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Sew What! – First Project

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Seriously…I really did make a denim skirt!  However, I made it for Teen Daughter#2, who tossed it in her bag and promptly left for her best friend’s house last Thursday evening.  I’ve barely seen her since then, much less been able to pin her down to take a picture or two. 
 
It’s a plain vanilla cut the legs off a pair of jeans and make a teeny-tiny mini skirt. There was a little manipulation of the seams, a quick stitch around the bottom and then trimming of the leftover fringe after washing.  All told, it took me a total of 30 minutes, not including washing machine or clothesline time.
 
I have a devious plan for this weeks project.  It’s not exactly a purse as directed, but it will be something to hold something else, and it’s a functional article that I REALLY need!!  I plan to use up some stash fabric for this one, and to practice my applique skills for the required verbage decoration.

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Learning to Run – Week Sixish, Second Run and DATE NIGHT!!

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I checked the calendar, and it is indeed week six of learning to run.  I DID run today, but only a mile, because it was 101 degrees outside!!!  Ugh. I came in and did a cardio workout with Buff Chad and the office guys.

We somehow ended up with ALL four kiddos out of the house tonight, so it’s DATE NIGHT!!  Hubs and I went to our favorite hole-in-the-wall Italian joint and spend a leisurely hour over dinner.  (I was so good, eating only a salad and half an order of chicken marsala – NO pasta!)  It’s starting off as a grand weekend.

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Sew What!

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Okay – like I seriously have time to do any sewing?  Why am I torturing myself? 
 

Let’s see….it’s summer.  I’m bored. I’m losing weight hand over fist and need to tailor all of my dress pants and skirts.  I already dragged my sewing machine out of the closet to do some mending, so it’s already set up on the dining room table.  It’s too hot to run outside. My fingers are just ITCHING to sew!  Yes.  That’s my reasoning, and it suits just fine!

 

I’m joining my bloggy friend Cynthia from The Sewing Dork, and her friend Michelle from When Wednesday Calls for Sew What!, a summer sew-along.  Participants pick their fabric and tackle the challenge projects.
 
Click here for more info, as well as the blog button.
 
For myself, I’m choosing cotton fabrics – specifically recycled cottons, re-purposed cottons, stash-busting cottons!!  Any cotton is fair game, as long as it supports my efforts for a responsible, sustainable lifestyle.  And, just to be up front with the fact that I will be bending the rules to suit my own needs, I’m tackling the first denim skirt challenge by remaking a COTTON denim skirt that has become so large on me that it twists around when I walk.  I just hate it when the fly zipper ends up on my left hip. Seriously.
 
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