Let the moss grow..

I am sooo tempted to find a patch of moss somewhere and make some moss graffiti. :p



Credits:
1, 2, 3: Anna Garforth
4. Bumbumbum 

Topstitching glory..

You, my adoring fans, will now bask in the glory of my topstitching skillz. (Whoa..scuze the wrinkles! Hadn't noticed just how BAD they were before! :p )


Come..have a closer look..




Whoa! Back up! Too close!! :p

Would you believe, though, that is the best closeup of the freezer paper stencil I took?? What was I THINKING!!

Anyway..the pants are Ottobre..something; the top is Target; and the stencils are done with the same stencil, sort of. I cut out the beetle, very carefully, and saved all the negative bits; when I ironed on the outline, I was able to line up the cut out bits and iron them on, too.

And then, I took the perfect shape of a beetle I had cut out of the other stencil, laid it down on the front of the t-shirt, ironed it on, and then made it a negative image by dabbing black screenprinting paint all around it with a sponge (the blue was also screenprinting paint, too.) Came out supercalifriggingawesome, to quote my boy. :lol:

(Funny detail...I started this a couple days after making up my pocket tut, and while doing the ten trillion pockets and patches in this pattern, I remembered that I had learned that technique FROM Ottobre mag years ago! lol)