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Hope you understand.
Plus I am sewing a lot of samples to deadline for my book and am pretty sure I am not supposed to be blogging about those garments in the meantime. My intention is that when I have enough made so I can get through the night without waking up at 3:00 thinking about my to-do list I can then start sewing more things to share.
Just think when the book is finally out you will be among those who will look at the pictures and know there was a good chance they were put together in an RV or on a picnic table in some state park.
In the meantime, until I am back on track and my out basket looks bigger than my in basket, I want to share some sewing thoughts:
- Jalie's dropped pocket cardigan is a wonderful pattern. Made two, will make more. Not a cardigan so much as something you can wear over a T shirt to disguise the extra body parts and also sort of pockets with sleeves. Excellent for dog walkers, who carry a few poop purses.
- Louise Cutting's instructions are terrific. Every new sewer should sew at least one for the insights. Bear in mind though that her shapes are over-sized and sort of boxy and choose sizes accordingly. I mean who would have thought I would be an X small. But really great, great instructions.
- To sew in an RV one of those cardboard cutting maps is essential. You can put it on the bed or a picnic table. Hanging toiletry bags with compartments are good too for notions, mine dangles from the hooks for the ladder to the over the bulkhead bunk.
- A husband who cooks and cleans is also handy.
- Dogs have no idea why we are doing any of this or why we just didn't stay in the nice yard back home.
- My serger has given up the ghost on my. 20 years and innumerable services later I can't complain.
- OK I did.
- Already on the phone trying to get one lined up for when I arrive in Florida.
- I love American grocery stores. I haven't exactly come from the Gulag but really there is so much stuff. We walk the aisles and marvel.
- People leave interesting books in campground laundry rooms. Finished the one I picked up in Tennessee and leaving for the next reader here in South Carolina.
- A small black dog in a dark state park at night is a challenge. We had to get one of those light things for her harness.
- No idea if she was peeing or not
- The man next site is a musician from New York
- The lady working the next dryer is from the woods of Maine
- Her kids have sent them south this winter.
- Last winter there was so much snow she had to snowshoe across the lake to get coffee and the kids said enough
- Stayed put one night on a mountain because my husband had a feeling
- Turns out the place we were headed to was evacuated because of a tornado
- Us we stayed alone on the mountain until some lost hikers saw our light
- Husband took them down to the ranger
- Two RVs of families home schooling on the road
- RVs are not that big for a family of 6
- Those are some tough mothers
- Off to bed now so more later
- Pictures should be next
