Catorama

Today is the day I show you why I don't update with sewing stuff often. My sewing room is overtaken by furry felines! Look at them... so cute and sooo in my way.

Otis rarely looks undignified... but today I caught him licking his belly sitting up like Jabba the Hut. How can I get back to work right away when such cuteness presents itself?

This basket is my sewing garbage can. Every time I empty it Bruce jumps in and has a kip. Gareth added the night cap.... nice touch!

Full on Jabba! He looks less porcine in his normal quadruped position but holy cute.

This is the best view in the place, lots of trees which are full of squirrels and birds. Again they are kind of blocking my work space... wadda can I do?

Do you love them? I love them so much!

Married!

I am alive, this photo is proof! Erin... this is for you. Sorry about the delay. As you can see I finished both of our outfits for the wedding! Gareth looked particularly good, and his vows knocked me out. I have posted them here due to popular demand, our ceremony went something like this;

Justice of the peace says a bunch of nice things.











Gareth says,




I vow to you Meghan:

To save my pennies for dental work (this would be my dental work.. not his),

To fight against moth infestations,

To live close to a bakery of distinction,

To hold hands till they clam up,

To enjoy half time at the opera (this consists of numerous gin and tonics),

To make sure your toast is buttered right to the edge,

To hold,

To dance cheek to cheek.












I say... waaaaaaaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaa snort sniffle.


I love you.













I was crying bad, how sweet are those vows? I could only get three words out. If I hadn't had two scotch before the wedding I wouldn't have been able to get out any words at all.








I fail under pressure!













I will show Gareth's suit off later. It was excellent!

Come back in one week

I know it's been a while, I have been preparing wedding delights and I don't want to show them before the wedding. It's won't be fair if some of my guests have had a sneak peek!

That said, two days to go and everything is done. Five weeks ago I had a few bolts of fabric and today I have a suit and shirt for Gareth, the same for myself, and a dress for Chris... oh and a hat for me!

That's not bad.

Good stuff to come... I promise.

Yes! Finally some sewing

HA! So finally I post something remotely interesting... well I hope anyway.  Pictured above is the lovely and talented Gareth.  He is wearing his new shirt... wedding shirt that is!  I love love love the collar here,  his jacket will have a mandarin collar so I wanted something to show off his shapely neck and complement a mandarin collar.  I won't know for sure until the jacket is done but I think it'll look pretty darn fab.  By that I mean shit hot baby!

 Sorry about the abbreviated view. Shhhh, he has no pants on, so it had to be waist up.

Anyhoo, luckily I don't think he reads this blog so he won't know that my five readers have seen him scantily clad on the innertubes!

This is the cuff and placket. Purty.  Shirts aren't so exciting in and of themselves so to entertain myself he gets bias placket with piping in my choice of colour.

And what have I been doing... not too sure.  I have been painting my nails so as to make staring at them all day a bit easier on the eyes.  Here they are holding the fabric they should be sewing (hehehe).  Seriously I need to get a grip!

This will be Chris's dress for the wedding, I am trying to get my Ma to wear white with red polka dots. We'll see, I think it'd make for excellent pictures!

Ohhhh ahhhh. Come on say it, don't be shy!

And below is my beloved Otis cat.  Doing what a man cat does best, that is lounging on his chair with a sheep skin blanky and a pipe.

I love this too much, he is such a relaxed guy.  Just having a bit of a smoke and sit down.

Do you love him??

- for anyone who may think I torture my cat, no the pipe is not lit.  Otis is a poser!

Bruce is sooo bored with my blogging...

I am alive

All I have to say for myself is that working for a living cuts in to my sewing time... so maybe I have been playing world of warcraft again too ... new 47 shaman... what are you gonna do?

hu?

Well, I have been sewing a bit and tomorrow when my camera battery has charged I will present you with the evidence. I have made Gareth a shirt and myself a dress from some decidedly 70's knit. The fact that I have a number of wedding clothes to make has not prevented me from making summer dresses for myself. I don't want to think about summer dresses in August, by that time I will have already been sweating for months.

How ladylike is that!?

Here is a picture of the Bruce showing off his pudding belly, if you don't like it then come back tomorrow for a handsome shirt and groovical dress.

Quilt, 1 Sanity, 1

Things are going well! I have almost finished the first two narrow horizontal rows of little pieces.  I kinda like this quilting thing!  Once the sewing had begun progress was brisk.

Not so sure that my cutting was as precise as possible as I had to ease a few pieces together. Ease is a bad word for quilters... sure as god made little green apples, ease and quilting don't belong together.

That's okay though, this is my first try and if I fuss too much I will quit, so ease instead of fuss.

That's my motto.

I must be mad

I have finally begun a quilt! I have been mulling over this idea for a long time, and finally I have been inspired to go for it!

Following Chris's advice, I made a drawing of the quilt and coloured it to correspond to the fabrics I bought.  I'm glad I did.  I have some idea now where I am going with it and I'm busy cutting hundreds of eetsy pieces and trying to think of the fun fun sewing that will follow shortly.

Any advice or suggestions regarding colour placement or anything like that would be welcome.  This is my first ever quilt and the smoother it goes the greater the chance that it won't be the last quilt I lay my hands on!

Comment away my friends!