I’ve been wearing my new shorts and loving them. Lov-ing them.

I managed to finish the new Lisette Market Skirt as well (Simplicity 0449 according to my package, but Simplicity 2211 according to the Lisette web site). Very cute. And very easy. Except when my machine decided to forget how to set the tension half-way through. Urgh. Gave me such fits for the last half of this project. But it’s done!

I like the detail stitching at the seams. This skirt is made of 6 panels. I opted for an invisible zipper on the side instead of a regular one. For the waist you just stitch on bias tape to the right side, turn it to the inside, and stitch it down. Couldn’t be easier.

No pictures of my modeling it, though. My fashion photographer is working these days.

Yes, the back is actually longer than the front. Every skirt I buy from a store hangs shorter in the back because of my bum, so when I make a short skirt myself, I can actually make it longer so that when I’m wearing it, it hangs evenly.

I am very close to finishing my first knitted sweater, and hope to get that done soon. Unfortunately, I may have to take a hiatus from the summer wardrobe sewing, just when I was hoping to crank out several more things. This is due to 1) my sewing machine’s tension has gone way off and nothing I have tried has fixed it. I think it’s going to have to go into the shop, and I just can’t do what I want to do with my old machine (like faux overlock the seams, etc.).

And 2) it looks like I’m going to be doing a web site over the next few weeks and there is a pretty tight deadline. So, there won’t be a lot of time for sewing, especially not if most of my time is spent ripping out crappy stitching with bad tension.

So, this may be a good time to take the old machine in for a spa treatment. And without my machine and the addition of a web site to conjure up, I might not be posting here as much as usual. Oh, and my father’s quilt is done at the Amish quilter’s, so it will be returning to me shortly to put the binding on. Which I would like to finish before my parents visit in mid-August.

I thought I didn’t have anything going on all summer and could just make myself a new wardrobe. What happened to that??