All hemmed!

I got a sudden burst of sewing energy this evening so I worked on my new black, white, brown, blueish-charcoal-gray and pink skirt.

First step: pattern matching

For those of you who may be wondering how to do this, I folded back about 3/4" of fabric at the side seam, ironed it and then made a tube of my skirt fabric (I cut the fabric for this skirt with the selvedge forming the seam allowance at the waist so it is just one long piece) and laid the ironed edge on top of the other side. I made sure the two pieces lined up at the hem and waist and then moved the prepared (ironed) seam line around until the pattern matched. I then pinned it into place on the front of the fabric, pinned it again on the wrong side for sewing purposes, removed the original set of pins and stiched it together in the fold-line I had ironed in. After the seam was stiched I cut off the excess fabric which was lost to pattern matching (a skirt length piece about 9" wide, in this case).

The technique is pretty easy but I had to measure and try matching the pattern in different areas and ponder quite a bit before I cut the fabric because the pattern repeats didn't match at the edges of the fabric.

Step two: the hem

I'm a big fan of doing something interesting with the inside of the hem on skirts. I find it's kind of like wearing fancy underwear, I feel special and a little naughty, which puts a spring in my step, and since the inside of hemlines show surprisingly often I get to share a little bit of intrigue with the rest of the world. Anyway, my hem is faced with a wide pink houndstooth patterned ribbon--in a matching pink--which seems like it will have the additional benefit of rustling when I walk

Nice














When I showed off my new hem to my Clarence I flashed him a peek at the interior and he got a big smile and said "Well, aren't you the wild one?" So I guess it works!

Taking a break...

And working on things utterly non-medieval!


This weekend I've been working on two projects for my other life instead:

A needlepoint pillow for my Clarence's new office and a skirt for me.

The skirt is of Linen in a lovely wild pattern in white, black, dark grey, brown and pink. I've cut out the skirt and purchased some wide ribbon in a wonderful white and pink houndstooth for the hem facing. It's a real shame that the ribbon won't show more often but I think the surprise of the houndstooth will be amazing in the occasional flashes that will be seen as I move.

Lovely.















As to the pillow, it is only the second piece of needlepoint which I have ever undertaken but it's coming along well and super fast in comparison to the kit I made up for a stool cushion a decade or so ago. I'm making a giant ";" in black on a white background, perfect for Mr. C because, as he says, there is always more to say!

A veil with macramé edging in 29 days?! Hee hee hee.....

...hee hee...haw...Haw...HAW...Ha...HA...HA...HA...HAAAAAAA!

Such a funny girl I can be. :)

Not that I have given up. The work continues, but it's going to be a while. Don't hold your breath!

(Now back to that laughing......)

Speaking of moving...

I just have to mention that I just finished a wonderful dinner of sushi, sushi made with brown rice, which we ordered on-line, and had delivered to our apartment. Yep, you read that right. In West Lafayette, Indiana you can get delivery of sushi made with brown rice!

I love it here.

:)

There and back again

My weekend has been devoted to making another (hopefully the last) trek back to central New York to get the last of our stuff and sign the papers for the sale of our old house.

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for the next few days ... 'cause it's not over 'till it's over!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Tasty Nibble #20

I haven't nearly finished pulling all the fringe on the first edge of my veil, but I've followed in my usual impatient path and started a section of the macramé, voila!

Here it is with my test sample, for perspective.











I'm working the pattern using 3 strands of the warp of my veil fabric for every one thread of the test sample and you can see how teeny tiny this is going to be. Hopefully I will get better at it...