i made a dress out of target bags by Ellie F. '28
i also edited a video about it
Hey yall. It’s been a while.
On Sunday June 21st I texted Ceri that I was planning on dropping an effortpost “in the next week or so”. (:
It has now been over two weeks now since Silksong dropped. I have no explanation, only excuses. When I started this project I had big dreams, but now I have big psets.
For the past two Tuesdays, the 10pm-11pm time slot on my Google Calendar has been blocked out to finish my Target blog and it didn’t happen either of those times. I feel like I have no time at all or maybe negative time but I still somehow have this stubborn belief that I can do big fun things that contribute nothing towards my to-do list. Life finds a way, I guess.
Anyways here’s the vlog <3
Details:
I filmed this with my phone, balanced precariously on the edges of various boxes and tables. I edited it in Adobe Premiere Pro which I get free with my tuition. Most of the voiceover was recorded in one take, somehow. I got most of the bags from the Target in Central Square, as well as one or two from Alpha Delta Phi’s reusable bag rack. All of the sewing supplies were from MAD, with the exception of the red thread I was hand-sewing with, which I pilfered from Math Prize for Girls 2024.
Shout out to Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities, which I watched a lot of while sewing. One day I’m gonna get rich and make my own better version of the Georgia Guidestones. Thank you to Ceri for believing in me always. Thank you to Trader Joe’s which was three minutes from my house and supplied me all the snacks I needed to get through this. And thank you to the Academy.
See you next effortpost.