With the week I've had, I'm just amazed I got something sewn.
It's been an odd week around here. Some snippets:- Getting my hand in the way of my sewing machine needle arm while sewing these pants and completely busting it up. The machine, not my hand (why? why? at least my hand would have healed!!!).
- In the Staples parking lot on the way home from dropping off said machine for repair, trying to wrestle a 60" wide plastic carpet guard (the kind that protects carpet from the rollers on the bottom of desk chairs) to my car in what felt like hurricane-force wind. That thing was surprisingly aerodynamic. For every five steps toward the car, getting blown seven steps back (why do I always find myself in these Charlie Chaplin-type scenarios?).
- Getting in the car turning the key in the ignition, and finding the battery dead.- Looking totally disgusted and throwing up my hands when the perfectly-coifed Stepford Mom who I ask to help me jump my car looks back at me (in front of her perfectly-coifed high-school daughter) and says, "Um...can't you call Triple A to do that?" My response (concocted a day too late in my head, of course): "It must be wonderful to live in a world where you think everyone has Triple A."
- Driving home as the dashboard begins to light up like a Christmas tree with every single stinking warning light on the bridge that's down to one lane on the busiest street in the city, realizing that I have no transmission, no blinker, no gas pedal. Total Car Failure. I miraculously managed to roll it into a gas station parking lot next to a vegetable stand and walk home. {Turns out the oil valve had been leaking into the engine and the alternator failed, for all you mechanics-turned-sewists who are reading and want to know what happened, hee}So anyway, repairing the two most important machines in my life seems to have sucked up quite a bit of my time this week. It's surprising how much, actually. All I can say is, thank goodness for 59,334 miles on the odometer with a 60K warranty on the car. Sheesh. Now if only that sewing machine repair had been covered by warranty.
I had two projects to show you that I had sewn for myself last week that I'm super-excited about but I guess those will just have to wait until next week. I did manage to finish the Treasure Pocket Pants for Elliot and I la-la-love them! Thankfully he does too (and as you can see, has his own unique way of styling them in an outfit). Thanks for all of you who put in your two cents on what I should make, it seemed like a bunch of you liked this Marine print with the navy for the pants, so I went with it and I couldn't be happier with the combination!
Have a great weekend everyone!