Denim Can Be So Fun

Ok so I'm a quilter. I confess.....I love patches. It's just been my own little piece of heaven playing in scraps. I am so lucky because I just have lots of scraps. Sometimes I think they multiply in my room all by themselves. Really every time I make a project there is always fabric scraps left over. And I can't help it.... I can't throw them out. So, I had these jeans. They were so old and so thread bare I just had to do something. They were calling for patches.

I had inspiration from reading Denim Revolution by Nancy Minsky on embellishing jeans. It's a great book -- you have to try and find your own copy. I found it at Jo-Ann's recently and smiled -- "hey....I have that book....." I have my own copy.

So here's my jeans. What do you think?

back to school and another year I'm not ready

Do you feel the fall yet? It was so crispy cool this am and then at 11:00am it turned warm and sunny. It was supposed to rain but we were so lucky and got another beautiful day. Ok.....so I'm supposed to end with weather.

I worked in the sewing room today. I can't walk thru the room its so messy. But I've been trying to get these jeans to a point where I can try them on let along wear them. I was crazy and got them done. Tried them on and did a circle in the full length mirror. I think when you are making jeans it makes a HUGE difference on the fit. Jeans just have to fit. When they don't, it doesn't matter how cool they are if they aren't a perfect fit they just aren'ta go . So I guess they will be fine but I won't grab them first from the drawer. I do like the "look" however. I had so much fun embellishing them. Lots of patches in the front and just a zig zag on the back. I've decided that jeans can be heavy in the front but need to be lighter in the rear (my rear needs no help being heavy!) Now granted these are super soft trashed and wicked old so definitely keepers no matter what I do to them but I was so inspired to patch that I had to try and work a pair. It was fun. Don't think I could actually make money doing this to jeans like my friend Shelley at Why Not. I'll keep trying to find my own path (or patch).

I took my guy to testing today at the community college. He hates me. Yep. I got a text that confirms it. Kicking and screaming into adulthood that one. I hope I survive. Parenting is another whole subject.

While he was at school, I got to do a little antique shopping. I forgot how fun it is to see other shops and other treasure. I got some really cute sign posts for my shop and a great find at my fav spot. I get to go in to the shop tomorrow and work. Last week I had a ton of stuff to bring in. Tomorrow I'll just do a reorg. And I'm bringing in a repair to sew on. That's what I dream about. . . sitting and sewing and listening to some Mel Torme.

Ah what a life.

I missed a wedding tonite. Working gets in the way of life sometimes. Oh, well. I thought of them all day. Wish I had the luxuary of going.

So back to the weather......Can't complain about a thing. Perfection.