not exactly colorblocking

in which our plucky heroine waves goodbye to one of the PIGS*...

My sleep/wake cycle is entirely scrambled currently, as I do my best to shift to crepuscular. There is an additional temporary housemate here as little Wellington is having a doggish vacation at Acorn Cottage. I'm doing what I can to play catch up with various chores and projects anyway.

Probably the most pleasing sewing project recently has been getting back to my colorful huipil, a recombination of varied pieces of coordinated vintage rayon, all in the same colorway but different printed designs as the fabric re-used from the tunic I sewed for my college graduation. This will be the third iteration of the original fabric, from tunic to party dress, and now to popover huipil/top...

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time in the tinyworld:

finally made a start on my cardboard furniture project for this months SCA Miniaturists challenge. I decided to make a set of trestles to use as a table when my tiny friends are SCA camping... The completed table will consist of seven pieces, that will fasten together to form two trestles and a tabletop... The sekrit for making smooth rounded cutouts is to use a paper punch! I used a standard size one for the curves at the bottom of the triangular trestle, and a ⅛" punch for the upper trefoil; careful layout of where the circles intersect does an excellent job.

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~ creativity challenge ~

I've been thinking about making one of these sweet embroidered armchairs as a gift for a miniature-loving friend, so I rummaged around to see what felt I had in the resource boxes... more colors than I expected! Now I want to find out what their favorite color is... (I'm going to make one for the Caer Cardboard library as well)

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July SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	wee fruit basket	recombinant reindeer	yard waste bin
2	mini fire pit	shelf for router	excisional flesh
3	Emilia brown dress	Emilia's legs	entryway spiderwebs
4	Emilia batik dress	replace blouse buttons	recycle bin
5	Kestrel work apron	front yard mowed	yard waste bin
6	eyeglass case	back yard whacked	x
7	x	parking strip edged	x
8	x	hanging loop chore coat	x
9	x	x	x
10	x	x	x
11	x	x	x
12	x	x	x
13	x	x	x
14	x	x	x
15	x	x	x

today's gratitude - I really love the bi-weekly zoom meetings with my Stitching Nomads group, which inspires me to keep on making things, or to finish things started ages ago. Finishing the recombinant rayon project gets at least one of the PIGS* out of the sewing space and into my wardrobe.

*PIGS = Projects In Grocery Sacks

Time of Isolation - Day 855