Roller Derby Tryouts

Thought I would post something about me other than sewing to spice up my blog. I've been roller skating for about 22 years now. Since I was about 7 years old, when I first learned to skate. Also I spent about 12 hours a week at the skating rink in middle school because I loved skating and had no friends. I would even roll pennies to come up with the money for admission. I didn't even get my own skates until I was about 18 years old, so I invested a lot of money into rental skates though out the years. 

Recently after my last artshow a derby girl on skates rolled up to me as I was packing up my stuff. She handed me a flyer for Derby tryouts. I'd heard of derby but had never seen a match. I always thought it would be fun thought, since I'm a skater. 

I went to the bout they has that week with a friend and was blow away by the sport and started seriously concidering going out for it. The Arizona Roller Girls league tryouts were held yesterday. I was suprised at how many girls showed up, about tweenty of us in all. The derby girls were really nice and easy to talk to. All of us did our best, there was even a fifty year old lady just learning to skate for the first time, but that's how bad she wanted to derby. 

I had a great time! I always forget how much I love skating till I get out on the floor. I'm always happiest on my skates. Well I'll find out if I got in sometime in the next week. Wish me luck. You never know, I could be designing a line of Roller Derby costumes and accessories soon. :D 

More D.I.Y. madness!

So I wondered around the Goodwill by my house and found this awesome dress/shirt thing. Clearly it was ment for a taller girl because on me it is WAY too short to work as a dress. But I decided it would be a really cute tank top. Since summer is coming fast here in AZ I've been trying to get as many cute tops as possible.

So here is the run down of what i did to this dress. First I cut off the sleeve things cause they threw off the look of the top. Then the lacing was too long so I used a bit of it to make spegetti straps. Then I just hemmed the bottom and viola! Thanks to Havok for assisting my model.

Here is the Dress before

The Tank Top after!

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Wardrobe Revamp

I've been meaning to revamp some of my clothes for a while. When your low on funds and you can't just run out and buy cooler clothes you have to get creative. So I was looking at my jeans and thinking about how I could make them more awesome. I had some black dye lying around so I figured, fuck it, I'll dye a pair black. I've spent the last three days working of making a cool outfit out of the stuff I have on hand. This is what I came up with. I made a pair of my favorite fitting jeans into some awesome black skinny jeans that are super comfy as well as flattering. Viola, from old and busted to new hotness!

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Then I had this ugly dress shirt I got at a thrift store years ago when I was a corporate flunky. I always liked the fabric and the cuffs but the shirt itself was just ill fitting no matter what I did to it. Best solution was to just cut it up. So I cut my favorite parts of the shirt and turned them into need "cuff" bracelets and a "collar" choker. A while ago I stumbled upon a tutorial on Thread Banger on how to make spats, I bookmarked it because I knew one day I would want to try to make a pair. Since I had extra fabric from the shirt I decided to try the spats. I added some pyramid studs for extra pazazz to complete the look. From Corporate bitch, to Steam Punk aristocrat!

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Pokeball backpack

So here are some progress pictures of the Pokeball Backpack commision I got two weeks ago at the First Friday Art Walk. I just finished the pattern and cutting out the fabric. The way I laid it out is wrong the red is the top so just ignore the layout. The Front that consists of four pieces; the top (red), the bottom (white), the middle (black), and the button (white) in the middle of the black. The there is just the back (white) and the sides (white) then the linging which will be red cotton. I'm planning on using 1 inch wide black nyon webbing for the straps and handle. The straps will be adjustable, per customers request. I've never made a round bag this big before so this should be interesting to sew. Plus it's vinyl so that'll make it extra tricky. I'll be sure to post pitures of the finished product before giving it to the customer. I'll probably have them on etsy as a custom order as well.

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Rising Sun iPhone Case & P.O.S.

After making my Rising Sun Coin Purse I got a special request from a friend of mine to make a iPhone case and a P.O.S. (pocket on a string). Its the same design as the Rising Sun coin purse just a little bigger & with a strap. It was a bit tricky getting the the rays of the sun to look right on the larger P.O.S. size bag. All in all they came out great. 50% of the sale of these bags is going to the Japanese Red Cross. 

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Tiny Keys

I was wondering around on Etsy when i came accross these cute little keys. All different sizes and shapes I just had to have them. Since I'm venture slowing into the world BJD clothes I thought these keys would be perfect for accessorizing they're tiny clothes. Also some of then are bigger and can be uded in necklaces and purses. They are so cute!

I took pictures of all of them and then closer ones of the left side, middle, and right side. I also used a penny as size refference to give you an idea of what size they are. 

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