Three

Occasionally I get a strong urge to sew some clothes. I don’t always run out and get fabric but right now I do feel the need for another dress and a tunic. I went to Quilting Loft on a little Ballard shopping spree this week and found two great fabrics. I’ll start with a Freespirit Westminster fabric pattern called “treetop fancy“. It’s adorable and I think I can probably get away with it, like a decent tent, for three seasons.  I bought enough to make one of two shirts, I decided to go with the Amy Butler Anna Tunic. On the cover this doesn’t look like such a great pattern, or at least my personal taste, but I saw this Purl Soho blog post and it won me over. I have made the mini dress and I like it well enough to do it again, this time in a shorter length. The top is lined using really professional techniques which make it challenging, but worth the effort in the end. I don’t have any muslin in my fabric bin so I’m cutting up a ripped Calvin Klein bed sheet-super soft-I’m glad to have a good use for part of it.

My clothes iron is probably hot by now, hopefully I’ll have time to lay out the pattern pieces before a meeting tonight. I’ll put pasta water on the stove as I pass through the kitchen.

Snowden is really into glue right now. If there is not glue involved, it’s not a valid art project. It all started at Grandma’s house when she got to glue styrofoam shapes onto a purple construction paper elephant cut out. She glued with such passion and concentration that night I wondered if we would ever get her home. At Target this week we bought Snowden her own bottle of Elmer’s and she has been busy glueing something to paper every day. I realized it is time we can get a bit more involved with crafts around here. At the library I picked up this great book, Usborne Complete Book of Art Ideas. There is a lot of ideas way too advanced for the patience of a two year old but a lot of inspiration regardless. It reminds me of two things: the papercraft book my Grandma gave (or loaned?) me when I was younger–I want to find i–and this Usborne book from 1987. I loved this book, I seem to recall that I had several dresses strikingly similar to the Skater Tank Dress back then too.