{"id":297,"date":"2010-11-11T12:39:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-11-11T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T09:39:17","slug":"creative-space-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2010\/11\/creative-space-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"My Creative Space: Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p>Well my husband got it for me as a birthday present. \ud83d\ude42  He now knows that making stuff makes me happy so he helps fund my creativeness.<\/p>\n<p>Normal people learn to use a sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p>Normal people do not go about and make bags and little girl dresses in their first week of sewing.<\/p>\n<p>Normal people don&#8217;t live here.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I found a lovely little dress pattern for Lulu.  Complete with a zipper, bias tape neckline and sewing stretched elastic! Enough to make you rip out your hair.  I had to do the neck line 3 times, the zippers twice and the elastic twice as well.<\/p>\n<p>But all in all it  turned out really cute.<br \/>\nIt has lots of mistakes but no one is going to inspect it and she hardly sits still anyway for anyone to notice \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_2226 by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/5166450752\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1420\/5166450752_267b06c57f.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2226\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also made this little grab bag using this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allpeoplequilt.com\/quarterlychallenge\/APQ_QtrlyChal3.pdf\">pattern<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Grab Bag All Full by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/5157942632\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1153\/5157942632_0c17a59055.jpg\" alt=\"Grab Bag All Full\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes I finally finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/the-age-of-brass-and-steam-kerchief\">The Age of Brass and Steam kerchief<\/a> ( free ravelry pattern ) and blocked it too.<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_2225 by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/5165849513\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4147\/5165849513_eb154384b7.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2225\" width=\"500\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I am all crafted out, and looking for something else to make or knit or sew or maybe even paint :-).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go and check out other people&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kootoyoo.com\/search\/label\/my%20creative%20space\"> Creative Spaces<\/a> to find inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got a sewing machine. 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