Sewing FO: Devil's cupcake skort

After a massive shopping expedition to the fabric store with the girls, I came back and promptly cut out the pieces for this skirt. Which then sat for most of a week before they actually got put together.

Pattern: Simplicity 5531
Fabric: ??? Some cotton with cupcakes that Herself fell in love with. I bought 0.8 m of fabric, and had plenty left over.

This pattern was super easy. Two back pieces, two front pieces, one skirt flap. Sew together, hem, put in some elastic and you're good to go. There's supposed to be a button on the front, at the top of the skirt panel, but I couldn't find my button jar, and Dev was quite insistent that she put it on Right. Now. So...no button, but all is well.

I made the size 6, and there's plenty of room in there, both length and width-wise. If I'm really lucky, she can maybe wear this next summer too. Provided it isn't too devastated that is. And after such a quick and easy project, I got inspired to do this:

Cutting the pieces is always the toughest part of sewing for me - it takes so damn long! But after three hours hard work yesterday morning, I now have all the pieces cut out for their dresses. Expect more sewing FOs in the next little while!

Wiktory!

I know the standard is "pix or it didn't happen", but it's almost midnight and pictures will have to wait until tomorrow. But let the record show that at 11:32 pm GMT on 24 April, 2010, I finished spinning a veritable marathon of purple singles. Hooray!

In a week or so, I'll start the UltraMarathon of 2 stage plying. But for the moment, I think I'll celebrate by spinning something completely different.

Or maybe I'll knit something...

Almost there!

Here's the progression of my spinning week:

Monday night,

By Thursday night,

As of right now (6:00 pm GMT on Friday):

This is all that's left.

I am ahead of schedule, and I'm finishing tomorrow if it kills me.

ETA: I forgot to put in this picture of where I was spinning today:

Countdown

OK, started off with 4.5 oz of purple fiber for my Vine Yoke cardigan left on Monday afternoon.

Monday night: 3.8 oz (watched Fantastic Four, which was ok)

Tuesday night: 3.1 oz (watched FF sequel, which was rubbish)

So, at the rate of 0.7 oz/2 hours, I should be down to 2.4 oz or less tonight, and 1.7 oz tomorrow night. Friday night is off because Himself and I are going on a date for the second time in eight days (!) and will be at a wine tasting. So saturday night I'll be down to 1 oz to go, which means I should be able to bust out the last ounce on Sunday. And that would set me up for starting to ply the next weekend, but we'll be out of town for part of it, so I'll aim for starting to ply on Bank Holiday Monday (aka May 3rd). I'm hoping that the plying will go a bit faster then the spinning, because four months is already too long to spend on one spinning project. Seriously!

Growing

There are definitely lots of things growing around here at the moment. Camellias,

Magnolias,

Tulips,

Laptop bags,

Cherry blossoms,

Pitcher plants,

Handspun sweaters,

and children.

Given the last, I'm embarking on another craft for a few days - sewing new summer dresses for the girls.

You'll be glad to know, however, that there are some things that are shrinking around here, i.e. my massive ball of purple top.

I'm now down to only 4.5 ounces to go. And since I'm imposing a moratorium on knitting for the next few days (my wrist is acting up again), I'm hoping against hope that it will get finished this week. Then I'll take a week or so before embarking on Neverending Plying.