Flaps Done; Big Snag
I got quite a bit of stuff done this weekend, including the start of the sad dismantling of the first completely sleeve. I finally decided that it was too fat for my arms and that I'd look really stupid with a form fitting body area and really bigass sleeves. In a shocking turn of events, I could not find my seam ripper. I do this a lot; I put things in really safe places so that the kids will never find them. I should probably start writing down where I hide them. I ended up having to rip out all the stitches with my scissors.
I finished the other wide flap and also the two side flaps. I measured it up with the body piece and did altering so that these flaps will match well with the amount of cloth going around my body. You can see my son's hand in the picture. He kept flinging the flaps all over the place cause he's a rascal like that so what I ended up doing was laying them out and then going, "OMG BUDDY, LOOK!" and I pointed at the dresser behind him. He fell for that like a ton of bricks! *snicker* What a sucker! (I kid! I kid!)
So of course having these finished I'm all excited and want to just attached it to the body piece right? I had to put the red patch onto the front before I could do that and so I whipped out what I had left of the red flannel only to find out that I don't have enough! This of course meant a trip back to WalMart to buy more. I take the kids with me and go to the Pearl City store where the red looks too bright, so I just buy more white to make the pants. We head off to the Mililani store to buy some and I guess the lighting was different there cause it looked fine in the store. But then I got home and discovered that the two reds don't look anywhere near each other:
I am VERY bummed over this. It's the only red flannel they had, I don't know why it doesn't match. Even the white doesn't really match. The one I bought is like this off white cream color. I'm going to try the Ala Moana WalMart in the hopes that they have the right red. If not, I don't know what to do because there is NO QUESTION that they are very different reds. The new one is very bright. *sob*
I finished the other wide flap and also the two side flaps. I measured it up with the body piece and did altering so that these flaps will match well with the amount of cloth going around my body. You can see my son's hand in the picture. He kept flinging the flaps all over the place cause he's a rascal like that so what I ended up doing was laying them out and then going, "OMG BUDDY, LOOK!" and I pointed at the dresser behind him. He fell for that like a ton of bricks! *snicker* What a sucker! (I kid! I kid!)
So of course having these finished I'm all excited and want to just attached it to the body piece right? I had to put the red patch onto the front before I could do that and so I whipped out what I had left of the red flannel only to find out that I don't have enough! This of course meant a trip back to WalMart to buy more. I take the kids with me and go to the Pearl City store where the red looks too bright, so I just buy more white to make the pants. We head off to the Mililani store to buy some and I guess the lighting was different there cause it looked fine in the store. But then I got home and discovered that the two reds don't look anywhere near each other:
I am VERY bummed over this. It's the only red flannel they had, I don't know why it doesn't match. Even the white doesn't really match. The one I bought is like this off white cream color. I'm going to try the Ala Moana WalMart in the hopes that they have the right red. If not, I don't know what to do because there is NO QUESTION that they are very different reds. The new one is very bright. *sob*