I usually spend my Saturdays cleaning and running errands. Last weekend I set aside the day for sewing with the girls. 

Just hangin' out, drinkin' wine, eatin' jube jubes, listening to some great music and sewing away.

Laughing and creating. 

From 7 in the morning to 7 at night. No chores, no laundry, no grocery shopping.

I found this pattern on the Moda website. It's called the "lawn chair " quilt.

It kinda does look like one of those old school woven lawn chairs. 

I now have 4 tops to layer up and quilt! 

Esther started laying already! 

Beautiful sage green eggs with a sunny yellow yolk

Woo Hoo! 

Hope you all had a great weekend doing something you love to do. :-) 

<3 Karen

Stylish Dress Book - Japanese Sewing

I ordered this pattern book from Pomadour's Craft Cafe.  

It's full of fabulous patterns. 

It's all written in Japanese,

and they come printed all on top of each other like this...

You need to find and trace your pattern peices out on

paper or non-woven pattern tracing material ( my favourite because you can easily see through it and it sticks to your fabric a bit eliminating the need for pins ).

These are the instuctions " how to make" of the blouse I did. Lucky that the patterns are all pretty elementary so construction wasn't difficult to figure out.

I used a cotten voile that I had and some vintage buttons.

I love it.

Even though it short sleeved, I've been wearing it with a grey wool sweater.

It cost about $6.00. Not bad, huh?