NO WONDER I CAN’T GET ANYTHING DONE!
16 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Sewing, Sewing Failures Tags: blouses, Cats, clothing construction
Finally, I sat down at my desk ready to get back into sewing and my cat, Darby, who receives all the attention she needs – decided she needed more!
I have set aside my blazer from Burda ‘97 for now. I really don’t ‘need’ another blazer at the moment, but what I do need are some blouses/tops to wear. So I decided I would just ‘whip’ up this one:
Last night I realized that I put the sleeves in backwards – ugh! So I will spend the next evening ripping them out. Argh!
I did join the Thanksgiving Jammie Sew-A-Long sponsored by Gorgeous Fabrics. I have some flannel in my stash I am planning on using.
I purchased this fabric years ago at Material Possession Quilt Shop in Lake Forest CA. I was planning on making a rag jacket, but alas never got around to it so this fabric has been just stewing in my stash.
I will use this pattern for the pajama bottoms, which I have used before:
Hopefully, I can sew pajamas without too much trouble . . . We shall see!
Cat Attack!
21 Mar 2009 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Cats, Marfy pattern
I wasn’t going to post ANYTHING about my cats, but I kept getting asked about them so here they are:
This is Darby II. No matter what I lay out on my cutting table the cats like to roll all over it. There are many flat comfortable surfaces through out the house, but my cutting table is the cat magnet!
This is my other cat, Fitzwilliam. I was tracing off a Marfy pattern and he, of course, needed to help, too.
Fitzwilliam is the older of the two and is a certifiable lap cat. He loves to curl up and sit in your lap and take a snooze. Darby, on the other hand, doesn’t mind being petted, but would rather chase a mouse, look for spiders or leap from one piece of furniture to the other. They were indoor/outdoor cats until a pack of coyotes made their home in our backyard – so now they are indoor cats. It was a little adjustment for them to stay indoors (more for me then them) but we are all living harmously now – except when they walk across my computer keyboard. And finally, after all is said and done. The cats take a nap.
