Hiatus and an ankara flower

I don't know when I'll be near a sewing machine again, I'm busy and my teacher (mi madre) and I are not getting along. So if I do post on this blog, it'll be little hair baubles and jewellry. Till then.

I made this last night when sleep was proving elsuive. An ankara flower

Ze mini Boubou

Okay......it's knee length but for moi it's mini. Anyway, this is a Mama Omosi and Omosi co-production i.e. I did like 32% of the work and my mum did the other 68%. So technically it's not an Omosi dress but it's a start.

Progress

Finally an update on THE DRESS. Today I was permitted to sew on end of the dress, I fucked it up of course and my mum had to unpick it and redo it but I didn't sew my finger and I think I have kinda figured out how to sew a straight line. I'll practice sewing straight lines tomorrow, maybe I'll get enough material for my ankara ring then........

*The plate with the measurements on the machine is where my eyes should be at all times
*It's not a race, slow down.
*The machine is not evil, it isn't trying to get you
*Keep the sides together at all times.

Anywhoooo, here's the dress. We're still working on it, this was the first fitting.

*The darts need to be repositioned
*We need to take in the area around my hip
* It needs to be hemmed
*The sleeves are too small

So tomorrow or Sunday, we'll work on that and by Monday (fingers, toes and intestines crossed) I'll put up the finished product.

Rings

I know this is supposed to be my sewing blog but hey I do other shit too, I'm crafty like that, ooooo lookee I made a pun. 0_O.

Seriously though, my sewing project has come to a halt, I've cut the dress, okay my mum did the butting bit but I ironed on the inter-facing. Between epileptic power supply a.k.a NEPA wahala and mumsi monopolizing her machine to make some new church outfits, I haven't been able to actually sew the pieces of my dress together. Hopefully on Sunday I'll be able to. Here's hoping.......

While I am sewing 'hiatus' I've been thinking about making ankara rings, I have a particular design sketched out but it's more complicated than I thought it'd be, so it requires more planning and materials on my part, but I did make two rings today. They're a first attempt, so they're not great but they are sha wearable

Of course it's a bow.

And then there's the cow pentagon, hey it has five sides so it's a pentagon, no one said all the sides had to be equal.

**Work on finishing, find better quality plain rings. More sewing, less glue?

But will I have the liver to wear them....................................................................................hell yeah!!!!!!!!!

Gros noeud

Okay so I lied. You can use a running stitch and a small needle to make a bow.

It cuts down on the time, this baby took me 45 minutes to make, mistakes and all.

I used a running stitch because it's easy to take out. Seriously where am I going to wear something like this to? Might as well save the fabric, but it was fun making it.

Compared to the other two I made this morning