There Are "Good" Finishing Fridays..
..and there are BAD Finishing Fridays. Let's see if we can guess which one this one was. I jumped out of bed bright and early because I had an entire day of sewing ahead of me. It turns out that one can actually jump into sewing just a bit too early on a Friday. This is what can happen when one changes a needle before having coffee. Seriously--the needle (still threaded) just fell out. Oops. Today is February 25 and the February Project of the Month, had progressed no farther than washing of the material. With 3 days to go, it was time to get cracking! At first I thought I might make the pants as well, but when laid out the material that had started out at 61 inches wide, according to the tag I had attached to it, had shrunk to 51 inches wide after washing. Apparently when they say "line dry," "no heat fluff" in the dryer still doesn't cut it. Or, I was having a seriously measurement-challenged day when I wrote up the tag. ...