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Last weekend was a good weekend for crafting! Well, first I had to help friends move (into a *gorgeous* house!), and then the crafting started! It was centered around the Mirror Mirror dress, of course. Sorry, it's just going to get worse until the end of the month! We were looking for a good light blue for Katie's top skirt, so we went to Mill Outlet. Guys. GUYS! I should've taken pictures. It is absolutely ferret-shock in there! Tons of gorgeous fabrics (mostly houseware fabric, but gorgeous!), trims, buttons, patterns... I could've bought everything! They had some lovely dupioni silk for $8/yd. If only I had a project that I could justify buying it for! (Guys. Sailor Scout formal dresses. Yes.)
But, they didn't have a fabric that Katie liked, so we went to the Joanns on that side of town. It is *completely* different in setup than the one in Cary. And, they were having a lovely weekend sale, including 50% off the light blue fabric Katie found, and 25% off your entire order!
Then, Katie showed me *this* monstrosity! After at least a month of frankensteining patterns together, McCall came out with a pattern for the Mirror Mirror dresses!! Argh argh argh! It was $2, so I got it, figuring it would at least give me a hint for my shoulder problems (and it did, so there's that). But, really. This is a *terrible* pattern. It is trying to be all the dresses in that movie in one, and it fails miserably. The first page of the pattern is a giant spread that tells you all of the notions and interfacings and linings you need to get for each version of the dress. Usually, this is listed on the outside, so you can buy what you need before you get home. Not so much, here. And it lists several interfacings (View A Interfacing A, View A Interfacing B, etc.), but doesn't tell you what type of interfacing that should be! Featherweight? Box weight? Your guess is as good as mine! And it's *very* convoluted, trying to fit all dress styles onto one dress. Even if this had been out when I started, I would've frankensteined some other patterns onto it to make it nicer.
So, I got that and some buttons and cord, because I've stupidly decided that the bodice will button up the back. Glutton for punishment, I am. At this point, I've cut out the bodice lining and most of the fabric. I'm trying to be conservative with my fabric, even though I still have a ton of it. The sleeves are ginormous, and I fear I will run out of fabric before I get those cut out!
As if that weren't enough craftiness, on Sunday, Annie and I went to check out the new yarn shop in downtown Cary. Love love love it! It is full of very different yarns. She mostly carries a selection that can't be found locally, which is nice. She had some Lotus Yarn Miya that is 70% mink, 20% merino and 10% silk. It had to come home with me. I love it, and will name it George. Seriously, it's the softest yarn ever. And Warm 'N' Fuzzy is a lovely yarn shop that I look forward to patronizing. (The only bad part? It's within walking distance of my house. And between me and the library. Excellent planning there, yarn shop!)
Meanwhile, the kittens have been working on their own type of craft - jumping skills. Moxie can now get to the top of the shelves by herself, although she doesn't seem to realize it, yet. She can make each jump, but it's like she can't put the order of the jumps together in her brain. Tinka is kind of the same way. I've seen her jump up onto the counter, but most of the time she just stands at it and reaches up and cries.
Last night, Moxie found out that they didn't finish the entire top of the cupboards! The end of the cupboards just doesn't have a top! And there's a hole in the wall up there, too! Not something you consider until your kitten is up there getting into trouble!
So, here's a picture of Moxie in her new favorite place, on top of the cupboards, and a picture of poor Tinka, sulking because she doesn't think she can get up there. The end.