01 October 2008

Incidental Accessory

so I've been commissioned to make a backdrop for a USnaps.com photobooth. i was testing out my grommet setter - you know, for setting metal rings into fabric, vinyl, etc etc - on some scrap fabric to see whether the fabric was thick enough to hold a grommet. done and done. but then i had this five foot long piece of scrap fabric with grommets at either end of it. and you know, scrap fabric is always kind of tricky because apart from putting it aside to make yarn, a quilt, or patch up old clothes, it seems to be just a space-wasting nuisance to me. oh, but not this particular piece. i got to fooling around with it and made little old me a new necklace. wonk!