I have SO many more important things to spend my time on than sewing, and yet here I am–for the second night in a row–up at 2:00 trying to finish a skirt to wear the next day. Sure, go ahead and call me Holly Homeschool. Nothing to wear that I didn’t sew the night before. Embarrassing. I can’t help it though, I have a fever and the only cure is more… sewing?
Skirt #1 was fairly successful. For some reason the circumference math got really weird and left me with a skirt that wraps around me almost twice and led to a much shorter version that I had hoped.
Mmmm stripey. (Sorry for the decapitated PhotoBooth shot, but there is simply no way for me to get far enough away from my computer camera to have a head.)
Tonight I got a little more cocky and decided I could figure out the math better than the pattern. Guess how that went. I think it will turn out okay, just not quite as planned.
Hopefully this sew-fever will cure itself soon, because I really need to get back to doing my homework. Tomorrow promises an incredibly long day: class from 8-1 and 2-7, and then an AIGA event that I have to preside over as the.. president. You know how it is. Oh look, there’s my New York Times morning email. That means It’s REALLY time for bed.
Who made Ikea fabric so adorable, and why did it take me so long to find out?!
I went on a fabric-buying expedition today because I want to make some skirts for myself. I tried Joann’s (because it’s right next to my house) only to realize that tiny, old-lady quilt prints would not be such a good look. On a whim I drove to the Burbank Ikea (Ikea to the stars–ya know, for those stars that buy 69 cent glasses and 49 cent dish towels) to explore the funky-fresh big prints they have there. And of course, Ikea never disappoints. I went crazy:
I am now going through that devastatingly-slow prewash period before tackling my first clothing project in a few years: http://www.burdastyle.com/howtos/show/1848 and trying to decide which print to use first.
The heat is here after a pleasantly cool spring–now I just want to crawl in the refridgerator and sleep there until…December?
I want very badly to be able to embed this for your viewing pleasure, but youtube won’t let me. Please watch this anyway. It made my day, it will probably make yours too:
Let’s not mess around. I don’t like Jack in the Box. Ever since the Seattle E.Coli scare in the 90s, I can’t really understand why anyone would. BUT! This commercial makes me wet my pants every time. Cows the size of Schnauzers but they’re cattle!
