CHEATER! PANTS ON FIRE!

I wore pants Wednesday. I was working in the warehouse all day, so it was a necessity.

I have a small temporary job sewing on an amazing industrial sewing machine! a JUKI:

I am sewing a newly designed, upgraded harness radio strap for firemen for this company:
 S&S Medical Supplies
here is the strap I am sewing:

 (pic is a link)

Today I made 2 batches of almond butter. There isn't a fridge in the warehouse and I will be sewing there all day tomorrow. i wanted some almond butter roll-ups.
I made one creamy, salted batch...and one crunchy maple batch:

pictured is the crunchy batch with maple syrup!



YUM!

NO PANTS APRIL: Day 7

Another Rainy Day!

Is it Still Raining?

Maybe it will clear soon...

NO PANTS APRIL: day 7  features a skirt I bought in Hong Kong, about 10 years ago. I liked the fun, unique waist panel with the ribbon lacing!

 I should wear this skirt more often. It's high-waisted. I don't wear a lot of high-waisted things.

NO PANTS DAY 6!

I have not been documenting No Pants April very well this year.

here is my NoPants Outfit today: workout skirt.

 not very pretty skirt, but I gotta keep in shape at least one day a week.

 I was looking for posts from No Pants April last year...NONE! None, I tell you!  How am I to get the word out to everyone on the internet if I don't  bother posting about the No Pants April challenge?? I did find a few pictures on Instagram from last year, though....

I will do better this year.

my Friend, KRISTY @THE MAN CREW , is also joining the NO PANTS APRIL challenge (for the 2nd time!)- so go over to her page and tell her how pretty she is in her lovely skirts and dresses!

TAGS on Facebook and INSTAGRAM: #nopantsapril and  #nopantsapril2015

No Pants for me!

Welcome to No Pants April, episode 2!  Last year was so much fun, not only am I doing it again, but I made 3 new skirts for this years events! Links: skirt #1, skirt #2, skirt #3

Good news! It's not too late to join in the fun. And all the guys are invited to wear kilts for equality's sake. the rules are simple. Whenever you leave the house and have a choice of what to wear, don't choose pants. if your work requires pants then obviously does not fit the portion of when you have a choice of what to wear. Going to the park? Going for a jog? Going to Starbucks for a cup of coffee and a scone? Don't wear pants. feel free to take pictures and if you use Instagram you can take them with #NoPantsApril or #NoPantsApril2015.
Join the fun now! Stop wearing pants and start taking pictures!

New Life for some old dreses

Last blog I posted about my new skirts. I shared the link for one of the patterns and posted how I made another of the skirts (from older dresses I no longer wore). This blog will be the tutorial for the 3rd skirt, another one I frankensteined from old dresses.
here are the 2 "renewed" skirts:

Last Blog told how I made the Red Panel skirt. This blog will tell how I made the white and blue one. (whit&blue has an elastic gathered wait, the red paneled skirt is more fitted with a zipper)

 Here are the 2 dresses used for the Blue & white panel skirt:

both are dresses I wore often and liked! But were getting used-looking.

First, I gut off the bodice (to allow the gathered skirts to lay flat and ungathered)

Then I cut panels out of the white dress, approx 23" long, 28" across the bottom tapered to 10 inches across the top) 

I cut panels from the blue dress that were approx 20 inches long, 18" across the bottom tapered to 12" across the top)

I sewed the sides together:

I them trimmed the top (waist) to the same all the way around and sewed the last seam.

I got a scrap of white cotton and made a waist band. (Cut the white the same length as the skirt, folded in half and sewed the waistband to the skirt, with the fold at the top (the open edges attached to the skirt). Made a one inch casing and inserted a piece of elastic the size of my waist.

 NO HEMMING required! used the dresses original hemmed edges!

2 Skirts.

Last week I made a new skirt, from all new fabrics and 2 'new' skirts from old thrift store items. The first skirt was made using a patten I found online for  a J Panel Wrap Skirt.

here are the "frankensteined" skirts. I will give a quick tutorial for them.One tutorial this blog, the next blog entry will be the other tutorial.

The Red&White skirts was made from a thrift store sundress and a youth sized wrap skirt.

I cut 3  panels from the wrap skirt, using the sections of yellow flowers , and made them as long as possible. *top of panels are 8", bottom edges are 18".I did the same with the Sun dress, but more narrow panels (*2inches at the top and 6 inches at the bottom)

*I CUT ALL panels so that I would not have to hem my new skirt, as the dresses I used were already hemmed. *

The Sundress had a back zipper. I cut a panel from the back, cutting out the zipper, so I could just sew this panel to my skirt and have zipper! a NO FUSS zipper application!

*Here it should be noted, that originally, I had planned to make a single skirt with all 4 dresses, but changed my mind, so I had to adjust my panels. I had to add a 4th panel from the red skirt, about the same size, a few inches larger.

SO the red & white skirt has 4 panels from the red skirt (3 are slighter smaller than the 4th) and 4 panels from the sundress(3 are the tapered narrow panels and 1 is the zipper panel)

to finish the red & white skirt, I sewed a strip of bias tape along the waist for a waist band, and used one of decorative stitches.
(I have a huge board of yellow bias tape I got for a couple dollars at a garage sale)

 NEXT BLOG will have the How To for the blue swirly skirt I pieced together.