[with love Heidi]

Prayers for you’re surgery to go well next week!

Bren, the curves on the skirt are relatively easy and therapeutic, At least for me 🙂 , to sew. You line up the fabric at the top and then manipulate it all the way down. Since there is no specific place it needs to end it was very forgiving, and no ironing the seam after either 🙂 I sewed all the flounces on the overlocker and did an overlocked rolled hem, the hem was harder than sewing the opposing curves until I got the hang of it. I’m looking forward to making more.

[Nicole]

Darling Sharon, I hope you feel so much better after surgery. I know mine was a little different but I woke up feeling better.

Take all the post op pain killers so you get a good rest. And do rest, the more you do the quicker you will recover. They told me I would lose so much weight as I would not be able to eat for weeks. I had a chicken sandwich five hours later!

I truly hope you feel better soon, I feel 10 years younger.

All my love xxx

[Tamara]

Oh crumbs Sharon! That is the kind of adventure no one really signs up for is it. Surgery can do wonders for those who need it and it sounds like this will be the way to help you feel so much better. I oray that everything goes very smoothly and that your recouperation beings you a full recovery. Post op pain killers are wonderful even if they wean you off them. But I do agree with Nicole whole heartedly. Rest is best! I will be looking forward to hearing how well you feel afterwards. It certainly isn’t fun being so unwell. I hope when you are resting you have a notebook handy to make your plans for what you are going to sew once the recovery is made. I can’t wait to see all the creations.

I have been told it is the day to shift sheep this morning so my huge storage wardrobe won’t be shifted until later this afternoon. In the meantime, I will accommodate the fabric and stash it somewhere clean and out of the way. The sewing studio is filling up well. I had a mishap with the skinny bookshelf yesterday – two shelves filling up with magazines of the quilting type decided to collapse on me. Totally in a panic as hubby was waiting for me to go get the cutting table. I had to quick put them all on the floor to sort out the wonkiness of the bookshelf after. I will just have to rearrange how I use it now. The tables are in and the books are sitting pretty in their respective shelves but I already have clutter – thats where the wardrobe comes in. I need to rearrange things to fit it all in much better once it is reassembled.

Hopefully I can sew something tomorrow.

Meleliza, taking the time to do things properly in that basement of yours would be a good thing. That way you will know you won’t go down there one day to find an absolute disaster and all your sewing things ruined.

[cybele727]

Wow, surgery is never fun. I hope it all goes well and there are no complications. I couldn’t believe how much better I felt after my hysterectomy. I didn’t know how bad things were, until they were gone! Hopefully, it will be the same for you. So much better after.

Today I made a pair of afterschool pants. I love this pattern. I didn’t exploit all the design details because the fabric was busy enough that adding ruffles and contrast might have been TOOOOOOO much.

I did the fabulous alteration to increase the rise in the rear end, and when she tried them on, I made her bend and squat. No plumber’s butt. But I do need to tighten waist elastic. Her hips are a touch narrower than her waist, she’s a wee upside down trapezoid. So things go sliding!

Meleliza do it right in the basement. I was exiled there without any wall boards, and every time someone walks overhead, 100 years of dirt and dust come shaking out of the floor, which is my ceiling. Boo.

[Tamara]

Ok this sheep shifting is apparently going to take “most of the day” (3 mobs thanks very much) so after I have cleared my things out of the old nook I am going to knock off from shifting myself and cut and sew that binding on the table quilt and if by that time Murray STILL isn’t home then I will start hand stitching the blessed binding down, while watching one of those inspiring free dvds included with the quilters companion magazines. I doubt I will get much else done apart from that as the husband seems to have a sixth sense of when I am sitting down to sew just lately. He’ll be home quick smart at that rate.

At least I can keep to the plan of actually sewing today.

[thejennigirl]

Wishing you well with your surgery! I know that it can be a scary thing, but, I can you from experience, fixing the issue is better than toughing it out.

Moved all my sewing machines into the studio today. We pick up the mattress set tomorrow if all goes as planned, and, while the shelves aren’t installed yet, I’m probably going to sew a few things anyway. There’s a trip to the home improvements store planned for this weekend, and I can’t believe that the room is almost done! Picking up the last of the trim for the master bedroom, too, so it will be done as well. I feel like we can finally put the fire from 3.5 years ago behind us, once the bedroom is completed.

[meleliza]

The other thing about the basement is that we have very little head room, so we won’t be building walls or ceilings. But we are cleaning, priming it with serious stuff and then painted. I also need storage down there and room for the kids. I’ve promised Charlie an art corner and Philip now has an electric train set that needs a very large home. We will share space cleverly! The real dream would be adding a 4th story dormer room, but I don’t thing that will ever actually happen. Imagine the light, though. Oh well, character we have in abundance, that is true, and we all love it. Still, 8 years and we still lack things like door knobs.

Sharon, I hope the surgery goes well and you feel better. Please be sure to rest and take good care of yourself.

[thejennigirl]

Meleliza- ours is over 100 years, but has 10 foot ceilings and has had a stone floor since it was built. An electric train room occupies one room, the laundry room is in another room, there are 2 storage rooms, a pantry, and my husband hung a hand bar so my daughter could practice tap & ballet in the furnace room. There’s no room for a sewing studio down there, lol. Instead, my husband built a wall on the 3rd floor, and shrunk down HIS electric train layout so I could have a studio. It seems you could have all the room in the world, and it’s never enough

[Masha Richart]

Sharon, I hope the surgery goes well and you get the relief you need.

I finished the girls’ sleeveless 2+2s yesterday. One is made of some of my last remaining quilting cotton (from before I discovered apparel fabric, oh how my life has changed) and it actually stands up by itself! The other is made of some of that Lisette sateen from a few years back, the one with the red flowers and the blue background. The difference in drape and flow is night-and-day. But these are the fabrics the girls picked.

An order of sewing patterns for me finally arrived this week – it took nearly two months, got held up by snowstorms in the U.S. So I need to pick a fabric and do some tracing, but one of those patterns (all blouses) will be next for me.

[Tamara]

Love it Meleliza! No door knobs! I am seriously considering putting something to stop a junior door slammer from potentially sending the ceiling down! We still have a door that my husband put his foot through in a rage back in his late teens (I think it was). My fill tried pleasing me by painting some of them white but in all honesty if I had my way, I would replace them.

As for light, I really have to charge the camera and show you the light that comes streaming in to the studio. It really is the best thing since sliced bread. There will be no more having to go outside to see if two plain fabrics are exactly the same white. And I am really looking forward to taking advantage of the warmth in winter. It will be a beautiful room to work in by the time it is finished.

Jennigirl, I had no idea you experienced a fire not so long ago. How awful and very frightening that must’ve been.

Meleliza, how I wish our train loving lads could get together and play trains. They would have the most marvellous time. I can’t help but cringe though at the thought of your lovely space being shared by a trainset. Those things take up so much room! We want to have a train room / laundry for Noah’s but it will have to wait until after harvest this year before it gets done. That is next on the list. By then he will probably have completely grown out of it but if not at least there will be space for it. But it sounds like that some boys never do grow out of trains so maybe it will be a good thing to keep it in the plans.

Jennigirl, how I wish I had my own barre to practise at as a kid – tap was more my thing though, I absolutely loved it!

I haven’t gotten to the table quilt yet. The sheep were on the move and even though there were water issues to fix, two out of three of the mobs were shifted with no trouble. The third is being left for now as they are currently sleeping so they are all spread out under the trees. That means ….. That we can do the wardrobe after all. The ants tried making a nest in amongst some of my fabric (enter unhappy face here) but it was just the starting of a nest. Looks like ant rid will become an essential from now on.

Having a coffee, emptying the last of the shelves and then the dismantling begins.

[Nicole]

I finished Elsa’s hooded jacket and now I have the leggings to sew and I am done with her sewing.

I printed and started to glue together the Garden Party dress PDF.

So excited, have you seen Peta’s stunning version in the pool?

[with love Heidi]

I bet your garden party is stunning, Nicole! For Liddy or Tildy? Peta’s is lovely.

I’m making another peppermint swirl skirt to go over some badminton shorts and make a very swirly skort 🙂

[Tamara]

I have sewing storage! And it wasn’t without trouble neither. But so glad it is in and I can put the fabric away.

Oh that garden party dress!! So many pretty versions popping up. Can’t wait to see yours Nicole.

[Mama_Knowles]

Thank you everyone. I hope to be back sewing again real soon, seeing all these new patterns popping up on Flicker is torture! ; ) Oh how I want to sew them up myself. I am think of making a Garden party tunic with left over fabric from my cloud 9 dress and Sarah has her own plans for Hide and seek dress! ( I love how she has her own ideas for dress) and the layette pattern has been running around my head since I seen it! So many ideas for Caspian. I think those pants will be perfect over a nappy too.

[cybele727]

I have a family reunion on deck. I hope it resembles what inspired it. I love the garden party, but am waiting until I have a fabric that says… me… me…..

Has anyone made field trip cargos in a short? I was thinking a chambray cargo shorts in a bright color for my son. This way he might wear what I make him, because shorts can be bright and colorful, but pants cannot.

He desperately wants me to sew for him, but he’s a boy, an American boy. They have a uniform of jeans and character t shirts/hoodies, etc., with the occasional cargo pant, but in brown or blue or tan or grey. Boo…. where is the fun in that I ask you?