updating a skirt

First, baby needs to be happy.







Gather the necessary equipment.







Nowadays essential means extra spectacles.










Acts of the Apostles on tape.
(Love the Bible in the laundry room.)




Fold the floral skirt, beginning from the hem, into five equal rows.
Pin profusely.
Iron with a vengeance.


(Favorite part for me -- I love ironing.)


I made three bobbins but I didn't even come close to needing them. One would have been enough.


When I began sewing the first row, I worried that the pins in the other rows would jam. But, they were fine.

The skirt measured 34 inches when I started. It is now a 28 inch skirt with the modern flair of a skirt from Gap.





Before:

After:

My 9 year old son was using my computer to fill his iPod. He asked,

"Mom, can I listen to The Iliad?"

I responded,

"Sure but you might like The Odyssey a little better. It's full of adventures while The Iliad is heavy on battle scenes."

"I'll stick with The Iliad. I need innards"

Cedar Waxwings

As we left the library today, we noticed a flock of cedar waxwings scavenging their lunch from the roof of a pick-up truck.

There were about twenty birds moving about quickly. It was an unusual sighting of a secretive bird. My daughter recognized the birds by their song and snapped a few pictures.

I don't think the birds were eating something which fell from the tree in the library parking lot. The waxwings were interested in only one car. I wonder what attracted the birds to this truck? Where was it parked previously?
(Click the pictures to see the bird's distinctive facial mask.)