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Ready, Set, Sew

Woo hoo! Take Friday and Monday off from work and what do you get? A 4-day weekend in which to sew!

Last night I cut out the perfect trousers pattern out of some black stretch twill. This morning I sewed some badly needed back darts into some cute purply black jeans I recently bought that fit me well otherwise. Next I'm cutting out the Unique Patterns jacket; hope to get that cut out before I have to leave to run some errands (like buy some notions and get my nails done). After the jacket gets cut out I'm going to tackle work shirts for dh, and then (whew!) trim the Unique Patterns trousers.

I used my new rotary cutter last night for the first time. Methinks I like it!

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