Diet Coke skirt (aka, "pop panties")

I love craft blogs and I read them when I can. I especially like those with lots of pictures -- double especially if they're things I think I might be able to figure out how to make by myself.

I've only been sewing for about a year -- I got my machine in May of 2006. It doesn't seem like I've done a lot, but the volume of things I've produced is actually pretty impressive. My first projects were dog quilts -- miniaturized machine-pieced quilts for my dog and the dogs of friends. Since then, I've moved on to human quilts, wrap skirts, coasters by the dozen, and various random projects like purses and skirts for Diet Coke cans.

I'm hoping this blog will be a place I can express my creative visual side, ranging from sewing to photography to things that inspire me.

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First project: the Diet Coke skirt.

Conceived because every day when I get to work, I take my warm can of Diet Coke out of my bag, tape a Post-It over the tab, and put it in the fridge. I started to feel bad about wasting Post-Its, because they can't be reused (they get messed up during the mad frenzy to drink the cold Diet Coke).

So my crafty friend Sue (that's a pseudonym because Sue has hinted in the past that she doesn't like being blogged about) and I were joking about making little outfits for our soda cans. That would ensure easy identification -- both in the fridge, where unlabeled sodas are liable to get claimed by the masses, and out of the fridge, because who besides a select few would want to carry around a Diet Coke wearing a skirt?

I'm actually quite happy with it. The colors are so cheery. I'm probably going to make one or two more, because sometimes just one Diet Coke won't do.