Cooler than You: Stupid Things I Say and Do

As promised, a Thursday posting of a tester pattern . . . well, Friday but I aimed for Thursday and HOT DAMN I made it!  As I mentioned in another post, I sent April a borderline insane email pleaing to test.  She said yes, I jumped with joy, and . . . pattern testing sure is fun.  And April, thanks.  The pleasure was all mine.  { update: birthday pics and April's pattern is READY for sale!} Without further ado: April Rhode 's Date Night Dress. The pattern has a simple slip, which as you can see I made from slip fabric AND one in silk.  The slip one got hijacked as I used hem lace for the bias tape on it.  The silk . . . I went all Susy Bad Sewer and made silk bias tape.  Pointers: I made mine during a wave of insomnia.  I think the gremlins of one am pushed it along.   Aw, seriously . . . just go slow.  Be prepared to question what you were thinking more than once as it slides. Then . . . then just iron a litt...

I just realized I haven't posted in three weeks . . . well, crap.  I'm sorry.  In all fairness, I got back from Kentucky and less than a week later I went to see my Momma.  A week in Virginia, with her and her Bernina and a serger.  Okay, I'm not really that sorry.  I sewed a Briar , two pair of Thurlows, repaired one pair, hemmed pants for my sister (on her Bernina), and . . . that doesn't even include a couple of things I made BEFORE I went.  Like two Briar's and a pair of Thurlows . Of course, there were final book edits, article edits, chaos with academia, and life itself.  Oh, and Lupus.  Yea, the rash has been out (and growing for awhile), and I spent a few days laid out with pain, exhaustion, and did I say exhaustion? Anywho, after twenty plus years  I have come to a few resolutions with that bitch known as Lupus.  A) she can still piss the fuck off and B) the rash is what it is.  I might subdue it, but I'm done spending f...

So I'm a few days late with Me Made May . . . May has FIVE weeks . . . ugh.   To make it up, here's a pic of the cupcake pin cushion I drafted a few years back (it fits inside a bobbin carousal, by the way) and the mini tomato I did up today . . . scraps of course.  Today's has steel wool to keep the pins happy.  Cuteness makes everyone smile.   Without further ado: Saturday: Well . . . you saw part of it here , but there was more. There's an odd looking photo of me--not at the market, but odd in everything else--wearing a Colette Ginger, version three on the bias in Amy Butler Lark.  A thrifted Seattle Blues jacket, a Stella and Dot scarf, and a crappy shirt that I sent to the Goodwill bin.  Birks too boot.  Oh, my grey and purple Cosmo is a staple of Farmer's Market shopping as it holds an unbelievable amount of goods, books, and everything else. That jacket . . . when I was small and still in Seattle all the kids had that b...