interfacing

I didn't know interfacing came in black. I feel so ignorant!

Anyway, I used it (and this fabulous fabric) to make a patch to fix up my sister's coat.


In other news, I'm (still) feeling a little sore (physically and emotionally) from playing wii sports. I can't believe it thinks I'm 50. Fifty!

chocolate day, drawing fashions and frocks (or, what's in my parents' basement )

Happy post chocolate day everyone:


Guess what I did on chocolate day? That's right, I watched the X-Files. Since tomorrow is another "holiday", I will also commemorate it by watching the X-Files.

I was rummaging through my mom's fabric/sewing stuff in the basement today and I found this gem:



I don't know where she gets these things, but 83% of the time they're unintentionally hilarious. My favourite is the Summer and Afternoon Frocks:

february 8th and 9th

This blogging business is not going so well because I'm lazy. The weekend is fast approaching (in approximately 1 hour and 22 minutes) and I haven't even blogged about the last weekend yet. Anyway, enough of this nonsense.


On Sunday, I managed to go to the workroom for the Love & Rummage Trunk Show, bought a few neat things, sat around on the workroom couch for a while and took some photos.

And then OT and I walked down Queen street randomly taking (more) photos and window shopping (mostly because the stores were closed). We ended up at a Vietnamese/Chinese Restaurant for dinner.



On Monday, I was back at the workroom for the Snap Coin Purse workshop. Shown below is the fruit of my labor (trust me, there was a lot of laboring - mostly of the eye straining variety.)


And now we're all up to speed because there isn't much to say since I didn't burn any toast this week.

killer icicles and deflated logs

So... this is what I did all weekend. I watched the crazy enormous icicles at my parents' house melt (my mom was glad they were melting because she was afraid that if we went outside they would fall down on us...! I told her they would be a good booby trap for trespassers... She did not appreciate my defense of the killer icicles. I liked them!)


And then I worked on this fabric log. It's sort of a bag to hide stuff in. I think I'll make an actual cushion like this as well. I learned that I'm not very good at sewing circles when there are five layers of fabric. It's really hard. (And I may or may not have broken a needle while sewing near the zipper because I was impatient.) Anyway, it looks deflated in the photo because there's nothing in it yet. Maybe I'll get a better photo when it's actually in use. I don't know what's up with this computer screen, but my log looks like it's the same colour all over! (I'm not using my own computer at the moment, so everything looks off. Or, maybe I should just take photos in better light.) It's supposed to be darker on the "outside" (the bark part) and lighter on the "inside" (the end parts.) Well, just imagine that it looks like a real log. Except made out of fabric.

I also drilled holes in a bunch of boards for more book making good-times. I couldn't take a photo because I was using a drill. Safety first and such.

All in all, a productive weekend was had by everyone.