What Did You Do Today?

Well I have a list, go figure!

1. Had brownies and a Diet Pepsi for breakfast

2. Eliminate 2 yards of fabric from my stash

3. Cut out a pattern with Delaney

4. Did the Cha-Cha to Handy Manny

5. Made several generations of Irishmen spin in their graves

6. Sewed up said pattern

7. Made ham sandwiches for lunch

8. Made plans with friends for train trips in October and December

9. Scrubbed markers (thanks H!) from small child, including face and teeth
10. Took photos of finished product

Okay you guessed it, this is dress B from the Portabello Pixie pattern Claire. Like none of you figure that it was going to be the next thing I made! The amazing part is all of the fabric came from MY stash! Yup I had pastels, go figure!

A few years ago Sew Many Quilts in Tracy did a trunk show at our guild meeting. I actually won a yard of Robyn Pandolph's Butterfly Kisses, large pink floral on the skirt. So in winning this fabric I needed stuff to go with it, I purchase 5 yards more to go with the 1 yard I won. Makes total since to a quilter. At the time I was pregnant with Delaney and I was going to do these fabrics in the nursery, change of plan. I figured I would last a week and then hate it. Into the stash it went.

Some of you are wondering about the Irishmen. Well, I don't use the button hole stitch on my machine often, maybe 5 times in the 7 years I have owned it. This darling dress requires 2 one inch button holes, to slide the straps through. CRAP!!! I had to figure it out, AGAIN! So unlike my legacy suggest I do, poke buttons until I am too drunk to remember what I am doing, I got out the book to the machine and read it first. DID YOU READ THAT MOM, FIRST. Which has resulted in the spinning Irishmen.