I just watched this show for the first time this evening. I really enjoyed watching this little show about two sisters who opened up a cup cake shop in DC. Their whole entrepreneur spirit, sister dynamics and creativity really got me. I watched the one where they created a special center piece like a Mardi Gras mask for a St Jude's charity event. They worked all day and through the night to complete this beautiful work of edible art. When they came in the next morning to proceed.....the thing had collapsed! So....they had to make the thing all over in less than 3 hours. They managed to get the awesome creation done and delivered on time. It was just greatness-and they earned 1600.00 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital! Wow!
The top handbag is my most recent piece of art. LOL. Sewing on "marine vinyl" is not for the weak hearted. I had to "google" every trick in the book. You need to understand some of the basics of Vinyl before you start a project. I'm telling you this because I started the project before I knew.....which is typical of all of my projects. First, let me just say that vinyl is sticky and does not like to feed forward. It sticks and refuses to move without feeding with your hand from the back side and pulling from the other hand from the inside. Plus, after much research.....I learned that you must get a teflon foot which helps to feed the material through. You can also tape your foot with scotch tape-but the teflon foot was like 3.00 and well worth it. You will also want to do some trials on some pieces of the fabric (vinyl) that you are going to use to test out the tension and stitch length. Apparently, the weight of your thread is important, and you wa...
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