WIP 9/30

[cam]

Share your progress (or lack thereof if you are like me this past week).

[cam]

I finished the second of a set of personalized towels. I am spending more time to tell you about the progress made on LO's pillow than time spent making said progress (<--sadly, that is not much of an exaggeration). Made about the same amount of progress on just one of the two dresses I had hoped to start and finish this past week. I did a little more work on the design for the structure of LO's birthday cake, mostly calculations and figuring out how to make one of the connections in the least PITA way as possible (which is still a PITA). I seriously need to get some lumber ripped down for building the structure before the weekend.

2-part question: Anyone know where I could buy cotton candy (particularly white)? If not, any idea for a substitute? It is for the clouds that will go around the base of the structure and will be fully supported by the structure (the cake will be on columns to put it above the clouds). It doesn't need to be edible but may have some limited contact with edible areas. TIA!

[cmeon]

I've sewn another skirt for DD, a few fabric trays, and I finally got the fabric in for DD's birthday dress yesterday- so sewing that up today.

You can get cotton candy machines pretty inexpensively- $25ish? Cotton candy has a really deplorable shelf life, though- it starts to look like poo shortly after being exposed to the moisture in air, so fluffy cotton or wool might be a better alternative. As long as it won't be on the cake, polyester "snow" could work, too.

[saltypearl]

I haven't made it very far on any given project. I'm a few pages into scrapbooking my honeymoon, completed a letter and a half on the sampler for my son and hauled out the fabric and cutting mat for my next sewing project. Nothing is remotely close to being done or seen any significant progress.

Last week I did finish refinishing my daughter's big girl bed so I guess that's something lol.

In exciting developments though, my aunt is buying a long arm quilter! I am kind of excited to break out of "stitch in the ditch" for my next quilt!

[MsNicole06]

I'm working on invites for DD's 1st birthday party. I'm trying to talk myself off the ledge because after printing them and then cutting the shape I wanted out a few do not have the writing perfectly centered. DH is instant that no one else will be notice or be bothered by it and I shouldn't reprint and just the layout on my cricut to try and center them perfectly.

[cam]

MsNicole06, I am a huge perfectionist, but perfect centering is pretty darn difficult, so unless it is waaaay off, which I am guessing is not the case, I wouldn't bother redoing. I'm sure they look great and no one will pay any attention to a slight alignment issue.