Hello again!
Sorry for
the brief hiatus, my life has recently been taken over by exams and essays! But
now that I am so very almost free (and whilst we all wait for the new theatre
season to start again), I will share with you a few projects I have started
which I hope to get back to before work overwhelms me once again.
Back in the
summer, I started sewing little plush dolls as a project to keep me from going
completely crazy. My mum taught me how to sew when I was very young and since
then I’ve only ever sewn if a piece of clothing needed a bit of alteration done
to it. These dolls were my first proper BIG project I’d completed and I’ve just
kind of kept going with it, although without the help of a sewing machine (I
hope to get one soon!). A couple of years ago, I went to Comic Con with my
friend and we saw these plush dolls of pop culture figures, which were totally
cool but pretty expensive! A year later, the idea popped into my head that I
could make her a Harley Quinn plushie (she loves Harley Quinn!) for her
birthday at a fraction of the cost. So I did my research, bought my materials, made
a pattern, made a trial run out of an old pillowcase and then actually started
making her. All in all she took about two weeks to make, giving me plenty of
time to send her off to my friend who (I hope!) was pretty happy with Little
Miss Harley Quinn!
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| Little Miss Harley Quinn |
So that’s
the story of how I got into sewing again and since then my collection of sewing
paraphernalia has grown (sans sewing machine) and I started work on a plushie
of Jon Snow, who has been regularly mistaken for Jesus. He’s taken me a little
bit longer to complete, considering I started him back in Freshers’ Week and I
haven’t had the time to pick him back up since, but now is that time! He’s
mostly complete, just missing his cloak and Ghost, so I’m hoping that won’t
take too much longer to do. I’m not sure where he’ll go once he’s finished but
for the moment I think I’ll keep him on my desk and he can just chill with his
very dour expression. As for my next projects, I think the Fellowship of the
Ring is next on the list! I’m not really sure where all of this is going but it’s
become my hobby, which is nice because I’m not a hobby kind of person! I hope
that one day (once I buy a sewing machine) I can actually start making clothes
and costumes and things like that, but, for the moment, sewing plush characters
to stave off mental exhaustion is enough for me.
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| Jon Snow knows nothing because his brain is literally toy stuffing! |
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| Everything I need to sew! |
Thanks for
reading and check back here very soon for some more theatre exploits!
