Two of these were delayed from last week’s roundup, but the rest are new.
- Refashioned a denim shirt bought late last summer.
- Made a bolster pillow from an embroidery piece done two and a half years ago (!).
- Mended three pairs of jeans that had been sitting half-finished for a long time (I’ll call this one mend, especially as the jeans I was wearing while mending replaced these pairs in the to-mend queue).
- Went through my bag of socks to darn. Threw out most of them. Tried to fix two pair with needle felting, per Ayala Talpai (formerly under “Tips and Tricks”). Unfortunately without a styrofoam ball or egg, I resorted to a small vase, felting over the opening. I did a pair of the hubs’ socks with wool crewel yarn, which may or may not stay put with wear (jury’s still out), and a pair of my socks with llama fleece. That pair have since joined the rest in the trash, as the llama fleece is too slick to felt well on its own, and even after two rounds of re-felting by needle during the day it was shaggy and peeling. Oh well. The sock of the pair that had the smaller hole did better, so the trick is probably staying on top of it.
- Turned my Cake or Pi? shirt (from shirt.woot!) into an apron.
Totals:
- Mending: 7
- Non-mend sewing: 5
- Elimination: 11
- Website updates: 5
- Crochet: 1