There was sewing this weekend! Oh gosh, I'm still not quite sure how this happened, but it did. Harper celebrated the birthday of a very dear friend this weekend, a friend who, bless him, has parents just like us, and is therefore on a slow trickle of Harry Potter as he ages. Which means that he and Harper have been celebrating the reading (and then watching) of another book or movie at the passing of each birthday. It's a big deal, and all my sweet Harper wanted to give his friend this year was a Harry Potter cloak that we made together. Sure! No problem! Of course! I told him. And then life got in the way, and somehow I found myself at the fabric shop at 8pm the night before the birthday party begging the help of the dear and lovely young woman who is very much into cosplay costume making, who set me up in a jiffy with a pattern and fabric. And that's how I found myself late into the evening sewing this thing. Thankfully, it was the day the new Brandi Carlile album finally came out, so I had that for company, as well as Harper's very generous help and assistance. And in the morning, because I still wasn't done, we wrapped it up just barely in time to actually wrap it up and head off to the birthday party. All I have is that one photo up above, to make sure that my hem was right. The Gryffindor patch arrived in the mailbox just barely in time, but it arrived. By the skin of my teeth, that one.
But while my studio was trashed, and I had that project wrapped up and out the door, when Sunday found me at home with not a whole lot of pressing things to do (no work that I wanted to do, to be honest), I dove into a sewing project. I made The Skipper by Merchant and Mills for Annabel with some glorious Anna Maria Horner Fabric. It was a bit of a finicky pattern, I must confess. Or not really the whole thing, just that tie and collar at the bodice wasn't quite making sense. But I made it, and presented her with a new dress this morning that I thought surely appropriate for spring when it arrives in a little while. Five children in, I should know better. She thought it perfectly appropriate for today's February day. And really now, who am I to question that? Do - and wear - what you love, you know?
