As aforementioned I have a lot of freetime, but I also have a feeling I'm getting really good at actually using that time for something usefull - well, aside from learning for a math test maybe ^^'' ... - and so I took on sewing.
A good friend of mine sews for years now and did a lot of really nice things including skirts and dresses. A while back... uhm... like 7 weeks? she did a gorgeous school-girl skirt for me which I absolutly adore. So she is my go-to person to seek sewing advice if I need to.
A while ago when I was once again cleaning out my closet my Mum had the brilliant idea to make a bag out of the old jeans trousers. So after going online and looking up if that could potentially be nice looking, I decided to do it... And know, months later I actually did it... sort of. It's not finished yet due to my uncanny ability to blow even the easiest task out of prorpotions and make a big fuss around it.
And so doom advanced on this project in form of my brilliant (insane) idea to adorn the jeans bag with an embroidery. But not just any, no it couldn't possibly be just something small, it simply had to be one of the more complicated and slightly bigger motivs I found on the net.
Well, at least the sakura blossoms kinda fit my Japan-mania! Also it is a beautiful motiv and the light pink blossoms are forming a nice contrast to the jeans blue.
When I was like 10 years old or so I did a bit of easy embroidery just really easy and not very pretty...
... and sometimes not finished. Although the last one is something I did when I was like 12 (wohoo) I didn't finish it because there really was no point in doing so... the motiv and everything was simply not pretty nor useful enough for it to be more than just showing of to the family for compliments... thus useless, I ended all my attempts at finishing it.
But since I never returned all the stuff used for embroidery my gram gave to me then, I now have enough recources to climb my personal Mount Everest - figuratively speaking.
By the way, did you know that Chinese embroidery is the oldest known and can be dated back to 5th-3rd century BC.? No, you didn't? Well, I didn't either but that's what wikipedia just told me. Smartass.
And know what? I still don't care...
So back on topic: This is what my handmade bag looks like so far.
As you can see I haven't progressed very far yet with my sakura blossoms even though I've been working on it every day for a week now. I guess I'm really slow but I also am quite pleased with the way it looks like. I think this time I will actually finish it. I still have 1-2 months of hollidays, so my chances aren't that bad.
*keeps fingers crossed*
- I also like the bag... ^^'''
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