No sewing

But you know I've been up to something right. I crocheted 1 1/2 pair of Red Heart's free Toe-Up Slippers pattern. I was in need of some slipper socks, these were quick and easy. I used two strands of yarn and for the cuff I used Paton's Twister along with the hot pink, I received the Paton's Twister in my first crochet swap. I'll finish the match to this one tonight.

I know, I know these don't match but I was trying to use up my scraps, I used two strands of yarn but as you can see I ran out of the beige on the second one. I used some fun fur on the cuffs. It took about 3 hours to finish these, crochet is much, much faster than knitting or it might just be I'm faster at crocheting than I am knitting.

I finally finished my first knitted hat, it's the ribbed watchman's cap from Knitting for Dummies, I'm still waiting for this book to show up in Half Price Books, I may have to break down and order it from Amazon.

I'm going to rework the sleeves on this top I think I'm going to cut off to where the elastic is and add cuffs.

This is why I blog

As I was doing my daily reads I ran across this top on Adrienne's blog and that was all the inspiration I needed. I found this remnant while pulling out all my pj fabric and thought it was a good candidate for a MOT. Now my only dilemma is wide belt or.....

Skinny belt. Obviously I'm not going to wear it with my knitted socks and red sweat pants lol. I've had this fabric FOREVER, at first I couldn't remember when/where or what I made out of it but then I remembered I made a top and leggings sometime in the 90's.

I remembered because I found this stretch lace that matched the fabric, I think I used the lace as trim on the leggings, I did say it was the early 90's didn't I. I only have this tiny piece left after using it on my needle case.

I love the 3/4 inch sleeves on Adrienne's top but I'm in Ohio and it's November so long sleeves were a must. And this is why I love to blog I think we all appreciate each other's interpretation of a pattern and the inspiration that you get from seeing the limitless possibilities.

SEWING ROCKS! SEW ON!

I'm trying to get started

Here are my fabric choice for the Christmas pj blitz. The boys loved the loony tunes but I'm running kinda low, I don't know if I have enough of any one to make a pair, we'll see.

I love this snowman flannel I picked up in Texas but my DD nixed it for the boys and I kinda agree.

Love this believe flannel but again not a choice for the boys, I think I just might make myself a pair out of this.

And this would be the reason I didn't get any further than planning. This is the same dance I attended last year and I wasn't going to until Jenice said everyone would bring a dish...food is my kryptonite. We had a ball, hopefully all the line dancing burned off all those late night calories. (Get it, Jackie)

And boy did they bring it, pasta salad, potato salad, tuna salad, Swedish meatballs, cheese ball, chicken wings, hot wings, chocolate eclairs (I've got to find out who was evil enough to bring these) deviled eggs, and all kinds of chips and dips.

Me and my girls, how old do we have to be before I stop calling them "my girls", Mo, Me and Christine. I wore my cute little caplet that I made last year but one line dance and it had to go.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Name Change

I'm changing the name of my blog. I have a terrible habit of putting pins in my mouth while sewing. Once my GS asked me why I was "eating those pins" so I guess he gets credit for being the inspiration. And after a year I wanted a change.

I really, really wanted to sew

You know what they say about the best laid plans. I had big plans to sew this weekend but alas life interrupted and all I managed to do was get this cut out, I knew it would be quick because I made the sleeveless version over the summer; I whipped it up this evening.

It's Simplicity 2852, view A but I modified the sleeves, instead of making a casting for the elastic I used invisible elastic about 1 1/2 inches above the wrist to give it a bit of a ruffle effect, I like it. At least this will qualify as a Month of Tops entry.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Halloween 09

I'm a little late but here's the Halloween shots, my little guy is the skelton, he goes trick or treating with his cousins every year, he had quite the candy haul, his pumpkin was full when he got back.



Here's my slightly slutty Wonder woman lol, actually she was very cute.

I'll leave you with a picture of my top, I finished it Friday evening, it's Butterick 5260 view A, easy peasy. A guy asked if I was dressed as a church window for Halloween, hater, I love it.

I did get started on my pants and made some progress, I still have to attach the waistband, closures and hem them, I'm using McCalls 5941, it's a Palmer/Pletsch with lots of fitting tips which I found helpful.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Practice Makes Perfect

My very first pair of socks, the toe on the second one is intentionally covered because it looks a hot mess lol. They are very warm and I think I'm hooked on knitted socks.



I've already started another pair, I'm using the same book, Getting Started Knitting socks by Ann Budd, these are the magic stripes socks, I love the colors in this yarn. The next pair I make I want to do some type of pattern.

Look what came in the mail, my give away prize from KMQ. The pin cushion is too cute, much better than the one I made lol. I really needed scissors, I'm sure I'm not the only one whose children use their sewing scissors to cut paper (ARGH!).

This is what's up next, I have a pair of pants and a suit cut out and waiting but I'm going to do this instead, hopefully I will get to the other's some time over the weekend.

You can see this fabric made using Vogue 1027, here

I think she did a great job on her dress, I didn't even realize I had purchased the same fabric until I was reading a different post on her blog. A lady had this in her cart when I was in Joann's last weekend and I just had to have it. I'm leaning toward Butterick 5260, I've made this before and really like it, I was going to do the turtleneck but I think that might be a bit much the

v-neck is probably a better choice for this bold fabric.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween, I wish I had a party to go to I love costume parties. Which reminds me of the best Halloween party ever, this was in LA (of course) it was time to judge the costumes so everyone who entered the contest was going around in a circle to a song I can't remember now but imagine me and my friends surprise when we spotted "The Unknown Rifle man" his costume consisted of a brown paper bag over his head, a rifle and another bag strategically place (yeah that's where) he was disqualified and we spent the rest of the night trying to figure out who it was, someone asked my friend to dance, I looked down and recognized his boots, he did have on the same boots with his costume, I whispered to my friend that that was "The Unknown Rifle Man" and she politely declined. If you're not old enough to remember The Unknown Comic on The Gong Show it won't make much sense but still it's my favorite Halloween story.