( I got a bit wordy... )

Not even 9pm, and I am starting to nod off. Last night I went to bed early, but didn't fall asleep until after Rob went to bed which was late. I slept in a bit this morning, too, after getting Cam ready for school. I think I best get back to more veges, and less carbs and sugars, and see if that doesn't help me with the sleepies ( Read more... )

Well, buyer beware on eBay. ( more on bad fabric... )

It is sad, when I came across some pretty fabric I bought to line something with... but I can't remember what exactly it was to line? I only remember it was a mundane garment of some sort, not garb. The fabric is a yard of cotton with an image of Mt. Fuji on it.

Maybe it was supposed to be for the lining of the jacket I had bought some fabric that ( Read more... )

A further thought on that last post... I think I can see a benefit to getting a serger, because if I had a serger, I would not have needed to pink/trim the wool as it would have been trimmed already, and so would the silk, which I cannot pink because it is too tought to pink, even as it frays badly ( Read more... )

My sewing room is as clean as it will remain, for awhile. I was just starting to vacuum the last patch of carpet, when the vacuum cleaner started smoking burning rubber. The brushes no longer turn, and I can't get the thing apart enough to figure out why. Thankfully, my loving husband is willing to get a Dyson vacuum cleaner if I want one. I will ( Read more... )

In personal life, I am going to take a short break from the sewing, to concentrate on getting my very messy sewing room cleaned up and sorta re-organized. It really sucks to be working on something, needing some tool that has become burried under papers or books or fabrics and wasting lots of time trying to hunt it up only to give up ( Read more... )

I've been busy with sewing, and working my Mom's place this morning, so I hadn't been online in nearly a week I think it was. Just caught up with my emails, and am about to head off for dinner ( Read more... )

My iron arrived tonight!!! woohoo ( Read more... )

Finally am decently happy with the pattern I've drafted for myself, based on the draped sloper I made on my tape body double. I had to shorten the back about an inch, and the front a half inch, but the attached skirts should cover any shortfall should the boned bodice (compared to the 2 unboned mockups) prove to be really too short. I am using The ( Read more... )