 guys, it is Sunday. I don't know what time is it? Hold on. 1 o'clock 8 p.m. I've been sewing all morning again. I know. So I made those two sort of work dress patterns. One was called the work dress. It was from Ella Harp and I do love both patterns. The other one was the Metamorphic Dress by So Liberated. I made one dress out of each pattern which are downstairs in my closet that I will wear at some point given the right event and the right styling. But I thought, the more I thought about it, the more I thought there are things about both patterns I love. One thing I don't love were the gathers around the waist. I just didn't think for me they were flattering and I kind of wondered how I could cut the patterns, reshape the patterns to have the same character but be one piece and have no waistband. And hang loose or I could belt it or I could wear it with a sweater. I could wear it as sort of a house coat. So I did some pattern drafting this morning. That's something I haven't done in like a million years. And I redrafted both patterns and I had enough bed sheet, thrifted bed sheet leftover to do the work dress pattern which I did first. I had a little bit of lace. This is like all I have left of this little piece of lace that I had to use as a trim. And yeah, I mean it's really cute. So I could have put pockets here but I chose not to. I just wanted to make sure the pattern was gonna fit and not be too loose but also be able to get on and over my head easily. I did cut it on the bias because that gives the woven fabric a little bit of a stretch which I think was a good call. And the length on it is for me is perfect. And I can see this being a really cute like around the house dress or just run to the market kind of thing. So yay! Good vlog. We went thrifting yesterday, Saturday. And I found a bunch of scarves and some old fabric and things to repurpose an upcycle. And I already said this morning I was making some changes to some of the patterns I have including the metamorphic dress and the work dress. And in some part combining properties of the two and taking out the waste gathers. And anyway one of the fabrics I got with it was this blue and green and yellow tie-dye print scarf. It was really big. And I thought right away I want to try to make a metamorphic dress out of it but with the pattern additions I've made or edits I've made and do something a little bit different with the hem because to make the fabric work. You guys I'm gonna wear this tomorrow because it's just it turned out great and it's so comfortable and oh my god. Okay hold on. You have to wear a bike shorts under it or wear a skirt under it. Layer it on top of leggings or something. But that's okay. This is the front. How cute is that? I put a pocket like on the work dress. I was gonna put one of the etched patches of leather on it but I just don't want to. I just like the pocket. I like the pocket. And then hold on. Let's push it down. See if I can get this. So the fabric only cut the dress to about here and it was going to be too short to wear a dress. I could have worn it as a top but I had fabric left over so I took a long straight piece of it and put it at the bottom. Hold on. Hopefully we can do this without me killing myself. Okay. Lead with a good knee Gina. Okay I just put it at the bottom straight. I didn't try to round it off or make it even. I let the corners hang. I put some slits in it. These are bike shorts. Don't get excited. So I mean you guys. I love it. So I'll be making more of these. Alright that's it for the minute. I have other things I should be doing today besides sewing. I'll be back. Hey you guys. I got it obviously a bunch of sewing done. I did a couple of chores. Mostly Mr. Bob did the chores today. We're going to go try to get some steps in between rain and hail storms. Yes I said in the H word again. Yeah anyway the clouds look a little bit ominous in places but we're going to see if we can get some steps in really quick. We'll see. I've got this again just in case. I'll be back. It is 205 p.m. Sorry 207 p.m. Monday April 3rd. I spent the morning sewing again. I got a vest made out of some linen. I was gifted from the daughter and it was white. I dyed it this blue color and then made a vest out of it from a pattern I got off at Etsy. I'll link it down below. I'll put some pictures here. I also made a kimono out of a scarf I found at the thrift store and that was from a store bought pattern which I will also put the info on that down below. If you're pounding the neighbor behind us is getting some roofing down I'm guessing they had a leak. Anyway I haven't been sewing all morning. I haven't done any video editing or anything yet. I will get that done but I'm taking a popcorn break and gonna watch some YouTube and then then I'll get to the desktop and yeah get that done. Alright I'll be back. I've got two projects finished looking for my sweater. I got three more cut out that I want to work on tomorrow. I really am not only loving the sewing and making myself some clothing. I'm trying to work through some projects that have been in the back of my mind for a long time. Anyway yeah but it is to the point where I have to figure out how to store my sewing patterns because yeah anyway I need to go check the mail. I need to put a sweater on to do that and then go try and do it now before any rain or hail or something comes again because there's some dark clouds out there and it's been doing it on an awful day so I'll be morning everybody. It is Tuesday April 4th it's 8 38 a.m. I'm having trouble getting going this morning so years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter who's going to be 29 in September I was in a head-on collision with somebody who ran a red light. Thankfully I was driving Bob's car at the time and it had an airbag or Becca probably wouldn't be here today but anyway the accident caused me to have problems with my back and neck from the force of me hitting the airbag and the force of the accident and even though it's been almost 30 years I still occasionally have problems with my neck and I woke up this morning and it was bothering me so it's taking me a while to get going. It is starting to let up. I'm probably gonna have to break out some physical therapy exercises for it when I go downstairs to take a shower but yeah I'm just sitting here watching some YouTube and nursing my coffee because yeah my neck hurts. All right I'll be back. Okay guys despite the fact that I woke up not feeling exactly right today I just got I had to re-hem a blouse that I've had in my closet for a while that for whatever reason had elastic around the bottom. Yeah took the elastic off and re-hemmed the shirt much better. I also took some of the gauze I bought the other day the two solid colors and I just made a pair of wide leg pants one out of each color. When I have it on it looks like a skirt but it's actually pants and cool. I'm gonna take the striped one and make a top slash dress thing like I had on yesterday out of it and I have a blouse I thrifted and I think I'll go with the purple one so it's all good. All right I'll be back. And just for reference I don't want to try them on because I don't want to get undressed but I made one in this dusty blue color and it looks like a skirt just like a gauze skirt it's actually a pair of pants and yeah see and then I made one in this sort of dusty purple color pretty cute. Just basic you know bottoms and if you have it styled right with the right cute top and they're loose and flowy and I mean you know it's a pattern I sort of drafted myself based on the pants from the 1970 vintage pattern I made recently and I just I altered it and made my own pattern out of it so yeah anyway. Each leg is one piece there's only one piece to the pattern and you just cut two of them so and then because it looks the same on both sides I put a label yeah and yes they're this is my size they're very loose and flowy on me but I'm okay with that so all right let's make some lunch now I'll be back. Good morning everybody I will try to get a picture of my outfit today and put it here but it is the purple wide leg pants that I made and the peasant blouse with the little purple flowers on it anyway I'm out running some errands and then I have a dental appointment at noon it's just after nine o'clock I don't know if I'm going to get any sewing or painting or anything done today I don't do well with dentists and doctors although I do better now than I did before medication and counseling um still not my favorite thing to do but I have four teeth that still have the old-fashioned silver fillings in them and my teeth keep cracking so the plan is let's just take the rest of the silver fillings out if the teeth crack let's fix them but let's just get that shit out of my mouth we're gonna be doing that today and yeah hopefully insurance will pay for at least some of it anyway my plan is to just go run some errands and things I need to do things I want to do and yeah I think we're gonna start off with Joanne's if it's open because I need some thread and things and then Target I've got to pick up medication so I want to go to Goodwill of course because it's senior day it's Wednesday April 5th and I can get my senior discount but it doesn't open until the time so okay I finally have all the feeling back in my mouth yeah if you've had dental work recently you know what I'm talking about and those drops of novocaine that spill it is gross anyway a little bit of numbness left but I'm down to one amalgam filling I'm on this side I have to wait two weeks he didn't want to numb my entire mouth anyway I have on my purple shirt I should say white shirt with purple flowers this was thrifted over the weekend last weekend and I paired it up a far away no I have to get paired it up with the gauze pants that I just made and this wasn't planned you guys this was done by accident but the color is almost an identical match cool and I got some more fabric I want to make a cute more pair of these skirt pants trouser things black and a bluey green color and so I got those cut out and I got a blouse cut out from a pattern a new pattern that I just got and so we'll try those tomorrow because I'm not up to doing any sewing today I don't know why going to the dentist just takes everything out of me but it does all right I'll be back I have a challenge for you all you need to help me out with something you can leave a comment down below I encourage you to please do that also like this video I have this piece of silk can you see the color there we go I bought this more than 40 years ago it has been sitting in my stash for so long I fell in love with the color in the texture way back then before I even knew mr bob it's about two yards of fabric how wide is it I know I bought as much as I could afford because it was expensive it's about 42 inches wide so it's not super wide and again it's about two yards long I've never made anything in it out of it because number one I'm kind of afraid to cut into it but number two I don't know what to make out of it it is pure silk so when you do this it does get wrinkly um but you know what I think I'm okay with that but I don't know what to make out of it I have no idea so what do you guys think if you have a specific pattern something you think I might like leave a link if you can or PM me the link or something but yeah what do you think I'm taking taking a poll all right I'm going to take my stuff downstairs and rest my mouth we are going to go activate our new telephones tonight after mr bob's off work so I'm going to get myself ready get my wallet back out of the closet because I put everything away and all that stuff I'll be back guys notice anything a little different it might be the picture quality because last night mr bob and I got new iPhones and so anyway I filmed the vlog with my iPhone for those who have no idea on this camera so much better than even my video camera which is an antique to be honest at this point kind of um I might be filming videos but just my phone going forward at least for a bit a new video camera is really expensive and on that note if you want to support the free content or uh help me raise funds for a new camera join my patreon down below I also have an amazon wishlist but anyway I made two new pair of wide leg pants today I made this green pair and a black pair I thought I'd just work on some quick sewing projects today I'll tell you why in a minute then I have this pattern it's a butteric pattern and I was going to do view c well the red one I thought that would doesn't look too hard it's not too it's actually not too difficult of a pattern it's actually pretty easy if you don't pick fussy fabric like I did that took me it's taken me a good two and a half hours three hours to do this simple because it's out of a scarf and oh my gosh and I had to use a fine needle which then kept breaking and it was just one thing after the other so anyway but I got it done and it is very cute I like it it turned out really well it was a scarf I had in my closet that I've had like a million years why was I just picking simple projects today and we are staying home and not really going anywhere because the daughter is in labor she is at the hospital she's in labor they had to induce early because of some medical issues but she's fine baby is fine and not that early only like by a week so she is working with that and everything seems to be going well but any of you women out there know it is not a quick process for most of us having a baby so yeah anyway we're watching the dog until that's all done and stuff yeah so anyway I'm going to clean up my mess I think I'm going to make another one of those shirts but this time out of an easier fabric I have this cotton shirt it's like a 2x I think it's like a size 24 and it's this really cute blue and green plaid and I'm thinking that again Vue C would look really cute out of that so I think I'm going to cut that out later I also have another project I want to do out of the Forge of Vest only this time I might want to try adding sleeves to it and I want to make another kimono with one of the scarves my friend Lorega Green sent me and I think she sent me this scrap of fabric too and then I found this other scarf at the thrift shop that I think will go with the black one she sent me so it's awesome here on the table of course that's thin fussy fabric not unlike this one so I might do it last all right I'll be back the camera on this phone is so much clearer than the old one oh my god anyway I had to go to the T-Mobile store for some more help because my old phone doesn't want to wipe it wipe and erase itself um so they gave me a couple different things to try so I'm working on one of them it's slow going but hopefully it works and Bob went to a lodge meeting and it's just me and the dog nothing wrong with that I got drawing and stuff to do anyway I'll be back it is just about lunchtime on Friday April something I don't know let's see April do we know April 7th I took some leftovers that I had including some BB shot I don't shoot guns but I use it for making weighted things in the art room so I took some leftover scraps of fabric and the BB shots I had left and I made some pattern weights I'm really enjoying using weights and not pinning everything that is tremendously tedious and I have been using these which are great obviously I've used these for years in the art room these are the ends of old hand weights that you unscrew and anyway at times when I'm cutting patterns there's not enough of them there's only eight of those so I made a handful of other little weights I'm getting ready to upcycle this shirt I've got a happy mail to open and we're waiting on the announcement that grandson's been born because yeah that's happening this morning evidently we're at that stage my poor daughter's been in labor since Wednesday night I think so yeah let's hope for her sake and the grandson's that it's over soon all right that's it for the minute and I'm still trying to erase my old iPhone I am just yeah worst-case scenario I go this week into the Apple store and have them do it because I'm just yeah all right that's it for the minute I'll be back so I got a shirt I bought at the thrift recently cut out to upcycle into another one of the shirts from this I'm going to do the red one again this time in a cotton in fabric which should be I would say a tad easier or so but how about a whole bunch easier to sew anyway before I go make lunch let's open some happy mail shall we this is from friend and patron Kathy Whitney she also lives in Oregon she lives in southern Oregon so and look what she did to the paper you guys yes I'm gonna have to save the paper let's open it and see what's in it shall we although I have a little bit of a clue but let's see what's in here I don't think it's pizza but that's a cute box to use I knew it I knew it I knew it she's been making different kind of vessels out of crochet yarn and fabric that she has and she recently finished a whole bunch of fun and said she was going to send them off to a bunch of people and look I got one I am so happy and there's stuff inside of it but hang on my pattern my pattern weights they fit in there perfectly thank you Kathy see I needed a container for them and you just knew that okay what else is in here oh look at this this is a crocheted it looks like a crocheted belt or headband that's cute there is some fabric collage and bits in here these would be great in my daily journal downstairs I don't know did you are these iron-ons Kathy what are these so she did this one it doesn't feel like just a sticker on fabric and then there's this one I don't have my reading glasses on I would say I don't have them on but they're right here is that upside down yeah that was upside down some stamps and then firmly there is an ATC card wake up and how at the moon that's cute I love that there are some charms with paper beads one has a moon on it one has strength on it those are really cute and then a card Kathy thank you so much thank you so much Kathy and by the way you guys she also made the card thank you Kathy so much and I already put the bowl to use because yeah all right thank you that's it for now I better go eat some lunch I'll be back okay guys he is forever on here known as junior and I won't be showing his face for privacy and that sort of thing but grandson is here and he and mom are both doing well happy healthy all of that stuff just very tired so yay so we're grandparents now it's kind of weird but good all right back to sewing until you know I can get to go see him and hold him and all that stuff I'll be back because the kids are in the hospital having a baby they had the baby we have Lily so we're going to take her for a walk before we go run some errands obviously not family dinner night tonight even though it's Friday because they are in the hospital anyway so we're going to go take Lily for a walk tire her out a little bit and then go get some grocery shopping done I'm not sure if we're going to feed her before or after we get back I don't know but anyway a good Friday grandson who knew all right I'll be back everybody yes I have a little makeup on oh my god I know oh my god um we are gonna did I get that just smudge I don't know anyway we're gonna um uh we're obviously taking crazy pants for a walk before we do anything and then we're gonna go run a few errands and hopefully go see little junior I almost used his real name but I'm not supposed to do that on youtube anyway uh yeah so it's all good outfit of the day I love this jacket I thrifted it I don't know who it's from I don't know the designer if any of you know let me know but I absolutely love it anyway all right let's go get some steps in and start our day off hopefully on a good footing and we'll be back hey guys it is Saturday evening it is very late it's almost midnight oh it's almost 11 30 it's getting close to midnight anyway we had a pretty good day tiring but good we were so glad to finally see junior aka the grandson that's his youtube name fyi and uh he's the cutest little thing we might be just slightly prejudiced but I mean he's adorable baby and mother are doing just fine and uh yeah it's all good so all right that's it for this week it's been an interesting week but you know that's what that's what happens around here we have interesting times all the time I don't know what to tell you I'm still sewing like crazy I don't know where that came from but I've got more projects to work on I do and I am going to get packed to painting soon but right now my muse all she wants to do so so we're going to go with that I you know all right that's it for right now if you have questions comments or concerns leave them down below by the way I am going by Oma the German iteration of grandmother and Bob is going by pops just fyi anyway anyway leave any questions comments or concerns down below if you want to support the free content here on youtube I do have a patreon I mean you know go over and join you have ready access to me on a private facebook messenger chat they have their own private youtube channel like all that stuff and they get downloads from me all the time and yeah all that stuff check it out all right that's it for right now don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you next week bye guys