Martin Stewart

So... before I get into the what the typical Martin Stewart project would be I wanna share some shenanigans... I was trying to come up with a cool/funny pic for this portion of the Blog. The goal was to try to somehow combine a Martha Stewart face pic with mine. The simple solution was just to cut and paste my face onto a Martha Stewart pic I poached from the internet... This was the result:

Pretty standard right? It's rough and shows zero technical skill, but it gets the job done. Then I remember coming accross this site that lets you take two photos and blend them together to get one pic. I figured this was ideal seeing how the whole gimmick to this segment was to show a manly version of Martha Stewart... Well... the result of the "blend" was ... disturbing to say the least...

Pretty horrific right? So now I'm debating on whether or not to attempt this again or just use one of the two pics... Its like watching friggin' surgery.... I wanna see what's going on, but it hurts to look at.

Well... Enough of that. On to point of the segment!

That's our sewing machine right there... its all shiny and new... and green. Then if you look in the back you can see Claudia all concentrating on something. Then if you look really close you can see part of Claudia's bike, and behind that is our blinds and a lamp... Notice how we never took the manufacturer's sticker off the lamp? Yea, we don't pay much attention to details like you obviously do...

The reason I highlighted all that was to divert your attention away from the terribly crafted yellow balloon monster with legs thing sitting on the sewing machine... (Did it work?) Well, that's the first completed Martin Stewart project! I took some 29 cent felt, drew a super simple monster design on it, cut two pieces, sewed those bad boys together with our trusty sewing machine, stuffed it with some shredded old tee-shirt (I'm not gonna pay for friggin' stuffing...), and viola! We have a 40 cent crappy stuffed animal/dog toy/paper weight/blog subject.

If you look close you can see some terrible hand stitching on the left side of the terribly crafted yellow balloon monster with legs thing (it would technically be the right side of the terribly crafted yellow balloon monster with legs thing). I know I had to leave a hole for stuffing, but I have no idea how to close the hole without showing the stich... If anyone out there (supposing anyone reads this) knows how to do that, or can just tell me what the stich is called so I can do a bit of Google research on the hows and whys of the stich let me know!

Welp, that's it for the first Martin Stewart post. If anyone has any suggestions or, like, patterns laying around the house they'd like to see me fail at trying I'd be more than happy to attempt it. Stay safe and remember: when changing your spark plugs, don't cross the wires.

(The website I used for the blend was: http://www.morphthing.com/)