Patchwork Underground

I put my two cents in for Fave Craft’s monthly craft question this month.  The prompt:  What was your worst crafting disaster?  Click on the screen grab to read all of this month’s responses!

Do you have a craft horror story to share?  Bad craft gone good or good craft gone bad?  I love crafty melodrama so please feel free to share in the comments.  =)

<3 erin

P.S.  Stay tuned for the latest interview installment of “Crafters I Love” this Sunday!

Hello Plastic Canvas 5th Wheel Tissue Paper Cozy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best .99 cents I’ve spent at Goodwill in a while.  If you or anyone you know has any information about the origin of this artwork, please contact me.  I love you!

Yahoo for the holidays and thank god they’re over.  These are the place cards I made for our big vegan x-mas dinner.  The theme was Rockstar Virgin Christmas.  I like that the Virgin Mary, Britney Spears and Lady Gaga are all represented here.  I made these on a whim at my mother-out-law’s house so they are comprised entirely of sharpie, pen, scotch tape (no white glue!), computer paper, metallic angel cutouts and a few issues of Entertainment Weekly.

(We had 5 people at dinner - the 6th card with Lady Gaga on it is for Elijah, the angel who comes to Passover.  I always like to have a little Passover in my holidays.)

Happy 2010 everyone!

Less than 2.5 weeks until I get my cast off for good!

I’ve been meaning to pimp my crutches for some time but inspiration really struck the other day when I was playing with the boxes of trim I talked about in my last post.  I can’t decide if the crutches say Japanese Lolita or Catholic Kid’s Funeral but this I do know: I frikkin’ LOVE the little pink birdy on the right-hand crutch.  She’s my little healing totem animal right now…

Note how well the pimped crutches coordinate with my new hot pink cast….

I hopped backwards on one foot to take this pic.  Purple heart for bravery!

So cute you almost want to break your foot, right?

So, I had just finished watching Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance music video (for the I-don’t-know-how-many-eth time) and I was thinking about how hard I could rock it in those 15″ heels she wears in the video.  I closed my laptop and stood up.  And then I fell down.  OW!  My leg was asleep and before I realized what was happening, I rolled over in my measly 3″ heels.  I was in denial for a day or so but eventually I went to the doctor - BROKEN FOOT!

Here’s what a broken foot looks like in a sewing room:

I went thrift shopping to dull the pain - got this awesome vintage Idea Book of Trims….

It made me realize that I heart freaky Kubrick-style ballerinas:

…and glassy-eyed girls in big hats:

I also learned what happens when you give a girl a Buttoneer.

The Idea Book of Trims made me realize that my trims are a freakin’ mess.  I have them in a bunch of disparate bags stashed all over my sewing room.  So, in the interests of organization (and further dulling the pain of my broken foot), I hobbled to the dollar store and bought storage bins.  Voila:

Coming up next: a tutorial for my scrap earrings!  Here’s a sneak peek: