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It’s shrinking!

Today, I witnessed an interesting phenomenon.  I had cut a strip of fabric, and as I was ironing it, it started shrinking before my eyes!  Ok, so I know the fabric is pure cotton and it hasn’t been preshrunk and that I should have washed it before I even started doing stuff with it.  I know.  Really, I do.  But I’m lazy and I’ve never had cloth shrink on me while I was ironing it before.  Anyhoo, it made it really hard to iron, especially since I was trying to iron a nice, crisp crease down the middle.  I was getting my crease, but it could arguably be called the middle…if you tilted your head a bit and squinted, but it was hardly crisp and the other side was getting more wrinkly by the minute.  It was not an ideal situation.

Anyway, disaster was averted.  I turned off the steam function on the iron (yes, I was ironing non-preshrunk cotton fabric with steam…it’s faster, until it shrinks the cloth while you’re ironing it) and ironed everything out flat and then tried again.  It worked fine.   It’s a good thing I cut more than I needed, since the fabric didn’t shrink evenly and now I have two different lengths.

What fun.

Also, I would have taken and posted some pictures, but…the stuff I’m working on is classified.  I do not have enough time as it is than to also add the chore of finding all of you who read this and see the photos and kill you to keep delicate information from reaching the wrong ears.  Or right ears, depending on your point of view.

Angry Suns are angry

Remember that?  Well, now you know what it is.  It’s a few pieces of the pattern I made for a summer-themed swap.  I made a slew of ANGRY SUNS because I think they describe summer SO. WELL.  And huzzah!  A real craft post!

Now then, if you don’t remember what the Angry Sun is, I will point you here and really…how could you forget?  I think I might have been slightly traumatized by the Angry Sun chasing me when I was making my mad dash through those desert levels in Mario 3 as a child.  Ok, so like there were only two desert levels and then the sun was never seen again.  But look at them, they are so angry!

Now then, I made patterns for all my different sizes (those are 0.25″, 0.1875″, and 0.125″ pixel sizes), cut them out, cut the same out of felt, sewed them up, and stuffed them.  Easy!

I had to change the flames around the outside a little to accommodate that I was making these out of felt and that I was stuffing them.  But overall, I think they look rather nice…and angry.  I will note that these would be easier to make with perler beads, and indeed someone already has.  Now to send them off.

[EDIT: I forgot to mention that is is my geek craft for Geek Crafts Month.]