Some more bloggy stuff: a new look for October.

Monkeys, monkeys, monkeys . Last night we were watching Curious George. And this morning my sister called me and I spent WAY TOO much time looking at sea monkey kits on Amazon. Little monkeys in Mars landscapes, moon landscapes, and in sunken glow in the dark treasure ships.

And sewing with monkey fabric.

This was supposed to be a nice quick project. But it took a little bit longer than expected. I should have measured twice before cutting. Oh and cutting straight. That’s a good one too. Oh and pinning. Must not forget that. Pinning the 3 pieces of fabric together would have been a good idea. I noticed how much everything shifted after sewing one side. But did I stop, fix it, and pin? Nope. Kept going. It took sewing up the whole second side before I stopped. Rip, rip, rip.

Yeah this was supposed to be a quick project.

Oh and a bit of a blogging break. Tomorrow is my birthday and Alan’s taken a week off. So see you all when I get back.

Isabelle running around the kitchen as we’re looking for birthday candles. Because I said, it’s not birthday cake without birthday candles.

As we’re searching in vain hearing, “Gimme!”

“Cake!!”

“Pease.”

And when that didn’t give her the result she wanted, Isabelle pushed a chair up to the cake to help herself. Thinking of that has been making me smile for days. What am I talking about, I’m still smiling.

Thank you everyone for the happy birthday wishes!

I have had the book, Sock and Glove, sitting around for a while. I briefly flipped through it then set it aside. Well last night I finally made something from it, a sock dog!!

His face isn’t quite right. It doesn’t look like the one in the book. My sock dog’s face is more squarish and his ears stick up like he’s constantly surprised. (I pushed his ears down for the pictures)

But Isabelle doesn’t mind. She sees him and says, woof woof!

This is dress 6 from ISBN 4418061371. Even at the smallest size, 100cm, it’s too big for Isabelle. I made it knowing that, so I don’t know why I was so bummed when it didn’t fit. I wish I had used a different fabric. A striped fabric would have shown off the design way better. But I didn’t have any striped fabric and I was in the mood to sew. And when the sewing mood strikes in the middle of the night, you use what you have. In this case I had plenty of this cute clothes on the line fabric.

Maybe I will try to figure out how to make a smaller version, in some stripey fabric, and actually correct the mistakes I made. Like the neckline. I did the facing all wrong and then didn’t fix it. I don’t know what I was thinking. And the front bottom piece was supposed to be one uncut piece. But I couldn’t quite tell that from the directions and once you’ve cut the fabric you can’t very well uncut it. Oh well. This post will be my reminder when I try this dress again.

Ok. Now onto the pictures of Isabelle NOT wanting to wear it. A LOT OF PICTURES!

No I don’t want to wear it!

NOOOO!! Take it off!

Whoo throwing tantrums is hard work.

Maybe they’ll take if off if I look cute.

Take if off NOW!!

Yay! Finally! Off with the horrid thing.

Why doesn’t she ever like wearing the clothes I make her?

Oh and on a completely different subject. I’m trying something out. All the pictures from this post are on flickr. Did anyone notice if it took longer to load?