shorts

Blogging has taken a bit of a back seat to my new sewing obsession! With the combination of lovely weather (sadly now gone!) and time on my hands I have been enjoying creating new summer clothes for the gorgeous grandsons.

Hippo shirt and matching plain shorts for the elder grandson

Hippo shirt and matching plain shorts for the littlest grandson!

Both of the outfits have been received with thanks and I am pleased to know that they both fit their recipients :)

Emboldened by the success of the quilting cotton shorts I purchased some cotton twill from Fabric Inspirations and went ...

added by Celtic Thistle 3 years, 9 months ago. under fabric inspirations , oliver+s , shorts , twill

I am happily reading Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. It's slow going—I'm on page 113 of 560—but the story is getting more interesting as I advance. Pasternak won, but declined, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 for this volume about Russian life beginning with the Bolshevik Revolution moving through World War I to 1930. One reason that the novel is a struggle is that I have to stop and research events, people, terminology, and so on, quite often. It's a big undertaking, to say the least. Why am I doing it? That's another ...

added by Mary at Fleur de Lis Quilts 4 years, 6 months ago. under #fleurdelisquilts , #marymarcottequilts , #marymarcottesews , @fleurdelisquilts , baby sitting , finished quilt tops , finishes , grandchildren , milly , projects , quilts , sewing , shorts

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