Can you feel the anticipation?

Can you feel the anticipation?
Can you?

Will they be amazing?



Will they be awful?

Will they be awfully amazing?

Or amazingly awful?

The online jeans class ends this Sunday.

Let's see how I do!
Be well!

A domestic Sunday

Hey, my parents got their electricity back yesterday at 12:20pm!  12 days without power from the grid.  They are tough stock.  A crew from Arkansas helped them out--I love all these crews coming from out of state to help us (the state of NJ) get back on our feet again--thank you!!

Ok, it felt like a very domestic Sunday.

A little cooking...

Chicken rice and artichoke soup, with too much Parmesan cheese thrown on top...

A little baking....

Nestle Toll House chocolate chip with walnut cookies from scratch for the Thanksgiving Potluck at work tmw.  My house smells SO good!

A little sewing....
version #6 of the jeans muslin (next time it will be the real deal....are you ready???  Am I???)


With a fisheye dart to take out excess length at the side seam that was creating unflattering waviness in the hip area (I actually had to make this dart bigger!):


And  a quick gratification project, this lovely pair of UW...
fabric: Joann's
elastic: either Daytona or Pacific Trim, NYC




iron on patch:  Hobby Lobby (recently opened in NJ)



And finally, a little snow with the ginkos...

Be well!!  Good night!

Jeans and pillowcases....and a question

Question:  How many iterations did it take you to get your jeans muslin to where you wanted it to be???
 
The jeans muslin is a big project for me, so I needed a little instant gratification sewing this weekend.  I also needed another pillowcase for this odd-sized pillow I bought this summer.   Standard pillowcases are too large for it.   I had made one pillowcase for it earlier this year, but wanted to add to the rotation.


Of course I added piping:

This one is a sweet rose pillowcase:

with pink piping of course:

I even serged the inside edges, which is fun now that my serger is no longer scary:

Also worked on the jeans muslin a lot this weekend. Here I am at interation #3, working on adding darts for my swayback:


I made another sample front like we did at the ASE. I made my first-ever coin pockets and wanted practice so I added two (I know in real life, there's only one coin pocket).  One coin pocket is at a jaunty angle, the other is straight up and down....

This is my second ever fly front zip insertion, hurrah!

Here's iteration #4 of my jeans muslin front:
 
back:


If you want to see the pix of the muslin on me, you'll have to pay for the class on PatternReview.com. Those pix, even at iteration #4, are still not going to see the light of day.  The jeans are getting better--before the waistband wasn't anywhere near my body and now it is!  and actually the back looks  pretty decent overall.  But the front and front sides are a mess...

So please let me know the answer to the question at the start of this post.  :)

Sandy update:  so many in NJ are still without power, including several friends and my parents.  With a high of 29F tonight I am really hoping the power is restored to all very soon!

Be well!