This and That....added pics!

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just do not have anything going on. I am still waiting to hear our official DTC date. Should be tomorrow, we'll see. I hope to announce it and then get on with the give away already.

I spent most of the week sewing Hannah a costume for school. She has a medieval festival Friday. The dress didn't turn out as well as I planned but looks OK. It's made of cornflower blue silk with a gold and blue trim ribbon. I even put eyelets down the back so I could have a corset style lace in gold. I would liked to have added some embroidery and maybe beads but I had one week to complete this. Ah, don't you love teens and their sense of time. But all is well and I finished the dress and had time to make the Gyngerbrede for her other project. I will post pictures of her in the dress with her hair braided tomorrow.
Now I have time to work on a new outfit for summer for the sewing blog. I'm using some scrap fabrics so if it doesn't turn out it won't be a big deal. The top is gathered with tie straps and can be worn with a t shirt underneath in cooler weather. I am also making a matching short. I really hope it works, I love the pattern. There are so many options for personalizing it. I will just work on it until it comes out the way I want it to. The problem is finding time to sew with the weather now being nice. I think I found the solution, though I would recommend not doing it in your pajamas. LOL~ OK, you all probably want the story on that. Well, Hope and I were having a Jammie day today but it was so nice out I couldn't bear not going outside, but remember I had a lovely (insert sarcasm here) dress to finish for Hannah, so I found the outside outlet by the patio and hooked up my sewing stuff. We have a somewhat private backyard that backs to the subs commons, usually everyone is working and going out in Jammie's would not be a problem. Well, we were on the patio, I am sewing away, Hope is playing in her playhouse and all of a sudden about four landscapers come out of nowhere and descend on our quiet private yard. I'm thinking one of two things, I either grab Hope and leave my stuff and run for the house while she screams or I act like it's OK to find a lady in her Jammie's sewing on the patio while her daughter is playing in her playhouse also in her Jammie's. Well, you guessed it, we stayed outside. I figured this is my yard and I'm staying. ( I also had on a hat and sunglasses so if I saw them again, maybe they wouldn't recognize me??)