Ok here is a catch up post on some of the sewing that was done. I made top c from the same book as the potato dress. It’s the top from the cover of the book. When I first looked at the directions I immediately knew it would not fit me. A small skinny Asian woman I am not. So I knew I had to modify it, more inches around. Since I wasn’t sure how it would come out, I used muslin. Good thing I did! It was just wrong. It was too funny. I should have taken pictures but didn’t think of it. Here, how about a quick drawing.

The upper part of the top was tiny. It wasn’t long enough and it cut my chest area right in the middle of my breasts. And the lower part of the top had so much fabric it was wide like a tent and at the same time too short and didn’t come down far enough past my hips. So I had to fiddle with it. So I must have ended up remaking it four or FIVE times in muslin! I finally ended up with this:

And yep that’s still muslin. It’s two different colors because I used up all my muslin or so I thought. I found some lighter muslin and continued. And after all that I still don’t like it. It’s gaping on the top. So as this point I was thinking this book has been one disappointment after another. Olinda said no matter what I do to the top it wouldn’t look good for my body shape. So I finally finally moved onto something else, top a.

This pattern needed fiddling with as well. Remember: me big Asian woman. And at this point I couldn’t find much muslin left so only the upper back is muslin. The rest is some garbage fabric. It’s a little too wide at the top and needs a little more work but now I don’t know if I want to cut into it and chance ruining it because I really like how it looks in the garbage fabric. FINALLY something I like from the book.

I wanted to post a video of Isabelle. It is of some of the silliness that has been going on here but I cannot find my video wire. So I could not download the little video I’ve been so desperately wanting to. So instead here are some cute pictures of some other silliness that’s been going on.

She recently figured out that she could climb into the dryer when I’m pulling clothes out.

Oh my goodness the fit she threw when I tried to take her out of her little cave. And now whenever I try to get clothes out I have to block the little munchkin or she will try to scramble in!

We’ve had a nice relaxing 4th of July. We originally were thinking about bringing Isabelle to watch a parade but it was just too hot out. Instead we stayed in nice and cool and had burgers and corn on the cob.

Right now we can still hear fireworks going off. Boom! Boom! And talking about boom boom, we were watching this video from the show, Flight of the Conchords.

I haven’t actually watched a full episode. I keep getting distracted. But I have enjoyed the parts I’ve watched. So I was showing Alan the videos they have on the web page.Well Isabelle started watching too. Then she started dancing and saying boom boom and clapping her hands. It was so cute and funny! Wish we could have taped it but it was so unexpected.

Go read cute baby #12, loud baby.