This Wasn't on the Agenda...

Yesterday I was looking for the brown fabric that I wanted to make my shorts out of. I have been looking for this for 2 days, and although I had it in my hand when I started my jacket, I can't figure out where I put it!! Well, in my search for the brown fabric, (2 different pieces, actually. How do you lose 2 pieces of fabric?) I ran across this top all cut out with the lace and buttons already in a baggie. I was having a really depressing day and needed some sewing therapy, so I got started on this. I love it when everything is already cut out with all the notions - kind of like a "kit"
I am not happy with the button holes in this blouse, in fact, I had to rip out and resew 3 of them! The sad thing is that the buttonholes were perfect, but I just could not get them in the right place to save my life. I guess I was not thinking straight, because I usually have not problem with the placement away from the edge, but these are just too far - even though I did several of them over. I do like the pintucks, though.



I used a 2.0 twin needle and a pintuck foot. I don't know that I needed the pintuck foot, because these are spaced far enough apart that I could not use the guides on the bottom of the foot anyway. I tightened the upper tension and stitched down the lines I had drawn with erasable pen. I then pressed them slightly to the outside.

Tomorrow I start my quilting class. I am so excited. Unfortunately, it is a six week class, and I am going to miss three of them. Our vacation is planned from a Monday to Monday and my class is on Mondays. Then, the other day, I found out that I have an all day medical proceedure scheduled for the Monday after that. I'm bummed that I'm going to miss 3 classes in a row. So, I'll make the first two and the last. I'm hoping they will let me come in during another scheduled class (if there is one by the same instructor) to make up some of the time. I'm not sure how many of these fabrics I'll use, but these are what I'm choosing from. I definitely want the main color to be red.