Voile! Good God, Y’all. What Is It Good For?

Say it again.

 

May.  Busy.  So very busy.

Last week we attended two-- no wait, three-- no wait, two birthday parties. No wait, it was four.  Plus a block party.  And the Evil Monkeys had three, no four, school field trips between them. 

Plus the cat has irrevocable fleas from, apparently, the massive invasive flea colony living under our house (and therefore apparently not the fault of our neighbor kid).  So that's only cost us $300 and hundreds of hours deal with so far. 

Plus there are the ten other birthday/soccer/end-of-school/let’s- celebrate-something-totally-mundane-and-ordinary parties we've attended or will attend this month.  Plus TLo's 'graduation' from Kindergarten.  Plus, swimming season has begun.  We must now swim with the Evil Monkeys at least four times a week.  Or their heads will explode.  Or something.

I hate May.  I have not sewn anything for at least a week and a half.

 

I hate May.

In a completely unrelated story:

I have at least three pieces of voile in my stash.  Purchased because I loved the pattern or the color.  But what the heck do you make with voile?  It's sort of... oddly crisp.  Weirdly drapey.  Ever so slightly... scratchy.

So today I got the link to Fabric.com's monthly free pattern download from HotPatterns.  Here it is:

 

It's a cover-up.  But I'm thinking I might just try it out as a top.  Which means I have to make a camisole to go under it.

So that's: 1) fit and make a top from voile, 2) fit and make at least one camisole from knit, 3) use my superpowers to find six extra hours in every day that no one knew about before.

It could happen.  Although since my superpower is, apparently, an astonishing ability to whine and an ability to project abject panic in the face of insect infestation, I'm not totally sure yet how that's going to work.  The details are a little... hazy.

I Am Not Famous

Remember how I said the construction industry is dead?  There is no industry zombie action.  It's still dead.

So here's a game I started playing this week whilst trying to stay awake at work.  It's called "Putting The Names of People I Know Into The Wikipedia Search Engine". 

I had no idea that I know so few Famous People.  So far they include:

• Big In Japan, for being a SUPERSTAR

• my grandfather, as the publisher of a whole bunch of books listed under other people's entries

• his brother, for starting one of the first discount supermarket chains in the US

• a guy I went to grad school with, for making (what I personally have always considered to be) somewhat-ridiculous-but-very-successful art

• my professor from grad school, for being a famous artist (and hence a professor in a grad school)

• probably a bunch of other people related to my going to school, if I could be bothered to remember their names which apparently I can't (etc etc etc)

• The Husband's cousin, for being a professional cricket player

I clearly don't hobnob enough.  Or possibly I should learn to remember people's names more routinely.

Although I will say there are apparently many many people not in Wikipedia who probably could be.  Maybe it's not that I don't hobnob.  Maybe they need better publicists. 

And can I also just say: When, oh when, will they start selling HobNobs  in the US?  Huh?  WHEN?  Will the madness never end?!?

So.  Who do you know?

In Which I Maybe Did Not Miss My Calling

Hypothesis:

I can draft patterns.

Prediction:

This will result in highly attractive and well-fitting garments, plus provide hours of entertainment.

Experiment:

Sleeveless Tunic #1, Basic Body Block (Revised): Pattern

 

Sleeveless Tunic #1, Basic Body Block (Revised): Garment

 

Sleeveless Tunic #1, Basic Body Block (Revised): Photo

Sleeveless Dress #2, Basic Body Block (Revised): Pattern

--forgot to take photo--

 

Sleeveless Dress #2, Basic Body Block (Revised): Garment

--forgot to take that photo too--

 

Sleeveless Dress #2, Basic Body Block (Revised): Front

 

Sleeveless Dress #2, Basic Body Block (Revised): Back

Conclusion:

I am not very good at generating hypotheses.  It’s probably good that I didn’t go into molecular biology after all.  I think they sort of expect you to be able to do that type of thing.

 

PS.   Angie A, The Other Kristine, Judy and BigInJapan: thank you for the birthday wishes!  xox