Blended Moths, Princess Seams and 4 Videos

Hey, hey, hey!

I've been away!

Has anyone missed me?  I doubt it, lol.  Honestly, how many new SFD blouses does a reader REALLY care to see?  I may stop photographing them.  No, I won't do that, but I may quit showing them to you unless I do something really different.

For the last several days, I've been in kind of a fog.  We are STILL waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the construction crew of Father-Son-Grandson to finish UNdoing and REdoing the siding job on our house.  I haven't shown you the completed back patio.

Do you know WHY I haven't shown you the completed patio?

Because it ISN'T COMPLETE!!!

Father-Son (no Grandson, and we are THRILLED about that) showed up today to finish the posts on the patio.  AGAIN, the caps didn't fit; and AGAIN, they had to go somewhere to remake them.

Just in case someone may care, I will show you pics of the completed and UNcompleted pink flower-black dot blouse.  (Sounds like Father-Son-Grandson crew!)  I explain what happened in the video.  Here it is as it was BEFORE I cut all the buttons off.  I changed the buttons from PINK to BLACK because of the Godet Sleeve I chose to put on this blouse.

I LOVE that fabric.  Since I screwed this blouse up with the "too big" buttons -- which I think are 7/8", not 3/4" -- I ordered more of this fabric.  I will make another blouse when it arrives.  Since I can wear this one after I fix it, I will find a different pattern for the next one.

Yesterday, I went out into my upstairs office area closet to find a coat hanger.  There was no hanger there, so I had to go into the upstairs guest room to look in that closet.  When I looked inside that closet, I saw the prettiest roses pop out of the folds between the garments in the closet.  I pulled the rose-attired garment out completely to see what it was, and low and behold, it was the cutest revamped sweatshirt that I did many years ago.  When I put the bias tape on the neckline, the neckline bulged out like a turtle shell.  I hated it, and I was frustrated, so the sweatshirt went into hiding.  I decided to take it OUT of hiding to see if I could fix it with all of my new wonder-skills.

Check it out.  Isn't it cute?  Remember those days when everyone was turning sweatshirts into jackets? Well, this was my failed attempt at it.  It took me 4 to 6 hours to fix it sufficiently.  I even added a bust dart that goes down into the sleeve.  The shoulder slope is WAY off, but it is a sweatshirt, after all.

About those gorgeous roses.  I made a quilt with those roses years ago.  I called it "Roses in My Window" or something like that.  I gave it to Jerry's Mom who, of course, doesn't have the slightest idea it even exists now.  I need to bring it back home.  I may -- just maybe -- have a picture of that quilt.  Hold on.....

This is a HORRID picture!  I just now took a picture of a tiny picture in an album I have because a lot of my photos have disappeared from my computer.  Jerry backed them up on a "Book", and I think new backups erased old backups.

The border of this quilt is all black with black thread.  The roses are bright red, like on my sweatshirt.  I WISH I had made the window panes WHITE instead of green, but I was trying to be all matchy.  I need to make another one of these because it is really pretty in real life.  Next time, the window will be WHITE -- like a real window.  Duh!  Who ever saw a GREEN window?  I made some of the roses come OUT OF THE WINDOW.  I guess this window is not only green, it doesn't have any glass in it either.

I thought, at first, that I was going to have to throw away the pink flower/black dot blouse because of my button screw-up, so I made ANOTHER blouse with the same pattern.  I used a large print for this one, and I'm afraid it looks like I was attacked by giant moths that had flown out of a blender!  I almost threw this one out, but then decided not to because I had really cute buttons for it.

The reason I bought this giant moth/butterfly fabric was for the colors.  I have a lot of tan/beige/brown slacks, and I don't have any prints that match them.  I am always looking for prints with browns in them, and this print had them all.

So here it is, ready or not:

Do you like the way I whited out my innumerable chins in the pic on the right???

These sleeves are the SAME.  Glenda's "Godet" inset.  I love it, and it made my blouse have something the others don't.  You can leave it open or close it.



And I told you I made a video today.  I am going to put the link here, but I warn you:   It is all the same info as above, and I doubt it is very ear-worthy.

And I just remembered, I made THREE videos the other day for Martha showing how to change your SFD pattern to make it have princess seams.  So these are for Martha:

I am all caught up.  I have to go exercise on the Eliptical before my veins stop pumping blood to my ankles. As of this Friday, my surgery recovery weeks are over, and I am heading NORTH to see my friends, my house and my dear Mother-in-Law.

Hugs, Joy