We Made It Back in One Piecesee You Again Soon
If you lot happen to be a teacher, and/or the proud owner of schoolhouse-anile children, so you know come winter: Everyone loves a Snow Twenty-four hours.
Especially the teachers.
And if they tell you lot otherwise then they are Big Fat Hairy Liars who only speak such untruths to convince you lot that they simply admire having your child in their room twenty-four hours afterward day after OMG-is-it-Nonetheless-ONLY-Midweek twenty-four hours. Don't get me incorrect, Ima teacher and I dearest what I practise...only I also love a little surprise intermission one time or four times a winter season.
Now those of you lot that happen to live everywhere but Tennessee have gotten more than snow dumped on you lot than Antarctica. Here nosotros've had na-freakin-da. It's been goin' just north and south of the states like we're covered in some sort of invisible force field. And for that reason, things have gotten real desperate in elementary-school-land...
But more on that in a sec.*
For now, allow'southward go along this DIY train on track, shall we?
I found this totes astonishing kitten-n-hearts textile final spring at JoAnn's. I scooped up the merely 3 yards just knowing that it'd be the The Purrr-fect (lamentable, I had to) Valentine'south Mean solar day Apparel, 2d only to concluding year's Poodletastic Valentine's Day Number. I decided to get with this vintage McCall's 6221 because it's pretty simple and super cute. Says me. If you lot've been reading this nonsensical blog for a while and you lot have a good retentiveness, you might call back the barbequed version of this here dress (web log post complete with Barbequed Banana Bread. Check information technology.)
I did forget that this dress needed to exist lined and I thought a coupla seconds of just forgetting most that step. Simply, in an effort to be a Big Daughter Sewer, I sighed, stomped my pes and made the lining. Which took me all of 45 minutes with 1 bathroom pause and three separate EMERGENCY chocolate breaks.
At present, I don't know exactly what went wrong with my measuring and cutting just this dress is very well fitted in the waist. Like, no-more-emergency-chocolate-breaks well fitted. I don't recall the other dress I created from this pattern existence and so tight...so I'm guessing that the pattern shrunk. I've heard that can happen. When yous eat a lot of chocolate. Ahem.
At present since it has been a dank, admitting snowless, winter, I can't go effectually wearing no sleeveless clothes. I scooped upwardly this sparkly sweater at the thrift store recently with intent to felt it. But so the kittens spoke to me and said, "screw felting, stitch me on that tacky sweater!" (they are very mouthy cats, fyi) and I was like, "um, okay."
Dude, this applique bit took less than 45 minutes with a possible chocolate break or five thrown in the mix. I simply cutting out the rectangles and adhered 'em in place with some Sew Witchery.
Fix my sewing machine to zigzag and adjusted the width and length between stitches. At present I do take a computerized machine but I could practise this very same applique stitch on my ole manual Kenmore.
Penny for your thoughts, kitty?
"Ima gonna consume your face when you are sleeping."
Wow. Just. Wow.
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| Outfit details: sweater and belt: thrifted; tights: Target; shoes: Modcloth, old; crinoline: Amazon (it's 1 of those cheapo costume ones); heart hair clip: made by me |
*So simply how did I manage to get all this dress -due north- sweater making washed? Well, I tell ya, it was lookin like it wasn't gonna happen until yesterday when I had a serious talk with a 4th grader as he was getting on the bus:
4th Grader: Mrs. Stephens! For a snow solar day, I know what to do!
Me: Yeah, aye, I know. White crayon on the window sill, pj's within out, flush ice cubes down the toilet (shaking my head with a sigh)...I hate to tell ya, dude. None of that stuff works.
{For you lot not-teachers out in that location, this is the stuff of Playground Urban Legends.}
quaternary Grader: (stepping onto bus) No, no, that stuff doesn't work. Y'all gotta slumber with underwear on your head! I promise we'll get a snow day if you do!
Me: Really?! Like, REALLY? (bus begins to pull away) Only await, Expect! DOES THE UNDERWEAR HAVE TO Exist Make clean?
Um. And so. I never got my answer. Let'southward just say, hypothetically, I slept wearing both kinds, but to be safe.
And...I got my Snow Day/Sew Solar day. Which I say was worth information technology.
Source: https://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/2014/02/
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