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It's finally summer! It's been warm and humid for three days now. happy happy joy joy.
I finished Amy's dress and delivered it yesterday. I hope it fits fine and looks fine. I hope she likes it. i think it looks nice. At the end i was getting to the part where I get all fussy and freaky-out about little things and I have to stop fiddling with it and touching it because that's when disaster can creep in. I admit the hem was freaking me out. I had it on the form and it looked straight, then on a hanger it looked crooked, then I measured it with the tape measure and it was fine, then I hung it up on a different hanger and it looked okay...then i put it in a bag because I was totally freaking myself out. There comes a point when i no longer can "see" a dress. It's hard to describe, I see seams and hems and facings and necklines and gathers and details, but I lose the picture of the entire dress. Then I get hooked on one detail, or I see two little stitches as being wrong...then I start to freak myself out. So when that started I put the dress in a bag and stopped looking at it. My SIL wanted Amy to try it on, but I said we had to get going because I knew I was in the middle of that freak-out stage.
So if there are any major problems, I can go there this evening and fix them up. I tossed some leftover fabric and a few bits of the leftover trim into the bag. The purple jaquard was easier to sew than I expected and the crinkled black was far more challenging than I expected. But that's the way it works. The only real potential disaster was the purple loose weave couldn't hold a curve, even with stay stitching. It tended to stretch anywhre there was a curved cut. The neckline came this close to being a disaster, but i had some elastic edged trim the pulled the neck back inot shape. Unfortunately it raised the neckline a bit, but she is only 14 so she doesn't need too low a U-neck. That's the part that concerns me the most. And the fact I initially cut it two sizes too big and spent tons of time making it smaller. Her midriff is barely 25 inches, so the midriff band needed to be less than 25 inches, not more.
I cleaned up the sewing room and now i can finish the long t-shaped tunic top. And i have a pir of denim cargo shorts cut out. It's lighter 10 ounce denim, one step up from chambray. I need denim shorts and the ones at stores right now show off too much of my late-forties thighs.
But for today i'm leaving the sewing room for a while. i need to do some outdoor work and Ben is going to mow the lawn. That's Ben's new job; mowing the lawn. Dave is allergic to grass, so we decided this was a good thing for Ben to learn. While he mows I will hoe the garden. I said HOE the garden, now ho' around in the garden. There's a difference.
The Roma tomatoes are doing quite well. Everything is a little behind, it's bee far too cool and damp for a lot of the veggies that require sun, but the lttuce is doing well. i have to pick some later today. I will give everything a nice cool mist and by five or so it will be ready for picking. i don't like picking in the morning because that when some insects are busy, I hate finding earwigs in my salad. The Roma tomatoes are quite bushy, and many of my marigolds are blooming.
And that's all for now. I need to get other things done! Later!
