 Do I look a little tired and sunburned? There'd be a reason for that. So the whole wedding venue was outside during the day. It was very hot and if you're seeing this clip, you've seen the clips from the wedding that I can show you. It was a beautiful venue out in a garden at a piece of property in Woodburn, California and covered in flowers and it was just gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, but I'm tired. We ate too much yesterday and yeah. Anyway, we're at the gas station. We're gonna get some gas and then get to the airport, return the car, go to the airport, all that stuff. So I'll see you later at home. Last night and we've been putting laundry away and cleaning since then. Letty came today, our housekeeper and friend, and she got the whole house clean top to bottom. Just in time for my dad to come by because I've got to and spend the night because I got to take him to the airport in the morning. I made a slip cover for Matilda, so one of you all kindly suggested the name in one of my video comments and I think it's perfect. I did go ahead and make her a rainbow slip cover, so say hello to Matilda. I did have some issue with my serger because it didn't want to stay threaded. It's probably operator air, but it also could need just a good servicing. I don't know. Anyway, I got it done. Yay. Haven't got a whole lot of else done, just that laundry. But anyway, I'm gonna go check them all. I shouldn't say that. I got a video editing done. I got a lot of video editing done. One for patrons and supporters and one for you all and two for you all. Sorry. And so the two for you all are loading right now. They're almost done and then I'm gonna load the one for the patrons and supporters and I have a download for them and a couple of other things. If you want to become a patron and supporter, there's a link down below. Check it out. Alright. I'm gonna go check our snail mail while the computer is doing its thing and I'll be back. But at least back here, home in Oregon, it's not 90 plus degrees like it was the whole time we were in California. I'm not mad about that. Alright. Let's go see if we can get everything else done that I need to get done before my dad gets here. It is 849 a.m. and yes, I'm in the car. He took my dad. I mean me and you guys. We took my dad to the airport. He's flying down to California to visit my brother and stay for a week. It has been a crazy. I don't even know. So my dad had a dent in his red cargo van that he uses and it was gonna cost an enormous amount of money to fix a little teeny tiny dent that he didn't want to spend which I can't blame him. So we decorated said dent instead and I will include a picture here. I think we did a pretty good job. Said car auto. They are auto decals and we got them on Amazon. I'll link them down below. There's a bunch of them different ones and so anyway it kind of I told him made me want to cover his whole cargo van and like band-aids and stuff. I made a cover for Matilda. My dress form. I think I showed you that. I was having problems at the serger and dad and I since he was at my house last night figured that it was the cutting blade because the serger cuts this trims the fabric and sews it all at the same time. It was the cutting blade. I couldn't remember the last time I changed it. It was probably at least 10 years maybe more and so I did have a new one and we replaced it. It's working great. I do need to adjust the tension because the tension is off but otherwise it's working great. So yay. I do need a little socket wrench for upstairs in the art room because the screws are hard to undo in the serger without it. So that's a thing. What else? Got a bunch of chores done, got some bread made. The only sewing I got done or art I got done was my daily drawings and then Matilda's new cover. I intended on doing some other stuff but it just didn't happen. There wasn't enough time so we're gonna run errands on the way home today and then just do some relaxing in the art room. Maybe work on a project or two or maybe just work on the serger's thread tension so that I can get stuff done without being aggravated and wanting to throw it across the room because yeah. Alright. I'll be back. Okay you guys. It's a 530. Bob should be off work in a little bit. I started my creative day after I got my errands and done and dad to the airport by fixing and working on the serger some more and getting the tension straightened out. It was I don't know completely messed up but it's fixed now. I probably should take both machines in for service others in the DIY but we'll see. We are going on a little vacation soon and so maybe I will take them in to get them worked on while I'm not home and can't sew anyway. I think that sounds like a good plan. I wasn't gonna sew today. I pulled another thrift find out of the upcycling closet and thought I'll work on this. This will be my project this week. Not rushing through projects anymore unless I'm making a whole bunch of tank tops or something that are easy. Let's just say that I'll know it although it needs to be washed to fray a little bit. I've evidently been watching a lot of T. Myers handmade. Her name is Tracy and yeah, hold on. No, right? It's cute. A men's shirt and I do have some vlog footage of me cutting the collar off and slitting up the sides and then I turned the camera off and I just went crazy. I added some fabric and I added some vintage handkerchiefs and some doilies and I took the pocket off, added a little piece of napkin to it and put it back on. I put some slits in the side. I left some of the edges out. There seems out because I want it to fray. I puffed up the sleeves. So you added some fabric to it, similar fabric to what's on the front. I think it's cute and I could see me pairing it up with just a simple pair of black leggings. I think it would be cute. If you have busy on the top, you do plain on the bottom. If you've got busy on the bottom, you do plain on the top. At least I do. So anyway, I'm pretty pleased. I didn't expect to get that done today. The front's pretty wild and crazy. The back, the sleeves are crazy but the rest of it's kind of plain but I'm okay with that. So yeah, there she is. What do you think? I'll link Tracy's YouTube channel down below. I finally got out of the sewing room and we're out for a walk before dinner. And of course, as per usual, talking about nonsense. Although I haven't asked him how his day was yet. But our topic of the day is, after I told him I dropped off the dry cleaning today, is how does that work? Yeah, maybe I have a big wash machine with a bunch of chemicals in it and your clothes and it washes and it dries. I don't know, how's it work? If anybody knows, comment below. But I bet you there's a YouTube video for that. Anyway, we're gonna go get some steps in. It's a beautiful day, not too hot, not too cold. And yeah, got an outfit I've made on and I'm good with it. All right, let's get to it. I'll be back Thursday, May 25th. It's just after one o'clock, way past time for me to have lunch. But after counseling, I started working on a sewing project. You know, last night I had trouble going to bed because I was working on some paintings and drawings. It's just the way my brain rolls. That's nice. I've got threads stuck to my pants. Anyway, I drafted a raglan sleeve peasant blouse type pattern for myself. I couldn't find what I wanted to purchase or download. So I just made my own. I have one basic, let me get this thread off of my pants because that's a thing. I have one basic sort of sleeveless, I guess not sleeveless anymore, woven top pattern that I can do as a traditional tank top, spaghetti strap tank top or now a raglan sleeve peasant blouse. It's all intended to do with woven fabrics and not knit fabrics, although I guess you could do it in its anyway. So I'm working on that this morning with some of the sail fabric I got recently at a super discounted bargain basement price and I only got a yard and so I'm going to try to make it work with one yard and if I can make it work with one yard and get something all I got means it's super easy to get like a skirt or a dress or something from the thrift store and make more of them if I so choose. Anyway, I need to eat lunch now because it's way past time. I had counseling this morning, it's all good but yeah. All right I'll be back. So it is what time is it? 8.07 p.m. I got lost in sewing this afternoon and being creative and I'm not mad about it. I did finish the top I was working on. It's a self-drafted pattern of my own and here's a picture of it. It's made out of one yard of cotton fabric and just standard one yard 44 inches wide fabric. Can you tell I just had dinner? Yeah that's lovely. Anyway and I had a nice conversation with the adopted daughter Jenny and that was really great Bob still at his meeting and I'm gonna pick there whatever that is out of my teeth probably a seed and watch something on one of my apps while I do some drawing because if I go back upstairs to sew I am never gonna get any sleep tonight so I'll be back. It's 9.45 a.m. Friday May. I don't even know what's the date today. Does my fancy thing say? Yeah but I can't read that. May something. Hold on. Yeah 9.46 a.m. Anyway I am gonna go out and rent some errands obviously we're in the car. I was gonna wear my new pink shirt I just made and then I looked at the temperature that it's gonna be today and thought yeah no that's not happening sleeves are not happening today I did make this shirt but yeah anyway I love the shirt I've worn it a number of times since I made it. I'm also starting to get asked about alterations for people I don't do that so yeah there's that. Fabulous way I started the day this morning so my nonna most of her life that I knew her wore these little tiny gold ball earrings and when she passed away a number of us girls wanted to memorialize her by buying some gold and wearing gold ball earrings and I wore them every day after she died until a couple months ago when I misplaced one of them and I knew I hadn't lost it I knew it was around somewhere but I couldn't find it. This morning I was digging out some hair ties out of a drawer in the bathroom so I could put one in my hair to do sort of a half-up thing and I ended up emptying the drawer of hair ties out to find the one I wanted and guess what was in the bottom that's right the other gold ball earring I'll put the pair here I can't believe it I am so happy you guys that I found it it's like waking up this morning and having her say good morning to me in her little voice with her Italian accent and yeah I miss you nonna every single day anyway you guys I can't talk about anymore I'll start crying again all right that's it for the minute I'll be back obviously we're home and I've eaten some lunch and all of that I did find another pair of black jeans I need to work on a coat project and I didn't have enough black and I'm anyway found another pair I used to always say I never win anything I guess I can't say that anymore there is a sewing channel here on YouTube her name is Stephanie Canada and she does a lot of sewing especially I think with the vintage patterns I'm new to her channel so I'm not exactly sure she did have a vintage pattern lot or a pattern lot of stuff she bought and she had a bunch of stuff she was gonna give away didn't expect to win but I did what she said in the video and now some of it is in complete patterns use patterns it might just be one pattern piece I don't could be just an empty pattern envelope it was that kind of box of stuff I don't know let's open it and see I have no idea wow Stephanie wow oh my goodness nine long sleeve two random times free I don't know okay yeah it's just look some of it is gonna be good to sew with some of it might be good collage fodder wow very vintage poop poop poop couch cover has one two or three five and six bad shape oh the patterns in bad shape yeah it's it's yeah she did put notes on some of these that's sweet what pattern pieces are missing or in there this one's just pattern she says which one it is but there's no it's just a couple pieces wow you guys some of these are in really bad shape like this one is the envelopes literally like falling apart this is uncut but I don't know what it goes to wow only has two and five simplicity 2217 no jacket front bodice torn it'd be interesting to go through these and see which ones are sort of complete and could be easily upsized to fit me maybe make one of them at some point and eat you guys the bag is just endless anyway thank you so much Stephanie I have no idea what I'm gonna do with all this but I do appreciate it so much I'm gonna empty out the bag and put it in some kind of a bin or a box or something hang on that's a lot of pat vintage patterns most of them are not in great shape I knew that going into it when I have time I will go through them maybe put it put out one or two to add to my collection and the rest will become I don't know collage fodder maybe maybe I'll pass some of them along to some friends I'm not exactly sure but sure is an interesting collection alright I'll be one two three four six patterns out of that bundle that have all or most of the pieces to add to my collection and at some point in the future try one of them is a very cute uncut you don't have the envelope with it but it's a kids craft apron pattern I mean grandson's a long way off from wearing that but can't wait to make it for him anyway I do have a friend who makes journals handmade journals and I'm really kind of wondering what kind of sewing theme journal she could make out of the rest of that there's some great images there and some great papers so yep might have to pay it forward alright I'm sit relax for a bit I'll be back do I look like a hot sweaty mess might be a reason for that I started on the black denim biker jacket now I know traditionally the biker jacket would have a zipper closing here and probably has another zipper on the inside I am using pieces and parts from the jeans and I know it's black and you can't really see very well but I've got the pockets from the I have to this is from two pair of jeans so I've got the pockets from the front of one pair I've got the two I have actually have all four of the back pockets on the vet on the jacket it's not gonna be a vest I'm kind of thinking about putting four buttons we'll see I did do lining on it's not fully lined but the front placket and the collar are lined and of course I quilted some bright color rainbow cotton together because why not on the back of the vest the jacket I put one of the waistbands with the belt loops I haven't attached the collar yet it's just pinned on but it's looking pretty good I think before I attach the collar I want to figure out what I'm doing here I don't have separating scissors yeah separating zippers that are the right size the right color I literally have one I could make separating zippers because I do have a zipper tape in the hardware I could also utilize because they were 501 Levi 501's jeans I do have button placket and buttonholes I could utilize those maybe I haven't decided yet I don't know so I'm gonna live with it for a couple of days ask my husband his opinion and get that done and the collar before I put the sleeves on I do have the sleeves here cut out I do have some more of the quilted pieces it might be nice to do a little bit of a cuff on the inside of the sleeve so I can roll the sleeves up I do have kind of short arms the sleeves are a little long but I'm thinking about leaving them that way and doing some of this on the inside for the cuff that actually might be really cute I don't know we'll see I think I'm done for the day and I need to just sit on this for a bit and decide where it's going but what do you think all right I'm gonna sit and have some water I'll be back really I'm done sewing for the day but I realized that I wanted to put that on the back of the coat so I made that up it's just pinned down now I'm not gonna sew it on but I'm gonna put that on the back of the coat I still need to figure out what I'm gonna do about zippers or buttons I really need to go downstairs now or I'll just keep working on this alright I'll be back why do I have this feeling I'm gonna end up just putting my hair up when it dries it's just like anyway good morning it is Saturday May 27th 1026 a.m. you guys Bob got a good portion of the pond out and I figured out the closures and things on this jacket before I attach the collar and the sleeves which I still need to do so we took parts of the jeans that we had there and so lots of buttons so I took the button placket from one and put the button loops holes on one side and the buttons here so you can attach this to here then I got a small six inch separating zipper glued it or glued it sewed it on this side and then over here on the seam and if I feel I need it I've got the last button from that button placket that works really well I also sold on the two more of the pockets and we've got our collage piece were peace sign thing on the back I'm gonna leave the edges raw there's a lot of rot gonna be a lot of raw edges on this not all of them but a lot of them and I like I like the way that's turning out I don't know about you I'm gonna stop now because this is not a project I want to rush on like the vest this is not a project I want to rush but yeah if I did put a waistband or finish on the end I'd have to get another pair of pants because I think I'd want to just use the waistband off a pair of pants and the two pair of pants I had I've used all the waistbands so so there's that all right that's it for minute I'm gonna clean up my mess I'll be back that the pattern I'm using I'll try to find it and link it below it is written in French and as far as I can find there is no directions I don't there's a couple pieces I don't understand what they're for so I'm making it work with how I think it should be put together is that the right way I have no idea absolutely fact there's one piece that might be for the armpit and if the sleeves don't fit without it then I will have to cut a couple of these out of scraps it's but it says bottom sleeve bellows I don't know it doesn't look like I need them but I'm gonna pin things together and see if how they fit in this armhole but I'm not anticipating needing that there's also one that was called zip up which might have been for the inside flap like in here I yeah I don't know but anyway I'm making it work and I piecemealing it together and doing it boho hippie style because that's what I like I like doing that it's like a fabric collage that you can wear and I love that and once you wash it and it starts fraying a little bit it's gonna be so cool anyway alright that's it I think that's an interesting way to end the week by knowing you put something away in a safe place and you can't find it and like yeah anyway the scissors I'm looking for are actually downstairs in my daily drawing bag and I just didn't see them always a possibility I'm just not sure anyway it's been a fun week we got a lot of work done on this jacket it's definitely a challenge I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do about the hem if I want to put something on the hem then I need another pair of jeans I'm either gonna let it unravel and let it fray or let it fray plus add a waistband to the bottom so leave the raw edge and sew it on the sew the waistband on the inside that that might be a thing I don't know yet but for right now I'm gonna get the sleeves and collar on it but that's next week's project anyway it's been a good week a little bit busy but that's okay next week will be a little quieter I think although I have to go on Wednesday and pick my father up at the airport in the middle of rush hour that's gonna be fun anyway alright if you have questions comments or concerns please do leave them down below if you're interested in supporting the free content here on YouTube and my artistic and crafty sewing adventures I'd love to see you do that and communicate with you personally one-on-one but become a patron or supporter we have not only the patron page over in patreon but we have our own private YouTube channel we have a private Facebook chat where you can get ahold of me almost 24-7 I mean I do sleep so I'd love to have contact with you and I'd love to get the support I really do appreciate it they don't call a starving artist for nothing and yeah anyway questions comments or concerns leave them down below did I say that yet I don't even know it's just one of those days and that's it for right now it's been a great week I've had a lot of fun working on projects like the vest and this coat and I'm not sure what the favorite my favorite part is the rainbow patchwork collar or the rainbow patchwork peace sign I have no idea they're both pretty cool anyway that's it for now have a great week and weekend everybody it is Memorial Day weekend have a great one spend time with your family go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later bye guys