It began this morning…
The search for those tiny little metal buttons I needed to finish Sara’s denim jacket… I mean, it HAS to have buttons…
So I started searching in my sewing room again… a few of you said just keep looking, even if you’ve looked there before… So I decided to start at the area behind my door, where I JUST put my new thread addition onto the wall… and knew the buttons weren’t there… so I started moving around the room to the right… which is a bookcase… with LOTS of stuff on it. I have more containers of “things” than most anyone I know… but I use them all. It’s no wonder things get lost, because I have things combined in one container… I’ll show you how I was searching… I looked in LOTS more places than this, but here are a few…
In my jewelry containers…I had already looked in them 3 times but today I was SERIOUS!!
In my Dolly Toy Box… (which REALLY isn’t a toy box!)
In all the little containers of eyelets and caps…
I had a few little “animals” that needed to be looked through and find a place for them…
(I found a little THREE eyed pig!) :o) But I discovered it was just 2 beads stuck together so I popped one of the beads off.
I looked in the containers that have LOTS of leather shoes started, patterns for shoes and some soles cut out already…
I looked in my little dolls…
I looked in my junk drawer where my sewing machine cabinet is…
I looked in this tray that had quite a few different things in it… charms, Museum wax, the little washers I use on my shoes to make the magnetic closure.
…and LO and BEHOLD…between the Museum Wax and some other jar of plastic molding material, underneath the packages of the washers I had gotten at Menards and Lowe’s, were the BUTTONS!!!
See, these are what I was looking for…
Do you know what I did, I sewed those buttons on Sara’s denim jacket… and then found a place for them… IN MY BUTTON CONTAINERS! Where they SHOULD go and where they will always be from now on…
I AM SO HAPPY I FOUND THEM… I was almost positive I hadn’t thrown them away… I just put something on top of them and when I was searching, (YES, I had already looked in that tray)… but when I picked things up, I grabbed those little plastic bags of washers and the buttons were in plastic zip-lock type bags and I didn’t notice the difference.
Okay, so the buttons were found and here they are halfway sewn on…
So it was time to move on to making her a little tee shirt to wear under the jumper I had planned to make her… It took a little while because the fabric is a 4 way stretch and it’s like trying to sew with Jello! Pretty flimsy and not held by pins so easily…But I got it finished… (oh, it’s not hemmed yet…)
Here is Sara in her thigh highs and the tee…
NOW…HERE’S THE CROSSROADS I mentioned…
The jacket is too tight to fit over the tee… I mean I have it on in my pictures, but it DOES NOT FIT… it’s so snug and the average person would say, “Forget this!”
The neck is all bunched up in front because it has nowhere to go but forward.
The armhole area of the jacket is just TOO small and even though the tee has short sleeves, it still is just all bunched in there…
It was a cute idea, but when I make a jumper and have some kind of fastener in the back for it, there is NO WAY this will work… so I have a few ideas, but I know this is a bad idea, because everyone will have a different opinion and I still won’t know what is best to do…
#1… I could use the tee and thigh highs for another outfit.
#2… I could just make the brown print jumper for the tee and thigh highs and skip the jacket.
#3… I could use the jacket with just the brown dress and see if a simple sleeveless dress might work.
#4… I could go a totally different direction and use the jacket with a new fabric for something completely new.
#5… I am open to any suggestions you might have…
See, this really is a crossroads for this set and I need to make a BIG U TURN!
Oh, and I am going to make the armscye bigger on my jacket pattern…
I’m glad I found those buttons so you didn’t have to wonder over the weekend… but now you have to help me figure out what to do…
I will see you Monday,
Blessings, Jeanne