 of me creating based sort of mixed media embellishments the you know halfway scrap embellishment things that I've been making I don't know what to call them. They are at least in part based on not only things that I've done for the my year 2017 Facebook group but also things that my co-teachers have done like Jerry Bellini's Bits and Bobs. I will try to remember to link her video in the description below. Here you just see me going through my scraps of fabric and cutting or ripping tearing bits of different kinds of fabric that I have in my stash including some canvas some thick cotton some burlap I've got a bunch of stuff hiding away in the closet I even pull out the net bag from some little baby bell cheeses those of us who are mixed media artists these things things like this we just love the tech for the texture of nothing else they also make great impressions on the jelly plate you can stencil through them all kinds of stuff so I always have them laying around and I love cheese so I've always got them around I want to do something with some of this blue fabric that I got in and I don't remember it was either in a happy mail envelope or it was in one of the round robin boxes that we did over in my year I don't remember but I do know I got it recently and I thought was really cool and I've got some lace and that little blue box I'm digging in right now is just a box that I literally have pieces and parts of things I don't want to throw away but I don't exactly know what to do with so that are fabric based I am combining paper and book text with fabric and lace and what I end up making is really really pretty and interesting and I have a couple more videos coming up where I'll be showing you what I've made and my process you're going to see some close-up sewing machine time here in a minute of me layering different things and different parts some fancy rickrack I got from Maya Road I think years and years and years ago and here we go to the sewing machine so this is a close-up of my fof sewing machine and I'm using this machine instead of my other cheaper machine because mostly what we're doing is fabric based there's not that much paper or paint or anything involved so it should be fine for this machine I'm rethreading it with white thread at least to start because it had black thread in it I do end up breaking a couple of sewing machine needles along the way but that's part and parcel of doing this kind of work when you're working with fabric that's this layered and this thick and this many different pieces and parts on it breaking the occasional needle because you hit a bead or you hit a really thick spot that happens you do want to make sure that you're taking all precautions that you're staying safe and for goodness sake keep your fingers out of the way maybe wear a pair of glasses I am intentionally not sewing straight as you can see and I'm sewing a few layers together then cutting the threads then adding some more layers and doing some more sewing this is not about sewing straight or sewing perfectly this is great practice especially for those of you who don't know how to sew because you really there's no wrong way to do it and it's a challenge for those of us I think who do know how to sew because you're intentionally wanting to sew messy and I don't know about you guys but that's not something I'm necessarily super great at because I've taught myself for too long that has to be neat and straight so but the messier it is the nicer it looks and the more texture it adds to the piece that you're making this is just intended to be like sort of a long piece of ribbon that I can cut up and use on other things and it these pieces here turn out really great I really like the way they turned out and I end up using them on another project like I said that you'll see in another video I really sort of wanted to bring back the sewing 101 but I have to do them in batches because getting out all the sewing stuff means I can't do anything else so I've edited a few videos or filmed a few videos here at the same time so I am just zigzagging going between zigzag and straight stitches depending on what I'm sewing here is a thin piece of blue cord I want to get on there and I realized that the easiest way to get it on there is to zigzag it I'm also shoving underneath it some garment labels that I have from garments that I've taken actually the labels out and I thought they were interesting so I saved them and they make an interesting texture to the finished piece there we go I really like the way that ended up looking I have fast-forwarded this video just because otherwise it would be ginormously long I am going to do a part two to this video so watch for that and we'll see how it goes I don't know how interesting you got interested you guys are going to be in watching me work at the sewing machine I even managed to grab some of the flattened drinking straws if you remember a few videos back again I'll try to remember to link it in the description below it was for the my year 2017 Facebook group we made some interesting texture for our journals with melting drinking straws and ironing them flat while I take out some of those and I use them on a piece that I create here with fabric and I really wasn't sure to be honest how it was going to turn out when I was making it but I had this little sampler embroidery sampler of a house that I've had forever I didn't embroider it somebody else did I don't actually remember who and I decided to put some of these drinking straws some of this burlap and some other things on here and it is really super cute I will at some point find the perfect project for it I don't have it yet but I hope this gives you some ideas of what you could do with all those scraps and bits and pieces that you have laying around and you can make these little halfway pieces of art you can store them in your box that you've designated for them and then you have them ready to go to add to a journal cover a journal page or other piece of mixed media art or maybe you just want to make a whole bunch of them and share them with friends and exchange them with friends that's great too these would be great to stick and have email I hope it gives you guys some ideas of what you can do oh and there's that trim I did break needles on that trim because it had beads on it anyway if you want to join one of my Facebook groups shop in my Etsy shop to support my channel send me half email anything like that or not to mention the video links I mentioned all of it's in the description below please check it out and don't forget the most important thing go out and have a great day do a little sewing create a little art do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later okay that's it for today look for part two if you enjoyed this video I'll talk to you later bye guys