New business idea: Human Slipcovers

I found this great jacket on the sale rack at Target and love it. It is really warm and comfy, and I get frequent compliments. Two or three people have asked me if I made it?! I haven't made any clothes in years. I haven't followed a pattern in years. I tried to make a tote bag with a pattern, and only made it through step 2.( I guess I have way less patience than I always thought I did.) Seems like I remember removing the pattern from the cutting table with one sweep of my arm, and then just going at it on my own. A project involves more hit or miss that way, but that's what sewing has become for me. An adventure. I have done so much ripping and re-sewing over the years, that I don't even mind it that much, if it means I can just take off sewing without a map. So unless there is a wedding coming up or some other real need for me to sew in a civilized manner, I'll be sewing by the seat of my pants.

I tried to imagine what a garment made by me would look like and this is what I came up with:

Four things I learned this week....

1. I love chimichurri. It is an Argentinian sauce made from blended up flat-leaf parsley, garlic, vinegar, lime juice, etc. (Rachel Ray made it on her show.)

2. The book Life of Pi by Yann Martel is NOT a true story, even though he makes it sound that way in the author's note in the beginning. As my husband pointed out, it says "a novel" right there on the front of the book, and an on-line search of similar shipwreck survivors from that period of time came up empty. (sigh) I was convinced it was all real.

3. Eating candy canes after dinner can become habit forming. (Why did I give those left-over candy canes to my husband to take to work?!)

4.Candy canes taken off of a three week old gingerbread house are edible, but slightly chewy.

Mid Century Musings

I want to be hip. Modern hip. But I have a hard time really warming up to the return of Mid Century Modern. We had those cool modern chairs with the wooden arms when I was growing up. Similar to this one:



And the sofa with the sleek straight lines. Very nice looking and very modern. But all that straight furniture was not so easy to curl up on as a child. Seems like everything was plastic or straight or flat. Lots of plastic in the 50's.

I also remember furniture with plastic covers. We didn't have the plastic covers at our house, but I remember sitting on them at someone else's house with shorts on and the plastic sticking to my legs when I got up.

I was amazed to find these listed in a funky catalog, and then found a Detroit company on line that actually makes custom fitted plastic slipcovers, like the ones I stuck to as a child.



I did make some plastic covers for a very nice lady. They were for her vintage beauty-shop chairs though, not her living room furniture. THAT I will never do. Sorry.

On the road again.....

The sewing road that is. Back to making striped cushion covers, aqua cushion covers, snapdragons on red check cushion covers. Looks like it is cushion cover week here.



I wanted to share this interesting list with you:

barbecue
bed frame
large bag of recycling
bio hazardous material
recliner
ladder (always at least one ladder)
a hissing snake

No, these are not items found in the livingroom of a bachelor. These things were reported to be on Bay Area freeways within about a week and a half. Crazy, no?