And suddenly it's late again!
And my son is NOT coming home tonight - he's sleeping over at a friend's house after going to the zoo with them! He's been out all day... Funny how we miss them when they aren't about! I feel like I've left me right leg somewhere...
My stash diving was successful, and then my friend came in and we spent a while finishing off her beanbag chair... This is one we started about
6 months ago and somehow never got back to! You have no idea just how many little poly beads you need for a beanbag chair made from a generous 1970's pattern! She only has a little car, and the poor thing was STUFFED with bags of the little buggers! We'd put two big 2.5 cubic ft bags in the damned beanbag yesterday, but another two went in today, and she brought 4 more for the next one... A tiny car looks a tad daft with 15 cubic feet of poly beads stuffed in it! OK, so they are light, but controlling bags of these things is a bit like nailing fog to the wall! But, as I said, if she'd bumped into anything, she wouldn't have needed her airbags with all the poly beads to pad her landing!So yesterday we made her 4 cushion covers, and today we finished one beanbag and cut the lining and outer for the next... Then this evening I spent three hours helping a new MotB customer make her mind up about fabrics and patterns for her wedding outfit: a glorious skirt, a nice little top, and a long jacket to go over it, all in silk crepe de chine and dupion! woo hoo! More pretty silks to play with! :)
But it may mean there are times in the next few months when I vanish for a few days so I can concentrate on all the sewing. Next week will be busy with toiles and pattern alterations , and after that I start on some of the silk... Crunch! crunch! I just luuuurve snipping through really nice silk!
There will be pix - I'm promised pix of the clothes on some of the people as well as being allowed to use those I take while making them. I'll try to do a crepe de chine diary/tutorial, but time is going to be a bit tight: these weddings are all July/August! Then one in October and the Lord of the Rings one in November... possibly! That one hasn't got back to me yet...
I have poly beads in my tea and in my hair.