Sew Darn Tired

"Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous." I found this here  http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/07/som-sabadell-orchestral-flashmob/  not that I have had any anonymous comments but I know some out there have. Made me laugh. Oh the video on there is worth the 5 minutes too...  tell me what you think ... even if you want to be anonymous! Edit: I don't know why this has highlighted the above text... any ideas?? It looks like I'm making a real point and I'm not. I just thought it was funny.

Wow.. I've been so busy with uni (with extra sessions), catching up with appointments for me and my son that I am so behind in my assignments and household duties (yawn). I'm not hyper tidy or neurotic about it but I can't relax or concentrate on stuff if the house is messy so I need to get it sorted before I set out to work. This weekend I have my son with his two nephews over. Lots of WII playing and trampolining. Mostly they play great together and I try and stay out of it...they are 7,8 and 9 and they need to work things out for themselves at times. Onto more interesting things: I bought this at The Fabric Store a couple of months ago at their sale. It is a merino wool knit with some texture - I really love the colour and it feels like it will be super easy to sew. I might make another of the Burda top I made a few weeks back out of it. Unfortunately (well fortunately for me because I love the heat), it has become very spring like in Brisbane (reaching 27deg ce...

I was a winner of one of the parcels full of the Pattern Pyramid at  Did You Make That?  and I drew a winner - Funnygrrl at  Falling Through Your Clothes.  A blog I didn't know before but am glad to know now. Anyway, finally on Monday I sent the pattern pyramid parcel on to her in Canada!!  Sorry I don't have photos as I was so excited I wrapped it up and sent it before I realised I didn't take a photo! I did manage to put in a special extra surprise for Funnygrrl as she waited patiently for about 10 days before I had time to go to the post office. Lucky I got there then as since, I haven't had a minute. Come on end of semester. Sorry I don't have any photos but I have taken photos of some fabric a friend brought back from overseas to show when I get a chance to download photos. Back to my presentation I'm working on for tomorrow.

I know there has been some talk about the "prove you are not a robot" entries when making comments on blogs. It's very annoying and I have turned mine off (not that I get many comments..). I have been testing a theory when I make comments, that it doesn't really need to be accurate. I came to this theory because I know sometimes when I have typed an error and hit the 'publish' key too quickly, the comment still gets accepted. But I was never sure  I had made the mistake... so I have made an effort to enter something incorrectly to test my theory and it transpires that indeed you do not need to be accurate. I only changed the number but I will do further 'testing' in the interests of sanity! Try it yourself and see if I'm right. In sewing talk.. not much happening. I started uni again last week and (why? why?) signed up for two weeks of two extra sessions (my only free time) and now I am behind in my work all round... however I have a free weeke...

I went to the fabric sale on Friday with my friend. I'm calling this a teaser as I haven't had time to take any photos of the spoils but wanted to tease you a bit. It was a little light on fabric this year (but I went Friday and normally go on the Thursday so maybe they got cleaned out a bit?) They also changed the pricing and had just one price of $6 per metre. There was some lovely wools like this jacket(above)I made last year. I bought some more of this colour and as this one shrank (I didn't prewash!) I want to make another. I also bought some ruffle fabric that I make a skirt with this morning (too cute) and some other stuff I'll photograph tomorrow.  So, as titled, just a teaser!

We have a winner. I did the random number generator but I don't know how to show it! It came out No 6  Falling Through Your Clothes!  I didn't know her blog until she left a comment - I don't know her name or where she is but it is a nice blog so go and have a look. I have had a lot of comments (for me!) and I have some new blogs to follow that I had never seen before so t hank you for all those who had a look and who entered. I love a giveaway.   And so the pyramid gets smaller and moves. Falling Through Your Clothes please contact me with your email and I will get your address to post the goods!! The Brisbane Eye! In other news I go to the fabric sale on Friday so will post the spoils on the weekend.  I also started uni again today so things will get busy  busier here again!

There are good odds in my Pattern Pyramid giveaway - I'm going to keep it open until Wednesday as I won't have time tomorrow.  And just so this is not a post without a photo, I've put my son, who chose this spicy prawn noodle soup at lunch last week... he doesn't even like prawns! It was yum!