tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72290230620053727352024-03-16T10:04:08.482-04:00oonaballoona™ | by marcy harrielloonaballoona™ | by marcy harriell | actor, singer, sewist, maker, playermarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.comBlogger755125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-861768831388395122022-01-16T14:14:00.002-05:002022-01-16T14:14:32.404-05:00Step into my Handmade Closet! Everything I've Sewn in 2021It took me a minute, but I climbed back up on the YouTube horse, and I did it by swirling around in every technicolor thing I made in 2021. (One of those things was finished right under the wire, I might even be lying a little bit in terms of stitching the hem...maybe that was in the first week of January? Eh. Time is a fiction!)Physically modeling a garment is one of the many things marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-59810160321590179192022-01-10T12:15:00.003-05:002022-01-10T12:15:36.618-05:00Sewing for My Man: The Neverending Story. Help me Rhonda, it's time to make Rob a blazer. It's been time for years now. But in my defense, this man is a VERY PICKY DRESSER. This is strange, considering the 22-year-old dusty mauve oversized t-shirt that I just am not allowed to toss, regardless of the many holes and various bleach splatters.This t-shirt is the ugliest thing in our closet. NO YOU CAN'T SEE IT. I refuse to take amarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-18599619047343369112021-12-31T13:33:00.000-05:002021-12-31T13:33:10.734-05:00New Year's Eve, 2021This is a post to mark the passing of time. Full disclosure, ya might wanna skip it. It’s not the usual mood around here, but as everyone’s aware at this point, the glossy half of social media is just that: half of it. This post is for that blip in the future when one of us turns to the other and says oh yeah that christmas was crazy. What happened that year? And I head to the digital journal of marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-54415011641490201432021-12-07T13:40:00.001-05:002021-12-07T13:40:36.779-05:00Sewing an Off The Shoulder Dress with The Confident StitchHow blue you look today, I hear you cry! And yet, how joyful! How did you come to this combination?!Well, my friends, this usually warm-toned gal has gotten a makeover once again from the marvelous crew at The Confident Stitch. Last time, I covered my mane in little swatch butterflies-- this time I thought it might be fun to pick a pattern and yardage from Kate's Swatch Experience to make a marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-25599233524895333672021-11-22T17:00:00.008-05:002021-11-22T17:00:00.246-05:00A (Very Mini) Runway Inspired LookWho's this hussy and what have you done with the chick that's usually stomping around here in maxi-length dresses?Got some eye candy for you today, in this short and hopefully sweet post, in this short and hopefully sweet week stateside. WE COULD USE A LITTLE SWEET. I'm not referencing myself...I'm talking about this itty bitty jumble of technicolor that came together for Thread's Runway marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-78313419732435825912021-10-18T16:41:00.001-04:002021-12-06T15:39:28.779-05:00Catching Up: 9 Months of SewingQuite a few things got sewn in the past nine months, and only a handful made it to this space. It's easy to lose track, innit?! I keep thinking this past summer was our summer down South. Also, Christmas was yesterday. And maybe comes again before Halloween? LIFE IS A GAME OF JENGA AND TIME IS A ROUND OF WHACK-A-MOLE. Is it summer? WHACK. Nope, it's autumn. Is that murmur the sound of a gentle marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-22371934287153766912021-09-30T09:20:00.000-04:002021-09-30T09:20:06.011-04:00A Jacquard Gown for a Jewel Box TheaterI’m coming to you from a little hiding place in my mind, where I live in an intimate jewel box of a theater that only houses about 250 of my closest friends. Come on in, I have a seat reserved for you. There are plenty of turrets and boxes to keep you cozy— and distanced, if the situation calls for it. Some are even way up high in the rafters, if you really want some personal space....This beautymarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-49544327177791484522021-09-15T12:02:00.002-04:002021-09-15T12:02:57.866-04:00Performance Gowns…or, Back Onstage! I had an epiphany last week (which will read as “plain common sense” to some): I didn’t need to sew three gowns for my return to the stage. I had plenty of dresses in my closet that hadn’t seen the spotlight for almost two years. Basically a closet full of brand new homemade couture!Then I tried on a few…and a few more…and realized we’d, uhhhh, grown apart during our marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-25536033764265100922021-08-30T13:26:00.003-04:002021-08-30T13:26:36.568-04:00The Handmade HarriellsAs I was lamenting for the seventeenth? Seventieth? Uncountable-eth time about the slipping away of hours and months and days, a wise friend said to me: Time is an accordion.Ain’t it the truth! I yelped back. TIME IS AN ACCORDION AND LIFE IS A GAME OF JENGA.And we all know I'm not talking 'bout a breezy cocktail hour game of Jenga either.It’s been a year since we started creating technicolormarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-87638519225599255852021-06-08T14:59:00.002-04:002021-06-08T14:59:15.617-04:00Threads Magazine, Diana Vreeland, 'n MeIt's been six months since I joined the Threads Digital Ambassador team. What? You didn't hear? You mean to tell me I just threw that little blue badge up on the sidebar and never properly hollered about it RIGHT HERE IN MY OWN LIVING ROOM? Like most of us, my hold on reality has been screwed on about as tight as it will go, so, I'll save you that sob story of a full plate and no time. marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-66301353103911224582021-02-22T13:07:00.000-05:002021-02-22T13:07:02.396-05:00Remember Water Cooler Chats?My subconscious obviously knew my somber-hued mood wouldn't last forever, and with a great amount of foresight, chose this FANTABULOUS TECHNICOLOR PALM TREE BIG CAT IN THE JUNGLE PRINT. I have been LIVING in this longline sweatshirt slash turtleneck since I whipped it up a couple weeks back. And I do mean whipped it up, in an absolute frenzy of sewing, brought on by two fully filmed, fully marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-27695009447635718302021-02-04T13:22:00.000-05:002021-02-04T13:22:02.231-05:00Fabric Godmother: Silhouette Vs SewistWhat happens when you choose a beautiful fabric when you're not in the *best* frame of mind? If you're like me, you probably rage sew it up, ending up with something that goes in a bag until you're ready to revisit.I chose this absolutely gorgeous viscose sateen from Fabric Godmother last year, in the middle of the upside-down whirlwind of packing up for a break from NYC, and by the time it marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-4644393402433022042020-12-29T16:41:00.006-05:002021-02-04T13:35:06.258-05:00All Dressed Up. Always.Our bags were packed with summer clothing when we headed down South last July. Rob also schlepped twelve pairs of jeans, and I brought...a portable watercolor set? (We might not have been in the right headspace when packing for our Escape From New York.)Dressing up in the summer is easy for me: throw on a maxi dress. (Which I DID bring plenty of. I guess they're my equivalent to Rob's jeans.) marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-24375596141550623332020-12-11T09:13:00.001-05:002020-12-11T09:13:43.398-05:0020 Sewing Gifts for Under 20 BucksNow THAT’s the kind of 2020 I can get behind. I’m all about the fun in function when it comes to sewing tools. Add to that Rob's penchant for peril, and you come up with two armloads worth of some very intriguing goods in our holiday on-the-cheap video (complete with Rob's Danger Stocking™️ for the sharp bits). There's lots more than pictured here, and you can head over to the marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-66998096295423115532020-11-01T14:26:00.005-05:002020-11-01T14:26:49.356-05:00Sunday Singin'photo by Richard TermineI was at a Zoom Town Hall meeting for "Navigating the Business as a Mixed Heritage Actor" earlier this week. Yes, it was as solid-gold-depressing as it sounds.Suffice it to say, the "professionals" who were "helping" us only narrowed the already minuscule mixed-heritage-box to nano-particles. But what I took away from it was this: I can keep creating my own box, and wait marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-17360510152717261092020-10-29T13:46:00.000-04:002020-10-29T13:46:16.388-04:00McCall's 7745...ish.I might be smiling here, but don't let it fool you, THIS DRESS TRIED TO KILL ME.This is McCalls 7745, which I've made before in leopard rayon jersey. Funny that when I made it in a fabric it wasn't meant for, it turned out great--I just sized down 2 sizes to account for the negative ease you need in stretch knits, and BOOM. DRESS.This version, not so much. I used the proper size marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-25616073811375975322020-10-08T13:10:00.001-04:002020-10-08T13:10:37.433-04:00Dress For the Day: All Temperature Cheer.It’s so beautiful outside this week, my maxi dresses have come back out to play. Mind you, they’re never really benched, they’re just confined to indoor costume changes during the colder months. But today. TODAY. WE WAX PRINT.BOOTY SHOT, TIMES TWO.This is one of three prints picked out by MomNDadInc for my birthday prize, from House of Mami Wata. And it is the print I never knew I wanted! Lookit marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-22522820185253800212020-10-05T14:20:00.002-04:002020-10-05T14:20:18.145-04:00New Video: How to Sew a 3D Face Mask with ONE Pattern Piece!Making light of a dark situation is how we try to roll around here. If you gotta make a mask, you might as well make it FUN.After wearing this 3D face mask in a "Dollar Store Video Haul" on my YT Channel last week, I received a ton of personal requests for a tutorial on it. Apparently, like me, a lot of us are still looking for that perfect DIY. Lemme tell ya, I wish I'd known about this style marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-76632777074224585952020-09-28T16:20:00.000-04:002020-09-28T16:20:06.139-04:00The Man, The Myth, THE JAMS.HEY NOW! THAT is what I call a celestial body! ARE YOU MY LUCKY STAR, BABY?! Yes, I am catcalling my man. I CAN'T HELP IT. He's looking right down the lens of the camera and I'm DONE. IN A GOOD WAY. Can you blame me? Would you lookit that mug? Are the technicolor, handmade shorts even the focus of this leadoff picture on a *sewing* blog? No, they are not, and YOU'RE WELCOME.I'm sorry, I'm feelingmarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-41371921631320786122020-09-22T13:34:00.000-04:002020-09-22T13:34:27.244-04:00Copying Rob's Favorite Pair of RTW Shorts!OH MY FLIP DOESN'T ROB LOOK SOOOOOOOO HAPPY?! Truly, this picture is everything he ever wanted in life!Something he actually *has* been wanting in life, for quite some time now: shorts. The perfect shorts, to be exact. I apparently possess the skills to make this happen, but no commercially produced shorts pattern has accommodated his, er, nether regions. So, we decided it was time I cut up his marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-68799979988265768382020-09-17T16:53:00.002-04:002021-02-25T11:18:49.171-05:00Outside the Spectrum of Color...and the Pattern Envelope!Don't you dare tell me summer is over when I am sitting here, RIGHT THIS VERY HOT MINUTE, in the sunshine, in seven yards of wax print.Did I say seven? Indeed I did! I nabbed one lonely yard of this gorgeous explosion of flowers from House of Mami Wata, and then my parents, completely on the same wavelength and completely unaware, sent me a standard six-yard cut for my marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-84274494073310702242020-09-13T13:50:00.001-04:002020-09-13T13:50:30.726-04:00New on the channel: What I Made in August!This is a quickie post, cuz I was up till 3am getting this video up on YouTube. THAT'S a ridiculous sentence, ain't it? Last night, as I edited out yammering, and watched spinning uploading balls, I kept telling myself: we're in ridiculous times, might as well act the part.Summer is waning, and so is the shelf life for these wax print maxi dresses, so I wanted to get this out today! (At marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-16514445026880973892020-08-30T12:13:00.000-04:002020-08-30T12:13:24.455-04:00What’s In My ClosetHands down, when we decided to get some breathing room away from the city this summer, the thing I stalled on THE MOST was what would make it into my suitcase. Well before I learned to sew, clothing was my armor, and once I learned how to sew my own armor? Forget it! Sewists know the meaning of a garment!But. I gotta have a LOT of choices to feel right. I’m rarely in the same garment all day longmarcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-58825770593284864852020-08-20T18:17:00.000-04:002020-08-20T18:17:32.598-04:00Finding HappyThough the joy in these pics is 100% real, I’ll be honest with you, I started this week out plain DONE. Sad, angry, ugly crying, DONE. I don't have to tell you why, the great big bulk of us is experiencing this on the regular, for any number of well known reasons. Just keepin it real.At the moment, however, I am whatever is the opposite of "done." I don't know what that qualifier would be; I'm marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7229023062005372735.post-71798460207493282292020-08-18T13:07:00.000-04:002020-08-18T13:07:01.492-04:00The Confident Stitch Swatch ServiceI’ve got more fabric for you today, in the form of perfect, petite, pinked swatches! Bite-sized chunks of cloth that I couldn’t resist putting to more permanent use. (I almost subtitled this post "All Up In My Hair.")As usual, I’ve put the cart before the horse. Ahem. Insert chyron here: two months earlier....At the beginning of this otherworldly summer, Kate at The Confident Stitch reached out marcy harriell | oonaballoonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07586073125331744719noreply@blogger.com8