“News and Sews”–now why doesn’t that rhyme? English is a funny language!!

So I need to put something up today so that Pig Post will not be the first thing to pop-up when my blog is opened!!  I did miss a bet though in not telling the story of Russ and the "Pastor and The Pig in a Box"!  No pictures of that incident but you can ask Russ next time you see him!!  So with nothing going on today, I will just do a miscellany of thoughts.  Oh, we are meeting some fellow bloggers this coming Tuesday – can hardly wait.  Stay tuned for updates later in the week!

You remember a few days ago I wrote about my sister Laila and her husband Brian for Brian’s birthday.  Well, today she tells me they are going to be FAMOUS!  Oh yes, we will have to beat the paparazzi off with a stick!  Brian and Laila are huge Duck fans and go to almost every game of every sport.  Yesterday they were at a baseball game and were interviewed by the local news.  It’s a really cute story and I’m proud of them for making the news.  You can see it if you click on the link.  I couldn’t legally upload the video to You Tube so the link will have to do it.  Click on the video to play it after you open the link.  BTW, I made that very handsome hat that Brian is wearing!!

And speaking of making things, all you sewers out there, I need a bit of help.  I know I should know this by now, but I am only a hobby sewer.  I do it for a while and then I go do something else and I never have gotten good at it (or anything else for that matter).  Anyway, I like to make doll clothes.  They’re fairly quick, don’t take a lot of fabric, and the ultimate wearers of these garments are not picky!

I have lots of little scraps of fabric, lace, miscellaneous buttons and trims, you know, all the left overs.  So I have been using up what I have on hand and intermittently sewing up these dolls clothes during the last couple of months.  I have a question about this one.  I did some decorative stitching along the edges of the sleeves and the hem.  Then, I trimmed along that stitching on the sleeves but don’t know if that is what I am really supposed to do.  Before I ruin the hem by trimming, can someone tell me if that is the right way to do it, or does it even matter?  At my age, I should know this but in all honesty, that is the first time since I have had my machine that I have used this stitch!!  Let’s see, the machine is only about 25 years old or so!!

  














So, to trim or not to trim, that is the question???


Just cuz I’m somewhat proud of my efforts (imperfect as they may be) here are the other dresses I made.  Used up some scraps, you betcha!!  Of course my granddaughters don’t really play with their 18” dolls anymore, but maybe they will put these away and save them for their children.



  

















This dress (on the right) is made from two fat quarters that my hubby bought for me around Christmastime.  There is just enough fabric to make this dress.




And that’s all she wrote…