Sew-a-thon weekend

 

 

 

My Little Miss has been waking me up quite early the past few days.  Yesterday it was 4:30 and I never got back to sleep.  So this morning when she told me to “wake up” I told her “NO!” and said she had to go back to sleep.  After all, it was 5:30.  Bad Mommy – she had a nasty diaper and I didn’t figure that out until 6:30 – Whoops!  After some rocking, reading and singing she got to go back to sleep but I did not. 

Oh well, it’s amazing what you can get done when you are up very, very early.

This pile of fabric and I are best friends today.


I have a stack of projects in my mind that I’d like to get done this weekend.  I finally gave in and paid for a pattern – I can’t wait to use it.  Oliver + S, of course, because they are the cutest.  It also helped that the pattern can be used for 6-12 mo. all the way up to 3T, so it was well worth it.  BUT, it’s my first time using a real pattern and not just a printable one off the internet or one that some sewing genius describes in a blog tutorial. 

Since I paid for it, I figured I need to keep it in good shape, but that means a lot of tedious work.  You have to trace the pattern onto parchment paper, then pin it to the fabric, then cut it out and THEN you can start sewing.  So this is what I’ve been up to so far this morning:



And this is what I have so far.  Either staring at all this fabric and small pattern lines is making me dizzy, or I need more sleep than I’m getting.  Sophia is still sleeping – I’m super jealous, but maybe I can get a bunch of these things all cut and then all I’ll have to do is sew them.  That’s starting to seem like the easy part.



Oh, one more thing.  It’s quite possible that I have found the perfect costume combo for my two girls for Halloween.  Whaddya think?