Double Posty

Going to do a bit of a double random post here!  Well it's not so random...

The first part is going to be about my New Year's Resolution project! Ya know the one sewn piece a month, all year long! Yeahhhh! And the second portion will be my first sketch prompt from my friend at Run 2 the Wild's blog!

Sewn Project for January! 
   My plan was to create a pleather pull over hoodie! I had absolutely no patterns for this, so was just sort of winging it from one of my favorite pullovers! It's still a bit unfinished due to lack of budget... but wanted to update on the progress. I forgot to leave a bit extra for seams because well... pleather does not stretch like most other fabrics. Haha, so it's a bit snug! But hey that gives me more incentive to get healthy so I can rock this baby when it's finished!  As you can see below it still needs to be hemed. I need to find a cheap place to buy some black ribbing to finish it off! Oh and also need to figure out how I want the neckline finished (a simple swoop neck or a v cut) But in all honestly it turned out much better than I originally thought it would without having a pattern.

- On a side note, I should invest in a serger! Trying to reinforce the stitching with my sewing machine was quite the task!

I will post a finished product whenever that may be and also post some ideas for next months project!



Run 2 the Wild's Sketch Promt #1: Conceptual Self Portrait

 Courtney at R2W has started up an awesome sketchbook workshop! Every week she will post a new prompt to get our creative juices flowing! It's been quite a long time since I have just sat down and "doodled". So this definitely caught my interest! I am going to limit myself to drawing what I can in a 10 minute span. The shorter the length of time the better I think, shows what you can do in "crunch time". Hoping this will also help improve my long lost drawing skills.

So here it is... My first sketchbook entry in a very very long time.
(need to figure out a better way to get a picture of these on here)
Looks much better in person. Silly camera flash!  Cant wait until next week's prompt.