Blogging & the Novi sewing expo

This past weekend was the Novi sewing expo. I went on Friday and Sunday, and on both days I took Gretchen Hirsch's class. Have you heard of her? She is a fellow blogger who took Vogue's 1952 book called "Vogue's new book for better sewing" and recreated each of the patterns that were in it. Sort of Julie & Julia style. The classes I took were how to make a retro dress, and how to be a better blogger. And as you can see from my last post, I so needed help on this. I think it's going to be a learning curve for me, but I hope to get there sooner, than later. Have a great Monday and I will check in soon, I promise!

What beautiful weather we've been having!

Oh my gosh, it has been just wonderful out!
My husband and I did a bit of gardening (actually just raking and general cleaning up), but it certainly was nice being in the sun.

DH also started assembling the new barby, for which I'm immensely grateful for!

I hope you too are enjoying the wqrm weather around us.

A few new aprons

I've been sewing up a storm recently. Sometimes I get obsessed over what I'm doing and forget to come up for air. Silly me.
Here's a few pics of some new additions to my stockpiled stash.

fabric love

l love buying fabric from several online stores.Two of my favourites are:

www.Quiltfabriccloseouts.com

and

www.connectingthreads.com

Both have an awesome selection, at reasonable prices with quick shipping & delivery times. Really, what more can you ask for?

Gun & hunting show

So here we sit, my husband & I, watching customers walk around the room. I have my fishing towels and a couple of hunting towels for sale, along with my icy cool neck ties.

And I ask my husband, "So do you see anyone here that you know?" (because he knows a lot of people in the community.)

And do you know what he says? He says he does. In this sea of 50 or so men, he points to one of the women and tells me he knows her.

It figures. You'd think he would know a lot of the men.

I think he's such a floosy, LOL!

Making bibs

You wouldn't think making bibs would be so time consuming.

But sometimes it is.
Do you see all the fun colours? Well I have to go through my stash of lovely mult-coloured fabric and make decisions. And Once I decide what the main colour is, I have to go BACK to my stash and find more colours to go with it. Thank goodness I found a colour wheel on line so I can co-ordinate it all.

It's quite fun, actually. And the final product (not just the bibs, but my aprons, too) is always a joy to look at. (It's just too bad I don't have any grandbabies around of my own to put them on, [deep sigh]).

Enjoy your evening!
~sew My Gosh!