Slow Week

I don't feel like I got very much done this week.  The creative energy is at a low, and I'm just not feel it.  There has been so much going on emotionally that I think I wore out any creative thoughts that lingered.

The wedding dress that I am altering is taking so much more time than I thought it would, but I finally figured out how to make the alteration work and not show too much.  The next fitting will be the turning point on this one.  If everything I've done so far works out right, I'll only have the layers of hem and that part is not as intimidating at working around beading that can't be moved. 

I am working on using up the wools that I had been storing for who knows what reason.  I must have intended jackets and pants or jacket and skirts, but I am not all that interested in the jacket part any  more, so I am cutting pants and skirt out of one peice, and two different skirts out of the other. 

I'll have a classic plaid skirt done soon.  I have it hanging on my dressmakers dummy now, letting the hem even out.  I'll be able to check this tomorrow and get it hemmed.  I think I'll hem the lining on the machine, but the skirt just has to be done by hand.  I've already got the hem tape in place and I'm getting anxious for the finishing.

I've got a pair of wool pants ready for the waist band.  I couldn't find a pattern that was lined, so I am not sure I know what I am doing to line these, but the first fitting felt good.  I was able to tighten up the seams a little bit.  Simplicity has a line of "perfect fit" pants patterns that use the old men's standard of the two peice back waist band, which makes alterations so easy, getting the perfect fit. 



While I was baby sitting Ruby this week, she wanted to knit, so I found a pattern and started a crochet hat to fit her.  I was using some yarn that I had bought for another project that wasn't working, so it got repurposed quickly and we have a hat waiting for decoration.  I'm not sure what I am going to do to it quite yet.  It started out to be a bear, from the S/O issue of crochet today, but because the yarn is gray, it might become an elephant or the base for a dinosaur.  They are all so cute, it is hard to decide.  I had to do some enlarging and Ruby had a great time trying on the hat every couple of rows to see if it fit yet.