Korean "Mehlong" Pin

When you don't know any Koreans by which to embarass yourself wearing Korean stuff by, it is nice to have some Korean accessories. The Korean alphabet looks kind of pretty/funky/cute and decorates things very nicely, especially when spelling real words.

This is a pin I made last fall. It says "mehlong", which is really just essentially sticking out your tongue and saying "nah nah nah nah nah" or some other annoying sound. Thus, since "mehlong" means "nah nah nah nah nah", I made the background a mouth with a tongue sticking out of it. Since I made this last fall, and have since learned the Korean alphabet, I have realized what a bad job I did at centering the letters. Sigh! Not all projects can work out well, can they?

Style Icon: Zhoumi

 From karachung @ weibo,  From Zhoumi's posts

There are many beautiful people in the celebrity world. Many beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes. Thanks to Youtube, I found out that Zhoumi from Super Junior-M (Woot), is one of those celebrities who take style seriously. He takes it so seriously, he's a do-it-yourselfer who forces other people into trying out new fashions. Here's proof (Zhoumi's the tall one).

Because I am also a do-it-yourselfer, I immediately liked Zhoumi more than I had in the minutes leading up to watching the video. He's so proud of his skills that he shows off his sewing work on video. Zhoumi is definitely my new celebrity style (sewing) icon. Go Zhoumi!

Green Cotton Skirt

Meet my mannequin Akephalei (sic). Here Akephalei is sporting a 70's tunic shirt and green skirt. I made the skirt. The shirt just matched well.

Several months ago there was to be a folk dance at the local college. Always looking for an excuse to sew, I decided to make a flowy skirt for it. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough fabric to make a circle skirt with (those things are sooo flowy), so I used vaguely geometric shapes to create flow instead.

The body of the skirt is made up of seven triangles with the tops cut off, seamed to look circular on the bottom. The top is a waist band made out of a really long rectangle. Then, because no skirt should be without a pocket, I found a scrap of green big enough for a pocket and sewed it on where it wouldn't get in the way. As far as design went, this skirt worked pretty well. As far as fabric choice went, green cotton was not a good idea.

Embroidered Letter Baby Blanket

Once again friends and family are popping out babies which means me sewing them all blankets. Here's the latest one.  

I did a tree theme. Here I just made the tree lines.

Unfortunately, when it comes to normal embroidery I kind of suck so these trees don't look too great. However, they do look like trees.

As for the names I printed out the letters onto paper, pinned the paper in the right sport, and then sewed through the paper/letters and fabric. For this blanket I used two types of yarn to get a nice highlight/accent look. I think it looks rather nice.