Liberty Lawn Fabric Tests

I was asked by a couple friends to run some tests on Liberty of London Tana Lawn fabric to see how it reacts to washing and sewing. Watch this video to see how it went!

A fantastic weekend

I know this is coming to you Tuesday, but that's because we celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day yesterday meaning I got a three day weekend! And, even better, the MIL watched Maze ALL DAY Monday so I could get some sewing in!! So anyway, here's how it went.



First, I did a little shopping. :) I hit up SAS, the bolt end store out here and I pretty much picked it clean! Then, when I got home, I found lots of packages waiting for me! I made something fun from that Cloud 9 arrow fabric, but I'll show you that tomorrow so I have time to take a couple decent pictures.



Helped my bestie make the centerpieces for her wedding. There are still more to do, but we ran out of materials so we're going to finish another day. I also hung all the bunting decorations around the house for her Bridal Shower on Saturday. I'm so excited for it to just be here already!!



Then I got an itch for some new earrings, so I made some. The second pair are for Kina since she let me take a break from centerpieces to make them even though we were up to our necks in burlap!



I figured I ought to get SOME sewing in so I don't fall too far behind. (Let's see if Laura's paying attention, shall we?)



This baby is going to Miss Jamie at Busy Bee Quilts for the Beejeebers Bee. She asked for wonky trees, houses, or log cabin blocks and since EVERYONE else seemed to be making the trees and houses, I chose the log cabin route. I like to be different, in case you couldn't tell.



And I finished up these babies for Sew. Happy. Geek.'s Sew. Happy. Quilt. QAL. Catastrophe struck as I was working on the pinwheel. My machine broke!!! It started to make "KUNK! KUNK! KUNK!" noises and it scared me... a lot. I almost cried. Ok. Not because I was scared, but I did almost cry! The pinwheel is off a bit, but she (Vera. Vera the Viking) made it through until it was complete. I took her in today to be looked at by the nice Husquarvarna doctor, Clarrisa, and she's home now resting mostly. I may have made something else on her anyway... I have to give it a few more days and see if the machine keeps making those terrible, dying noises, and if it does, I will have to send it in to be serviced meaning no sewing machine for a minimum of 5 weeks!!!! I don't know what I am going to do without a machine for 5 weeks, so I'm just praying she was just on her period or something and things are going to be fine now! Temperamental, that one is.

So that was my weekend, aside from the thing I am going to share with you tomorrow, of course. Oh yeah. And I finished the second Psych book. On to book three!

How was your weekend?

Big time stash score!

As I know I've mentioned to some of you, there really aren't any fabric stores out here that sell modern designer fabric (or if there are, I don't know of them). The one store I've found that sells some of my favorite patterns is a bolt end/remnant shop and you literally have to rummage through PILES of fabric to find anything good. I, the lucky little lady that I am, scored HUGE today. Look at my pretties!





I know, right?! SO awesome! I can't wait to make some fancy little things with these babies!

I didn't get to work too much on my projects today thanks to my brother's history teacher... I don't want to say mean things about the woman, but I'm just guessing the students aren't learning much about history from her latest assignment. He had to make a doll of Cornwallis from the American Revolution. We whipped this guy up in about an hour and a half! Not bad! Not, great, but it should get him a good grade!



We even gave him a ponytail!





And in completely unrelated news, our neighbors decided to add music to their light display this year and I can't hear my TV over the noise! I can only hear a ting-y version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer so many times in one night! I'm going crazy!