Rocket sewing - or sewing like a rocket?
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Thursday was laundry day so the ten metres of rocket print fabric was pre-shrunk and I could start sewing. I asked hubby to take down Maja's current bed hangings and copied the measures on the new one. There was quite a lot of zig-zagging and hemming to do (machine) but after approximately four hours they were finished. It was only after they were put up (and after this photo was taken) that I remebered that she wanted ties to close them more securely so I sewed two pairs of ties on by hand. So that was Thursday's rocket sewing.

On Friday I started on Rickard's shirt. Thanks to the lucky find of a shirt pattern in the right size it went along quickly. I wasn't quite finished when I went to bed on Friday and I had lots of things to do today, so it was not until six pm that teh shirt actually was finished, but here it is:


On Friday I started on Rickard's shirt. Thanks to the lucky find of a shirt pattern in the right size it went along quickly. I wasn't quite finished when I went to bed on Friday and I had lots of things to do today, so it was not until six pm that teh shirt actually was finished, but here it is:

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