New Creations

Last week was busy..

Firstly another attempt at making skirts. Found a tutorial online with the

pattern based on the girl's height. I made Ella's skirt first and after sewing it all together it was massive! The length was ok

but the width was horribly wrong. Ella has a waist of 57cm, the pattern used 1.6cm around the waist and even though it was suppose to be gathered I don't think you could physically gather that much material. So back to the unpicking table and I decided on doubling Ella's waist measurement would make a good amount of gather for a twirly skirt and yes it did! As for the excess material? Well I sewed a few sides together and made a little bag!

Katy's skirt was much easier with my learning lesson on the first one. It was a pity that I forgot to change the hem measurement from inches to centimetres and didn't realise until I'd sewed it mostly on.

Next new item was...

The completion of stage 1 of our front porch conversion. The old frosted never used door was removed and replaced with a double glazed timber sliding door. As a result we had to rearrange the lounge room so that we can actually use the door. Finishing touches on the door are currently being debated - whether to stain/varnish or paint the timber frame. Also have to organise a security screen so we can leave the door open on hot summer nights not that we've had any of those this summer!

Stage 2 of the porch conversion is building a front deck. We are waiting for the call to say the recycled blackbutt timber boards are ready so we can arrange for the steel frame to be installed. Hopefully this will all coincide with my Dad visiting and Andy returning back from Salt Lake City at the end of Feb/beginning of March.