The fact that “Me-Made-May” is winding down is both a happy and sad thing for me. I’m going to miss the interaction with other sewists in the flickr group. I’m NOT going to miss the daily photo shoots, since they are a big drain on my time and have forced me realize that I’m a slob at heart–me and a hairbrush barely acknowledge one another’s existence on far too many days.
I’m also running out of new things to show you and do not want to become a total bore. I only have three days to attempt to keep this interesting, so I’ll show you old clothes in their typical habitats.
Here I am in my old, comfy home-sewn clothes and a snazzy apron in the kitchen, getting drunk on red wine and cooking dinner for my family.
Incidentally, the steaks were excellent.
And today, I sat around in my underwear a lot because I was sewing a muslin for pants and was continuously taking them on and off. I’m NOT going to show you my underwear, but you can see the AWESOME muslin that I ended up with.
I’ve never sewn Burda pants before and am amazed at how well they fit my figure. This is a muslin for BurdaStyle Mag 05-2009-111, which will be part of my summer wardrobe.
I’m sure many of you have been down the same road I have been…muslin after muslin after muslin just to end up with a pair of pants that are barely on the side of being presentable enough to wear in public. So you can imagine how thrilling it is to end up with a muslin like this without making a single change. I keep looking for faults–and there are some, but I’m going to forge ahead without giving them another thought. I do need to try my hand at single welt pockets first, so there will be a leetle delay 
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M’s play opens this week, so I absolutely had to finish the costumes during the weekend. As you all know, a sewing marathon requires (a) lots of coffee–always in good supply in this house; and (b) fortifying foods. Saturday morning, I whipped up a batch of banana chocolate chip muffins to get me started.
They were quite possibly the best muffins I have ever made…light in texture, moist and sweet, but not too sweet. I’ve used this recipe before, but this time, they were inexplicably better.
By Sunday afternoon, I had finished the bodies of the costumes.
It was an awkward affair sewing on those tails. I can’t say my stitching was particularly beautiful. I *think* they’ll stay attached…if Eeyore’s falls off, I hope the actor has presence of mind to pretend it was meant to happen. After all, Eeyore’s tail is supposedly only affixed with a tack. I used an uncovered button from a make-your-own button kit for the “tack.”
M and I decided to use flannel–and not faux fur or fleece–for the bodies of the costumes so the actors wouldn’t get too hot under the stage lights. I couldn’t live with an unfluffy skunk’s tail, however, and used faux fur for that. Boy, that stuff makes a HUGE mess. I think I still have bits of that up my nose and my sewing machine certainly needs a good cleaning.
I finished two hoods shortly afterwards. Here’s the skunk and Piglet.
Eeyore’s hood required a little more work, since it needed a mane. I didn’t finish that until later in the evening…
I’m not too thrilled with how the mane turned out. It looks a little bit like the moppy ‘do worn by Moe of the Three Stooges. I am not a hair stylist for people or talking animals. I did the best I could and called it quits when I ran out of the yarn.
My pattern review can be found here.
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At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I’m going to just come right out and say this week has sucked. Totally.
1) The pipes in the garage burst and the garage turned into an ice rink. I wish I still had my ice skates! Luckily, a plumber came over and took care of the pipes. Unfortunately for us, we’re still cleaning up the mess: soaked rugs and all the junk one usually stores in garages.
2) I’ve always liked Pyrex dishes, but something must have been wrong with the most recent one I purchased. After using it in the oven last night, it exploded, that’s right EXPLODED in my kitchen. I ended up tossing the chicken picata I had labored over and which smelled ridiculously good. We went out for teriyaki–which, while good, was not as good as homemade chicken picata.
3) I had bad hair today. Perhaps it’s not a big deal, but it annoyed me nonetheless.
4) My favorite necklace broke.
5) I ruined some fabric I had been ga-ga over by making a top designed for people with shoulders. It didn’t matter that I altered the pattern significantly. It’s still prone to falling off and therefore unacceptable. GRRRRRRRR.
(New Look 6828)
Next week will be better, right?
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