So, I had the day off yesterday and spent basically the ENTIRE DAY doing homework. It’s kind of ridiculous, I have to say. But I’m trying to make sure I don’t miss a deadline due to our trip to KY next week.

Yes, I live an 11-minute drive (according to Google) from the Santa Clara Convention Center, but, no, I am not going to the Pacific International Quilt Festival this weekend. You just can’t do everything.

Instead, I have managed a couple of small sewing projects today so far. I’ll let you be the judge of their success. First, I hemmed a recently-purchased pair of pants

I promise I hemmed the other leg after these pictures were taken. I would like to have had them a little longer, but I have to be able to wear them with lower heels as well, so this was the compromise.

My other project was Amy Butler’s Business Card Keeper that I recently found in her free patterns. I so need one of these for work! I sewed pockets into my suit jackets, but I don’t always wear the suits. I used some scraps of Denyse Schmidt’s Katie Jump Rope fabric.

Cute? Definitely. Functional? Well….the velcro doesn’t match up!

I think you can see it in this photo. It doesn’t match up. Not even a tiny bit, so this won’t stay closed at all. I was really surprised, as her patterns are always so detailed and precise. But I double checked and I definitely did it how it said. So, if you want to make one of these, you should put the velcro for the exterior front panel at 3 inches in from the left and 1 1/2 inches up (not 1 inch!). I’m thinking maybe I could take off the piece on the front and hand sew it back on in the correct location, but it’s too late to machine sew it. We’ll see how I feel about it. Anyone else have any other suggestions??

My other big Saturday fun is that tonight I am going to a Wardrobe Cocktails party where everyone brings their excellent condition clothing/shoes/accessories they don’t want and we swap! And eat Mexican food. And drink margaritas. Should be tons of fun!