June 2008

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doing better…

June 16, 2008 in blah-de-blah, the blog by Sew Funky | 1 comment

At least I think I am… I have been sick with the flu’ for getting to be around 2 weeks now. :( But today I felt just a little bit better. I don’t have a whole lot of energy, but other than that I feel okay now. YAY!

Thanks to Mr Sew-Funky who kept my blog going while I was sick. I hope he will still do the post on the code for putting wallpaper in the background of your blog. He has been super awesome while I’ve been sick – vacuuming, doing laundry, the whole shebang! Go Mr Sew-Funky, and THANKS!!!

I have been too sick to craft at all. I’ve watched a lot of tv (make that, slept through a lot of tv!) and done a whole book full of sudoku! Can you tell I was bored?

Thanks for all your well wishes… I should be up and at ‘em in the next few days. My trusty bernina sewing machine is coming back tomorrow – so that gives me a whole lot of impetus to do some crafting!!!

Have a great day!

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Guest Post: Vintage Wallpaper

June 15, 2008 in Mr Sew Funky, retro, wallpaper by admin | 4 comments

The main motivating factor behind re-designing Mrs Sew Funky’s blog was finding this website that has samples of vintage wallpaper. It seemed to me that a lot of crafty stuff going on these days was slightly retro – I mean the whole knitting resurgence is in itself retro, right? With this in mind, finding a goldmine of retro wallpaper patterns was an opportunity I just couldn’t pass up on. Once I found a design that could be used as a repeating pattern, it came down to colour choice and application. Tweeking the html was the hard part, but I looked at other blogs that had a similar layout an compared the code, then through a little trial and error I was successful. The only issue with the code is that Blogger’s ‘Add and Arrange Page Elements’ page is slightly out of whack, but still totally usable.

If Mrs Sew Funky doesn’t get back to posting soon, I might just have to post the code so you can all try tweaking your blogs…

Guest Post: Stencilling #2

June 14, 2008 in Mr Sew Funky, T-Shirt by Sew Funky | 1 comment

The finished product. Obviously I’m not happy with my mistake of not taping dawn the paper protecting the surrounding T-Shirt, but it will have to do – I may even wear it to the Caspian screening on Monday. I have an idea for a similar T-Shirt design, but I’ll make sure I’m a little more careful, and might even post my results here next week, if Mrs Sew Funky Allows me to ;o)

Guest Post: Stencilling Tutorial

June 14, 2008 in Mr Sew Funky, T-Shirt by Sew Funky | 4 comments

First up you need a nice black and white design, print it out on paper and grab your Reynolds Freezer paper and you’re ready to start cutting!

Sellotape your design to a piece of Reynolds Freezer paper and grab a sharp scalpel.

The main element cut out :o)

Position Stencil on T-Shirt. Note that T-Shirt is stretched over a flat piece of wood.

Carefully iron on the stencil.

The main stencil is ironed on. Now for the tricky part: the FilmGuide lettering!

Everything is in place.

Carefully cover the rest of the T-Shirt so there is no fall out from the spray paint!

Liberally spray on the paint!

Almost finished!

Ooops. It seems that Mr Sew Funky isn’t as good at this craft thing as Mrs Sew Funky is! The fallout from spraying has found it’s way under the sheet of paper protecting the top of the T-Shirt. We won’t know how bad it’s going to look until the big reveal in an hour or so!

Guest Post: Stencilling

June 13, 2008 in Uncategorized by Sew Funky | 3 comments

With Mrs Sew Funky being off her feet this week, it’s up to me to entertain and inform you all. I’m not knitter but I have found a new love and it’s the closet I’ll probably come to being crafty! Mrs Sew Funky found out about Reynolds Freezer Paper and arranged for some friend to bring some back from America for her. The thing with Reynolds Freezer paper is that it has a shiny side that, if ironed shiny side down will stick to cloth, making it ideal for single use stencils for T-Shirts and Jeans!

Being the geek that I am, I decided to try out the concept on an old pair of Jeans with a design to promote my movie site, FilmGuide. I didn’t have any fabric paint or screen printing ink, so I used a can of black spray paint. It worked rather well, but I probably could have used more spray paint.

Next up I’m going to do a FilmGuide T-Shirt, using the same technique, but using much more paint.

still sick…

June 11, 2008 in blah-de-blah, filmguide by Sew Funky | 1 comment

I’m still fighting this darn viral thing. It’s almost been a week of croaking and squeaking and I’ve had about enough. Us mum’s have to soldier on, when all I want to do is go to bed for a day or two. :(

So I haven’t been up to much, a little bit of knitting, some television and of course the school drop off/pick ups.

As you’ll see if you look in the sidebar, Mr Sew-Funky has added an rss feed to his little “hobby”. He likes to do film reviewing, and you can see what he and a couple of other’s think about the latest flicks by clicking on any of those feeds.

tutorial | fabric covered journal

June 10, 2008 in tutorials by Sew Funky | 3 comments

Make a fantastic looking journal…

Requirements;
2 x medium weight card (23cm x 16cm)
2 x cotton fabric (36cm x 29 cm)
1 x polar fleece/wadding (23cm x 14cm)
p.v.a glue
paint brush
2 x light cardstock (14.5cm x 10cm)
A5 paper – however many sheets you would like

1. Choose and cut out your fabric to the measurements given above. If you are using wadding, cut out a piece. I used polar fleece as a cheap alternative because I have so much of it in my stash – use whatever you have.


2. Glue the polar fleece to the card, as in the picture below. You need to leave approx 2 cm on one side so that when you punch the holes out later it will be flat.


3. Glue the 2 cm edge you left.


4. If you are not using polar fleece/wadding, and for the back cover, glue one side of the medium weight card.


5. Place the card glue side down on the fabric, making sure to place it in the middle.


6. Flip it over, and glue a square in the corner (like in the picture below).


7. Fold the corner in and glue down.


8. Repeat on all 4 corners.


9. Glue and fold in sides.


10. Glue the light cardstock to cover the edges.


11. Leave to dry. I hastened the drying process by ironing mine.


12. Punch holes in the A5 paper using the guides on the hole punch.


13. Punch holes in the covers, making sure it is centred.


14. Bringing it all together… Choose some ribbon to match and tie a nice bow to finish.


TAH DAH!

busy day…

June 9, 2008 in autism in my life by Sew Funky | 3 comments

It’s been a busy day today, catching up with a friend and shopping. Only, I didn’t shop much as I managed to leave my eftpos card at home and so had no dosh… Too funny, my friend had been saying I should learn to like window shopping, and today it was enforced. We went to spotlight, my favourite shop of all time, and I spent nothing. She, however, bought some wool for me to knit her into a hat. So in some ways it felt like I wasn’t going home empty handed… ;)

I am still processing all that I learned at the autism conference. It was so enlightening and my head knowledge about autism has been greatly expanded.

I haven’t had much time to craft or read blogs or anything much else, but I am planning on doing a whole lot of that tomorrow. Look out, everyone!

10,000 and counting…

June 7, 2008 in autism in my life, the blog by Sew Funky | 2 comments

As my wonderful husband, Mr Sew-Funky pointed out, I am now past the 10,000 visitor mark. Thanks to all of you who’ve visited my little space on the net!

I am feeling HEAPS better today, made it to the conference, which is AWESOME. I’ve learned heaps today, especially from the main speaker – Tony Attwood. I could spend hours listening to the guy, the time just FLEW! If you ever get the opportunity and want to learn more about autism and aspergers this is THE MAN!!!!

I’ll be back at it tomorrow. :)

the flickr game that’s going around…

June 6, 2008 in neat ideas found on other blogs by Sew Funky | No comments

I decided lying on the couch sucks, so I’m back here just following CurlyPop’s lead and doing my own mosaic…

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker

Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name. (mine came up with nothing here, so I used my blog name)

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