First: I made a crafting how-to video. Yeah, have been wanting to give this one a go for more than a year! The video is called How to Crochet Buttons a Different Way and I show you how to crochet a cover to fit around buttons so you can use those mismatching buttons you have lurking in your stash. I have a rather large stash that is an accumulation of my grandmother, mother, sisters, and myself so it is no easy feat to find five look-alikes.
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And for the second half of this post. . .
I made my sister's Audrey Hepburn skirt! :)
What, you don't remember? That could be caused by me not touching the topic for months and months. Back in May of last year
I blogged about my scheme of using a Vogue dress (the popular 9968) and making it into a tapered pencil skirt to bring to life a fashion sketch
my sister Bernadette drew. After becoming kind of burnt out over drafting and fitting this skirt I put it down and just didn't pick it up.
So along came January and a new mindset. I mentioned in
my New Year's post that I wanted to take things slower and to savor the moment. This little goal of mine made me motivated to take out the Hepburn skirt, and the monstrous to-do-list that was attached, and to take it one step at a time. And to learn new things as well!
There was still more fitting issues to iron out, lots of decision making, and lots of research but I finally made it to the finish line and I am very proud of the garment's workmanship.
Are you dying to see it? Don't have any photos of it yet because I just stitched the last stitch last night. But as soon as the right moment and lighting come around I will get a few shots to share!
