I totally fucked up my bag last night.
In cutting the striped fabric, the first panel came out perfect and I beamed. The second one however, was cut on the fold leaving not enough on the back side of the fold to cover the entire pattern. Idiot! I should have “thought twice, cut once” but I am an idiot. So I decided to use stripes only on the front of the bag and use just the red fabric for the back of the bag. But then I screwed up stitching (after practicing with some decorative stitching and not switching back to default stitch length), using the fusible interfacing and not realizing that the paper is supposed to come OFF. Idiot!! The stitches are too small to remove with the seam ripper without ruining the fabric, so I am conceding defeat to the striped bag. So today after work, I have to run out shopping for pants, go back home, (this means no walk/running interval cardio for me today, boo) start on the bag AGAIN, using only red fabric. On the upside, though, this leaves me with more options for the pants I can wear; instead of just khaki, I can find some blue sailor pants, or white. We’ll have to see. I am such a procrastinator! If I didnt wait until the last minute, I could have made more striped fabric and things could have been fine! Grrr.
Anyway, at work, they hare having some kind of fun event next week, and they asked us all to bring in baby pictures of ourselves and they will post them around and whoever guesses the most employees from their baby pictures correctly gets some kind of prize (day off or something). So this morning, as I frantically searched for my baby pictures, I found all sorts of old cds of mine: Metallica S&M, Dance Hall Crashers LockJaw, Liz Phair Exile in Guyville. Right now I am rocking out to Dr Dre Chronic 2001. Inglewoooood!!!
In parting, I will leave you with my work submission:
[6/27/08 edit: pictures uploaded! Here are photos of my red bag, completed...still needs more work, but, hey.]
