If I had brains I would be dangerous!

I just did a big post for this blog about a leather belt we have made this week then thought I had lost it.  I was distraught as I am battling time today as we are off for a few days tomorrow and needed to get all packed ready.

Common sense prevailed and I checked my other blog and I had posted it on there. Not knowing how to move the post here is the link.

A full week of working went into this belt

I made me some silky drawers!

Not wanting to sound profane but the shorts I made are quite silky and the line from a song out of the movie Grease keeps running through my mind when I see them.

"Take your filthy paws of my silky drawers, would you try that crap with Annette?"

(Grease was and still is a favourite movie of mine and I have watched it many, many times and know all the words to the songs.  Haven't watched it recently though).

I rummaged through my stash of inherited fabrics and found what I made the shorts from. It would not have been any fabric I would have chosen myself but hey, it was just sitting there so there was nothing to lose.

When I first cut them out two of the pieces had holes in them.  Not sure how, don't think it could have been moths because it is a polyester fabric and I don't think moths like it plus the container was airtight, anyway I had enough to cut out replacement pieces. I added a couple of patch pockets so I could carry my phone and keys in them.  I just kind of cobbled them together, unlike the sun dresses and shorts I had just made which I tried to do as professionally as possible.

There is quite a lot more of different fabrics too so I can run up some loose skirts and more shorts for the summer but not for a couple of weeks.  We are getting ready to meet up with family next weekend to spend a week with them.

Meanwhile, still working on the granny square blanket which has now been named 'the love blanket' because if and when anything happens to either of us the other will have the blanket to snuggle under and keep warm.

The sun dresses and shorts ( the baby ones anyway) are all done!

I just finished making them today, I am happy how they have turned out.

I think they will be very versatile.  The sun dresses can be worn with or without the shorts and with or without a little t shirt underneath and the shorts can be worn with just a little t shirt too.

Now I just hope they fit!

And still a lot of work in progress!

I have been working on the sundresses....a lot!  I have realised it takes me so much longer to do anything these days than it did even 10 years ago.

I have always been a plodder but I could do a lot of plodding in a day once upon a time. I could go from one plod to the next. But these days I have to rest in between and some days I am just not up for much plodding at all.

So, one sundress is all but done and the other is close behind. Then I will have the bloomers to make but I might just leave them as shorts as I have no idea how chunky our grand daughter's legs are.  I will make them as shorts and consult with my daughter in law when we see them in a couple of weeks.

I didn't document making them this time which is just as well as I made a couple of boo boos along the way but all is good now.  I wouldn't use this pattern again, the flounce has not been that easy to do.  I thought it would be a quick simple make but that hasn't been the case.

The blanket is coming along, it takes forever to do a round on it now as it is so big but it is simple going and I can do it in the evenings.

I have so many other things I want to make.  I desperately need some loose baggy shorts for round the house.  I have two pairs of shop bought ones that I have worn for about 8 years but they are falling apart.  I will use them as a guide to make some more as they are nice and loose and baggy, perfect for the very hot weather we are having right now. I wouldn't wear them out in public but for round the homestead here they are great.

So pictures later this week, hopefully, on the grandbaby's sundresses and shorts.