GUESS . WHO . FINISHED . THE . JACKET . LAST . NIGHT ! Well ok it's not 100% finished I still have to do the button holes and buttons and steam it but the worst is over. Well, the worst of the jacket. I still have the terrifying pants to START ON. But before I get into all that let's do the usual rewind back into last week. Even though most of what was happening last week ...
So last week - I think it was Wednesday night - I had a complete and utter breakdown over the pants of Chase's suit, cried a little bit, and threw the mockup in the trash. The suit pattern I'm using - do you know how many pattern pieces are in the pants alone? About 25. The front pockets are 6 pieces each. 12 pieces all together just for the pockets. WTF. It was ...
It's been raining like crazy here the past couple of weeks. Which means it's been migraine city as the weather shifts back and forth. This weekend was rather uneventful. I mostly worked on Chase's suit since I was waiting on the new fabric for recutting the top of my dress. New fabric came in Friday but I was on a good roll with the suit so I didn't pause to ...
Ok this post is going to be whiny! Only because sewing was a pain in the butt this past week and then I had a DISASTER in my sewing room. But as usual let's start at the beginning. Last Monday we got Kevin's bed assembled! I'm hoping to paint it (the room not the bed) sooner rather than later. And get some curtains up in there - his room is ...
So guess what! I actually did some sewing over the weekend. Not a lot. And I didn't take any pictures. So uh... does it count? I'm not sure. Haha. But I'll get to that in a minute. Ok so first order of business is I saw a news story that The Princess Diaries is getting a 3rd movie. And that made me nostalgic for the books. I LOVED the books! ...