SEWmuchKNITting

My daughter picked out  Simplicity 2212 , for Mom to make a short, strapless dress for the Chicago summers. She had purchased fabric at Mood on our trip last year to NYC, which worked out perfectly! This is a butter-soft cotton, which was a joy to work with. This was the first time that I've worked with boning.....and I can't believe that, actually. I think of all those prom dresses I made that probably would have benefited from more structure :-)  But now I am a more knowledgeable sewist since I read so many sewing blogs!                                                                                                                                   ...

I knew there was a reason why I love Tom Hanks!:

Kids are home for a nice, long weekend and we are having a blast on our stay-cation! I'm trying out some new recipes :        Perfect weather to be pool-side, with a cool drink after some competitive family pool-volleyball:                                                     spending some time at the ballpark : (yes, the sky was really that color: gray to green to orange! We waited out the almost 3-hour rain delay to watch the Detroit Tigers lose to the San Francisco Giants, but we still had fun! Life is good!