[with love Heidi]

Gorgeous dress! I love the snaps too! Where do you get lovley metal snaps for your snap press? My husband keeps mentioning, “that dress/jacket/shirt needs metal snaps not plastic ones.”

[thejennigirl]

On the machine is an Ellie Mae Design (K147) big pocket bubble dress, waiting is a Fairy Tale dress in a marvelous blue/green woven fabric that I started before the wild Christmas sewing rush started up. Then it’s probably a dress for me, followed by Explorer Vests for my boys, and who knows from there. Of course, the order of projects is always subject to change 😉

I do have some hired work I’ll probably whip out today and deliver tomorrow before I go do a creative designed window at a dress shoppe.

[Ock Du Spock]

thanks WLH! I remember I bought the snaps 2 years ago from an American online store…I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was this one? http://thesnapstore.com/catalog/

[with love Heidi]

Thanks for the info about the snaps. I may have to think about ordering them from America one day.

I finished up my tea part dress, my new machine makes amazing buttonholes and sews on the buttons with its own special program 🙂 I trimmed the tutu, so that’s done too. After cutting the tutu and having been making faux chinelle my RSI is not happy, not really bad but it won’t take much to overdo it, so the hand sewing will have to be put off.

I had a 3am ah ha moment of how to make the red riding hood into a project I have been wanting to do ever since I saw the pattern, and now I’ve worked it out! 🙂 I just need to find my notebook with the calculations! 🙁

[Tamara]

I just want to sew today but am feeling tired thanks to a very restless dog I had to get up to several times last night. He is honestly worse than a new baby!

I just need to get this table runner finished!

[with love Heidi]

Found my notebook!

[thejennigirl]

Sub-zero temps = productivity on my part

Finished the Ellie Mae dress except for the snaps or buttons. Don’t have the buttons I’m envisioning, maybe ring snaps? We’ll see. I’m going to an antique shoppe that has a button booth on Wednesday, so maybe I’ll find what I want then?

Fairy Tale dress is done, a little big, but it’s a dress for the spring so a little big is good 😉

Now to hem some curtains for hire, and maybe do the uniforms for hire, too.

Then I’ll sew for me 😀

[Mama_Knowles]

You sound very busy jennigirl! Our power has been in and out so no sewing on my part. Instead I have been crocheting a hat for myself, no power needed. ; )

[Tamara]

We are having a heat wave! Hubby has gone spotting (shooting) with friends and I think I will save the quilting for tomorrow and watch an episode of Miranda instead tonight. If my eyes werent feeling tired I would sit and trace dinosaurs in preparation for this library bag and reading folder for my littlest nephew. That is the next project but I have to get the table runner done first.

Having power cutting in and out is annoying. It makes me glad we can support some power with a generator when it happens. Hope the hat crocheting is going well amd you can get back to sewing with power operated supplies soon Sharon.

Jennigirl you are a gun! (We use that term in the shearing shed to indicate who the fastest and often best shearer is). So in this case I use the term to indicate how speedy you are with churning out the sewing projects. Great effort indeed!

[thejennigirl]

I’m not that speedy, lol! It took me more than 2 years to piece my youngest son’s quilt and then put it together. And then I decided quilting if for the crazies, tied it, and tossed it on his bed. He’s happy, and I;m just glad to have one less UFO in my life!

[meleliza]

Today is the coldest day on record where we live! It is seriously seriously cold out there and would that I could stay in and sew, but there is ballet class, school pick up and a library trip I just have to do. I am sewing sash for one of my dresses in organs silk charmeuse! It’s lovely beautiful stuff, but in addition to being slippery slidy stuff, it also shreds as it goes through the machine. I have orange fluff ev-er-y-where. Then there’s a pink sash and tomorrow I’ve got zippers to install.

[Nicole]

I am sewing Hugo some school trousers. I have topstitched and re-enforced every spot that I have had to mend on his current ones.These trousers should be named titanium!

They are quite a dressy Vogue pattern. I have used a pinwale cord and doubled the front legs.

To make the sewing a little more enjoyable I used a very nice Japanese lawn for the pocket bag and fly facing.

[Tamara]

Meleliza, want to swap? I can’t get the aircon to get any colder and while it is coolish outside there is no breeze and (I’ll start singing) we’re in for a heatwave! Supposed to have the shearing team here next week when it will be like 55 degrees in the shed! All I can say to that is we are definitely crazy but organised – there is one huge aircon type thing in the shed with them because it just isn’t humane to put them in there with nothing! I know subzero is really really beyond freezing but hubby read something about the polar shift or something that happens every twenty or so years – that apparently is what is causing it – and probably why we feel like we live in the Sahara!

It sounds like you have lots to do to take the mind off how cold it is but I don’t blame you for wanting to stay put inside and not venture out.

Right! Today is the day where I finish this table runner once and for all because I have school things to crack on with. Library bags that need to be made and I have to see about a shorts pattern – the school stubbies are just not doing it for me.

Jennigirl, quilting is fun but you need patience because it tests it! I have two half made quilt tops, one basted and ready to quilt quilt and one top in pieces! It is something I pick up and put down but they will all eventually be made (by the end of the year) and used. I just don’t understand why some ladies prefer to hand quilt when there is such beautiful machine work and its faster. That I think is where the craziness comes into it. Yet here I am saying this when only a couple of years ago (ok a decade ago) I was saying I wouldn’t make a quilt – ever!

Japanese lawn has me thinking of the selection in Spotlight right now – so dreamy!

[with love Heidi]

Just made 3 cute Smurf bibs from LTTS! 🙂

[Masha Richart]

Working on a princess dress for one of my girls’ good friends. Then I have to think of something for her brother – he carries a wooden sword with him everywhere and I’d love to make a scabbard for it but I haven’t seen any patterns or tutorials and I’m having trouble coming up with a design myself.

But what I really want to do is sew another Traveler tunic for myself. I have been wearing the first one every time it is clean and it is such a nice piece – comfortable and not clingy without being too baggy.