Things I Learned Today

1. Always check to make sure you are in fact sewing on the correct side.
2. Gauzy cotton (that's a technical term) does NOT like to have hundreds of stitches ripped out, it leaves holes.
3. When you only buy just enough fabric, if those things learned above happen, there can be issues.  
4. My daughter has great taste in fabric, expensive taste, but good taste.

So as you can see I learned another lesson today.  After learning that Brother sewing machines need tender loving care in order to do shirring properly after already inserting 3 rows, today I learned the above BUT I learned them after only one row.  I guess some improvement is good, right?

Anyway should have another cute sun dress done for A tonight.  Will have pics tomorrow of that dress as well as the first dress I sewed that I haven't shown here yet.

Not Quite Knitting

Okay so this is supposed to be a knitting blog, but I haven't been writing anything and today I have something else to share.  I sewed my daughter a dress!  From Scratch,  no pattern, yes it is just a big rectangle, but let's just skip over that.  Here it is:



I'll hopefully get a pic of A in it later but for now this will have to do.  It is just a shirred top, with ribbon shoulder straps and ribbon bottom trim.  I didn't like the ribbon on its own so I sewed baby ric-rac onto it.  Yes, I did that, which is why it isn't completely straight.  Here's a close up of the ribbon shoulders and the matching hair clip I made:



I am a bit worried that this may become addictive.  Knitting is fabulous and I love it muchly but there is something about having an entire dress done in 3 hours (it would have been less if I wasn't such an idiot) that does something for an ADD personality like me.

The New Knitter

I guess as this is my first post I should tell you how I got here!  I'm not a very crafty person.  I like the idea of being crafty and clever, but alas I'm not.  Last fall, September to be exact, I saw a sign at my local yarn store to learn knitting.  I thought, "what the hell" can't be that hard.  Guess what it isn't!  It's two stitches, knit and purl put together in different ways.  It's relaxing, it's portable and it's mine!  So that's me as a knitter; new and adventurous.

You want to know about me as a person?  Well, I'm a military spouse, I have two children K. who is 7, and one of the most caring people I've ever had the pleasure to meet, and A. who is 2, and all those horrible things you here about the second year are VERY true.  You will probably here a bunch about K & A along with my adventures in knitting.  

Until, tomorrow when I'll talk about some of my in progress knitting projects, have a great night!