april fsni

am I truly gonna to make it this time? 

my friday night sew in project

The FNSI in this house started late yesterday. We didn't get home till eight in the evening. But for a quick fix we grab pizza already on the way home, drinks, set the sewing machines up - all three of them - and hooked Netflix up with the next episode of Merlin. We spend some evenings rather in Camelot as in Texas. lol

Actually having a whole night to sew planned ahead. IMAGINE. But what am I really going to sew?

I decided to work on the stack of WIPs on my desk. Started on the girls flannel pants. After pinning the legs together, they suddenly decided they want to sew them instead of what they planned before. Their patience didn't last too long that night, so I ended up sewing some more on the pants. But one step at a time.

Eventually I got to first couch pillow. You might recognize the pattern. I liked the little mug rug I made for the swap so much that instead of keeping it I came up with the first pillow pattern.

I wasn't sure how to make the pillow opening because I want to be able to wash the cover, but also have it all the way closed up and not to lay on a zipper, plus my zipper sewing is not perfect at all. I found this tutorial and wow it works great.

The zipper is hidden under an extra strip of fabric that keeps it covered. Have a peek.

I am lazy. I did not want to sew another pillow fill it and add it this cover. So again because you can not purchase my misfit perfect size of pillow I got 99 cent pillows from IKEA. Simple measured the needed size of two sides and sewed it fitting, cut next to the seam and took off what was too much. I

n the end I have one fitting inlay pillow for my washable cover and extra polyfiber for another project.

Now i need to come up with two more couch pillow patterns. Mmmmh.

My name is Oscar and I don't sew, but tomorrow you might get to see some more from where I live and is barely three weeks old.

win and loose

Today is the a win and loose type of day. One thing was working out and in the next morning something else was not going the way it should. I am not an easy person shaking those "not well working out" moments off, but today a little while later something nice happened again. All day long. Perhabs it keeps going or I just have to keep my eyes open for the good moments.

My littlest bug was staying home all week due to a stomach virus. He is not a 100% himself especially in the food department. He eats LESS and is very PICKY. Also his bottom needed many more bathroom visits and more help, so school was not in order. But it was time for us to get out of the house. The sun was hiding (Soren is pretty discintive about this expression), the car prepped with a DVD, gummis and goldfish and we took a quiet roadtrip to stroll through IKEA and a quick stop at JoAnns, just because we were already right in front of it. How could we not go there! We found want we looked for and after already trying out handycraftymama last night and getting up curtain rods and curtains in the kitchen, we might have to use handcarftymama to install the reading lights above the girls beds. I just have to dig for the right screws. At least I thought of purchasing the fitting light bulbs at IKEA right away.

We have a few more things to do this evening, before we can settle in for FRIDAY NIGHT SEW IN. I just mentioned it yesterday evening and now both girls can't wait to sew ALL NIGHT. We will see how long their night is gonna go. I just signed up last minute as #159. If you want to, there's still time left.