Saturday, April 19, 2008
My Vday Gift Exchange
Here comes the very belated post about Vday 2008!
Decided to sew a bear as the first Vday present for Andy...the bear almost took my life away...seriously! if you are afraid of needles going into your fingers and palm and if your eyesight is not too good...really, don't even start sewing a bear.
I started off tracing out the shapes of the different parts needed to make the bear...that alone took me about like 45 mins or so...seriously is it me or is it plain difficult?
Ta dah ~~~~ how it looked
Then according to the super super brief instruction paper...i'm suppose to cut those shapes out! Think i spent like 3/8 of the whole time trying to figure out what i am suppose to do...while doing i kept telling myself "damn! izzit me or the instructions? stupid bear stupid bear"
And i never knew it was THAT hard to cut the soft furry cloth....it felt like my thumb was falling off....
Frustrated and exhausted....pieces cut off eventually!
There !!!! a few hours ok....don't play play!
And because i really thought it was so tough, a few weeks later i bought a wallet from TOUGH for Andy, cause i thought the bear will never make it la~~~and yes, after a few weeks from cutting out the parts of the bear...i did not continue, or attempt the rest of the steps hahaha!
But i guess i as much as it was difficult to sew the bear...i wanted to keep the promise of giving ah cai the "da zhi zuo" which was kept a secret for like damn long...ya, basically i didn't wanna go "i gave up on the da zhi zuo, so here's the other one (wallet)" yea~~
So this one fine day, i dug out the pile of furry cloth and my sewing kit and the damn instruction paper and started sewing again....
I was so gan chiong, i never took any pictures until here...where i have finish sewing the hands, legs, ears and head. (parts are not filled with cotton yet). The thing is i have to like sew everything inside out, so that after "flipping" it back with the furry side on the outside, nobody can see all the threads and all....
And cause i am suppose to leave like small openings in order to push the cotton in later, and guess what!!! the stupid instuction paper did not make it a point to state that where the opening is will be very important, and YA!!! i left the openings at all the wrong places !!! and see the picture above...i unpicked everything and re-sew!!!
Anywayz, i bought this from spotlight plus some orange thick thread!!! super cool...they are like sew on tags! i thought it will be pretty cool to "zheng" the bear! hahaha
And let the "zhenging" begins...oh that's the bear's stomach btw....
I used a sewing chalk to draw (inverted) what i wanted to sew "AJ" in the middle of the front of the bear's stomach haha!
Done!!! i took about 2.5 hours to finish this 2 letters man!!!! almost died...cause the cloth is just too thick and the thread (suppose to be already quite thick) can't be seen, so i did layers after layers after layers!!
And the back of the bear is done too...i re-did this step for 2 times...cause it's just not straight!! i have no idea why, cause when i pin it to the cloth i ensured that it is straight! strange...maybe it's just my fat hands...
All the parts done, but not filled with cotton yet...and ya, the bear's face...not done! Talking bout the bear's face...seriously, cause the bear comes with plastic eyes, and because i don't have this driller thing, i couldn't drill it through the thick head....and so, i had to SEW the eyes and the nose and the mouth!!!! LAYERS AFTER LAYERS AGAIN...it was hell...
I spent about half an hour decided on how the eye should look like..."o" or "x" and yea, as you can see from the picture, i decided on the "n" shape eyes!!! and it took so much time because after sewing both i realise one is bigger than the other, so i have to alter and sew more at the smaller eyes....
My little nano kept me company all along....
The "AJ Bear" all done and "Stitched with Love" hahaha drum rollsSSS please....
LOL! done....ok it looks pretty weird, but it's the thoughts that count, and it's the first bear i have ever sewn! so ya hahaha.....
It's gift exchange time!!! wahahahahaa....
This is my gift from ah cai!!!!
My bed of hand made origami roses...Andy emphasizes they are no ordinary but Japanese style roses ahahahahahaha!!!! They are beautiful! well, he made everything from the box to the roses! hahaha...moral of story...he got smarter hands!
Andy with his Tough wallet....
Hahahaa....i really like the wallet myself! was thinking if Andy don't like it i can just use it :) HAHAHAHA.....(love the crumpled leather)
Oh and i printed and laminated some of our pictures for both our wallets! wahahaha....when i was shopping for the wallet, i saw this other one that is not bad, but the slot for pictures....it's netted!!! and i don't want my face to be covered with netsss...so yea! i chose this other one that is really pretty too, with TWO slots for pictures :)
And other slots for other stuff too...memory cards...ya~~~
I love my Vday gift...Thanx Andy!
JAN scribbles at 2:15 PM
