BeeBee's Best day off

My company has a "flex plan" where, theoretically, I get every-other Friday off. I say it's flex because I'm frequently flexible about actually taking it off. But today it all fell together: Day off, DH out of town, nice weather. A trifecta!

To start, as promised, I took my Pfaff to the dealer. Apparently it's out of balance? Hmmm, that makes two of us, I suppose. But it will be 10 days to 2 weeks before it comes back, they're behind in repairs because they just moved (nice new digs, I might add - they added a beautiful new classroom).

Then I went to the bank (yeah, edge of the seat stuff), Hancock's and Office Max. It was all good. I'll spare you the bank, nothing of interest there..

Ah, but Hancock's had a nice after inventory sale and all their Olfa supplies were 30% off. I've been kicking around the rotary cutter thing for a while, and the pinking shears discussion on SG this week really pushed it forward. And then the pretty red 30% off sign clinched the deal. I bought a medium sized mat, a cutter and extra blades to get the pinking blade. I played with for a while making some fun cuts, straight and wavy: and then moved on. I also found some decent fabrics. They had some quilting cottons that will make some nice blouses or skirts this summer for $1.95/yard: The blue color is pretty true, the red is really closer to a dark purple and brown. They also had this pretty rayon for 2.99 yard. It's really a dark green and white. Very soft and drapey for summer. And finally a piece of lining for 1.95/yard that just went really well with a purple cotton/rayon blend I washed last night to prep. (Maybe BWOF Jan 09 #111?) I would have found something in stash, but this was perfect - actually much better than it shows in the picture. It isn't really that pink, more deep purple and fashion fabric (from G Street? I REALLY need to start a system) is almost a blue, and really drapey after washing.

I didn't photograph anything from OfficeMax - though I'm sure you're dying to see my printer cartridges. But I bought a few drafting tools to try with tracing BWOF, etc. I'll fill you in later - likely tomorrow.

Then I had my favorite lunch, cheese quesadilla at Baha Fresh. YUM!

I was back home by 1 and ready to sew. Since my Pfaff is being repaired it was time to do some re-bonding with my Singer 201. And let me say, it didn't take long. It was like riding a bike. Like sewing used to be. I thought it was me, that I was incapable of making a straight seam, of sewing without ripping. Well, I sat down with the skirt I cut out in a frenzy a few weeks ago and finished (butceptfer the hem, and it's already folded up 1/4", and a hook and eye). This is a "skirt length" from G Street - I'm sure about this one. I cut out the lining with my new rotary cutter in about 5 minutes. Like I said, I started around 1:30 with cutting the lining, it's 7:15 now and I've been done for about an hour. Agreed this is a simple pattern that I've made before, but this was still just freakin' FUN! No fighting the machine, struggling with stitches and the only seam I ripped out was some basting at the waist when I decided to add belt carriers. I used the slidey zipper foot for the first time ever and got a perfect result. Do I see a blind hem in my future? And, because it was such a good day, and I did such a nice job, you guys get a treat that you've had only once before. You get to see the INSIDE of my garment. Usually, they look too bad to show, but this one turned out nice (Yeah!!! new cutter!!!!)

But all this didn't come without a price. Part of that 1/2 hour or so between coming home and starting sewing was spent in cleaning up sewing room. It was nice and tidy, the desk was clean (Pfaff wasn't there, so I wiped it down), all the fabric was folded, the Singer was tucked in its cabinet. Well, here's the end of the day. **sigh**

Well, the dog's been fed, my sewing room's trashed, and TLC is calling. It's time to sit down with a glass of wine and watch some mindless TV. Cheers.