Now he dons his cold weather apparel:

Ruth | Rosa Dear

I love this song. I love this video. :)

Sew excited.

Tomorrow I start on a new ensemble. I've also gotten a skirt commission, and if that goes well, I plan to run up some more skirts and sell them on Etsy. 

I've had this gold silk dupioni for maybe 6 years, and it's time to finally start working fabric I have on hand. I think these fabrics look great together.  I'm making a cape of the boucle, and the silk will be the lining. This should be fun. 

Sunday, Puppy Sunday: ginger furballs

My sweet pups are tired after a day of autumn sunshine out back. :)

I'm sew happy.

I made a dirndl to wear to a friend's Oktoberfest this fall, and it turned out alright. It's by far the most elaborate garment (or set of garments) I've made with some of the more difficult elements. I  ran up a muslin of the bodice, then had to re-draft two pieces to make it fit properly. I ended up with a halfway decent fit that looked pretty authentic. The main fabric featured dachshunds, and I was pretty pleased with the outcome, hobbled as I was by a clunky sewing machine with only a single stitch at only a single length in its repertoire. 

To my delight, a dear friend gave me a whizz-bang sewing machine for my birthday. I vowed to get past mid-terms before cracking into a new garment to sew, so I could get through mid-terms. I have, like, about 20 things I want to make right away. I'm sew excited!

A bolt through the heart

That Dickens crafted sentences 154 years ago that caused the loosening of the bolt holding close my heart is nothing shy of mind-blowing. 

Sunday, Puppy Sunday: road tripping houndies

Praline likes to help drive. 

Walk turkey

There sure are a bunch of turkeys walking around here. 

Puppy Monday

Could Praline be any prettier?

No sooner had I set up this basket for lap quilts did Praline claim it for dog-kind. 

Sorry I missed my Puppy Sunday post, but I'm insanely busy with school. 

I love Spanish, but it's challenging, to put it mildly. 

Cheers!

Sunday, Puppy Sunday: Chuy is a computer assistant

Chuy would prefer to be between All The Hoomans and their computers. See what a tech whiz he is?

Dirndl blouse

Making an ensemble for Oktoberfest from fabrics I had on hand. I love this dotted Swiss handkerchief weight fabric, and this is for the blouse. I don't have a ruffle foot, so I improvised and just tried to be uniform in feeding extra fabric every other stitch. The ruffle alone took an hour just to gather up. It's not perfect, but it's still going to be cute, I think!

The sleeves will go on tomorrow and I'll finish it probably tomorrow night. :)

Sunday, Puppy Sunday: drowsy babushka pup

Mochi loves to burrow, especially near bedtime. :)

Well, that's done. Again. For now.

My tires wore out so quickly it was astonishing. I had a nice set of Michelins with 90,000 mike warranty, and barely eked out 47,000 on them. The new set is on now. Going for alignment this week, and hopefully I can see a few more miles on this bunch. 

On the penultimate (I hope) triple digit day of the year...

...I have to say that if there's an up-side to living in a ridiculously hot place, it's that I can put an entire basket of clothes on the line to dry at 6PM, and they'll be dry and toasty before the sun goes down. I love the smell of line-dried textiles, and I also love saving electricity. It gets me out of the house some days when I'd rather not, perhaps, and that's good, too. 

It was 102F today, and tomorrow is forecast for 100, but Wednesday is forecast for a positively frigid 90F. 

Fetch me my parka, Jeeves!

As summers go, this one hasn't been brutal, but I will not be sorry to see the back of it.