Miss Rapunzel is my second favorite Disney princess. She was fiesty. She was amusing and I just love her so much for taking charge of her life and going after what she wanted.
And Flynn Rider is a hottie for a cartoon.
Getting to meet Rapunzel was so much fun! I wanted to ask her how much her hair weighed.
Until next week stitchers. Don't forget to send those pics!!!!!
It's Friday and you know what that means - it's time for the next pattern! Don't forget that if you're stitching along, I want to see the finished products so I can post them here. So head on over to the Flickr group and share them with me!!!!
This week's Princess is an oldie, but a goodie. It's Miss Aurora from the 1959 classic "Sleeping Beauty"!
Aurora is an interesting girl to me because being a '50s-'60s princess, she doesn't have quite the independent spirit that some of our more modern ladies have. But I still love her because she had fabulous hair and she didn't want to settle for someone else. She wanted the man she had fallen in love with once upon a dream...not some prince she'd never met. Lucky for her, they turned out to be the same person.
By the way, I always wanted her outfit in the above scene...forget the princess dress at the end...the peasant dress is where it's at!
Aurora and I have only met twice...
That's all for this week stitchers. Get stitching and send in those pics!!!! I'm anxiously waiting to see them!
The Run Disney Princess Stitch-A-Long is a non-profit, for the fun of it stitch-a-long. All patterns are copyright AEAC, all characters are copyright Disney. Stitching patterns based on Michelle Thompson's paper-pieced patterns, done with her permission. No infringement intended.
This weekend I took a much needed break from school and work to do some crafting. It relaxes my brain and soothes my soul, so it's how I spend most my weekends.
This weekend, after an inspired trip to JoAnn Fabrics, I finally turned back to the paper-piece project that started it all...the Project of Doom, as it is so aptly named on Fandom in Stitches. Due to the limitations of my sewing machine, I've decided to lap quilt it instead. It's been slow going, but has allowed me to do a level of detail work I'd never have been able to accomplish on the machine.
But even more exciting, was logging onto the Flickr group this morning and seeing the first photo not by me from the RDP SAL!!!
It's Friday and you know what that means - it's time for the next pattern! Don't forget that if you're stitching along, I want to see the finished products to I can post them here. So head on over to the Flickr group and share them with me!!!!
Last week, I forgot to share what I like best about Mulan, which is something I want to do with each of the ladies as each week goes by, so...yeah. I didn't really appreciate Mulan as a character or a movie until just recently when I went back and finally watched it again after many many moons. And the thing I found myself liking best about her was two-fold.
The first, her famous ballad "Reflection". Mulan isn't what she should be. She doesn't want to be the pretty housewife. She longs for something "more than this provincial life" (a trait she shares with my girl Belle). And while in imperialist China, this wasn't something to be admired, nowadays, it's a great message to convey to young children...especially young girls. She longs for the day her reflection shows who she is inside. The day the things she loves most about herself will be the things others see about her and love as well.
The second pearl of wisdom I missed at 9 was the line her father says to her not long after this: "My, what beautiful blossoms we have this year. But look, this one's late. But I'll bet that when it blooms, it will be the most beautiful of all." I, like Mulan, was a late bloomer...something I never could have known I'd be at 9. In a lot of ways, I'm still blooming. Still finding my place on the medicine wheel, as the Lakota would say. Still finding my place in the circle of life, as a another Disney masterpiece would put it. People make it seem like you should have life figured out in your 20s...that upon graduation from college, you should know exactly what you plan to do with the next 40 years until you can retire. But the realization I've come to recently is that your 20s is exactly when we should be figuring this thing called life out for ourselves. And figuring out exactly who "ourselves" is.
But that's enough espousing...I promise they won't all be that long.
I think the thing I loved most about Tiana was her lack of need for a man. Kinda like Mulan last week. She had big things to do before she settled down and married her Prince and lived happily ever after (literally). That's something I really admire, because I too have a lot to do...or at least a lot that I plan to do, before I'm married and have a family.
Here's hoping that like Tiana, I get my chance.
That's all for this week stitchers. Get stitching and send in those pics!!!! I'm anxiously waiting to see them!
I met Tiana for the first time last Christmas.
The Run Disney Princess Stitch-A-Long is a non-profit, for the fun of it stitch-a-long. All patterns are copyright AEAC, all characters are copyright Disney. Stitching patterns based on Michelle Thompson's paper-pieced patterns, done with her permission. No infringement intended.
So sorry for the delay in getting this pattern posted. But I think Friday's will be the chosen day for pattern revelation.
Without any further ado, I present the first pattern for the Run Disney Princess Stitch Along:
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I think she came out looking really good. UPDATE: I've fixed the link...you should be able to view and download it now without a problem.
I've created a Flickr group for people to upload their finished squares. I look forward to seeing them. As I said last week, just worry about embroidery for now and I'll post the layout info (including what other fabric you'll need later...I'm quilting this on a budget so I'm only buying what I need at a time).
As I wrote this, I'm standing in an airport waiting to get on a plane and go home after an awesome long weekend away. I got to see old friends, go to a Taylor Swift concert and rest and recharge before my summer work kicks in (though technically I've already started).
As it always is whenever I leave the town I go to grad school in, I don't want to go back. I work hard and a lot when I'm there and the moments I don't have to be there and don't have to be working a few and far between and I cherish them like no other. Their special and priceless and more than necessary to make it through the next 3 years...
But I wish I could manage more of them. I wish I could manage longer ones. Because they help manage.
I wish I didn't have to go back, but if I only did what I wanted I wouldn't be able to live. And I wouldn't be able to have these trips to look forward to and cherish.
Now to make it through summer. And to get the Disney SAL up and running. Should be before the end of the week. Hope you're excited.
