[with love Heidi]

Yes, I’ve made the cargo pants as shorts, they proved very popular 🙂 I used a heavy pale denim and used the top front panel and I think part of the knee panel, to the length of the top back piece. I don’t seem to have taken any photos of the shorts 🙁

But these ones from Peta were my inspiration, http://www.flickr.com/photos/53315669@N07/8028736190/

[Tamara]

Today I am spending the whole day in my room! I didn’t get to go in there at all yesterday except to drop things off that belong in that part of the house. So today is the day where I get to have a day off from unpacking the other parts and just sew and play with fabric. First is to mend a school dress hem (yep you pay $54 just to have to re sew a hem). Next I can sew on the binding of the table quilt and then I can go one with something else.

First though I do have to put all the things away. There is quite a cluttered piece of chaos going on that is bound to hamper the creativity.

[meleliza]

Jenni, that’s exactly how it is! We have a really large rambling old house and still there isn’t space for a sewing room! It wasn’t something I thought about when we bought the house 8 years ago. I’ve been sewing in my bedroom, which is spacious, but sewing makes it feel cramped. I suppose I could take over the family room, but we all enjoy the space so much it would be hard to give it up. The dining room doesn’t have good light, as it’s in the center of the house, and the front parlor is too public. The guest room is rented out and we pretty much need that money, so that’s no good either. Crazy, isn’t it? I have all this space and it’s still not quite enough. I plan to separate the basement out so that the electric trains aren’t in my way.

Tamara, that would be fun! Maybe when they invent faster ways to circumnavigate the globe. 🙂

I got literally nothing done today. I’m a little frozen about what kind of Easter coat I want to make her and it’s been a day when the kids all might be sick. My daughter woke up last night vomiting – thankfully just once. Unfortunately, it was a tomato sauce dinner and chocolate ice cream for desert on her light pink wool rug. Hubby refused to listen when I said, blot and he scrubbed it half to death. It was still a mess today and I’ve been trying to save it. Once of the few nice expensive things we have, so fingers crossed. It’s drying now so I’ll know tomorrow.

[thejennigirl]

I’m giggling, because I have sewn in the sitting room (located between the his and hers Victorian bedrooms), the grand entry, the family room, the study, the dining room, the nook off of the kitchen, the nursery, the kitchen, even the back porch. Where ever I could set up and get something done. I promised my husband that this would be my final move with the machines, and I would stay put. Here’s hoping 😉

[with love Heidi]

I’m making a black and red child’s size 12 to 14 onsie! Hopefully I’ll get it done for the birthday tomorrow. Yes, we are in birthday season here 🙂

[Tamara]

Meleliza, a lightening fast TGV that looks alot like the Mallard should do thr trick don’t you think? And a huge long tunnel under the ocean. Much better than a one way trip to Mars!

I haven’t gotten very far today. I had a total inundation of visitors both expected and otherwise. I realised I took a car load of fabric into town whilst dropping Noah to school – because I have been in need of cloning myself for weeks now.

I have one child home. We had an unfortunate incident where classmates decided to be cruel and swear at my daughter on Friday so now it is a matter of needing a break and easing her back into the chaos called education. We are no stranger to bullies but that one we didn’t see coming at all.

So I have been playing hair, playing counsillor, playing mum and playing fellow researcher in order to get her to work on this assignment due in next week (and she hasn’t started it yet).

I also managed one shelf of fabric to be put away neatly in its spot – yaaay!

I am hoping to find that sofa bed in the sewing room so that homework could be carried out up there while I am sewing. Its covered with fabric!

[with love Heidi]

Oh no, Tamara, your kids seem to have had a bad run 🙁

I’m very impressed with the Kwiksew pattern I’m using. Reasonable instructions and pattern pieces that line up beautifully 🙂

[Tamara]

Oh its unfortunately what we have become accustomed to. Today I heard about the “great fight” and how my son was “punched in the chest” by another classmate in an area where there apparently was no duty teacher. It is one thing that the school could step up greatly in and it has been a huge thorn in my side since my daughter was in year one (when it actually started). Its a day to day thing where we talk constantly about the values that we must display, just so that we know we are doing the right thing by our children and helping them to behave well eventhough there seem to be so very many obstacles. I can’t say it is the easiest part of parenthood but it is an essential part.

I went to do another shelf of fabric this afternoon and found that my zone had been occupied by fil trying with all his might to fit the window screens to the window from the inside! I told him about four or five times they needed to be fitted from the outside but it wasn’t until Murray decided to try from the outside to fit them, did they both realised that yes I actually know something!

I plan to spend at least an hour in my room tonight after the kids have gone to bed. I have banned myself from unpacking anything else or cleaning other peoples’ (unnecessary) messes for the rest of the week (other people meaning those who can do it themselves). I need to sew or I will very shortly be admitting myself into the mental hospital!

[thejennigirl]

I started cutting out and prepping my sewing for KCWC challenge, and I have informed my husband that I will be unavailable for remodeling projects (unless he decides to hang my studio’s shelves) because I will be sewing all week that week.

I had ordered a bunch of new fabric last week, which came today, and I went and bought a bunch of fabric today, so that I will be completely prepared to have the most productive week ever in April. With the 2 boys’ April birthdays, and a daughter who has grown a few inches, I have a lot that I want to get done. I decided to theme my sewing days (one day in nautical wear, another is pajamas, a third day will be bright pinks and purples, so that the thread is only changed out every morning in my 2 primary machines). My oldest offered to help me wind bobbins, so I won’t have to even stop and fill those while sewing.

I feel like I have been on a diet and someone just mentioned that there’s a dessert buffet on my cheat day 😉

[Nicole]

Good luck Jenni.

I finally finished Elsa’s list. She is so happy with it all, I am so happy it is done!

Now I am sewing a teeny tiny Tea Party romper in chambray for my teeny tiny baby cousin (second cousin)?

[Tamara]

Well it depends on where you are for that cousin thing Nicole – hubby reckons its first cousin once removed but I think he’s your second cousin. This removal thing is still alien after fifteen years.

I have discovered I have oodles of scraps. I have to think what to do with them. Some I will cut into five and ten inch squares and others I might just keep aside for things like applique (not that I do alot of it). I might even approach school to see if any of the departments might appreciate a bag of scraps – the art teacher is into other mediums though so the home economics might be a better place to go. That and kindy of course.

Today I hope to spend a good many hours in my room just putting things away and getting it sorted. I don’t have too much left of that sort so I might even get some sewing done before I have to go to woodwork. I really must do a label for that prize winning quilt and cut and sew that binding on the other one.

[cybele727]

Can anyone tell me what I was thinking when I said to myself, hey, the family reunion dress would look pretty in a pink eyelet lined with white, and oh, yeah, let’s color block the bottom? Hello adding seam allowances to curved pieces… what was I thinking? I must be insane. I hope I finish it in time for Easter. If not, then the birthday party dress will do.

This, I hope, does not turn out as an unmitigated disaster. I am spending too much time on pattern drafting as it is. Why oh why??

Although the one think I realized as I was drafting… seamstresses were engineers before there was such a thing! Women rock!

[Tamara]

Absolutely, we women do rock!

I have to pop over to flickr and have a good look at that hide and seek dress that is just uploaded. No contrast and it looks stunning! I have lots of ideas for this dress and am sorely tempted to buy the pdf version because the paper ones are in the mail. But I will hold off for a few days as I have other things that need to be done first.

Cybele727 you can pattern draft all you want! It is a skill that is just another asset in our journey as seamstresses. I wish there was such a school still running that my foremothers went to in order to learn all that sort of thing. You’s think that with two lady tailoresses in the family I’d know something but nup! Gotta find out for myself. It is a great skill to have. I think it allows us to hold a higher appreciation for the mechanics of what goes into a pattern. And I can’t be hard once you practise it many times. It would just be one of these skills that takes time to master but not be especially difficult to learn.

Shelves are slowly filling up. I am finding so many quilting ufo’s I need a section just for them. It is time to bust out the PHD’s and clear some space me thinks.

[with love Heidi]

Cybele, I’ve been doing fitting for myself as well as making changes to patterns for myself and the latest kid I sewed for. The engineers spacial awareness is vital to work out how to change things so they all fit together. After making changes and fitting the sewing is the easy and relaxing bit in my opinion 🙂

I just want to add some bias binding to cover the neck seam and the big kid onsie will be all done 🙂

[Tamara]

Still sorting. And the fabric in the back of the car came to town with me again today! Really must clear it out before the morning.