Jury Duty

Have you ever been on Jury Duty? I hadn't, never actually thought about it, until I received a citation a few weeks ago, saying I was asked to attend court on Monday, 7th of June, but to phone the day before if I was really required. So I phoned on Sunday night, listened to the lady's voice on the tape, phoned again, listened again, thought I'd understand what she was saying but asked Alan to phone again just to make sure. He had to listen to it twice as well.... why can they not record someone with a clear voice saying simple sentences?? Anyway, the message was I didn't need to attend that day, but should phone back on Monday night if I was needed on Tuesday. This time the message was clear: Tuesday morning 9:45. Ok, I was there on Tuesday as requested together with 36 other people just to get told to come back at 12pm. Fine, we thought and off we went for a coffee. Good citizens as we are, no one absconded, we went back for 12 o'clock. Fifteen minutes later a nice lady informed us that we weren't needed today, very sorry, but should return Wednesday (today) at 10am. Great! Time well spent.

So we all met again this morning, hoping to be getting on with whatever we were waiting for, and we were actually taken to the courtroom. Wow! They explained everything, the whole procedure, and guess what, sent us away for a coffee again! Please be back for 12pm. So off we went again. Hoping the case would go ahead now, we all gathered again in the jury room at requested time, only to be told there had been a technical problem and we should get some lunch and return at 2pm. Can you image that not everyone was very happy about this? Finally, after this unvolunary break the moment had come to learn who out of this 37 people was actually going to be on the jury (that still wasn't clear). All names got thrown into a bowl and an important looking person chose 15 jurors. I wasn't one of the lucky, or rather unlucky ones to get picked, and we were 'released'. Seemingly this happens all the time. I just hope that it will be a very long time before I have to do it again. If at all.

Time for some sewing again, yipee!

Short break

We've been away for a few days to my mum. Leoni was off school with in-service days and public holiday, so we flew out to Germany last Friday and came back yesterday. My mum didn't know we were coming, so you can imagine her face when she saw us standing in her garden! We had a lovely time together.

I've got three craft fairs coming up before the end of June and I have to finish a lot of stuff that's already been cut out, therefor it will be a bit quieter here over the next weeks...

Zucka

I finally finished another skirt, after hours of cutting, sewing, unpicking and sewing again. Thanks to my stupidity this skirt took me ages, but what do you expect when you sew wrong pieces together more than once and when  you think nothing can go wrong anymore suddenly notice, that the button holes for the elastic are on the outside of the waistband??? Anyway, it's finished and here are some detailed photos. It's the new Farbenmix pattern Zucka:

Summer has arrived

It's only May and we already have 22C out here, very unusual for Scotland. But I'm loving it!!! Here are some more clothes I made for Leoni:

Two Brooklyn tops from the book Sewing Clothes Kids Love and two LORE tops.

And a double layered skirt from an OTTOBRE pattern issue 3/2006 in Hilde fabric , Vichy blue and Printed cotton flowers aqua.

I hope you all have a lovely and sunny weekend!

Feliz and Ottobre top

We are going to a wedding at the end of July and for this occasion I made Leoni another Feliz dress. We love this pattern as the dress always looks different depending on the material. For this one we chose the Kid Pipo fabric from Hilco and the underdress is plain cotton poplin in pink and white embellished with ribbons and lace.

And as we are going on a proper summer sun holiday this year, I'm busy working on summer tops and skirts. This is the first top in Broderie Cotton, made from an OTTOBRE pattern in issue 3/2006:

Ebay auction

Leoni has grown out of many of her clothes and I've just put two of them up for sale on ebay:

You can find them here and here.

New patterns

Two lovely new Farbenmix patterns arrived today: LORE, a pattern combi of culottes and a top and ZWERGENVERPACKUNG, different patterns for babies and toddlers. And don't be scared, it's just the name  that looks complicated, the pattern itself is quite easy, honestly :-)