This summer -- BOTH Linda's had surgery. Linda P. had a knee replacement (I took halupkes to her house). Linda K. had stomach surgery, so cabbage rolls didn't seem like the right get-well gift...
I wanted to make her a lightweight cotton robe with a front opening. So -- down to my stash!! There, I found a wonderful Hawaiian print MuMu. But since she wouldn't be able to pull it over her head -- I needed to make it a front-opening -- and we all know I'm not going to make a bunch of buttonholes. I went to the closet and got out one of John's seldom worn dress shirts. All I needed was the perfectly done buttonholes an matching buttons...
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| I cut away the front placket of the men's shirt... |
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| Then, I sliced open the front of the dress and added the shirt placket... |
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| It was ALMOST perfect... |
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| You can see on the wrong side how I married it into the existing yoke... |
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| Then -- another climb on t-shirt mountain till I found the right color pink t-shirt -- to take the facing all the way to the bottom hem... |
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| NOW it's perfect!! |
I don't know why this kind of sewing is more fun for me than ordinary sewing. You know -- when you buy the fabric, then choose a pattern, cut it out...oh, wait -- it's all coming back to me...
There should be a term for my kind of sewing. It's a combination of thrift store shopping, hoarding, and then cutting up two or three different things to make a new thing. I think I have created a new art form -- I'm going to call it "Frankensewing"...
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