Photos and junk
Jul. 21st, 2010 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaPictures of me and some of my recent mending behind the cut.
Stacey was kind enough to snap a couple photos of me last night. This one isn't my favorite but my favorite was too dark and was using the wrong lighting filter so it was all yellowy. I fixed the color but then it was too grainy so I blurred it. I kind of like the result but it's definitely a manipulated photo. :)
Anyhow! Found the top at a store in Santa Cruz. It was in the 5 dollar bin and had a seam that needed minor mending. So... Mended. :)
The patches on the jeans were really kind of fun. First, I looked at the size and shape of the holes, then figured out what would go over them. Patches are made from bits of calico bonded to heavy canvas with heat fusible interfacing and then freehand embroidered with embroider stitches on my sewing machine. Bigger patches have a patch on the inside of the jeans too and little florets in places to better anchor the pieces together (there are some on the Love patch but you can't see them)
The star is the knee of another pair of my jeans (already dirty from an evening of shoveling gravel) and the last and most difficult was a pair of Stacey's jeans. She'd torn the butt and broken a couple of belt loops. I was having a hard time figuring out what I could put on the butt that wouldn't look too phallic and weird by itself and finally decided that if I extended the patch to fix the belt loops as well, it would balance it out and make it look decent. There was also another hole down on the leg so I did a matching flower for that. I'm pretty happy with the result but it took about 4hrs. Probably kind of silly for jeans we'll be mostly using for gardening but ohwell. :)
Anyhow! Found the top at a store in Santa Cruz. It was in the 5 dollar bin and had a seam that needed minor mending. So... Mended. :)
The patches on the jeans were really kind of fun. First, I looked at the size and shape of the holes, then figured out what would go over them. Patches are made from bits of calico bonded to heavy canvas with heat fusible interfacing and then freehand embroidered with embroider stitches on my sewing machine. Bigger patches have a patch on the inside of the jeans too and little florets in places to better anchor the pieces together (there are some on the Love patch but you can't see them)
The star is the knee of another pair of my jeans (already dirty from an evening of shoveling gravel) and the last and most difficult was a pair of Stacey's jeans. She'd torn the butt and broken a couple of belt loops. I was having a hard time figuring out what I could put on the butt that wouldn't look too phallic and weird by itself and finally decided that if I extended the patch to fix the belt loops as well, it would balance it out and make it look decent. There was also another hole down on the leg so I did a matching flower for that. I'm pretty happy with the result but it took about 4hrs. Probably kind of silly for jeans we'll be mostly using for gardening but ohwell. :)
