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I make! Mustache pillowcase edition

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Or alternatively…

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I made a set of mustache pillowcases for none other than, Sheri!  Super Secret Robot Agent, Wrist Brace Girl–Adventuress Extraordinaire!!  And Guybrush.  I suppose he’s a pretty important player in this whole thing.  Because, you see, these were a wedding gift.  You need two people in order to get married after all.  And in this case, it was Guybrush and Sheri.

Now, I explained last time why the mustaches.  But why the ridiculously bright and clashy lime green and orange?  Well, because of this.  I should have worked in some magenta and royal blue highlights as well.  I forgot.  Darn.  And incidentally, the post I linked to also explains this “Guybrush” business.  Not Guybrush himself, but why I call him such.

This was indeed another of project from the week of ALL THE PROJECTS.  I made them out of flannel, which I don’t particularly like for pillowcase material because it’s kind of a hot material…in that it makes your face all hot when you sleep on it.  I believe pillows should be cool and refreshing.  Yes, you heard me.  Refreshing.

But anyway!  I really had limited choices at the fabric store since I was dead set on making a lime green and orange side to the pillowcases and I still wanted to make the pillowcases out of a natural fiber (it’s 100% cotton flannel, I checked).  Unnatural fibers don’t feel so pleasant on the face when you’re sleeping.  Definitely not refreshing.  Anyhoo, I guess they can break these pillowcases out for the winter when it’s all snowy and cold and they actually want to sleep with hothead.

Hmm…like I said, the pillowcases are made with flannel.  Mustaches are appliqued (appliquéd? appliquéed??) on.  I drew the mustaches on directly on fusible interfacing with the help of some of my large circle templates and then the ironing and cutting and sewing.  I’m rather pleased that this project help me use up pretty much all of my bright orange thread.  It was left over from the propeller mushroom.  Also, I used up all the bright orange bias tape I had, also from the propeller mushroom.

Why bias tape?  To keep the raw edges from fraying.  Why not use a serger?  I couldn’t find it.  It’s been missing for years.  YEARS.  Why not use some other generic finishing stitch on the sewing machine?  Because I would prefer to do that with the cutting foot and I didn’t feel like changing feet on the sewing machine because the generic foot is forever getting lost when I take it off.  Also, I wanted to get rid of the bias tape.  Also also, I was perfecting my technique with bias tape and I think it’s some of the nicest work I’ve ever done with bias tape.  So there.

Anyway, they’re regular sized pillowcases.  Unfortunately, I didn’t have regular sized pillows available when I took pictures.  Meh.

Here they are unstuffed.

I make! Ridiculous wedding card edition

So, here’s something from the ridiculous week of getting ALL THE PROJECTS done.  Well, actually I think I completed this before that week.  It was my foray into the ALL THE PROJECTS territory.  And it’s safe to show now because they told me they received the hoofs already.

This card was for Guybrush and Sheri.  I mentioned their wedding here and here.  I made the card with a gradient of purple because…I never get to use purple paper.  Most of the stuff was cut with the Cricut (Create a Critter, some random mustaches I picked up, whatever sans serif font cartridge that is, and Robotz).

Here’s a better shot of the bird with a mustache about as long as the bird itself.  How does one fly with a mustache as big as oneself?  Things to ponder.

So, I decided that since Guybrush and Sheri are polar opposites (in that she is the most ridiculous person EVAR and he is the most normal person EVAR), the card needed to have two sides to suit their personalities.  The problem is, I’m probably about as ridiculous as Sheri so I have a very poor grasp of what normal is.  I think I can fake being normal better than she can though.  HA!

Anyway, the mustachioed cows are obviously for Sheri.  Because she likes cows.  And also mustaches.  Also, they requested that I live tweet their wedding, which I complied, so I thought I’d give her a fake mustached twitter bird too.  Oh, and that ridiculous tape she gifted to me that one time.  It’s perfect for a wedding card.  Even though it vaguely mentions birthdays on it.  In poor grammar.  And spelling.  Because it was from an Asian stationery store.  Which are the best.  BEST.

So, Guybrush’s side was a bit more problematic because like I said, I have a hard time knowing what normal really is.  I finally decided that in this case, it meant sensible.  So I tried to make sensible choices for his card.  I also arbitrarily decided on some of his interests.  Like sprinkles (just because) and robots (because he’s an engineer) and cleaning (because he married Sheri) and grilling (because what guy doesn’t like to eat food cooked in a fire?).  Also, because this was a wedding card, I stuck a wedding related sticker on it.  That’s important.  Oh, and I used black duct tape at the seams because duct tape is much more sensible than ridiculous, Asian stationery store, birthday, not even washi tape.

And here’s the envelope.  I rather like the paper.  I had a lot of trouble cutting things to size since I was doing this in the midst of unemployment and apparently forgot everything I ever learned about math.  I was pretty annoyed with myself.  Srsly, I worked as an engineer all this time??

Anyway, tada!  The most ridiculous wedding card you ever did see!