New GIMP Designs

Well, here are the three most recent. The reason there are three is because the first one I made was originally with the cute little guy in the second render. I decided that the background and the render didn't match at all, so I replaced it with the only render I had with the same color scheme, which ended up being little Axel and Roxas. The other two with cute little Hunny and his cake were made at the same time, cause I couldn't decide which one I liked more to keep, so I kept them both. So, here we go:

The Lord of the Rings Bag

Alrighty, so while I was looking for pictures of the Door to Moria to embroider onto a bag, I found that video that was in the last post. So just a half hour or so ago, I FINISHED THE BAG!

It's made out of an old Aeropostle sweatshirt that I got for $15 about 3-4 years ago that I don't wear anymore. I figured that instead of throwing it out, I could make something out of it, so I put the Door to Moria on it. Now... that may have been the dumbest idea I ever had, because the elven letters were REALLY HARD to embroider. >.<

As you can see, I took the picture of the door and printed it out on my computer. I then pinned it to the bag where I wanted and started embroidering. Little did I know that it would take FOREVER to get the paper out from under the sewing. (I thought I could just pull and it'd rip and come off, but noooo, pulling rips out the stitches too. -.-) I also didn't think that my stitchings would look bad underneath the paper if they looked good on top of the paper. So although the brown string that outlines the trees is quite messed up looking, here's the final product!

I may go back at some point and touch it up to make the brown look better, but overall, I think I did a great job for someone who can't embroider well. All that's left is to put the strap on, which I think I'm going to take one of the sleeves and cut it up into fourths and sew them together. (I would have used both sleeves, but one of them I already used for the bottom of the bag.)