I have one pair of shorts to exercise in, and I could no longer exercise in them due to a hole in the inner thigh. I went with machine repair because I had a lot of other sewing to do.
Here you can see the front side.
And here is the inside.
And the shorts were back in action!
I had a fun time drafting the flared skirt, but it got confusing enough that I got out the colored pencils to differentiate which flair went with which panel.
This was pretty enough that I traced the pattern pieces on other freezer paper and hung this up in my bedroom.
I’m too young to remember the Bicentennial. I was not yet two. (And still an only child!) So I’ve always felt a little sad to have missed it. People painted fences red, white and blue! There were cool flag pants! My brother’s unofficial birth certificate from the hospital labeled him a bicentennial baby! And manufacturers made stuff.
Like this bicentennial canning jar that I inherited from my grandmother. I keep the backup salt in it, because it’s one of my favorites.
The US Semiquincentennial has been a bust. Not much fun to be had, mostly due to the president wanting to make it all about him. But when I came across Ball’s Americana Jars, I immediately purchased them. They have stars on the jar!
And stars on the lids!
It’s not as good as a red, white, and blue painted fence, but it’s something, at least.
I was quite excited to find this duvet cover at the Union Gospel Mission.
Because…
We have the same one at home.
It would have been fun to reunite the two, but we have enough coverlets in the house.
Although now that I think of it, I could have made it into a fun square dancing skirt.
Now that I have my pattern piece cut, so begins the laying out of the material.
You can’t see the lines I drew when tracing the pattern piece, but you can see my tape marks on the panels. I was worried I wouldn’t have enough room for six, but I did!
Sara added some sparkly stickers to this very pretty postcard. I seem to have forgotten most of my Idaho state symbols. I’m good with Syringa, mountain bluebird and the western white pine, but the others were not on my radar any longer.
Sara reports that it’s a sunny day in Arcata after some rainy days. And that she wrote this during a meeting.
I’ve been obsessing over my plans for a split-side skirt (as see on the Stitchery), which I plan to wear for the mystery masquerade party we’ve been invited to in mid-July. But it being halfway through June, I really needed to get started. So here I am drafting the skirt panels. (Finally!)
I drafted a half circle skirt pattern, and then divided the half circle into three. From there, I created a point at the bottom. That’s what makes this a handkerchief skirt, rather than a circle skirt.
The plan is six panels, three front, three back. And then six shorter panels on top of the first. I’m glad to finally get this step done. Sometimes starting a new thing is the hardest part.
It was a lively production of Once Upon a Mattress, with Karin Terry an apt Princess Winnifred. Unlike Carol Burnett, she was quite tiny, but had a huge voice and good comic timing. Andy Baldwin was also good as Prince Dauntless, he of the terrible posture.
Those clever library workers have done it again with this book display.
What could they be getting at?
These are some gorgeous edges!
Dire messages in whimsical fonts seems to be a feature of this decade.
