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May 10, 2008

A New Summer Skirt

Now all I need is summer to get here. It's in the 30s today and I'm just ready for spring. Although today is graduation at the University, so I shouldn't be surprised - the weather sucks every year.

I spent all last week in Indianapolis at a conference on fundraising. I learned a lot, but came home yesterday exhausted. I guess that's the price I pay for living in a hotel for 5 days. Before I left I managed to make myself a new summer skirt - mostly because I wanted some cotton skirts for summer but I refuse to pay the crazy prices for them (and I wanted to take at least one on my trip to Indy). Anyway, I have a pattern that I've used before, so I just whipped up another one with some cotton fabric from the quilt shop.

I didn't line this skirt, so I used french seams to finish it.

And I put an invisible zipper in rather than the regular zipper suggested by the pattern.

This pattern is really simple and I like how it fits so I think I'll make at least one more skirt for the summer. After that I'm going to have to try something new.

Otherwise I haven't done a lot of crafting. I didn't knit anything while I was in Indianapolis. I just went to class, ate dinner, and vegged in my room - oh, there was a tiny bit of shopping too. Of course. I'm feeling kind of blah about my knitting right now, but I think we're going to start a knitting group at work, so I think that will help me get back into the swing of things. I have a couple of projects that I really like, but I just don't seem to be making time to work on them. All in good time I guess.

Tomorrow we're taking my mom to brunch for Mother's Day, which is always fun. And she's decided she wants to make a couple of skirts but wants me to help her. I'm not sure I'm qualified for that, but we'll see. It might go alright or it could be a complete disaster. My other plans for the weekend include baking some cinnamon rolls (what's the consensus on pictures? yes or no?), doing laundry, and maybe sewing a simple summer top that I have cut out. We'll see how productive I am tomorrow.

Steph