gotta love long weekends. i kicked mine off right by 1st hanging with shirley on saturday, who was in town for the weekend!!! yippee!!! she was so sweet and got me some chevron-like fabric while she was in seattle for a wedding! i love it! it will be used to make a summer dress for our visit to capri this summer! whee!!
of course, i had to finish a garment in time for my reunion with shirley, hehe. i used the rest of that lotus leaf fabric from mom's mother's day top to make myself a peplum top! the lining was my beloved silk and egyptian cotton bedsheet.
i used the pattern from my oregon beach dress to make the bodice. for the peplum skirt, i had hoped to make a cute short half-circle skirt. however, i had very little fabric left after making the bodice, and thus i cut out 2 long rectangles, stitched them together lengthwise, and made a gathered peplum skirt. i'm actually happy i went this route because now the top looks quite different from my oregon beach dress!
around back, i had an invisible zipper (this one being my 3rd attempt because the 1st 2 were each too short and thus i could not fit my shoulders past the tiny waist part of the top!!), along with 3 button and loop closures above the zipper. they were leftover from mom's top, and it would have been a shame to not use such perfectly matching buttons on this garment!
on sunday, alex, an old friend from grade school, threw a barbecue in prospect park. the day was beautiful. i let him pick what i should bake for the event, and he chose strawberry rhubarb pie, of course... rhubarb is not always easy to find. i successfully hunted down 3 stalks! here are the strawberry and rhubarb before sugar and other sweet wonderfulness was added. the color was so vibrant:
i squeaked out 2 small pies... on which i cut out pi symbols as vents, of course! once a math teacher, always a math teacher!
transporting the pies was no small feat. i went to the small grocery store next to my apartment and asked for a box big enough to carry 2 pies. they gave me a small box in which i could only stack the pies, so i asked them for the lid of another box so that i could create a divider. genius, no?? the pies were still hot, so it was imperative that they sat on flat surfaces so that they would not fold and drip everywhere. this looks like a mini-oven!
here's me in the lotus top again (you know i'm going to wear it to school this week too... just you wait!), on alex's friend's rooftop as we were waiting to catch views of the sunset. my friend ryan took the pic... as i was yelling at him to hurry up because he was so slowwwwww.
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