Another flower pin

I made this for a friend. I really need to get over to the post office to send it to her. The main reason I'm posting about it is that I think it's really interesting how different the color looks depending on whether there's white in the frame. I guess I have always had a vague notion that cameras automatically adjust color tone based on neutrals in the picture, but I had never seen it in action like this. I watched the display color shift as I moved the salt shaker in and out of the frame. It was pretty fun, actually. Anyway, the color on the right is the more accurate one. I used a fun button from my mom's stash for the center, and I sewed it to the pin before gathering the center circle, which seems to work pretty well for buttons that have a hole on the back instead of multiple holes through the whole button.

Flower pin advice

Unfortunately, the flower pin is not robust to the abuses of the washer and dryer.

I couldn't find it for about a week, so I was a little relieved when it turned up in the last load of laundry but also sad because it didn't fare so well. The flower pin is dead, but since I have more of the same fabric, long live the flower pin I will make when I get a chance.

Speaking of which, I haven't had a chance to sew in a while. I have started a project for a friend who responded when I posted one of those chain "give something homemade to the first five commenters" things. I'll post that once it gets finished. Right now I feel like my time is sucked away by grading, trips to Chicago, and of course writing my thesis. Crafts have rightfully taken a back seat. But I did get a subscription to Threads magazine and was thrilled with the first issue. Good sewists and designers have amazing geometric imaginations. I am still reeling from the mind-blowing article about how to make a patch pocket without topstitching. I'm not kidding. It's really cool. I might have some more posts about math and sewing if I ever make it out of thesis purgatory.