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I Love Lamp

Photo courtesy of the workroom

So... remember the beautiful Rouenneries by French General fabric that I fell in love with? I finally made that fabric lamp shade! It now sits next to my bed by my fabric hoops. So beautiful! So easy! I love lamp!

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Jumping Through Hoops

Kelly? Kelly who?

What a disaster! It's been over two weeks without a blog post. I have not done well.

Remember my deadline to finish the fabric hoops for the wall behind my bed? I met it. I swear. But I didn't like the colour of my bedroom walls. Dustin and I have been thinking of changing the wall colour since we moved in. I realize that ivory is boring, but I was beginning to feel like I lived in the middle of a flower in pollen-ville.

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I'm not making excuses for my lack of blog posts. Just giving reasons: I painted my room, I needed a weekend of daylight to take pictures (anyone want to donate a better camera?), and then I broke my camera (anyone want to donate any camera at all?)

Honest: my camera is broken. Not only is my camera broken, I found out today that the camera on my cell phone also does not work. So I couldn't even take a picture of my broken camera.

Before the death of my camera, I managed to take a few pictures. I was going to take better ones, but they are now all I have. I think I have a couple posts worth of pictures before I'll be MIA for a while: so enjoy!

My last two fabric hoops were a shout-out to my very first birdie sling, and an artistic attempt at representing my dress shirt from a class at the the workroom.

For my first birdie sling (photo courtesy of the workroom) I selected Amy butler's grey happy dots, and a beautiful watercolour fabric. The lining was an olive green upholstery fabric.



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The dress shirt class at the workroom was bitter sweet. When I have a new camera, I will hopefully post more about it. The resulting dress shirt was great: I was very proud of the craftswomanship. But it didn't fit. I know, the class was supposed to be a custom fit dress shirt. I don't know what to tell you. Fortunately, it fits my mother. So she gets two Christmas presents this year.

I had chosen a simple striped shirting fabric. Isn't the mini pocket cute?

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The fabric hoops are great. A little collection of sewing stories. When I get my hands on a camera, I'll post a picture of the finished product.

Now I'm off to think of blog posts about the few pictures that I took before my camera's plunge to its death (literally: I dropped it.)

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I am the very model of a modern major general...

I'm in love with a new collection of fabric that the workroom has recently ordered. In LOVE. It's called Rouenneries by French General (for Moda.)

Photo courtesy of the workroom

I want them all. A dress, a shirt, a skirt, a pillow, a duvet cover... the options are endless!

One thing I know for sure, I'm going use the jelly roll to make a lamp shade using this tutorial by rachel of p.s. i quilt.

"In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,I am the very model of a modern Major-General!"

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Bored of no Board

Dustin and I have lived in our home for a year and a half now, and we still have no headboard. Our bedroom is a boring land of "super giant bed and nothing on the walls." It's quite depressing.

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We had gone shopping for a headboard but with no luck; we never found something we loved enough for the price they were asking. I had decided that I would just have to be creative and figure something else out.

A few months ago, I saw that the workroom sold embroidery hoops. I'm such a pack rat and hate throwing away pieces of scrap fabric bigger than the size of a cookie, so these embroidery hoops were going to be great for displaying favourite scrap fabric and decorating the boring wall behind my bed all at the same time! Two birds! One stone!

Except that it wasn't going to be one stone -- er -- hoop. So far I only have a few hoops. And I can't nail them to the wall until I have all of the hoops. How do I know how much room to leave? What if I want to move them around?! My dad used to hate when I nailed holes into the wall: "Ai Ya!"

The first hoop is from leftover fabric from my sister's baby bag. It's a gorgeous Echino fabric -- and when Cheryl (from Pink Panda Fabrics) sent me my fabric order, she included a sample of Moda fabric that was a perfect match. I love that it draws out the blue hue in the Echino fabric.

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The next hoop is fabric from my "Carrie Bradshaw / Christian Dior" dress. I added some shirring to echo my dress. Simple. But even that took me hours of humming and hawing.

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The final hoop (for now) is a tribute to "the birdie sling that got away." It will always have a special place in my heart.

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I'm thinking maybe another 3 or 4 more hoops of various sizes. Perhaps I should set a deadline otherwise I'll never get these done. I work best under pressure. "I promise to finish these hoops by November 19th." And those of you who know me know that when I commit, I never back out!

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