Zippers are evil! ; - )

Well, I don't have a dog yet... She will be ready on Wednesday! I'm looking forward to having her here. At first we thought we would get her today, but she isn't scheduled to go to the vet till Wednesday.

Ok, here's how my weekend went...

Saturday I had a range of emotions running through me, mostly anger at the dress I was working on. The dress is finished, I just haven't got a picture of it yet. Anyway, for some reason the zipper wasn't going to go in without a fight! I tried it on, pinned how much I should probably take in for the zipper, and sewed it on. One problem with it was it was too short. That was my fault! They didn't have color that I needed in the size zipper that I needed, so I thought I could get away with a shorter zipper. Whatever, I was insane! So not only did it not fit I couldn't get it up past my hips.

So Saturday I ended up having to go to Hobby Lobby twice! Not that that was a really bad thing, Hobby Lobby is now my favorite store in the galaxy. It is the only store that actually has double pointed needles in the sizes I need to finish my sweater! Not to mention a quite impressive sewing section. Think Wal-mart before they discontinued their sewing section. The prices at Hobby Lobby are even comparable to Wal-mart. It has other things in it too, it's just that I'll only be using the sewing section.

Well, finally after getting the right length zipper, I put it in. I will now take a moment to remember the three machine needles that gave their all for this project... Ok, that's enough! Yeah, I broke three needles... I don't even know how I did it! Breaking needles puts me in a monster mood anyway, but it still wouldn't fit! I had pinned it where it would fit nice, but when I went and sewed it up I couldn't get it on! I ended up taking a two hour break to cool off. When I went back to it I made smaller seams and it finally fit. When I did get it to fit, it fit well. Now Jamey knows exactly why I didn't sew all that often.

Sunday we went over to Jamey's parents house cause his sister Tabitha was there. She lives in California with her husband. They will be here till tomorrow. I got to show off my dress, that was fun! :~) We stayed overnight and left today about 11:30am. One thing I need to do is learn how to pack. Last time we visited my family I forgot deodorant, this time I wasn't thinking and forgot to pack jammies! The conversation went a little like this: Jamey changed for Sunday night and said "So what do we wear to bed?", "Oh shoot!" We made it work, but next time I'll remember. Sunday afternoon, Jamey and Casey (Tabitha's husband) crashed in the living room and started napping. I tried to figure out my mother-in-laws new sewing machine for her. I got some of it done.

The really nice thing about Jamey's mom is that she sews and what material she's done with or hasn't used, she gives to me! Most of the stuff I'll end up making won't cost anything except what the pattern cost... Which was a dollar! I got some stretchy material this time and I have a pattern that I just got that has to have that kind of fabric. (I didn't realize it at the time.) So I'll have a couple more sewing projects to work on and keep me busy! :~)

I'd better go and get the stuff that I didn't do on Saturday so I can get to those patterns! :~)