Monday, May 26, 2008

5 O'clock Somewhere Update


Well, here is my latest and greatest update on "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere". I have finished everything involving the drinks (except the little wine charm things at the bottom of each glass). When it next pops up in the rotation, I will be working on the lettering at the bottom (which is outlined and then beaded, so it should be kind of cool). It's hard to see in the picture, but the rim of the margarita glass (on the right) and the end of the toothpick for the olives are both stitched with "Fuzzy Stuff" (I think that's what it's called). It's this floss that is, as it says, fuzzy. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it is pretty cool. Also, the seeds in the strawberry are black beads, for some added texture.

I'm a bit disappointed - I didn't figure out the fabric I needed for this, I let the person who was taking care of me at my LNS figure it, and I feel like the fabric was cut too small. Since I'm making it again (one each for two of my best friends), I went back Saturday and bought another piece of fabric that is bigger. You can see (which I'm thinking will go away soon enough) the hoop marks on here, and that was because it got so close to the end that I couldn't use my Q-snaps....

I'm getting ready to start my Monopoly Board SAL. I will have to figure out how I'm going to work THAT into my rotation. I may keep my three current projects in a weekly rotation, and just do the Monopoly board one day a week. So I'll do a week minus a day on each of my other projects, and one day a week on Monopoly. I don't think I'm ready to lose a full week of my rotation, if that makes any sense.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.
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6 comments:

Unknown said...

the drinks look yummy. nice work.

Unknown said...

That is looking really nice!

Jennifer Blake said...

It's looking great.

Habibi said...

Great work.

Meari said...

It looks great, Kathy!

Nancy M said...

Great project, the hardest part for me was finding cute *small* charms for the glasses. I couldn't put it under glass like I wanted because they were even too big for spacers.