Today I set out to commence the dejunking of my office/craft/weight bench room in preparation of our upcoming move. I made it through one sack that had 3 items in it. Of those things 2 got put "away" and one is still out awaiting a destination. Whoo one thing down. The next victim is a typical white, plastic bag. Within its crinkly shell a "someday" project. DUM DUM DUUUUUMMM! It was suppose to be done by Christmas so our little tree would have a cute lil skirt. And next thing I know I'm working on it. This is how my dejunking projects usually go. I make a little head way then I run into a project I've been meaning to do and decide to do it right then because in my mind it shouldn't take that long.
As I pull all the fabric out, yay it is already cut, all I need to do is assemble it! But all I remember from the Pinterest post that sparked the project is a hot glue gun is used to attach material in a ruffly manner onto a circle shape. I shrugged and decided that it shouldn't be that difficult and sort of dive in. That's probably why I have never really been good at sewing. I don't always like the planning and precision part that has to go into a well done sewing project. I'm more of a lets-just-go-for-it-and-figure-it-out-as-I-go, usually. Anyway I did decide to sort of pin it onto my white fabric base before pulling out the hot glue gun. After doing one row I decided to use a basting stitch to make my ruffles and then glue them on.
This is what I ended up with. Not bad but it needs some more layers. I have no idea what I was thinking when I bought the material. Maybe I was planning on buying some other colors and never got around to it. So, next Christmas season I'll have to go buy some more cute material to finish it off.
Lessons learned (that I will probably forget and have to relearn)
1- Do not procrastinate projects
2- If some unforeseen circumstances comes up and #1 cannot be done then I need to put the instructions and thoughts on the project in with the supplies for said craft.
3-If #1 & 2 don't happen, think out the project all over again and make sure you have enough supplies to finish the project.
4- If none the above happen or I can't afford the extra supplies that a project may require maybe it is best to just throw the project away.
Even though it is not finish, and Christmas was so 2 months ago, I still love my lil tree skirt and I wish I would have just taken the time to finish it for Christmas when my trail of thought on the project was fresh. Well I'm back to dejunking, after I clean up my current project mess =)
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