Tragic Fabric Tricks Part 1

I see a lot of really tragic fabric out there in thrift stores, and I thought I'd do a three-part series on what to do with these gems that you might otherwise donate (or burn.)

Here's a prime example of fabric I personally regard as hideous: a pink skull novelty print that I got in a big bag of fabric I bought at a junk shop. First, I dislike all pink in general. I hate anything with bones that are dressed up to be cute, like these skulls with bows and heart-shaped eyes. To add extra disgust factor, the fabric is also glittery.

I wouldn't make anything with this fabric unless I can manipulate it so that it doesn't look anything like it does. How do you do that?

Get a yoyo maker and start cutting it up.

Here are the first three yoyos I made. You cannot tell what the print is anymore, right?

For projects like this I keep everything in a bag. It's easy enough to make a couple each night, and in a week or two I'll have the entire piece used up. Problem solved.

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Journal Find

This is a page from my 2010 poetry journal. My handwriting isn't the best, so I'll transcribe it: If my heart survives to tell all the secrets kept inside it will be an abalone shell in which the beauty did reside. But I think I will always be lost to the tides that rage in me . . . humbling and polishing . . . I don't write many self-portrait poems, but this one isn't too embarrassing. A bit overly dramatic, but the girl I was eleven years ago went through some tough times. I'm in a much more peaceful place today.

Watchable Farce

The k-drama Undercover High School is a series that brings a handsome spy to play a student at an elite private school where a legend about billions of gold hidden there persists. It's more silly slapstick comedy than anything, but has some surprising romantic and dramatic moments, too. Seo Kang-joon is one of my favorite Korean actors, and this is the first series he's made since finishing up his mandatory military service. He plays Jeong Hae-seong/ Jeong Si-hyun, an NIS agent who infiltrates a snobby elitist school to hunt down the gold. There are four urban legends connected to the treasure that he has to figure out, all under the too-watchful eye of his homeroom teacher, Oh Su-Ah (Jin Ki-joo) whom he eventually discovers was his elementary school love Oh Bong-ja (there's a lot of name changing in this series.) The hunt for the treasure is the highlight of this series, but the romance between the leads is cute, too (and not as taboo as you might think, given that...

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