Tonight My Husband

is hosting his monthly poker group. I got the privilege of making a green felt fitted sheet to cover the dining room table. So some sewing was accomplished. This is a group of friends that I don't particularly care for. But I tolerate them. Poker hasn't happened at our house since last September because we have been living in a construction zone - while remodeling our kitchen. So tonight, I got to hear from each person who arrived, how they would have done it differently. I'm so glad they like my improvements! You can't imagine how much it means to me to know that these friends approve of my paint color choices! Okay - enough snideness. We had a fabulous presentation on seam techniques at the ASG meeting today. ER did a great presentation which included step-by-step samples, actual garments she had made using various techniques presented as well as a 24 page handout. Fabulous! I have been studying the handout. There are great things in there. I can't wait to try a few. The group consensus on the altered OOP McCalls pattern is that I should have used the fusible bias on the neckline, even though it was faced. The opinion on the Chardonnay Skirt was varied. Half the group thought I should add some heavy topstitching on the drape and gently guide where the drape was draping. Go ahead and hem it, but much shorter, approximately mid-calf. Currently it is tea length. (Man, I have to learn to take photos of myself!). The other half said to recycle fabric into something else. Which may ultimately be what I end up doing. When I finished it Wednesday night except for the hem, I showed JB and he asked why I was wearing a potato sack. I attributed that to the color and weave of the fabric. Oh well - I'm going to hang it up in the sewing room for awhile and just live with it hanging around. My gut reaction is that I really like the pattern, but it was a bad fabric match and to recycle the fabric into a lined straight skirt. So, that's what most likely will happen. Okay -heading back to the other side of the room and the tan tencel strudel skirt. Need to rethread the serger before progressing any further on that project.

Just another Quck Post

Well here we go again - lots to do and not enough time. The Musical One helped with the blog layout yesterday. Changes have finally shown up - unfortunately, she lost the Creative Fashion Sewing Ring Code - so I'll need to find that again. For some reason my email account is being not nice - so hopefully I still have the code at work. Plan to actually get some sewing done today. JB has his friends over for poker tonight so I can hide in the sewing room. Of course there are a few rude souls among his friends who will wander in to see what I'm doing and try to visit. Oh well, I usually pretend that I can't hear over the sewing machine! Okay - time to feed the hounds before they start baying - the rest of the house is sleeping and they wouldn't appreciate that!

This is what my weekend looked like

A little town near where we live has a birthday party and parade every year. The town is Woodinville, Washington and the parade features Basset Hounds - and lots of them. Unfortunately, we didn't get a photo of the front of the parade, but photos of several beautifully dressed dogs. This guy was being forced to do a trick to get a tiny little treat being held in a hand just out of view of the camera.

This guy was having a rooting tooting good time:

This poor guy was just trying to stay dry. Beacause in Washington what's a parade without a little rain?

Finally, for those who were wondering - here's what my crew looks like. From the left, Abigail Jane, basset - 6YO; Beauregard James, bloodhound - 2YO; Dudley, basset - 7YO; Lucy Lou, bloodhound - 2YO, our friend Madeline, basset - 2YO:

And here's the Beau Man playing moose!

Next year we'll try to get photos from the front of the parade :)