Should I Have Stayed Home?

It's mental here on the roads in Christchurch so many detours and road works I could leave.

Now if I hadn't been detouring myself after grocery shopping I may not have ended up being hit by another car. I was just sitting there on the road wondering where I was going to turn because there was  no exit.

When boom I was hit, the side of my car looks a bit nasty...I did swear I must say. Poor old man his foot slipped as he was getting ready to turn and I was the damage. It would never have happened if their was a road works sign saying 'Do not enter, there is no exit'.

The good thing though is that I have moved my sewing out of the dining room. I'm now stuck in a wee annex in the hall for now, at least my dinning room table will be tidy for a change.

Chef for a day

For the last couple of days I've been busy sewing a new Chef's outfit. The green spotty Chef's outfit I drafted and sewed a few years back (bottom pics). It's way to small now so I'm sending it over to the girls so they can have fun with it...

For the Italian Chef I drafted the apron and then used a DD ring for the joining of the neck strap. I'm not too sure what I'm doing with the waist ties yet. At the moment they are long enough to tie in the front, but I think I prefer tying them at the back. I don't think it matters much to the Chef though...

For the hat I used a free pattern over at YouCanMakeThis. I cut out the youth size and then embellished the finished hat by making a Italian flag.

The new Chef's outfit, I think he'll be making Pasta...
It's not pressed I forgot to do that before I took the photo!

Way too small now...

And a little to big for the girls...

Halloween

My ghost and witch for Halloween...

Both are made with a balloons for the head, one black, one white. I used a permanent black marker pen to draw the face on the ghost, then Voile (I was de-stashing) was used to cover the balloons. Then I used matching lace to tie off the fabric from under the balloon head. Next I went looking for the witches hat in the dress-up box to complete the faceless witch...

It's daylight savings here so it's not dark till really late...