Riot and Frolic

1-14 Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’

*moonwalkin’ and pop ‘n’ locking like a white girl*

Oh!  Hello!

Please excuse my awesome jammin’ to MJ.  

I’m celebrating the fact that I finally started the adorable pants from Handmade Beginnings: 24 Sewing Projects to Welcome Baby
that I bought 17 years ago.

Okay, so maybe it was only 3 months ago, but it was high time to bust out some sweet fabric and remember how to follow directions.

Anne Marie Horner is a fantastic technical writer.  She explains everything succinctly without making you want to fall asleep while giving yourself paper cuts between your toes.  

I generally hate reading directions, can you tell?  This could be why sewing will be a stretch for me.  

But it’s all about grapefruits and making pants right now, isn’t it?

What?

Anyhoo, everyone and their blogging mother has made the Quick Change Trousers and before the ladies out grow the pattern, I’ve started the process, too.

The first job was getting the pattern from the book. There’s some overlapping, overwhelming-looking pieces of paper I had to come to terms with.

The pants, the pattern, and an anxiety attack

But once I got out my trusty tracing table (AKA window, ’cause I’m classy like that), my stress leveled off and I got into a Zen tracing zone.

Ommmmmm

Thank God I got the artsy-fartsy kind of small children that come equipped with huge rolls of paper.

muslin in the background to make it look like I know what I’m doing

While I cut the fabric from my official-looking templates, V studied her jumbo coloring book.

Yes, the walls are filthy. We’re on the 3 season porch that’s about to be demolished. So I’m not cleaning them.

Tonight, I’m pulling out the sewing machine.  And the iron.  *gasp*  And Vampire Diaries.  Because sewing and trashy television go together like… sewing and trashy television.

proving a good haircut makes a huge difference