November 29, 2013
This month I have been hunting everywhere for a jumper with a fox motif on it, only to discover they were sold out at all the places I tried. Therefore, I thought I would have a go at making my own. Potentially this should have been quite easy as I already had a brown polo necked jumper and some orange drill material. My plan was to use buttons as the eyes and nose and voila-job done. However, when I sewed on the motif I used the machine (for apparent quickness) and didn't take into account the different textures I was stitching together. The thicker drill material slipped on the wool jumper thus one very wonky (and not in a good way) fox! Unpicking it in anger led to several gaping holes in said jumper :boo hoo.
Still the good thing was, to do a take two version I had to darn the holes. Yes you read that right DARN. I have to say it is my first attempt at this and I thought it was going to be a tedious task, but I actually quite enjoyed it. By the end of it I was so into the cross-hatching of the stitches I was sad there were no more holes to fill. Who would have thought it?
Anyone got any socks that need doing?????
Posted by Julie Porter.
