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i am thinking back to my high school years when i used to straighten my hair. i have very curly hair and it wasn't stylish back then and i guess i was afraid of being laughed at. i would sit under a hair dyer with my hair wrapped around beer can sized rollers... go to sleep with my hair pressed flat and rolled around my head. i would comb it out smooth and straight in the morning. and then it would rain. and by the time i walked to school i would be a frizz ball. and i would cry. now i have to laugh.
somewhere under a rainbow a sheep is smiling. putting a smile on her face wasn't easy. i painted the smile on a separate piece of fabric, cut it out and did a classic needle turn applique. i used that edge wrapping to stitch over the lips and cover the edge of the shape, leaving the white fabric for the teeth and only tacking the in between with black backstitch. the white out method (well i guess in this case i should call it blackout) was used to clean up the flyaway edges...i simply covered them up with a black split stitch outline, hardly noticeable. trial and error has helped me to develop this detailing style. no. it wasn't easy to put the smile on her face. but i was determined.
