Something to Wear to Sew Expo

I try to relax on Sunday afternoons. Sunday isn’t truly a day of rest for me because I am a church pianist, but I’ll often spend the afternoon reading or playing word games on my iPad, which is as close to “relaxing” as I get. Still, I usually have to tell the little voice inside my head to lay off and that I don’t need to be productive every moment of every day.

However—because I haven’t had time to sew anything for myself lately, and because I like to have new me-mades to wear at Sew Expo—I cut out a Toaster Sweater yesterday afternoon.

This is a green-and-black scrollwork print sweater knit I found on the Walmart remnant rack. It’s only a two-yard piece (60" wide), and even though I scoured every Walmart between here and Seattle, I never found more.

[Walmart seems to have stopped selling the three- and four-yard cuts in favor of two-yard chunks, which is a shame. Sometimes two yards just isn’t enough.]

Usually, I cut on my cutting table, but I wanted to make absolutely sure that I could get all the pieces cut from this yardage, so I spread it out on the floor of our room and cut there. I lengthened the body by 3", which increased the yardage requirements.

The pieces are sitting next to the serger. It will only take me an hour or two to put the sweater together. I’ll wear this one day with a pair of black pants and I’ll wear my Tremont Jacket another day, also with black pants.

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While I was cutting fabric, the husband was working on the bathroom in his shop. This project has only taken six years to float to the top of his to-do list.

I snapped this pic as he was cutting a hole in the wall for the vent.

The bathroom will have a shower, toilet, and utility sink. I joked that if he could find room for a mini fridge and a hot plate, he could live out in the shop. (He could sleep in his old recliner, which is up in the loft). However, he prefers my cooking and he likes to sleep in a bed, so I suspect he will continue to come back to the house occasionally. 😉

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Our girls have been traveling. DD#1 went to Mexico for five days. She is in a wedding this summer and the bride and bridesmaids took their bachelorette trip to Puerto Vallarta. DD#2 was in New York City last week for Fashion Week as part of her job. The husband was very interested in the runway videos and photos she sent us. He knows nothing about fashion—I have to explain a lot of things to him—but he likes to know what his kids are doing.

The tax stuff is all prepped and ready to go to the accountant this week. I need to pack up a few more things to take to DD#1 that didn’t make it on the first go-round. And I’ll be checking my class kits one more time.