Scout Tee Summer

I did some garden work yesterday morning because we had thunderstorms in the forecast after lunch. I cut the grass, then used the string trimmer to clean up around the edges. I enjoy the exercise. The snakes were out for a while so I talked to them, too. The plants are taking off now that they’ve had some heat and sunshine, although it is supposed to be cool and rainy this weekend. We’ll take as much rain as we can get for as long as we can get it.

After lunch—while it rained—I finished the latest Scout Tee. I think this will be the last one for a while. I have plenty of warm-weather woven tops in my closet now. This is not a color I wear often but I do like it.

I still had some time after finishing this top before I had to start dinner, so I traced off the narrow-leg version of the Free Range Slacks. Those are on the list for later this summer, probably in some Kona Crush.

The lining fabric for the Lou Raincoat arrived yesterday. It is the dark purple. The raspberry is the dry oilskin. I would have liked a punchy, bright print for the lining but I was having trouble sourcing a good lining even in a solid color. I saw this and went with it.

The raincoat will be the first project in the queue in July. I also have a couple of projects in the works behind the scenes. Hopefully, I will have some news about those by the beginning of August.

I wish I could get the AI-generated sewing slop to stop showing up in my Facebook feed. All it does is irritate me, and there is so much of it out there. Now it’s even coming in the form of videos. A post over the weekend showed a video with a young woman wearing a strapless dress/bustier-type costume. It was both anatomically (her body) and structurally (the bustier) inaccurate. I try to scroll past these posts or mark them as “not interested” but I still want to see the good sewing content.

How stupid humans can be sometimes.