Potential rides from Theale

Here are a couple of rides that we can do from Theale

Garmin Connect - Theale 40

this is the one we did in March
Garmin Connect - Theale 30


This is the one we did in Oct
Garmin Connect - Theale 15

Happy Easter

Instead of doing any more of my dress I thought I would put my poundland special paper clips to good use ........ and set the breakfast table for Easter Sunday ...... As aparently the easter bunny doesn't exist (according to Markus that is !)

Happy Easter xxxxx

My first dress for a long time ....

I made myself a ball dress when I was a uni (many moons ago) ànd I still have it in the cupboard but it no longer fits me ..... Maybe steffi will swear it one day :-)

Anyway when we were in Luxembourg last May I bought several lots of knit fabric ..... There was a fabric fair and it was too good an oportunity to miss and I promised myself I would try making a dress with some of it. I did make a top as a practice last summer and it worked well but then got sidetracked making quilts and other things.

I got a dress makers dummy for my birthday so I'm finally putting it to use and making a dress. Have decided to use a pattern I came across in my stash of patterns and magazines

Have done some research and found a few others who have made the same dress

http://barbarajanemade.com/2014/02/24/simplicity-1653/

http://blog.gorgeousfabrics.com/2014/06/23/pattern-review-simplicity-1653-amazing-fit-dress/

And have finally started cutting out the pattern pieces .... Using weights and my rotary cutter as advised by several pintrest entries.

I thought I would write a blog post showing how I get on so that it might help me with the next one, assuming that this one goes ok :-)

I've started off by doing the ties as I wanted to see how the fabric worked in the overlocker .... It seems ok, so now I'm trying to understand the pattern instructions, it seems to want me to tack it all together the wrong way round to check the fit ..... But the web sites seem to suggest otherwise ..... So a bit of reasearch with a g&t should make it far easier to understand :-)

The dresses coming along nicely, decided not to follow the pattern instructions as they were far too complicated and had you sewing it together the wrong way out, unpicking it all and sewing it together the right way round .... Doesn't seem to have suffered too much ....

Now all I need to do is finish the neck line and hem the bottom. Tried to do the neck using the binding as suggested but it stretched and looked awful, so unpicked it last night and will sew it again tonight !