Made It Today

I stayed up late with the sewing machine, until about 3 this morning. Like I said, Cathy's prezzies are done. I moved on from there to finish the cushion covers. Since the recipients don't read my blog I can post a photo:


I love this fabric. I started these a couple weeks ago beginning by making a little sketch on graph paper, a 20x20 grid divided into sections... Scratching the lines out and redrawing them a few times, until I was satisfied. Then I figured out how big each piece should be, with each square on the graph paper representing an inch. I added 1/2 an inch to the sides of all pieces to allow for seam allowances. Then I cut them all out, making up the fabric arrangement as I went. Next of course is the sewing em all together part. I then sewed it to a backing fabric, almost like quilting but without the batting in between. Lastly, I made them into cushion covers, with two back pieces overlapping to create a big opening to shove a pillow through.

Tah Dah!

As if I needed more things to do, at about 2am I started making 'clucky' the hen and chick pattern I got from Melly and Me. It's an adorable pattern, and I look forward to finishing it, but it's the worst thing to try to do in the middle of the night. The first step is ridiculously fidgety, with a tiny wattle, and curvy tail and comb peices. Sewing allong the curved line takes forever, and then there's the turning it right-side out part, that was almost impossible. In the end I did the tail piece twice, because the first attempt was so misshapen. The second time I did it I trimmed closer to the seams in order to turn it out along the curved parts more easily, but that just meant I ended up ripping the seam out a tiny bit. Welllll... After pressing the tail flat, I zigzagged around the edges to cover up my mistakes, and am pretty satisfied with the results. By the time I'd finished those three peices it was 3am and time for bed.


This morning we went for a walk through some trails we hadn't explored yet. It's a lovely day out there, sunny but not too cold.


Posie met a new friend, Katie the weimaraner, and Laena showed me around the neighbourhood a bit, (thank you!)

So far Sully's skipped his morning nap today, so I'm hoping for an extended afternoon nap to start soon which means I'll get a bit more of this sewing done.

And then it will be on to the beer calendar. Speaking of, I should get Steve to bike up to the liquor store, if I'm going to be up all night drawing beer 'lables', I'm going to need some beer of my own!