elastic thread and marbles
Apr 21, 2009 
A few of your asked some follow-up questions to the barn Easter photos. Like, how did the elastic thread sewing go? And what’s going on in the photo with marbles and swirled paint?
Well, the dress turned out fantastically, and all the more so for sewing it on an old machine that my dad and I pulled out of the loft. The old Singer hummed along with a heaviness and authority that my newer machine lacks. And the elastic thread was dreamy. I followed the pattern from Heather's awesome book. It was as easy as promised, and the finished smocking gave me one of those little thrills, like, did I really just do that?
As for what’s going on with the marbles, my sister Brooke teaches music to kids in Vermont, and has also worked at a preschool, so every time we get together she comes with nifty projects like this one.
She cut a bunch of paper into egg shapes and put one at a time into a tin container that has a tight fitting lid. Then she squeezed a few little dollops of paint on the paper, added a few marbes, and put the lid on. The little niece took over shaking it, and didn’t want to stop because it makes a really fantastic, happy percussion sound. Then, you open it up and have these beautifully swirled paper eggs.
Brooke customized this for Easter, but you can obviously do this anytime and on different kinds of paper for a range of rad, marbelized effects.
Reader Comments (17)
Ahhhhh....thanks for the explanation! (for the marbles and tin) Also glad to hear sewing with elastic thread is easy. I'm wanting to make a smocked dress for my 2yr old this spring, and now I am less hesitant. (don't you wish they made things like they used to? our plastic encased machines of today just don't compare)
I gave up my "new" machine for the solidity of my mum's machine - I love that I get to sew things for my son on the same machine that mum once sewed for me (and my sibs) on.
Love the pic of A in her new dress.
I love this paint tin project -- so clever! I tried it with my son and he loved every aspect of it: squirting the paint, shaking the can, AND the results. Please thank your sister for the great idea!
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