i fought the law

...the law being uni and right now it's looking pretty good for the law's odds at winning.There is only a week and a half left of my semester at uni! And in that time, about 5 assignments need to be completed. So last night, completely contrary to what I should have been doing, I sewed my first ever solo semi-successful item of clothing. It is this skirt that you see here. It's made out of a stretchy-kind-of-jersey-type-tshirt fabric. And it is a dusty lilac colour. It took about two and a bit hours because I am self-taught at sewing (with a bit of help from my seamstress mother!) and at first I sewed it about three sizes too big for myself! So two and a bit hours included alterations.

So yay for a new (free!) comfy stretchy skirt to wear to the computer labs at uni where I'll be for at least two full days and nights this week!

On a more exciting and bitchin' note, I went shopping today (further inhibiting my chances of passing this semester) and got a SWEET bargain on a pair of Levi jeans.

That's right yes, they are black and red acid wash. The minute I saw them I knew, it was love. They are very rock compared to stuff I usually wear but everyone needs some rock in their lives! Also these are the first jeans I have ever purchased that have been too long for my too-long-legs. Bitchin'!

My two favourite songs for this week are: Laughing With by Regina Spektor and a really amazing version of Feeling Good by someone/someband called My Brightest Diamond. So beautiful!

Go here to play/participate in a supercute verification-code-game :) You post a comment, see what nonsense word that you get as a verification code and then come up with a definition for that nonsense word! Gorgeous idea simi :)

My next craft project that I want to undertake is a cloud-blue leather wallet. But probably after the 4th of June when my last hand-in will be safely tucked under the arm of a bristling Interior/ Architecture tutor.

Lots of beats and biscuits,

The Cloth Moth xo

lost memories of a pivotal motion

For my first post I wanted to share the most important time I have spent in my own-life so far. It was when I was in Paris with my family at the end of 2008.

I spent three tiny hours in Montemarte on my own walking around the little cobbled streets.

There were crooked buildingsstone staircases
art in nooks and crannys

It was a pilgrimage to the type of place that I had previously only dreamt about from time to time, when inspired by a glimpse of a French painting or a few bars of French music.

While on my peditravels through this little nook of Paris, I was drawn to this book which I simply had to buy - even though I cannot understand most of it. (I think it is about the travels of a Frenchman through England.)

I felt like someone completely different walking through these streets, clutching this book which held secrets created only by different words. As I walked, I had nothing with me, or on me, that showed to these Parisian Montmarte-ers who I really was. I was completely anonymous so I was able to soak in all the magic and amazing history that was seeping from the bricks of every building I walked past. I passed a stall in a flea market selling hot spice wine and thought "this is the place for me!" I wanted to document my tiny stay in this amazing little corner of the world in some other way than just photographs of the streets. I remembered some scenes from my favourite movie and decided exactly how to do it.

This is me.

In Paree.

On a spree.

Of the most beautiful corner of the earth that I have been to so far.

Hello :)

I am 22 and interested in craft and fabrics and design. I have started this blog to document my forays into the crafty abysses and to document as well the things that inspire me and are beautiful. I hope you enjoy it and agree with me most of the time.

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