or I could say, “Happy Dominion Day”. Canada Day is on July 1st and there are many activities throughout the city that day. The day ends with fireworks on the rivervalley and many people finished the night partying in one way or another. It’s a fun day and I usually like to bbq with friends.
To all Canadians , HAPPY CANADA DAY!
I like to scrapbook. Like. Not love. My passion is sewing but I do like to preserve precious photos. Most of my photos go in a photo album but I do like to do some scrapbooking so I can journal special memories. Scrapbooking is very expensive so I try to keep it down to a minimum. I find many companies/magazines focus on selling their products instead of encouraging the journalling part. But then they would never make any money. I will never post my layouts simply because I don’t like to disclose too much about my family. You never know if a lunatic is reading my site.
Any scrapbookers reading my blog??
For the neckline, I completely forgot to take pictures. After twisting the top part, I attached the top part of the front to the bottom part of the front. I first basted it with my straight stitch and then serged. The very middle where the core of the twist is does not get stitched. This is left raw. I then attached the front to the back by stitching the shoulder seams together and then I stitched the side seams.
Next, I applied facing to the back neckline. I forgot to use steam a seam on my neckline in the back and this may have affected the outcome. When I put on my top to check for fit the back neckline was gaping. How the heck did that happen? Was it because I didn’t use the stabilizer? Don’t know. So I ripped my shoulder seams apart and pulled the back shoulder seams up approximately 1/2″ up. I crossed my fingers that this would help and it did. Whew!
Before I sewed my sleeves on, I finished my hem and sleeves off with a rolled hem on my serger. I used a pink wooley nylon in my upper and lower looper. The needle had regular serger thread. By stretching the fabric at both ends while I serged the edges, I get a wonderful wavy effect which is called the lettuce edge. I really like that finish. It was big in the 80’s and now it is back. More so on children’s clothing but I don’t care. I love it. I had some thread issues with my serger and used a looper thread floss. Without it I would have never been able to rethread my serger.
After an hour and half of screwing with my serger I finished my rolled hems. Now onto the sleeves. I pinned them and then basted. I always like to check to see if there are any puckers before I serge.
Well, after some final pressing my top is finished. I am so happy with the outcome of my twist top. No wonder this top is so popular with many members on PR.
Last night it took me about 2 hours to decorate the cake and clean up the horrible mess. I like making the cake for the kids but I absolutely hate the mess afterwards. The icing is a Buttercream icing that I found on Wilton.com. This icing has sooo much sugar and fat that it would take a month to work off the calories. I only used a large star tip on the bottom border and a line tip for the black lines on Bob. For the rest I just put the icing on with a professional icing spreader.
I’m glad that’s over. Now the birthday party. As Sponge Bob would say, “I’m ready, I’m ready…”
Thursday night, I am going to make my dd a Sponge cake for her birthday. I’ve been looking on the net for ideas and here are some:
Hmmmm… which one to make. Probably cake #2.
