It's time!!

Hello everyone!!

I'm sorry for leavin' you hangin' the last couple of weeks.  I got busy at the end of June celebrating my 9 year anniversary, then my birthday.

For my birthday, my mom and nieces surprised me for a visit, and we decided to keep my nieces for the rest of the week after my mom drove back home.  So I have been bouncing around with four kids everyday instead of two (ages 4, 5, 7, and 12), and I must say that I respect all those moms and dads out there who are managing BIG families.  Just getting everyone up in the morning and to a certain location on time takes some extra planning and organizing.  Also, establishing order and organization has become a major focus for having all of these little bodies to keep up with.  It can be a bit exhausting, but I am loving every minute of it!!

However, my sewing is not loving it!  I have barely been in my sewing room.  Granted, I did have another wadder since my last post.  I planned on sewing a simple tank top, but it came out too boxy and full.  I now have two unfinished projects that I need to address...

But, moving on...

I still have a Craftsy class that I purchased and have put off for the longest time--until now.

I am venturing into the land of pants!!!!!

In fact, I have a story to go along with this.  In a conversation with my best friend, she noted, "How come you wear jeans all throughout the summer?  Don't you get hot?"  To which I replied "What?!? I don't wear jeans...well, I guess I do wear jeans all throughout summer!"  I never noticed.  But, really.  It has been a LONG time since I bought shorts.  I used to wear a lot of capri pants, but they don't fit me anymore.  So instead of buying anything new, I just wore jeans.  

I am hoping to successfully sew my first pair of jeans with this course, but beyond that, I am also hoping to have a blueprint for sewing other pairs of pants and even shorts!!  This is only the beginning!  I have already started watching some of the intro and I like Angela Wolf's teaching style.  She claims that you only need one really good jeans pattern.  ONE!  She shows you a lot of variations you can make in order to achieve the kind of jean style you want.  

So, I decided my pattern will be this one:

Mccall's 5894
The Perfect Jean

I will start here for the benefit of the class, but I would love to branch out into these patterns once I am done:

I am not saying I won't be sewing anything else this month, but I am gonna hone my focus on pants.  I am a little nervous about fitting my shape, but I hope I will get some great tips from the resources I have, as well as the Craftsy class.

I am excited!!!!!!!

I'm going to finally sew pants!!!!!!

I'll keep you posted as I progress.

Stay sew-filled!