My daughter and her family are going to Myrtle Beach for a few days of vacation later this week. Danny is growing by leaps and bounds and needs some new shorts. So while she and the grandkids were visiting today, she waited for the babies to go down for a nap and then hightailed it to the sewing cave.
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This is a very bad picture of her and Lena sewing (after the nap) and a link to a better one on Instagram...cause you know I grabbed my phone, took a quick picture and posted it...never thought that since the phone is dying, I would be unable to get the darn pic off the phone!
But back to those shorts...
My daughter grabbed my Kwik Sew's Sewing for Children booklet and looked for the pattern pieces for quick shorts.
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Before I knew it she had the tracing paper out and was copying the shorts.
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Then after a quick trip through the fabric collection, she had a denim, asked for some of my blue & white seersucker, a khaki linen and a gray linen for a total of five pairs of shorts...just enough for each day of their vacation.
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She did ask for some help adding a little width and length for the shorts...but she was moving fast trying to get at least one pair made before the little ones awoke from their nap. She did actually get a trial pair made up and tried on Danny before his sister woke up. But there were a few adjustments that needed to be made...which we made together...and then the baby woke up.
So I finished them up for her and told her that I would make the other four pairs for her on Tuesday. Want to see the shorts?
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Finally, there was a little accident in the sewing cave this afternoon...a little hand picked up the rotary cutter from the wrong end and there was a boo boo. Thank goodness it was a little boo boo and he didn't manage to slice his finger off...please know he was banned from the sewing cave for the rest of the day...*sigh*
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That's how I spent my Sunday afternoon. How did you spend yours?
...as always more later!
This is a very bad picture of her and Lena sewing (after the nap) and a link to a better one on Instagram...cause you know I grabbed my phone, took a quick picture and posted it...never thought that since the phone is dying, I would be unable to get the darn pic off the phone!
But back to those shorts...
My daughter grabbed my Kwik Sew's Sewing for Children booklet and looked for the pattern pieces for quick shorts.
Before I knew it she had the tracing paper out and was copying the shorts.
Then after a quick trip through the fabric collection, she had a denim, asked for some of my blue & white seersucker, a khaki linen and a gray linen for a total of five pairs of shorts...just enough for each day of their vacation.
She did ask for some help adding a little width and length for the shorts...but she was moving fast trying to get at least one pair made before the little ones awoke from their nap. She did actually get a trial pair made up and tried on Danny before his sister woke up. But there were a few adjustments that needed to be made...which we made together...and then the baby woke up.
So I finished them up for her and told her that I would make the other four pairs for her on Tuesday. Want to see the shorts?
...and on Danny...
Finally, there was a little accident in the sewing cave this afternoon...a little hand picked up the rotary cutter from the wrong end and there was a boo boo. Thank goodness it was a little boo boo and he didn't manage to slice his finger off...please know he was banned from the sewing cave for the rest of the day...*sigh*
That's how I spent my Sunday afternoon. How did you spend yours?
...as always more later!