There is a whole wide world of sewing wonders out there, but some wonders are more of the hideous and fear inspiring variety than the beautiful and admirable. This blog is devoted to odd, ridiculous and ugly sewing projects and crafts of all kinds, which includes some of my own ill fated projects. I think of these projects as kind of the necessary by-products of the crafting world: you only produce interesting and well made products after you've produced a buttload of crap along the way.
There are many varieties of ill-fated sewing projects, and I'll be attempting a taxonomy of sorts as I blog. For instance, there are the "I'm so crafty I can make anything out of anything!" projects. Just because you can make something, doesn't mean you should. Observe, the Kool Aid purse:
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| it has faux-fur! that makes it less like trash. |
I'm quite often victim to these impulses myself, as a person who loves to make things and hates to throw things away. I wasted an untold number of useful hours in my early twenties making candles out of aluminum beverage cans. They leaked wax and bent at the slightest provocation. You could cut yourself on the edges of them if you weren't careful. I went from candles to angels, and even tried to sell them at a craft fair. That I actually made some money doing so doesn't make up for the dignity I lost doing so. In retrospect the whole thing seems less like a clever recycling endeavor and more like free advertising for Coca-Cola.
Worse than the dubious projects, though, may be the puns. The sewing world just cannot get enough of replacing "so" with "sew." Slightly amusing the first time around, you're soon sew inundated with these and other clever phrasings that you want to stab the editor of the next wannabe-Martha-Stewart-authored sewing book that permitted such uninspired and lazy titling with your seam ripper.
On that note, if you're sew inclined, you can make your own Kool Aid purse using the instructions found here. I'll only judge you a little.
