September 27, 2020
Experiments in watercolor and pastel!
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so, yeah. Harumph.
I just looked at someone's tutorial for felt slippers. It was just three pieces - regular felt (no non-slip stuff on the bottom), traced around her foot and sewn together. Then she spent a LOT of work embellishing them - free form sewing on flower petals and hand-sewing beads on the flower centers.
WHATTTTTTT??? They won't stay on her feet. The felt is slippery. They will fall apart in a few days. She spent HOW much time on these things?
1. Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features: "blue silk embellished with golden embroidery".
See, that is why they do it . . . to make it prettier. :) I like to think that what I do stands by itself. Only things that need embellishing are Christmas trees and birthday cakes.
Wait... you're not talking about me are you??????? (Frantically looking around for embellished felt slippers)