Lightning McStitch

Sewing for a funeral. Just a top of some sort for me to go with the knit skirt I have already and I am hoping I get time to do something for the kids.

I hate funeral preparation the week is always so busy and I have had it with busy weeks full of interruptions.

I am very much looking forward to getting this sewing project over with so that we…[Read more]

Sewing for a funeral. Just a top of some sort for me to go with the knit skirt I have already and I am hoping I get time to do something for the kids.

I hate funeral preparation the week is always so busy and I have had it with busy weeks full of interruptions.

I am very much looking forward to getting this sewing project over with so that we…[Read more]

Oh yes he did thanks Nicole. Who said it took a week? More like a day.

I spent the week running around after kids – 4and a half hours at the doctor’s waiting for my 10.30 am appointment just to get medication for a recurring cough. Then a trip to the hospital with the other one to get meds for an infection because we had no doctor available.

I…[Read more]

Oh yes he did thanks Nicole. Who said it took a week? More like a day.

I spent the week running around after kids – 4and a half hours at the doctor’s waiting for my 10.30 am appointment just to get medication for a recurring cough. Then a trip to the hospital with the other one to get meds for an infection because we had no doctor available.

I…[Read more]

I didn’t know about this thread!

Thank you Sarvi for complimenting my school uniform!

I just adore this dress by Kelly:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kddonovan/15690112151/in/faves-64920483@N03/

Very exciting trip to the city today to poke ’round a few salvage yards for materials to start my sewing room storage system.
My husband Jed and son Hugo are building it and both love timber and using recycled items.
I am pretty excited although it won’t be a quick project. Jed takes forever to build stuff but does an awesome job when he gets…[Read more]

Very exciting trip to the city today to poke ’round a few salvage yards for materials to start my sewing room storage system.
My husband Jed and son Hugo are building it and both love timber and using recycled items.
I am pretty excited although it won’t be a quick project. Jed takes forever to build stuff but does an awesome job when he gets…[Read more]

Making costumes for free is such fun

I did 😉

I wish I could sew but can not
My children want supper, what rot!
I just want to stitch
(and perhaps to be rich)
But such skills are for free, I forgot.

(Last line in sarcasm font)

Making costumes for free is such fun

I wish I could sew but can not
My children want supper, what rot!
I just want to stitch
(and perhaps to be rich)
But such skills are for free, I forgot.

(Last line in sarcasm font)

@sahmcolorado – yes, western Massachusetts is totally different from Bostonian English! We eat a sub for lunch, get our liquor at the packy, and my parents (really old-school Bostonian) drink tonic – they call any carbonated beverage (Coke, ginger ale, etc) tonic.

I moved to SoCal and had a job where I was on the radio and broadcast across the…[Read more]

@admin, you can tell I have been hanging out with a Canadian. 🙂