Moar Bagz!*

  *Yes, I am a fan of “I can has cheezburger?” I received the custom embroidery designs for the two organizations that I will be making (and donating) stuff to.  I made some zip bags with them; I’ll post those up once I get permission to share the images. In the meantime, here are pictures…

UPCYCLE

Part of the reason I got the embroidery machine is because I wanted to sew dog collars.  A bit of background:  a coworker of mine has her own 501c3 charity – a dog rescue, with shelter in-home with fosters.  She asked me how hard it would be to make a dog collar.  I had a…

Modified Shirt Day

Here’s another of my work shirts – branded with something more akin to my personality.  Forgive the cat hair – it’s a thing that happens in my home. Thanks again to Urban Threads for having such awesome designs! #nerdyme #ctrlaltdel #embroidery #urbanthreads

Machine Embroidery is Hard

I did manage to complete 2 free standing lace coasters on Friday.  It took a lot more effort and attention in order to get them completed, but they looked wonderful.  I was so happy! However, things went poorly from there on out.  On Saturday, I started on rebranding one of my polo shirts.  I disregarded…

Developing the Brand of Me

Two important facts: At the beginning of this year, my employer changed the company logo.  I have a bunch of apparel that has the old logo on it.  As far as the company is concerned, this is fine to continue wearing; however, I am customer facing and plan on getting replacement clothing with the new…

Sewing Stuff

Since I decided (at GenCon last year) that I would begin sewing again, I’ve made a few random things: Dog collars (for a friend of mine who runs a dog rescue charity) Dog costumes (for my dogs for Halloween) Dog sweaters (for my dogs and others) Sewing class projects: Pillowcase with French seams Car organizer…