I can't really remember what I have accomplished today. I know that I've been sewing and reading and working on a Powerpoint presentation for my Primary lesson. That PowerPoint took about four hours, but it's all finished and I think it's pretty good. It's about the word of wisdom if you would like to use it as a family home evening lesson. It's on sugardoodle.net---I had to stop a minute and go e-mail it to the moderator of the website. She'll send me the url and I'll add it to the post. I think all the older kids would understand what's going on (Thomas down to Nathanael---and probably Grayson)----it's a little long if you go through the whole thing and use the questions, but the stories are directly from the children's Church History story book.
Hayley bought a blouse that has a shirred top. It was in need of repair. I have never done anything with shirring before so I really didn't know what to do. Some of the shirring had come undone. All I knew to do was take out all the shirring and start all over. I added a panel of fabric and sewed rows down the front of the blouse----about 8. I was going to thread skinny elastic through the channels---rows. It took eons to sew the channels and would take 2 more eons to thread the elastic through the channels.
On Wednesday I ran across a sewing tutorial that talked about shirring. Apparently you use elastic thread in the bobbin and just sew----it gathers as you sew. I didn't even know there was such as thing as elastic thread. I guess I could have just tied the ends of the threads together and her blouse would have been repaired---oh, me. So, I picked out all those rows---I knew that she wouldn't like the blouse after i finished with it---she has to wear it with a shirt, and it would just be too heavy and too hot with that extra layer of fabric, so I took out the stitches.
Today I reread the tutorial, practised a bit, and I have sewn eight rows of shirring on her blouse. I just have 3 or 4 more rows to go. Yeah for me!!! I'm so glad that I know how to do this now. I want to make dresses for Elizabeth and Rebekah. I bought fabric for them last summer----summer greens, yellows, and oranges with polka dots, seersucker, and more. I made them a couple of dresses while I was there last summer, but they certainly weren't anything to write home about.
I'm also going to make peasant skirts for the girls. They'll have three rows of mixed fabrics. Each row is gathered and attached to the previous row. Really cute. I hope the dresses and the skirts turn out as cute as I think they will. I'm really looking forward to this!! Here are some samples until I have real pictures to replace them with:
I'll take pictures of everything when I'm finished. I'll wait until Hayley comes by to model her blouse----I would model it but that would just be too ridiculous, it probably wouldn't even go around my ankles!!
Oh, no, I just saw a little note at the bottom of this page. It says "draft autosaved at 10:19", you don't suppose my other composition is hanging out in cyberspace somewhere just waiting for me? Brother.....
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