Tuesday

Morning, everyone!

Well, yesterday did not work out as planned.
I dashed around getting washed and dressed for eight o'clock as the car was being collected between eight and eleven.  Come eleven thirty and no collect, I fired off a text and got a reply - 'We didn't realise you were having a collection'.  Well, sorry, but the text I was looking at very clearly said 'collect between eight and eleven' so that wasn't convincing but it was too late by then anyway.  So it has been rescheduled for next Monday and I made sure they know I need the windscreen wipers changed as well as whatever the MOT and service involves.

To be fair, they were very apologetic . . . 

As I still had the car, I decided to pop out to Marriages to get some dried yeast and some more flour and then, as I was in the same area, I popped in to Hobbycraft to get some pins.

So guess what turned up this afternoon!!   Yup.  I now have enough pins to see me out, for sure.  

I had to laugh!

What I am mocking up is the top part of a nice, loose  dress/top - I've gone for size 12 (sometimes I'm a 12 and sometimes a 10) and got it cut out.  I also want to see if the back opening is strictly necessary - I'm not sure it is, I think it could perhaps go over my head without buttons and buttonholes.  
If that works OK, I will probably add the shortened 'skirt' and make it into a longish top to go over legging/jeans.  It's very cheap, plain polyester but, assuming it works, I don't want to waste the fabric.  If it doesn't, better than finding out on more expensive fabric!

This is the pattern I bought in Rye, by the way.

I made the loaf.  No full loaf photo this time but you can see it all worked well and now I have 'square' sourdough slices, no big holes (my mum used to call holes in bread 'butter thieves', did yours?) and perfect for sandwiches and toasties.  Just what I was aiming for

Come the evening, I cleared the decks a bit in readiness for today.  First thing, I am getting the bus into town to pick up the ordered patterns from Franklins (my oldie bus pass starts from nine) and then I will bring the sewing machine down and get started.  I am just thinking that if the mock up works enough to become a garment, maybe I could machine embroider around the hems and neck.  Someone did that the first week of Sewing Bee and it did look nice.

Housework?  What housework!!  lol  That can wait until tomorrow as I have another empty day until late afternoon.

Happy Tuesday, everyone - have a super day, whatever your plans.  xx