Category: DIY
Todd brought me his jeans that had belt loop rip off of it (leaving a small frayed area) and asked me if it can be mended. I like a good challenge so I gave it a try. I remembered seeing a stitch called “darning stitch” in a vintage embroidery book, and I figured it must have once been used for darning (…and a bit of googling proved me right!). Anyhow, here’s the little hole in the jeans mended with darning stitch and I’m about to re-attach the belt loop.
I’ve been baking dark & white chocolate chip cookies lately. My cookies look a lot better (rounder and more evenly sized) now that I have a perfect ice cream scoop (I found it for $0.99 at thrift shop — it’s totally great, simple solid metal construction …unlike modern ones that are metal plated plastic with bulky rubber handles :O) for making dough balls with.
I made a faery princess wand for immi. She’s gone through many many wands over past few years (it’s easily one of her favorite toys) because they break all the time! I got tired of store bought wands getting irreparably broken only to end up in the landfill, so I made one that’s less fragile (and anyhow easily repaired with things I already have on hand). The stick portion is made from a light weight but quite solid aluminum tube so I don’t think that it’ll be cracking anytime soon. The star is wool-felt — it should be reasonably safe for immi to wave around.
I got a totally comfortable and very pretty summer dress at a serious bargain price…which of course meant that some minor alteration was required. I don’t have the skill to do this for a more complicated dress but for a simple one like this, I got it to fit me well just by taking in the side seam a bit at the top of the dress (did this with sewing machine to save time) and shortening the strap (by hand, some things are much more neatly done this way!).
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