Look, I can grow something...at one time, I requested that Toby purchase me a rose bush each time a birthed a child of his. Hey, Toby, I think you owe me three. Anyway, this is a Knockout rose and they are lovely. Blooms all the time and sturdy. It's all I ask for in a rose.So, the month of May is crazy for our family....we spend every weekend in May at the Castle in Muskogee Oklahoma's Renaissance Festival. It's our third year there, and we love it. We've made lots of friends with other vendors and cast members, and customers look for us now. I've discovered when we work hard all day Saturday and Sunday, that Monday becomes a default weekend. We just can't seem to do anything materially productive on Monday, except maybe some laundry, and yeah, feeding ourselves is always high on my priority list.
I've been noticing that the little girls don't seem to have many shirts these days. I usually look for bottoms, because they take longer to sew. The problem is, shirts take the brunt of kid-feeding overflow. I'm a big fan of Wardrobe Refashion (I could do a link, but wouldn't you respect yourself more if you looked it up yourself?) and have a nice stash of wonky old clothes and fabric from thrift stores or outgrown or holey bigger clothes. So yesterday, I made each little girl a new shirt:
Ivy's is made from the bottom of one of those huge tentlike maternity t-shirts, with a nice contrast band of quilt cotton. The pink contrast flowery band blends into her blue flowery shorts. I didn't manage to take a picture before the biscuit-buttering occurred.
I made Mag's shirt out of the bottom half of a Martha Stewart pillowcase in the classic peasant-blouse style with hand-dyed fat quarter sleeves in a nice orange. Instead of gathering the neckline like Ivy's, I made some quick and dirty darts, three in front and three in the back. It's a little baggy about the shoulders, but fits over her head nicely.
Now today, it's off to use my industrial sewing machine, Bejunia. She helps us buy the food that makes me have to sew more shirts for my kids.
