I know gluing gears onto things and thus declaring them to be “Steampunk” is a bit kitch… but gears are cool 😀 and I did try to make sure most pieces could look like they were part of an actual working, moving thing… not just one or two randomly glued on things…
He photographed them, and didn’t bother to wipe off any dust and fluff, so excuse that 😀
Earphones
“ipod” (or rather, generic MP3 player)
I realised I hadn’t blogged in a while, and I’d put the photos of my bed on FB, but not here… so here it is… after… err… 30 odd years of wanting a canopy bed – I finally have one!
Since buying a nice 4 poster bed is about $4,000 more than we can afford to spend on a bed, I decided that since it’s the curtain bits I want most, and I don’t care about the bed posts – I could just hang them from the ceiling!… so I devised a cunning plan! Involving (MrObsi, not me) drilling holes in the ceiling to thread hooks through, which are secured to a piece of wood running across the ceiling beams (so they take the curtain weight, not the plasterboard ceiling – which is handy, since my niece ended up ripping them down one day and the ceiling probably would have come with them otherwise)…. and the curtains hang from normal curtain rods…. so they can be fully open or fully closed…
And I can tell you now, roll-hemming 12 metres worth of chiffon (which needs all 4 sides of 6 pieces hemmed) is annoying… and in hindsight, buying readymade tab top curtains would probably have been cheaper, and a lot easier, but live and learn…
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