Small origami

When your daughter is trying to figure out how small she can fold an origami flower.

My children have made origami for years... I have stepped on so many bits and pieces of paper torn or cut into little squares it is unbelievable... But I would feel bad if these little bits got stepped on.  I can't even see small enough things like this anymore to even attempt to fold this small. She was using small steel crochet hooks as her fingers to fold it.

Internship leather sewing Red Knight

I did a lot of sewing on the leather for the knights and their horses.  This set is for the main knight the son of the man that contracted the work.  The dragons are laser cut we did some free hand work ( free hand done by Alex Buie).

 

 

 Wish I owned an Industrial walking foot sewing machine.  They are a dream to use when sewing leather and on heavy items which a lot of costumes are.  One of my other jobs as an over-hire stitcher is to sew those aprons that you wear when getting x-rays the real heavy ones, I use a walking foot on those too at work.  I also work in a local playhouse theater where I help stitch costumes for plays and I work as a dresser there at times.

The different leathers used in these projects was cow, buffalo and deer skins. The different textures and weights of the different hides is interesting in how it drapes and sews.  It was interesting also how we pinned them together  as pins are not used they are glued up then sewn.

 

 

The female in this photo is one of the knighs.

 

 

 

 These photos where taken during the fitting.  We used painters tape to mark where we wanted things to go.  This was because it was easy to remove and didn't mar the leather.

 

 This is Jen, my mentor, and one of the Knights.

Contact McGrew Studios if you need some made

Ren-Faire

My family likes to go to Ren-Faires there was one today.  So one of my children went as a pirate, one a dark fae/devil and one as a fox (with armor go figure).

We went late in the day after my middle daughter got off of work so we didn't get to do all the things we usually do  That being said we did a lot of stuff still and wore ourselves out.

Two of the costumes we put together in about 5 minutes the other took about 10 mins the joys of having a mom who makes costumes for a living.

Can you tell one of my kids is a ham.

We watched the jousting and the fire eaters talked to the mermaids and so on all the regular things you do at a ren-faire like eat funnel cake at the end of the day we sat down under some trees to rest from the sun and took some photos.

We took our puppy with us to the faire so he can get use to people he was a pirate for a little bit but really didn't like the hat and pouted.

Internship McGrew Studios leather work, knights, horses

The words in this post are directly copied from my mentors post and I want to give her all the credit for it, Jen McGrew.  During this past summer I did an internship at McGrew studios Jen and Hraefn are amazing artist and pulled together a large group of us to get this project done. This is not a paid for add I am proud I got to work with this amazing group of artist. Please enjoy the photos.  I enjoyed patterning, stitching, glueing up , grommeting, brainstorming, lacing, dressing, fitting, and everything else I helped with on this.   This was very much a group effort of amazing people I would love to work with all of them again.

Wendy "Sunshine" Harbaugh

If you contact Jen and Hraefn (raven) studio please tell them hi from me.

that is Jen being silly love her to pieces

Below are all Jen's words not mine

"We made custom costumes for Young Living’s jousters, horses and squires in this fantastic project. This is the DGY (David Gary Young) Jousting Team of Young Living Farm in Mona, Utah, and they are amazing. The open, lattice-like costumes for the horses are called caparisons and their face shields are called chamfrons. We’ve created these with leather cut-work and inlay, embellished with decorative metal pieces, rivets and crystals. We built the horse gear using chrome-tanned leathers backed with synthetic Rhino Cloth for extra weight, durability and resistance to wear and mildew. Each horse echoes its jouster’s colors and sometimes his or her coat of arms, as in the case of Jacob Young’s dragons in black and red. The word caparison originates from the 1585–95 Middle French caparasson (now caparaçon) and the Old Spanish caparazón, akin to capa or cape. We made the jousters’ sleeveless surcotes from black bison hide. Each of these tunics laces up the sides and has specialty leather inlay as well as hardware and rivets in either gold or silver. Our design/build team for this was a BIG one- our shop’s usual staff plus additional stitchers and craftspeople jobbing in. A great project and so fun to make such fantastic looks for DGY. Great development by our team: Jennifer McGrew Hraefn Wulfson Diane Thompson Madeline Mann Alex Buie Carolyn Richardson Liam Buie Wendy Harbaugh Andrea Fabrega Isaac Doubek Anastasia Najarian Elijah Najarian Nathan Dobbin Konley Shanahan Dresden Williams Eliza Williams Cate Allen Nick Burke Magen Mitchell Uptown Embroidery Heather Skola Aubrey Kuefner Todd Baker Monica Ramirez DGY’s armor in these photos is by Valentine Armouries in Las Vegas, NV. Visit the Young Living farm events page for more info about jousting dates. Our thanks to HeadnHome for the leather cavalier hats. These are beautifully made and you were wonderful to work with:) Our thanks to Liz Davies, Young Living‘s Director of Farm Events and the whole DGY group. Our team loved working with yours. We look forward to more creative design as your production grows. Thank you to Robert Hirschi and David A. Boyd for your photos here:)"