Wednesday, November 2, 2011

holy moly guacamole its November!

Woah, how did we get to November so fast!
This means it is only 8 1/2 weeks until Christmas!
woohoo I love christmas! I especially love the sparkly lights and twinkly decorations, actually if it was up to me, I would have my Christmas tree up year round!
Anyway, so what is the right time to put up your tree?
When we were growing up it was tradition to put the tree up on my birthday, 12th December, but now I just can't wait that long and we usually go for the first weekend in December, but I'm thinking this year I may go crazy sometime in November. It doesnt help that my daughter is also mad about christmas trees and anything that sparkles. ooh and I am thinking of treating myself to a white christmas tree too!

So of course I am super excited to be in the Sew Crazy Christmas Decoration swap, yay this is going to be super fun!

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

overlocker mode



Well, I have just spent this morning tidying the workroom (it seems to throw it's own party over the weekend) and I have just finished doing some bulk loading of bobbins.
I have had a good weekend though, I got an awesome package from one of my swap-bot partners and it had a heap of patterns in it, I have already made skylar a peasant style gathered dress from it (which came out awesome) and I finally decided to not be so scared of the overlocker and had my first go at it! I just wish i had tried it sooner!
I then made a very simple skirt for skylar from just a rectangle of fabric, I cut my fabric 40 inches (skylars waist measurement x2) by 14 inches (the length I wanted for her skirt), overlocked the top and bottom and the sides together, then folded down the overlocked waistband about 1/2 an inch and sewed around the top leaving a gap for the elastic, then threading through the elastic with a safety pin and sewing up the gap. all done! I will probably make a few more of these and add some cute pockets and trims. I meant to get sewing straight away this morning but I couldnt think because of the clutter! Now we are all tidy and I am ready to get going. yay sewing time.