No Sewing, A Little Talk

My last project was a plain shirt that I will get pictures of soon, but I've currently been busy making beads. I have a few orders that need to get done and I fell sick the past few days, so it is slowing it even more.

I woke up the other morning with a swollen throat and uvula. Seriously, a swollen uvula (that thing in your throat). It never happened to me before. Now it is less swollen but I'm dragging and all nasal. Woe is me!

But, after all the business of making beads gets done, I have a plan to stencil/paint a Dalek onto some black fabric (white paint with perhaps some red somewhere) to then sew onto Ed's school bag for next semester. He has a fondness for Dr Who and all things Dalek and created his own rendering of it while bored at work one day (shhhh, don't tell his boss). If he'll touch it up a bit so that it can be printed, I'll turn it into a stencil and make something cool. Right now it is his Yahoo avatar, so a bit small.

I tried stencilling onto tshirts a while back and they came out ok. I used regular acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium, but it made the white paint a little less than opaque. One day while wandering the aisles at the craft store I saw some fabric paint and on the back it said it was good for covering black fabric, so I picked it up (with a coupon!). I have yet to try it, mainly from lack of time or space.

Our craft area is turning more into a storage area for art papers, scrapbooking papers which I make cards and bookmarks out of, and other crafty things like the paper cutter, cutting mats and of course the pencils, paints and regular stuff that belongs there. So, it is a bit of a mess and until I can get it clean, or beg it of Ed, this project may have to wait a teeny bit.

Thankfully I have a seperate sewing area, so if I choose to sew in the mean time, I can.