What I Made today

I spent half of the day today on the couch with a horrible headache peppered with queasieness and overall yuck-ness so I brought over the lappy and started clicking here and there until I decided I needed some inspiration and that maybe I might want to drag myself over to my workshop and make something easy and frivolous...So I found this: The flat bottom zipper pouch tutorial by Pin and Paper. It was a great tutorial with clear step by step pictures and directions. It was quick and rewarding, the end result looks really nice!

Thanks, Pin and Paper, thumbs up to you!



This is where it all goes down:


My workshop/craft room

The ElasticThread Dress from Craftzine: Citizen Craft style

The "One hour elastic thread dress" from Craftzine

I made this dress last week- I (of course) had to change it up a bit (just can't help myself!)
It was really fun to learn to work with elastic thread, man do I love that stuff! Especially since I will be cultivating an ever inflating midriff as I grow a new human for the next 7 months...And you know what's awesome for that? Elasticated clothing!!! So I think I will make a few more with different styles...I have to figure out the best way to do it with cotton though...The above dress is a really lightweight fabric and the elastic shirring worked really well but when I tried it with cotton the second time I couldn't get it quite right. Any tips are welcome!
Anyway, I heart you, Craftzine , thanks for another great tutorial!

The adjustments I made: I added straps, trim and a bow....

The finished dress!