Mistress of Knitting: gardening

Well, I finished typing the play, so I can now focus on my own projects! Susan was so surprised that I had already finished (it's 82 pages, and I started it on Tuesday), and she doesn't even have the money for me yet, but I don't care. It's done, that's all that I am concerned about. I hate having all these obligations piled up.

Anyway, that leaves me time to get more work done on my dress and on stuff for Christian. Although Kelly is getting exasperated by the onslaught of clothes that my mother continues to buy, so she's not exactly going to need or want a ton of stuff for Christian. (My mom won't listen to reason and refuses to stop buying clothes, hahaha. Not that I am any better, I guess, because I bought him another outfit yesterday along with plain onesies to decorate and I'm working on more longies for him.)

Here are the longies so far. I normally would have these finished already, but obviously I've been doing a bunch of stuff at once. I'm just about at the cuff on the first leg. What kind of cuff do I want to do? I'm thinking hemmed, but I don't know. It's a little more work than just a seed stitch or ribbed cuff, but I like the way it looks better.

I made some progress on the dress also. I've completed 10 of 33 steps. I unfortunately misplaced the standard presser foot for my sewing machine some time ago. I searched everywhere for it last night but still can't find it. I can vaguely remember it getting mixed up with something I tossed in the closet a long time ago and thinking at the time that I would never be able to find it again, but I could be imaging that. Anyway, I cleaned out the closet last night and still have yet to locate it. Hopefully I can keep using the zipper foot which is what I've been doing. The next step involves sewing gathers, which I loathe. I think it's only two so that's not too bad. The dress I made for my mom last year was like 3000 gathers and so annoying. So I could have done that last night but decided to tear the house apart searching for the missing part, which I never found. I can't find anything in this house. I need someone to come organize my life. Anyone?

Anyway, here is the dress so far. The bodice is finished, and the lining is attached, although you can't really see it here. You should be able to tell that the top edge is finished now after having sewn in the lining, and the straps are attached. There are a few minor...not really mistakes, but imperfections, I guess. As usual. No big deal though.

Mother Nature has also been working diligently. Aren't tulips the best? :)

I finished the first Paramour sock! I didn't really take pictures of how to do the toe, so hopefully my explanation (coming up soon, hopefully) will suffice. If not, I can take pictures on the second sock.

I'm not sure when I will get to the second sock, because I realized this weekend that the dress I intend to sew but previously had no reason to finish or anywhere to wear it, will be perfect for Christian's baptism sometime next month. So I will have to get to work on that. There are 33 steps that I need to complete. I know once I get going, I usually end up doing like 8 steps in one day, and I hope that is the case this time because I also promised someone that I would type an 82-page screenplay by the middle of May. So between the typing project and the sewing project, I expect to be busy, although I always over-estimate how long things are going to take (this is why I am perpetually early to arrive anywhere), so who knows, maybe I will be done with both by next week.

I have one other quick project to show off. I tend to wear jeans until they literally fall apart, rather than going through the trouble of finding new ones that fit perfectly. So instead of throwing them away, I started sewing patches in them. I have a pair that really, really needs the patches redone, but that's a project for another day. Today I did two small patches in another pair, which came out pretty cute: