The Damned Are Welcome Here

Been three weeks since the last entry. Don’t know why I couldn’t get myself going on this. But here we are, finally, for better or worse.

Did go off on a tangent about starting a zine. Watched waaaaaay too many YouTube videos about how to create one. Would like to call it Zine for the Damned. Checked online and it’s too close to another zine already in existence. Too bad, but at least that zine nonsense is over. For now. Happy for that, actually.

Now on to the few things I did accomplish.

Been continuing on with the chandelier purse. Sewed in the boning to give it a round shape. And this is working well, so far. Touch wood, she says as she knocks on her own skull.

Didn’t want the bare LED bulbs to show so they’re covered up with some white organza. Tried to take a photo, but it didn’t really come out all that well. Sorry, lighting’s not good.

Anyway, moving on. The blankets are going well. The green one is done. Yay! And I’m pawning it off on my brother which is great. Nice blanket, but not my style.

The bat blanket is half done (the crocheting part, no embroidery yet). Here’s a picture.

Have three rows of four bats each, thus far. Want to do three more rows of bats, but on the top row, in place of one of the bats, have a blood red moon, like this:

Hope I can find a yarn that comes in a good red.

Lastly, for the Dali jacket project, will need to print the paintings on fabric. Tried printing on some white batiste taped to a sheet of paper, but that didn’t work. According to YouTube videos, will need to print on fabric attached to freezer paper. The whole process seems simple enough. Could be wrong, though, knowing myself as I do. Couldn’t find any freezer paper anywhere near me so had to order from that place that won’t be mentioned on this blog. It will take a couple of weeks to get to me. In the meantime, will start on the base jacket.

Have some linen I ordered a couple of years ago, but never used because I hated the colour. Think I still have it somewhere in my stash. It can be the basis of the jacket. Been looking at YouTube videos about slow stitching. Here’s a good one for beginners. Basically, it involves attaching pieces of fabric and whatever to another fabric using long basting stitches in embroidery thread. Can use that technique to hide the horrible linen with prints of the paintings and other bits and bobs. Black quilting fabric will cover the other side of the linen.

Would like to include one of Dali’s cross paintings, like this one:

Got this from The Met’s website here.

But I always prefer crosses to be upside down, proper heathen that I am. Were I to turn it other way around, would that create a lot of hullaballoo? The thought makes me smile. So does the word hullaballoo.

That’s all for now. Hope I can make my lazy bum do more in the next two weeks. As always, thank you, Damned, for coming.