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Hey all!

I’m going to be moving soon, and would like to move my inventory from my todiyfor etsy store. SO, I’ve decided to have a crazy sale!  If you mention this blog post or my tweet in a convo, I’ll even give you free shipping.

Here’s all the items I have on sale …

Off the Shoulder Korn Shirt — $10

Murderdolls Tiered Ruffle Skirt — $10

Music As a Weapon Off Shoulder Shirt — $10

Slipknot Iowa Zippered Lace Shirt — $25

Michael Jackson Beat It Necklace — $10

Deconstructed Heavy Metal Punk Quilt — $40

I’m pretty excited about this sale!

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I blogged earlier today about the 2nd hardcore quilt top that I made.

Well, I took the plunge ladies and gentlemen.  I officially quilted a full-size quilt.

I took photos of the process. One thing I learned — I desperately need a walking foot. I couldn’t find one for my machine (they were sold out in two places, so I gave up since this was just a practice quilt anyway). Also, quilting on t-shirts is difficult when you come across larger patches of screenprinting, especially when it’s a newer shirt.

Here’s what I did: I got some backing and batting and made a quilt sandwich. I basted it with large safety pins. I took tape (artists tape would work the best but I only had athletic tape at home, so that worked) and created uniform lines to follow with my stitching….and I was off.  I only had to reload the bobbin once, which was awesome because I hate doing that (I’m lazy. if I had a self-loading bobbin or never-ending bobbin that would rule. also — self threading needle).  I trimmed it and sewed the binding on (backwards I believe) and since I’m really lazy, I zig-zag stitched the binding to finish it.

Anyway, here’s photogs of the process.

basting and taping before quilting …

the whole safety-pinned, taped-up mess before I started (note — I taped in one direction at a time because I didn’t want to sew through the tape)

here’s where the bobbin ran out of thread. I took a much-needed walking break and came back an hour later refreshed and ready to conquer the rest of this thing.

ta-da! finished quilt. took me from 1 PM to 9 PM to finish top to bottom (minus 2 hours for supper, walking and errands)

okay… so the back picked up a ton of fuzz from the batting and a bunch of threads that were randomly strewn about my floor. I’m washing this thing tomorrow. Hopefully fix that problem.

And … DONE!

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I’ve had this Korn t-shirt for a long time now, and I think it may have been a b-day present from somebody about 5 years ago. I used to wear it all the time, but I’ve grown out of nümetal and have been trying to recon my nümetal shirts into something cute so I’d be more likely to wear them.

I cut the bottom off the shirt, added a blue jersey knit panel to the bottom of it and sewed it to the top. I did a contrasting blue zigzag stitch for the entire shirt and added a zipper on the side since I had a matching zipper lying around.

(bad lighting…bad hair day.. pretty much no makeup… did I mention I’m not a photographer?)

Here’s the front (I cut my head off because it was just sad)

Back — I had thought about doing the blue all the way around, but I liked the way it looked with a plain black back better.

Side (zipper detal) GOOD LORD I’m pasty!

Here’s the original shirt.  I wore this the day I met Kasey for the first time! (I’m pretty sure this was the same day).  I tried out for Assault Company that day and I dressed “hardcore” for the occasion. Clearly, hardcore=pigtails and a sequin cuff.

I’m planning to post this baby on Etsy soon.  I’m planning a photoshoot sometime in July with my friend (aka ex-boyfriend) Matthew, even though Kasey’s not fond of the idea (Kasey doesn’t dislike Matthew because he’s my ex-bf…Kasey just thinks he’s a huge tool).  However… Matthew has some pretty awesome fashion photogs and some pretty cool portraits…. so in the end, that wins out over pissing off Kasey. Plus, I’ve always wanted to model, but my height and hip size have kept me out of the running… I do have the chest for it though! haha. AND he’ll do it for free aside from developing film (if he uses a film camera), which is kind of awesome.  So… win win situation for me and him both (as long as I look decent in the pictures!).

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I did this a few weeks back but never officially blogged about it or posted it anywhere because I never got out my good camera and took photos of it.

Well, I did. I didn’t take *good* photos of it, but it’s a step up from the cell phone pix that I had!

I have a huge collection of crappy band shirts that are of the hardcore/numetal/radio rock genre.  I’ve been hoarding them thinking I could make some cute tops out of them but realized I’d be embarrassed to wear some of these bands around (Limp Bizkit?! haha).  

So, they were perfect for my deconstructed t-shirt quilt top experiment. I had about 25 black and grey shirts and I made 50 blocks out of the shirts that I’d cut up into smaller pieces and re-pieced together. I embroidered some of the pieces and did some fabric painting on some plain black squares to give it a more destroyed/deconstructed look.

Anyway, here’s my first attempt at piecework. 

yeah. lotsa slipknot. to slip, or not to slip? slipkNOT.

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