I DID It!!

Here we are, it's Saturday again ... well ... it's now clicked over to Sunday if you want to get technical ... but you know what I mean! :0) Horrible, freezing westerly winds whipping around the top of our 'hill' today, so it was a good day to hunker down in the ol' sewing room and I did something I haven't done in a long time ...

... I dragged my overlocker out of the cupboard and dusted her off ... literally!! How do things get dusty INSIDE the cupboard?!?!?! Add some pretty fabrics ...

 ... I know ... PURPLE!! ... not my usual colour pick, but I fell in love with these yummy batik fabrics and decided they were perfect to do something quite different and out of my comfort zone ... make myself a skirt!!! Now, all of my past Home Economics teachers and my mother will attest to the fact that dressmaking is NOT one of my great skills ... mainly cos I can't read a dressmaking pattern to save myself!! I think I gave those poor Home Ec teachers grey hairs! Tee! Hee! Hee! In fact, when it comes to dressmaking, I usually send fabric and pattern/photo home to my Mum to take care of! :0) However ... I saw a gorgeous skirt being worn by one of the ladies attending the "Girls' Stitch In" in March and with a few pointers from the super helpful Marion at Quilters Angel, I decided to give it a shot.

... I cut some 8" squares and got overlocking. Everything was going swimmingly until there was a 'PLINK' and one of the threads snapped! AAAAARRRRGGHHHH!!! (A join-knot in the thread got caught up and broke the thread ... I HATE when that happens!!) One of the reasons I rarely use the overlocker is very simple ... I'm HOPELESS at re-threading the rotten thing!!!!!! You'll laugh at me ... but I usually wait until my Mum is visiting and get HER to rethread it cos she uses hers more often and can re-thread in her sleep. :0) However, with no Mum-visit on the cards and an event approaching that I want to wear my pretty purple skirt to, I decided to be brave and try the re-threading thing. It took a while, involved quite a lot of muttering, a moderate amount of swearing and holding my tongue at just the right angle ... but finally ... SUCCESS!! I DID IT!!  I didn't have to wait for Mum after all! :0) And I was off again. At the end of the afternoon ...

... I had all my strips of squares joined ready for the gathering step ... that will be tomorrow's challenge. :0) In the meantime, I think it might be time to keep a date with my pillow. I hope you're all having a great start to your weekend and that you get to spend some time doing some fun stuff! :0) Til next time ...

BEAR HUGS!

CHEERS!
KRIS