Wow. I have been sewing and sewing for a couple weeks now. I
think I have gone through 4 twelve packs of googly eyes at this point and my glue gun is getting lots
of attention. My burnt and singed fingertips are pretty pissed at me but its
all for the good of the fishies!
Last night I sat at my table while I hot glued gemstones and
eyeballs to my most recent fish creations. It is very time consuming and finger
burning process to go through. I am only doing full gemmed fins on the 3 hats
for myself, my buddy and her aunt who I am doing the derby with. I put some
gems by the eyeballs on some of them to add a little sparkle J
I’m not sure if I want to add gemstones to the “plain” pink,
blue and green ones. We will see how much my fingertips can take from all the
hot glue abuse. The “gems” in question
are from Joannes “Big Bag of Bling” and “Bag of Bling”. For $10 (I used a 50%
off coupon, they are usually $20) I got 1lb bags of gemstones. I thought it
would be nice to make them shiny and stand out on the ice a bit more.
I have posted the picture of the light blue and green hats I
have made but I also went off the deep end and bought a bunch of florescent
fleece as well. While walking from the car to my house with the bag of
florescent fabric I noticed how well it stuck out next to the snow! I wish I
would have made all of my hats florescent but alas it is too late to change
that.
The florescent ones are tiger stripped with orange fins,
cheetah print with pink and orange fins, then hot pink, orange and blue.
