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Day 2 of the Thirty Days of Creativity:

I decided to get back to work on a costume I was making for a friend.  Specifically, the Rockford Peaches costume from the movie, “A League of Their Own.”

So, my plan for today was to work on the patch.  I looked online but couldn’t order one anywhere, so I had to think of another way to put it together.  I had some old inkjet transfer paper, so I found an image online, photoshopped it a bit (blowing it up to a printable size made it really bitmappy and also I needed to reverse the image), and printed it on the transfer paper.

Then I ironed it on according to the package directions and wound up with this:

Not sure why the bottom came out better than the top, I thought I was pretty even with my pressure (and pushing a flat iron onto a slab of marble on a countertop you would think would result in an even application of heat) but I had planned on overstitching some of the patch anyway – you know, to make it look like a real patch rather than a 2-D transfer.  So I stitched around the circles with my machine and used my super-high-level-fixer-upper-tool (a sharpie) to color in the letters and scales a bit more.  And this is how it turned out:

I am generally pretty happy with it.  Stay tuned, as I plan to actually finish the costume during the next thirty days.  It is mostly complete, but the part I am most worried about (with the highest possibility of screwing everything up) is the buttonholes, which I generally avoid doing because I haven’t really ever learned how.  My mom and I made doll clothes when I was a little girl but most of my sewing ability was acquired through a lot of trial and error.  And, it turns out, when you are making Halloween costumes for family or volunteering to do costumes for local theater groups, you need to know more about using velcro or zippers to close things than fidgety buttons.  But I wanted the costume to be authentic and look good close up (which is the problem with a lot of the cheap storebought costumes these days) because it was supposed to be for a really cool costume party in May that got canceled (and therefore bought me some time with the whole actually completing it thing).

Long time, no post… I had been doing SO well with the postaweek challenge and then all of a sudden, the wheels totally fell off the wagon. I am going to try another challenge now: Thirty Days of Creativity.  Basically, trying to create stuff (anything) for thirty days in June.  And I’ll try to blog about it here.  I know what you are thinking, “right, Molly, you can’t manage to post every week so you immediately up the ante to try to post EVERY DAY in June?”  Well, I am sure as heck going to try.

No idea what I am going to create every day in June, so for today I am going to count this blog post and try to figure it all out tomorrow.  I have a number of creative projects I have been working on: a Halloween costume for a friend, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, a couple of websites, a few random sewing projects, etc.  Maybe I can take some time in June to do some of the things I really enjoy doing but never seem to have the time to spend on them.  Maybe I will learn how to cook tortilla soup.  That counts, right?  Creativity you can eat…  yum.