This time for the kiddo, who currently wears his hair in a low ponytail held with a black jersey knit scrunchie that was in a package of otherwise doll stuff someone gave me. So, I thought I'd offer a different scrunchie.
He likes purple.
(and of course I didn't measure the fabric, just squared up a scrap that looked roughly the right size)
What do you do after a project that takes a week? You do a project that takes almost no time.
Now...I was a teen the first time scrunchies Were A Thing, and I...didn't particularly like them back then. I still remember making some, probably to give to people, and I remember being extremely vexed about how to make them. I've started wearing my hair in a ponytail when sleeping, and decided I wanted a scrunchie for that instead of the random loop of knit I was using (yeah...)
So I looked up how other people were making scrunchies and of course the method I liked most is the one on Ikat Bag. Now, me being me, I didn't measure the fabric, instead using the entirety of a bit of feels like? silk that was in the small yardage stash, destashed from a local doll person. It works.
The only reason I didn't buy KwikSew 4138 in the big sale was because I already had it...in the form of McCall's It's Sew Simple 9603
I chose view A and immediately set about making it a lot more complicated than it needed to be
So, it's currently September of 2021, and all KwikSew website patterns are $2 each and buy five, get up to five more free...which...certainly gives the impression that KwikSew may be going away, or possibly be getting a massive overhaul, but nothing has been announced, so maybe not.
That didn't stop me from kinda sorta panic buying a stack of KwikSew patterns that arrived today (plus one on-sale Vogue that I'd been eying since it was released, during the time when I have not been too keen to go to JoAnn very often, because of...y'know...vectors people.)
Individuals below
Oh, hey, remember about two months ago when I made this?
I also recorded a video of the making thereof, which I finally edited yesterday
Straightforward project, very tedious. Like the last no jelly roll, no race project, I used a lot of fabric from the small yardage stash and measured nothing except the 2½" widths to make cuts so I could tear the cloth into strips. Some of the fabric was the full 45"(ish) width, some was not...which meant it was surprising how many of the seams between strips ended up almost right next to each other.
In an effort to keep this from being a whole lot wider than long, I cut off a length after four rows had been sewn, to put that strip at the bottom to make it a bit longer. I thought I had cut off enough to make the final item square, but, no. I had a headache that made mathing hard while I was working on this.
It ended up 69" long by 78" wide, with the strips running horizontally,and, no I don't feel like I could turn it vertical and have it work, because some of the prints are very directional. Of course, due to the nature of this kind of piecing, their directions alternate, but they're not sideways.
I can think of a few options to make it at least square if I ever finish it, which...yeah. As it is, I was so happy to be done sewing and sewing and sewing long strips (with the stitch length set very very short, so the stitches would hold up when cut, but, oof, does that make it take so much longer to sew) that I haven't even pressed it.
And I did have to stop, brush out a mound of lint, and oil everything partway through this. My machine may only be a 1980s Necchi, but it is still a Necchi, and it very definitely lets you know when it needs to be oiled.
You can really tell that a lot of this is deep stash fabric, much of which was sourced from thrift stores, meaning it comes from deep within other people's stashes, because the result is a finished piece that, by color alone, is rather 1990s lookin'
It's fine.
(My small yardage stash, however, still looks very crowded, even after assembling two blanket tops--of varying sizes--from it. Might be time for another Halloween print patchwork project...)
