Two sleeves for the little star sweater. Had to knit these together right away as I am apparently too lazy to write down any of my pattern changes. In addition to changing the size I'm also changing the cast off, but I still can't be bothered to write it down. I changed the cast off because I've sort of declared an unofficial summer vacation from picking up stitches to do neckbands and such. Since these raglan sweaters have such straight edges, I thought I could simply make the cast off rows nice enough to use as the neck. I liked the cast off edging that the Pagan tank used (pick up stitches on right side, cast off on wrong side) and so am using that same idea here. But instead of picking up later, I'm just casting off on the wrong side whenever it says to cast off. Because the sleeves are striped raglan sleeves, I'm getting this cool striped cast off edge. I did the same thing on the baby version of the sweet heart sweater and was pleased with the result.

Don't be surprised to see the sweet heart sleeves soon. It's either do them right away or write the numbers down somewhere. Just another way to motivate myself to do something, I guess!

I've been so excited about my knitting projects this week, that I forgot to take time out to do some sewing. Thus, the summery projects haven't progressed that much since I pinned out the pattern pieces last week. All I've done is cut out the pieces and baste the side seams of the skirt together to check the fit.

I made it to the fabric store, though. I picked up this fun Butterick pattern, which I saw on pknitty's blog (love that name!). Originally I wanted to knit the Cleo top from the summer Knitty. I swatched a lot of yarns from my stash but couldn't find anything that really worked at that gauge, so when I saw the sewing pattern, I thought, heck, I should just sew one. Now I have to buy some fabric for it. I have cotton prints in my stash, but the pattern calles for georgette. Do you think I could try it with cotton??

Finally, my best find at the fabric store was this ribbon, which will perfectly top off my tiny tank.

All weekend long.

It all started when I took the boys to the library for the first time on Friday. They're still not ready for following a story book, but I wanted to introduce them to the library and see if it might be some place we can go on rainy days, etc. While the boys played (together!) with one of those little toys where you push beads along loopy tracks, I read them a cute little book called The Teeny Tiny Teacher. Everything in the story is teeny tiny this and teeny tiny that and I had such a blast saying teeny tiny over and over that it sort of stuck.

Teeny tiny knitting couldn't be far behind. First, I knit this teeny tiny mousie for Wendy's new charity mouse-a-thon project.

I used the yarn in a pouch that someone brought in to Knitsmiths a few weeks ago. It's wool and I've only got the one teeny tiny pouch, so what else am I going to do with it but make lots of teeny tiny mice?!

Then in the car, in the dark, on the way back from visiting friends I knit a teeny tiny swatch for the Phildar top. It's teeny tiny cause I hate to swatch and so stopped just as soon as I could convince myself that I got my teeny tiny gauge (3.5mm needles - eeeeeek!). I'm so proud of how nicely it came out considering I couldn't see anything.

And then there's the teeny tiny tank. Front's done.

And teeny tiny it is. With only the already blocked back piece to compare it to, the front looked even teeny tinier. But I was able to block it out to a similar size as the back. Keep your fingers crossed for a not too teeny tiny tank tomorrow!

Thanks for all your crossed fingers out there - tiny tank is just my size. It's a bit shorter than I'm used to, but only bothers me when I've got the low riders on. After sewing up the sides, slipping the tube on and fiddling with the ribbon for about 40 minutes to get it the right length, I realized that I had no idea how I was ever going to get it off! Yup, the thing fits so well, that there's no extra wiggle room for getting in and out. I've got to do that almost double-jointed arms straight above your head dance to get it on. Once it's on though it's so comfy, it's like naked comfy. And then I need a spotter again to get it off. Hey, nobody said looking good would be easy!

I finally tackled a scripting problem I've been having on the blog with my cookies not remembering anyone's info on the comment screen. I'd tried several times to figure out what was wrong with the so-called "bake cookie" scripts, but frankly, what I don't know about cookies is A LOT! All I knew is that I couldn't ever get it to work for me. And I had almost convinced myself that I was the only one troubled by this little glitch, but then Marg let me know in my comments on Monday that she was having the same problem when visiting my blog. Alas, it seems the code was eating up all the cookie dough before it could be baked.

So I searched and tinkered, checked and rechecked, tried and retried, and rebuilt and finally, finally figured out the problem with the old oven here. Everything should be in working order and for the price of a comment, you too can enjoy a blue blog cookie. Yum!

Inspired by my virtual success, I decided to whip up a batch of cookes irl, as they say.

No, not from scratch! Seriously, what I don't know about baking cookies is a lot.

Peppermint sleeves for the pipsqueaks' sweetheart sweater.

It was nice to finally get some knitting done! After working just on cookies for the last couple of days, I was happy to sit down with the needles again. The all seasons cotton is still a genuine pleasure to work with, but I have to say that my love affair is coming to its conclusion. I'm less excited about knitting tiny tops in cotton and want more and more to start fall projects. These sweaters for the boys are a nice transition project. Cotton, long sleeves, perfect for those first chilly days. I'm looking forward to them already. And to some yummy projects I've got planned, like this, this, this, and this. Sweet!

I promised Michelle an update on native, but instead of working on it as planned, I jumped right ahead and started the sweet heart sweater. I just got jazzed by getting those sleeves done. Plus, the back is all simple stockinette, so it made for perfect tv knitting while watching Amazing Race. (Alas, simple stockinette in light grey is does not make for an exciting picture, so you'll have to go without today.) Gotta go read Terri's run down of the show now. Have a good weekend! I promise to work on native and show you my progress next week.

I think I've figured out what is keeping me from jumping into my sewing like I do with my knitting. It's the ironing. I absolutely love cutting out the pattern pieces, pinning them on the fabric and then cutting everything out - I really enjoy the pieces with their neat cutting lines and the pins all in a row (could you tell by the number of pattern piece photos I've posted?). And I like the actual sewing - a side seam, a hem, even a casing for elastic. But I hate all the "press down 1/4 in. here and then fold over and press again" sort of stuff. How annoying is that? Sew a little seam, stand up and do some tedious, intricate foldy-pressy thing, then sew another little seam. Just makes me want to get my knitting needles and do stockinette in front of the tv for an hour or two!

So this week, I tried to make friends with the iron. My first project wasn't sewing at all, but a bit of crafty, iron-on fun. Remember when I was dreaming of knitting Joe sweaters for the boys? Well, I still want to do that. I've got two more sweaters planned for the boys before I get to those, but I figure they'll still be watching Blue's Clues in two years! Anyway, the character they really love is Dora the Explorer and you cannot find any Dora clothes or accessories that are for boys. I'm not a huge stickler about boy colors and such, but everything Dora is pink AND ruffly AND covered in flowers. That's a little much for even the most open-minded mom. So I made up some little iron-ons and bought some cheap shirts at Old Navy, and voila: boys like Dora too!

And here's the back. The boys love them!

After doing the Dora shirts and making some headway on the native sweater (check it out!), I managed to almost finish sewing my stripey skirt. Step one on the skirt was iron on interfacing over buttonholes (now you can see why I waited so long!). I picked up the iron, since it was out, and got to work. Then sewed up the side seams, the hem and even added a bit of lace to the bottom. All that's left are the fiddly little drawstrings. I should have finished pics for next week's update. I really like how it came out and I'll probably start wearing it even though I still have to deal with the ties. Good thing the rest is finished, cause I'm done ironing for this week!

Last week I decided to cast on for the first of my phildar projects. I wanted to start the short-sleeved sweater for the next knitalong - so far poor Clémence is knitting along all by herself. I cast on according to my gauge, knit "happily" off and on for a few days (quotes are due to the decrease in happiness effected by the teeny tiny gauge), and it looks like it should fit my boys just perfectly. Unfortunately, it's for me. So what I have now is the world's largest swatch. Uggggh! I've put it aside and will be ripping out the first (apparently useless) swatch so I can start again from that ball. I just can't bring myself to rip out all those teeny tiny stitches yet.

But since I'm ripping and starting over.... what do you think of the idea of carrying along some sort of complementary sparkly yarn, like Rowan's Lurex Shimmer or Phildar Sunset? For some reason, I feel the need to make the lilac more interesting (like this pattern here).

Regardless of what I decide, there will be no knitting on the Phildar top this week, because I am now in full-on deadline mode with native. I'm knitting the native sweater for my mom and she's coming up this weekend (just a few days before her birthday) and I'm trying to get it done by then. Ha, ha! Plan B is to at least get the knitting done (weaving in ends later) and sew up the front and back pieces so it finally starts looking like a sweater and mom can try it on. The race against the calendar is on!

The Phildar filly is going to have to hold her horses.

Just can't get enough intarsia, I guess. Here's the front of the sweet heart sweater, modeled by B, who will only let me try things on him while Dora is on. I'm trying to squeeze in a bit of knitting and finishing on these pipsqueak sweaters between long sessions with native. I even got the little star sweater all sewed up at Knitsmiths on Sunday.

Awww. I've still got all the ends to weave in though. And as the ends on native will be plenty to keep me busy for a while, I'm not sure how motivated I'll be to complete the finishing on these right away. More baby knits for the finish-me pile, I guess.

And finally, here's B enjoying the cookie recipe that Marg shared in the comments on Wednesday.

Awww. (Thanks, Marg!)

I'm making progress on your native sweater. I'm up to the armholes on the front. Getting excited?!

(For those of you who are not my mother, check out the latest finished knit-along projects: Maggi's Smooch, Jackie's Chickami, and Inga's Smooch. Way to go, girls!)

And my reward for being so good: the back of the ribby cardie! You didn't think I'd forget about the ribby cardie, now did you? It goes so fast, it's the perfect break from all that crazy chart-reading and color-changing going on with native.

Ribby reckoning:
completed: one sleeve, one front panel, and the back (all to armhole begin)
skeins used: 5 1/2
skeins remaining: 7 1/2

This week the knitalong begins and the other ribby girls will be joining in I hope. Watch out, girls - as soon as native is finished, I'm all over that cardie!

Speaking of native:

I call this, self portrait in knitty tee weaving in ends.

Welcome to Kerrie's sleep over party. Just one of the many festivities Kerstin has cooked up for our favorite knitblogger before her wedding (in two weeks!). And here's our guest of honor, joining us virtually in her pj's.

Yeah, we were doing a little knitting before you all got here. But now that you're here, let the fun begin!

Did you know that you can rearrange the letters of "Kerrie and Wayne" to spell "naked yarn were I"? Well, now you do. And speaking of getting naked with some yarn, why don't we start the evening by trying on some crocheted thongs?! Come on, it'll be fun! We have to find a good one for Kerrie (hen party = panty her). Perhaps this one would do for our blushing bride.

Now we know why she's blushing! And our purple pixie, hostess with the mostest should definitely have this one. I think I prefer this one. Who's gonna try on this one?

So what should we do now that we've got our sexy underwears on? Let's knit! Here's a pattern from White Lies Designs designer, Joan McGowan-Michael, for a knitted thong. And we can't forget about the guys. I've got the pattern to make willie warmers! I know you brought your needles. But did anyone bring the Barbie knitting machine??

Well, we're off to knit a bit in our fancy underwear. All of you staying up tonight, check back in two hours for an update from the slumber party!

(we're havin' a party in the comments box!)

Hey, you're back! While you were gone, we've been having lots of fun knitting and making up funny anagrams. Did you know that the letters in slumber party can be rearranged to form rumply breast? You do now. And where can we find the best rumply breasts around? Why Cosmo, of course.

We have GOT to take Cosmo quizzes right now!

So which Sex and the City personality are you? I'm most like Charlotte. Apparently I'm "refreshingly naive" and my dream man is "Superman with a trust fund." Actually, that does sound pretty good. (Tee hee.) What did you get?

Which one of you is the biggest flirt out there? Who's completely boy crazy? And I don't want to hear about anyone answering "scarf" to #8 on this quiz.

Now Kerrie, we know you're ready to settle down and wedding obsessed already, but how risque are you in the bedroom? Inquiring minds want to know! (Giggle.)

I'll be back in two hours with another update and you better have taken that quiz by then! (wink, wink.) And if no one's looking, check out the Cosmo guy candy gallery too!

Yum.

(girl talk, this way to the comments...)

Oh hell, it's too late for anagrams. It's pizza time! There was some discussion of making prank calls, but by the time I got the phone book out the girls decided we should just call for pizza.

And, there's the doorbell. Pizza's here!

The pizza guy wasn't the quite the cutie we were hoping for. Too bad. He certainly hit the jackpot though, delivering pizza to a gaggle of girls wearing crocheted thongs! Still, to hear him tell it, being a pizza delivery guy isn't as sexy as you'd think.

News flash! Whoops, busted. (hee. hee.)

Gotta get some slices before the girls eat 'em all up. See ya in two hours!

(don't bogart the comment box, dude.)

It is, like, you know, sooo late. Like, what are you doing still awake? Okay, so d'ya'wan'know what we're doing? We're acting like valley girls. Fer sure!

So, here's what you do. Go here and type in the URL of one of your daily reads and you can read it valley girl style. Oh my gawd. Like start at your own blog and surf the knitbloggers ring through the valley girl site. It's like totally cool.

Here's like something from our bitchin' bride yesterday:
"So Kerstin asked what to drink: like, fer sure, it totally has to be Sex on the Beach? I am so sure!"

Fer sure, girl! Like, totally have another.

An eBay Knitting listing:
"Lion TERRYSPUN Citron Knitting Yarn 480 YDS! Like, oh my god!"

Gag me with a spoon!

CNN headlines:
"Officials not like, fer sure about what caused outage"
"Judge totally won't remove commandments"

From the White House:
"In speaking to military personnel and families Thursday, President Bush said, 'I'm honored to be in the presence of the hunks and skanks who wear our nation's uniform. I'm proud of you, and I want to thank you for your service to our totally awesome country.'"

And now you should like, so make your way to Kerstin's site for the rest of this bitchin' party, but valley girl style please. Fer sure!

(like, totally leave a comment, okay?)

What a wild night! I hope you all had fun at Kerrie's slumber party. I have to thank my husband for putting together the so-called automatic slumber party update system, which took over for a couple of hours there when I nodded off. Still, I'm beat! It is definitely a hat and sunglasses kind of day for me today.

In addition to partying, I got some wild knitting done. I finished the front of native and even spent some of the party last night weaving in the ends.

Now to sleep off this headache and then sew the wild beast together!

Side seams sewn...

and it looks like I've made mom a Mexican poncho sin fringes. Guess I should get those sleeves on.

I took my mom to the yarn store during her visit and we went a little crazy.

Apparently my mother has VERY good taste in yarns. When I'm browsing in the store, I always manage to fall for the luxury, designer yarns that go for $12 a ball (see below). It's a curse! Well, mom saw some yarn that she absolutely loved (all knit up in a baby sweater) and just had to have it. Colinette Fandango, thank you very much.

Ahh, like daughter, like mother. Now we needed a pattern. I remembered flipping through Sally Melville's The Knit Stitch once and seeing a lot of stylish, loose fitting sweaters that I thought my mother would like. We settled on the asymmetrical vest (less yarn!!), which she wants done in stockinette. So I'll be redoing the pattern. If she'll love it, I'll do it. (It'll be a breeze compared to native, which by the way will be appearing as an f.o. this week!).

And then we picked up a little something for me. I've been dreaming of making something in pink. I've had a pattern in mind for a few weeks and have been poking around for the right yarn. And I still have that pale blue cotton that I won at the Granite State Knit In, which I wanted to turn into something oh so lovely with 3/4 sleeves. So, I just happen to see the Chaise pattern in Jo Sharp's new book, The Holiday Island, show it to mom and she says I have to make it. Any idea what yarn I want to use? I didn't remember the Granite State yarn right away and so we picked out some of the Noro Cash Iroha. In the prettiest pink.

*Light bulb moment.* Use the Cash Iroha in the winter sweater and the pale blue yarn for Chaise. Three new projects in one trip. I'm one happy knitter!

So, I took a little break last week from my sewing updates (and my sewing!), as I was completely focused on finishing up native for my mom's birthday (stay tuned, this week). Last week, I promised a picture of my stripey skirt and I wouldn't want it to get around that I don't keep my promises. So here it is, still without the drawstring ties.

Elsewhere in the land of project overload, I cast on for my holiday island sweater (aka, Chaise). I love the name of that Jo Sharp book and the soft, cool blue cotton that I'm using seems to fit the island theme so nicely. I'm most curious to see how I'll feel about the 3/4 length sleeves. I have two other 3/4 length sleeve projects planned for fall, so I hope I still love the idea when I'm done.

Happy birthday today to my mother! A card. Okay, I got you a little something else besides the card.

Your sweater! I hope you enjoy it so much that you eventually wear holes into it. That would make me very happy.

I finished the sweater over the weekend in time for mom to take it home with her after her visit. It fits exactly the way she likes (action shot!) and the colors look great on her, so I guess I did good. Well, except for the minor issue of it being a year later than promised. Heh, heh. You see, I wrapped up the yarn for this project and gave it to my mother for Christmas 2001. I promised her a finished sweater for her birthday in 2002. Whoops! I'll try to do better with the fandango vest, ma.

Isn't it nice to have a knitter in the family?

Finished up the two remaining pieces of the ribby cardie. I told you knit-along gals that I was all over this once I got native done! That means I'm ready to join them all together and start the yoke. Oh boy, oh boy. I'm really anxious to see how it all comes together.

Ribby reckoning:
completed: both sleeves, both front panels, and the back (all to armhole begin)
skeins used: 9
skeins remaining: 4

I need everyone to keep those fingers crossed for me on the yarn. I'm getting worried! Only a little under 4 skeins left and I'm just at the join. I've accepted that I'll have to use another yarn for the button bands and maybe the neck, but if I don't make it to the beginning of the neck, I'll have to rip back and shorten everything.

May the wise and powerful yarn-gods have mercy on this humble knitter.

Thanks to the monster sessions working on native, I fell behind on my plan to make a mousie every week for Wendy's mouse-a-thon, but I did get a second one made somwhere in there.

This one is in some pink scrap wool I got at our Knitsmiths yarn swap last fall. My first one came out a little small, so I doubled the yarn on this one and it's definitely more mousie size and mousie color. I still want to make a couple more and then they have to be stuffed. Better check that deadline again.

And now for something less cute. So, I'm wearing my tiny tank, I look down, and I see this. It's an open stitch sitting right there by the strap. Yikes! Don't know how I managed to miss that thing. Maybe I unlooped it when sewing in the yarn end there? For now, tiny tank is in the repair pile, although I have to say that it held together amazingly well. That Copacabana ribbon makes such a nice fabric that doesn't catch on things or get snagged at all. I just might risk wearing it again before I get around to sewing down that loop. Hmmm, better not.

And in more little annoyances, I spent a good hour and a half weaving in these rather large snags that B likes to pull out of his blankie. That's right, he enjoys doing this to me! There are still a few small snags to be repaired (only two inches of yarn pulled out compared to the foot-long snags I've already woven in). Better read through Matt's instructions again and find something good on tv.

Have a good weekend everyone. Don't let the little things get you down. Too much.

No new sewing to report so far this week. I hope to get the drawstrings finished for my skirt this afternoon, though. I've become a bit discouraged as regards the skirt: A) because I don't have any shoes to wear with it; and B) because someone mentioned "prairie" in one of the comments last week and all I can think of are those god-awful puffy sleeves and poofy prairie skirts that I wore when I was 13. A) is pretty easy to solve, I think, but B) may require my cutting off the lace.

Cutting off the lace and rehemming would be pretty scary, but if it comes to that, I'll try to follow the brave example set by my boys, who got their first haircut today! They really needed it. Until April, they had almost no hair, but once it started growing in, it didn't take long for it to get a bit outta control. Here's B before and S, whose hair was even longer and curlier than his brother's.

There were only a few tears shed at the beginning of the cut. Animal crackers, cartoons, and the realization that nothing bad was happening helped to calm their fears.

And now, no more hair in our eyes! Fuzzy heads rule!

Ribby r-anxiety was the name of the game last week. I was soooo running out of yarn on the yoke. I made it up to the beginning of the neck shaping just as I started my last skein. After double checking the pattern and seeing that I only I had eight more rows to go before the neck started, I thought I should just go for it and try to do the whole neck.

Whew! I have this much to spare. Now I can get to seaming up this big blue giant. I didn't want to seam anything before I knew that I had enough yarn. So now, it's green light for sewing.

Whoopee.

This is becoming a trend. I seem to have little odds and end to report each week. My little list for you this week.

I took a trip out the fabric store last week and picked up some snaps to put on the button bands of the sweet heart and little star sweaters. I decided to go with snaps after hearing the suggestion from Gina. It's a very functional way to close the neck and you can still attach decorative buttons on the outside of the button band if you want. How clever! I found some grosgrain ribbon to give the button bands a bit more hold so they can stand up to snapping and unsnapping.

I've spent the last few weeks at Knitsmiths seaming and weaving in all the ends on these sweaters, so now that I've got all the little finishing supplies, I'm ready to cross these babies off the list!

I also picked up a zipper for the ribby cardie. It should match the yarn (Manos!!) I'll be using for the button bands quite well. Makes me almost excited about picking up a few hundred stitches.

And in other little goings-on, I've been futzing around with my finished projects gallery. Check it out if you're bored!

Finished the FRONT of the Jo Sharp holiday island sweater. Yes, you heard right, the front.

For some reason they have you do the front first, with the whole complicated neckline and everything. I would just like to go on record as being con this idea. I like knitting the back (or the simplest piece) first so I can get a sense of the overall shape that the other piece should have before I tackle its additional shaping/patterning.

Another issue, there is a pretty blatant error in the pattern. They messed up the instructions for the armhole decreases and wrote all the WS decreases as if they were at the neck edge, which you can tell from the picture is not what's going on. Jo, jo, jo....

And another issue. All the patterns in this book seem to be the kind where neck shaping calls for plain-old K2tog and then "reverse shaping for other side". Using the K2tog on the first side creates a little border at the neck edge (you can see it happening here in this pattern pic). And if you don't know how to reverse the decreases, you don't even get that same border on the other side. In fact, you can tell in this version of the Chaise shell that the two edges of the neck are different. I wish patterns would help a bit more with these sorts of things (for example, the ChicKnits Ribby Cardie pattern gives suggestions for paired decreases that will form neat raglan lines. Thanks, Bonne Marie!). It looks like even the knitters making the samples for the Jo Sharp book did different things, since some of the sweaters have these borders at the neck and some don't, yet all of the instructions either say "K2tog...reverse shaping" or simply "decrease at neck edge". Hmmm.... For the record, I went with a left-slanting decrease on the first side and K2tog on the other. No two-stitch wide borders at the curve of the neckline for me and I'm happy.

I really do like this pattern and the book, but after finding little annoyances and errors together, I worry that the average knitter may have problems with the pattern (like we all did with smooch) or not be satisfied with the resulting sweater. Which would really be a shame.

At least I now have the luxury of looking forward to the back. After this, it should be smooth sailing!

I swatched up the Noro Cash Iroha and it's a dream. The gauge I like is a bit larger than the pattern I'm thinking of, so I'll have to do more knit-math, but what's new.

I ended up knitting quite a large swatch, because I wanted to try out the pattern stitch that the pattern calls for. The swatch got even larger when I wasn't too taken with the bumpy texture of it in this already thick/thin yarn. Still, I really liked the diagonal look so I tried out a diagonal rib pattern I found in Vogue Knitting. And I'm tickled pink with it!

I wish I could come up with a way to justify starting this sweater now, but it is truly a winter sweater and I have plenty of fall projects to make and wear while the weather's still mild. At least I got to run my hands through the yarn a bit, though.

Labor day weekend has come, the last summer tank is done.
Boy, being a tank girl sure was fun!
There were striped tanks and plain tanks, boat necks and lace.
Some were knit along with friends and all at quite a pace.

Alas, with every seasons' change, the stash must be rearranged.
Summer cottons must away, while winter wools come out to play.
But wait, what's this? What do I find,
but two little knitting projects left behind.
This one has ladybugs all in a row,
and here's another giraffe jacket waiting to go.
Quick, make haste, don't delay!
Finish these sweaters right away.
'Cause fall won't wait
And these little guys are looking for their mates.

And now as sweater weather is drawing near,
I pause/pose in my tanks and what more do I hear?
Three-quarter length sleeves beckon to me
and it seems that a ribby has been reckoned (tee hee).
That makes four projects for semptember, you see.
And don't forget these two pipqueaks, silly!

Six projects to finish? Really so many!
Oh, if only it were October already!

(then I could start pinkie and teddy*!)

* - It's a secret! I simply cannot tell. If I even think about it, I'll have to start it right away.

Spent a few hours this evening going through all my fabric (I don't have that much!) and patterns, in an attempt to re-energize myself about my sewing projects. I came up with a plan to change my summer stripe skirt and planned out a few more projects for me and the boys.

I'm not really a to-do list kind of gal, but I'd hate to have wasted the last few hours. So here's my sewing list.

To do while it's still warmish:

1. finish groovy pajamas
2. finish dressy - I think I'll like her actually
3. re-do summer stripe skirt
4. sew up summer flower top - pieces already cut out
5. make some fun little purses with leftover material

Early fall projects:

1. boys jungle pants
2. beige knit shirt
3. light jacket - buy fabric for this one!
4. blue skirt
5. green skirt

Can you tell that I'm trying to wear more skirts? It seems to me like in the last five years or so, I plum forgot all about them. Odd. Anyway, I'll try to get some pictures together of patterns and fabric for next week's update. Now I'm getting excited again!