[Tamara]

Oh Valentines activities! Imogen has plans to make cake pops to take to school (and the school year hasn’t quite started yet). I told her we have to try perfecting the actual making of them first but she has made her list for what she hopes will be added to mine for Spotlight today. We shall see!

I did the muslin for the Diplomat – I did two actually as I am still getting these flat pattern alteration techniques down pat. But two ain’t bad for the second pattern this weekend. I am very much looking forward to getting proper tracing stuff though, working with printer paper and altering the patterns is very bulky and hard work!

I’m really happy though to have well fitting muslins ready to go though.

Alas, I only got to muslin stage for both of the dresses thanks to some family distractions (but hey you get that). It will give me a chance to find some really nice fabric to make them both with and to make sure I have all the necessary things in order to complete them.

I will work on the proper dresses through the week in between the other activities.

[with love Heidi]

Tamara, I use butchers paper/end of roll newspaper which I get in rolls from my local newspaper for pattern alterations. Cheap, easy to mark and easy to sticky tape together. I need to make myself a skirt today and hopefully either start on a second or a new messenger bag for myself 🙂

[Mama_Knowles]

I need to be sewing some Tea party suits for Caspian but I sick, sick, sick. : ( I am going to see my family doctor this afternoon so hopefully I can get something to relive this! I think I get every bug that goes around now.

But for the sewing, Prince C has learned to take his clothes off, completely off. (Why oh why) The only outfit he can not take off is the his sketchbook onesie shirt and his tea party suit. I had wanted to him one more but it is looking like three to four more pairs now. Little bugger he is. And maybe two more onesie shirts too. That’s a heck of a way to get your mommy to sew for you!

[meleliza]

Clearly he’s not in the frigid part of the country then.;) I hope you feel better soon Sharon! It’s so hard to be sick mom.

[Mama_Knowles]

we are in the frigid part, so why on earth does he start this now!? I am freezing and then wee man runs by me laughing completely nude, I would think he would be cold too. Guess not. ; )

Thank you meleliza, the kids sure don’t understand and if only Sarah would lay down and take a nap for me.

[Tamara]

Ha! They will do it rain hail or shine (and in this case freezing temps!). I think onesies are the best thing for him to NOT get out of. If it can provide you with a little comfort especially when you aren’t feeling the best. Hoping you feel alot better soon.

Didn’t sew yesterday but did go shopping for fabric! Got some nice linen after hunting all through the aisle where it supposedly stated it was – it was right down the bottom where the denim is usually but the sign indicated further to the right. I also got some more Lisette fabric and of course stuff to do the patterns with.

[meleliza]

I’m not sewing just now either. I’m busy getting the last parts of my new website up and running. I did, however, just order lots of scrumptious fabric I really shouldn’t have. Plus, I bought some pink things from the Martha Pullen sale and I’m patiently (ha!) waiting to hear more about the new Oliver and S patterns before I start Easter stuff. 🙂 Not that our frigid temps inspire spring sewing.

[Tamara]

Keep those hands busy Melanie! Surely the frigid temps will subside soon. The website looks beautiful btw! As to purchasing fabric one shouldn’t have, I went and bought shoes for the kids and just about fell over when I realised how much I paid! I have told them they are not allowed to grow all year! But then I am very thankful for actually being able to buy them locally.

I am actually thinking of not putting a zipper in the back of the Diplomat dress when I make it. I could get into the muslin with the back sewn up rather easily.

I think after I make this dress though, I will alter the pattern for the attache dress and give that a go. But I do really have to make school shorts for the boy and the girl needs something nice to wear to my mum’s special birthday party in March. So it will have to wait until it is my turn again.

[with love Heidi]

Finally getting back to sew today! I’m cutting the skirt I mentioned a few days ago. Ankle length tired circle skirt!

I’ve finished the lines on the faux chinelle blanket I’ve been making. I’ve taken it slowly done a little every couple of days so as not to aggravate my RSI. It has been so lovley to just be able to pick it up and sew a few straight lines. Now I need to make and sew on the binding.

[Masha Richart]

Did another Plantain last night. I have a sickness. I did decide to double the fleece for my 4-year-old’s jacket, drafted pattern pieces based on Sunday Brunch, and cut them out. Baby boy has been throwing up all morning and I kept the girls home from school so he wouldn’t be subjected to spending all that time in the car for drop-off and pick-up (at least 45 minutes round-trip twice a day). So I probably won’t get any sewing done.

[Tamara]

Oh No Heidi! RSI! I wouldn’t know how that feels but I can understand it would be quite inconsiderate to have it be aggravated, yet at the same time it would be inconvenient (and aggravating) to not sew because of it.

RTWG! Good move! Sick babies and cars often don’t mix so it isn’t worth the drama if you don’t absolutely have to do it. Good thing you got another Plantain done though.

I had a rush trip to that coastal city I shop at from time to time in search of a misty fan for dh who has seriously painful cramping sessions thanks to shearing in heat! Not fun! While I was there I quickly went into Spotlight and purchased some black gabardine so I could make two pairs of school shorts and cheat my way through Noah’s primary school years (with trousers and shorts at least). It cost as much as two pairs of ready made shorts but these will fit ten times better! I want to measure and make a muslin for them this weekend so that I can sew them during the week for him to wear by the end of it. He has two pairs from last year but they are phasing this style out so I need to I need to at least do the current style and build from there.

I haven’t made my dresses yet but who cares, school shorts at this stage are more of a priority.

[with love Heidi]

If I manage it I don’t have too much problems with the RSI. I got it about 6 years ago from the workplace I was in. Sometimes it effects my sewing, at one point I used almost no pins and sewed everything on the overlocker because the reverse lever on my old machine aggravated it! It’s now only an issue with things like the multiple cut rows of the faux chinelle and manipulating it through the sewing machine. I’ve got all the rows of my skirt sewn up and the bottom layer hemmed, so hopefully tomorrow I’ll get them all put together 🙂

[meleliza]

Oh, that can be hard to deal with! In my early 20s, I left a promising career in classical music because of it. When doing what you love causes pain, it’s awfully trying.

Last night , I finished the smocking on a summer dress pattern I’m trying out for fun. And, yesterday I received my little dress form display! It’s so fun to see how things hang when I don’t have an in house model in the right size. So this morning, I plan to ditch the housework and put the finishing touches on a special Roller Skate dress I whipped up a few weekends ago and take some pictures for Flickr.

[Tamara]

Can’t ditch the housework here I’m afraid. It is totally upside down and definitely not school ready! I want to aim to do the shorts muslin in between jobs.

[with love Heidi]

How exciting! A dress form!