 hopefully this isn't TMI. This is the white knit slip thing that I made to go under. A few of my dresses that are thin or knitted and it's like cotton knit. I'm really, those of you women out there who are menopausal understand they're not wanting to be in like nylon or anything. I want something that's cotton and breathable because you know, hello hot flash. And this, that's my Fitbit, the little black shadow. So anyway, that's the slip. This is the blue knit shift that I made yesterday with the slip on underneath. And I have to say I also have a proper bra on so it fits a little better. I mean the darts give it a little bit more shape but I'll show you the other one in just a minute. I don't think it, I think it's just fine without the darts and the darts are, I forgot how much of a pain in the neck darts are to make in a knit. So I just, yeah, I recut the pattern and I'm happy with to have it without them. But this is a really cute dress. I can see getting a lot of wear out of this even though I wasn't super crazy about this blue pattern when I bought it. Okay, this is the other one I just made today. This is a feather print fabric. We can get closer to the fabric print that I really like. I know the phones in the way but there you go. And this is it with the slip on underneath and this is why I decided to make the slips. I do own a couple of other dresses that are thin but this, this knit is pretty thin but it's also draping. Now this is recut without the darts in the bust line. I just added a little extra volume across where I know the bust line was going to be instead of putting the darts in. And I think it turned out just fine. If it's very similar to the, to the other one, I really like this dress. I can see making it in a bunch of different fabrics and getting a lot of wear out of them, especially in the warmer weather. So super cute. I should also say good afternoon. It is Sunday. I'm pretty sure it's not morning anymore. Nope, 12 29 p.m. lunchtime. I got the dress I just showed you done despite the fact of protests from Lily Bean because she doesn't like it when I'm upstairs. I don't know what it is about upstairs anyway. But I got it done which was my goal this weekend was to get the two slips and two dresses done so I got that done. I am going to leave the sewing stuff out for a while because I've got some of the shorter undershirts to do in black and gray. I think there's a blue one up there cut and I have one more other t-shirt thing cut out. It's our, there are all already cut out and I want to just get them made so there's no point in just having them sit there. So I'm going to work on that this week. That's going to be my goal this week is to get those done. Which means Lily and I are headed to the airport to pick up grandpa so I'm thinking Lily likes to people watch. She's been doing that since we got here. Interesting. I would say good morning but it's 1.02 p.m. so there's that. It is Monday August 9th I think. I think. I am headed out to the grocery store. Our house cleaning lady is here. She's really going through a rough time right now in her life and her business. She's by herself again which I know because I've done her job and I know exactly how hard that is. It's really hard. We have a big house which is why we've hired her but yeah it's anyway and there's other stuff going on which I won't get into because it's not my business but yeah I feel for her. She's a super sweet lady. Okay I don't have the right color of under shirt on to cover up you know we've discussed this before the cellulite and nobody needs to see that 56 year old flabby backside of my stretchy pants but I would normally have a black one on but here's another top I just got done. There was something on my iron. Oops where are we right there. So unfortunately I've already got a spot on it of something. Looks like it looks like adhesive from some fusible interfacing so I'm gonna have to try to get that out. I have to do use the google and see how to get that out. Holy cow but it's cute. I like it. So one more top done. I was thinking my gutters really need cleaning because uh let's see there we go. See that? Only it's not just me. That's the neighborhood. Holy cow that's a lot of rain. I would say good morning but I think it's afternoon. Let's see. Oh not quite good morning. It's 11 53 a.m. Tuesday September 10th. Don't get excited I'm looking at the computer. I've been up here since I first guzzled down this morning's coffee in a protein bar. I'm getting the last of the sewing done. I got four more tank tops done. The ones I wear under a lot of shirts like this one. We spoke already about them you know covering up the flabby backside in my stretchy pants. Nobody needs to see that anyway. I've gotten used to wearing them. I'm not when I was younger I wasn't a modest person and I'm not necessarily wearing them for modesty's sake but I've gotten used to wearing them. They don't make them anymore so I started making my own so there you go. There you have it. So I got some gray ones done in a blue one. I got this one gray fabric that's like gray different tones of gray which is cute and then I got this blue and then some plain basic gray. I have a lot of black and white. I thought I'd do some colors. I do have some more of the pink fabric that I worked on yesterday on the top that I got glue on already. I didn't even get to wear yet. It's already got glue on it. I'm gonna just wear it the way it is. I do want to give you all some tips. So if you're gonna be doing any garment sewing and you're working with knits if you're like me and you're making some of these tank tops and you want a lace edge and you're looking for a good stretchy wide pretty stretchy lace in colors other than white. So hard to find. I have an Amazon link for you though. I'm going to put it in the description and also stay tape. So if you have done any sewing with knits you know that first of all without a serger it's a lot more challenging. It's not impossible. I do have a serger and if you have one it's much easier with one. If you don't have one but you know you see one at Goodwill or you get a used one that's a great way to get one. I got mine years ago on the finger hut payment plan. We didn't have any money. We were broke. I really wanted to make baby clothes. That's when I bought it. That's how old it is. Anyway it's a simplicity four thread easy lock. I don't think they make them anymore. Anyway even when you use a serger around things like the neckline and the armhole the knit tends to stretch out not only while you're sewing it but as you wear it you all know if you have t-shirts or tank tops that at some point the neckline just get all stretched out of crap and back. Stay tape helps. Now you can use knit interfacing and cut it into thin strips which I've done and that works and I only usually want like a half inch strip. It works but it's a pain in the neck to sit and cut a yard of interfacing into half inch strips. I found this stay tape. This is fusible although I don't generally fuse it onto anything but it is fusible and you can sew. I surged that into the neckline edge and the armhole edge before I hem anything or put if I'm putting binding or anything like that and that really works really well. Now I haven't found it at the store. I only find the knit interfacing by the yard. They don't ever have that stay tape knit stay tape like I don't know what the deal is. So I ordered it again from Amazon so I'll put some links in the description below for you. I usually have for most of the things I've been making white and black worked just fine. For colors I usually use the ivory so it does come in the three colors and I usually have all three colors so anyway I think that's it now. I promise I'll be back. I lied that's not it. So I'm going to start putting an unedited version of the vlog over in Patreon for those of you who are supporting me over on Patreon. It's going to have unedited clips of me sewing if there are some, painting if there are some. Usually for the vlog on YouTube I cut some of that out and I shorten it so that we get like 30 minutes or less which I think for a vlog is probably doing really well. But I'm gonna have a long version. It's gonna be over in Patreon and if you want to see that you gotta be in Patreon. So anyway if you want to hear me mumble and go crazy and you know might be inappropriate things I don't know. It's just the real me unedited unfiltered. All right I'll be back. So I was out getting the mail and there's some interesting cloud formations. I want to try to get pictures of if they're still out there. My phone was in the midst of still trying to download vlog footage for last week because I have to edit that today for tomorrow morning. Anyway trying to do 10 things at once and sometimes you just can't do that. I don't know why. The universe needs to let me. All right let's go see if we can get some cloud. Okay we got them. I've been taking a lot of pictures lately of the sky and clouds. I feel a small series coming on of paintings of expressive skyscrapes. Cloudscapes. Yeah it's brewing back here. I'll share some of the photos with you all in the vlog. Next here we go. I should say if you're a supporter of mine over in Patreon you're going to be able to download the pictures of the skies that I'm looking at not only adding to my color inspiration book but using as inspiration for some paintings coming up. You'll be able to download them. I'm going to put them over on Patreon for free. So anyway a little out of breath. All right let's go back inside and make some paper clips. So we're just out for our evening stroll and I glanced over. Not only do we have pretty sky colors again but we have all this like steam or fog or mist cleaning to the ground. Interesting but yeah pretty colors. Look at that. All right we'll be back. And yes you heard him ask where Bigfoot was. Where's Sasquatch? Holy cow. Don't mess with the Sasquatch. I have a nephew. He has a YouTube channel. No I don't know what it is but evidently he goes hunting for Bigfoot. Yes he's probably crazy. He had a picture on Instagram with a big footprint. Huge footprint about that big. Oh yeah yeah yeah yes my family's nuts. Oh yeah yeah yeah all right I'll be back. I think it's just before lunchtime or right around lunch. Anyway it is Wednesday, September 11th. Remembering September 11th when the World Trade Centers went down in Memoriam. So as always usually. Anyway we also had Bambi and Baby Bambi come by this morning. I caught them on the ring camera so I'll be putting them in this week's footage. If you're watching this you've probably already seen that. Don't tell the neighbors I'm going to go put out a bowl of deer corn. Good morning everybody. Did I vlog yesterday? Because I have no idea. Today is Thursday, September 12th, 849 a.m. Yes 849 a.m. Been up since like a quarter to six which is my normal get up time. I haven't been sleeping super well again. I'm having one of those weeks or two that come now and then where I just have quite a few days in a row where I'm not sleeping very soundly. So then during the day I'm just exhausted. Thank you Mrs. Menopause. Yeah it's what I'm blaming it on anyway. As you saw I did a couple of pages in each inspiration or I should say one page in each inspiration journal. It's a slow going process. Each thing's got to dry before I turn the page and I did a lot of gluing up of images in both books last night. So there's quite a few pages to catch up on but catch up I will. Today morning 11.25 or so 11.30. Friday the 13th. Oh joy. I spent the morning doing the social media thing right away this morning. I got some interesting direct messages. That's all I'm going to say about that. I deleted them. I did some cleaning and reorganizing upstairs and move some things around. I was looking for things and realized I had blank journals in a few different places which isn't cool with me. I can't find stuff if I do that. So I put everything in one place in the closet where it should be and then I use the and some of the journals small journals were on the small bits bank which they don't really need to be there. They're in the closet now with the other blank journals and I moved some bits out of the closet and into the empty bins. So I've got some fibers and trims and canvas tags and things now in the bins where they're easily reached and I can use some of the hanging baskets that are next to the work table for tools which is the whole arrangement is going to work really well for me. So Alisa thinks so. So I spent the morning doing that and also getting rid of a few things as I was sorting and moving things around. I found things that they don't speak to me anymore. Nothing wrong with them. They just don't speak to me anymore. So they went into the basket under the table which is now full because it already had fabric scraps and wonder under feasible. Wonder under is like a glue. There's two big rolls of it in there. There's a bunch of stuff in there so that yeah so the box is full now. So I'm going to have to sort it clean it packet and then I'll list it on Etsy. There's a bunch of random stuff in it some blank journals paint chips like lots of randomness. So if anybody's interested let me know DM me and ask we can talk about cost and shipping and all that. Hey guys it's Saturday morning September 14th. We have Bean with us temporarily. Where is she? There she is. We're puppy sitting while her parents are out doing some stuff and when they come back we're going to go drive over to Mount Agile to Oktoberfest. So I'll bring you with us. It has just been a quiet morning. We slept in. I got some laundry done. You can hear the machines going. Yeah just kind of a relaxing morning which is okay with me and hubby. So yeah anyway I know you all have noticed I have like rash rashes going on periodically on my face. So it's a psoriasis type thing that started happening after menopause and the asthma thing happened. It is especially this one I know an allergic reaction because it gets itchy and people were telling me including doctors to moisturize more and taking any histamine and I kind of wasn't listening but guess what I've been doing and it's getting better and it actually feels better. So yeah waste your eyes any histamines anyway. So we're going to go over a drive to Mount Agile. We're going to go to Oktoberfest. We'll bring you with us and yeah should be a lot of fun. All right I'll be back. Guys it is Saturday evening. It's just before 10 o'clock. It's been a long day but we had a lot of fun at the Oktoberfest in Mount Agile Oregon. When we went to go leave unfortunately there was a fatal car accident on the road out of the area. We didn't see the accident but we were there shortly after and I don't know who it was but whoever it is I put my condolences out there to the world for their loss because someone did like I said it was a fatal accident. Someone did pass. It didn't it looked really bad people. Anyway despite that we had a great time spending the day with the kids. The Oktoberfest was super crowded oh my god now I know why we went we got lucky I think last year when we went on Sunday that weather wasn't as nearly as nice it wasn't as hot and because it was Sunday wasn't nearly as crowded so we know better now. But it was a lot of fun. We'd go back again next year. And then after the kids left this evening we went out and did some late-night grocery shopping because we're off early in the morning to my parents to help them with some DIY and do some things spend the day with them and I think I think my dad's going to change the oil and polyases car while we're there. My dad for those of you don't know is a jack of all trades including a auto mechanic and california brake specialist. He also is an electrician and yeah all around great guy. He's a very handy guy so we're going to go see them tomorrow and he's going to help the kids with some DIY. We're going to help them with some DIY so you know it'll be a thing but I didn't want to do grocery shopping after all that was done so we did it tonight late. We had dinner at like 8.15 or something which is a really late for us. We don't normally do that but anyway it's been a long day. We're ready to call it quits. I need to turn the computer off for the evening because I think it's still on. I know it's still on and yeah so that's it for this week. I hope it's been a good one for you. It has been for us and yeah. Don't forget to check out the video description for any relevant links. If you have any questions, comments or concerns please leave them down below. 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