Susan Receives a Wonderful Sewing Gift
Susan Receives a Wonderful Sewing Gift! Sew, MissMeliss has been here for ten days without her beloved, and we have had a wonderful time having pedicures, long leisurely lunches, and coffee with some of my friends. She even overcame her childhood trauma of going fabric shopping with me. Well she was choosing fabric for friends.…
Special Order: Patricia’s Cow Pillows!
Sew…My friend Patricia loves cows! She is a city girl born and raised in Mexico City. Now she lives here in La Paz. We have been friends for years. And she is a true individual. She keeps balloons and ribbons in here purse, when she sees kids she stops to blow up a balloon, ties…
Susan Sews a Pareo Dress, the First of Many
The weather Is warming up, and soon it will be too hot to move. I will swim before sunrise. Retreat to my sewing room with the AC cranked and sew and write. After lunch and before my siesta I will take another swim. Since the heat of the day keeps everyone inside, I can swim…
Susan finishes and Wears Black Linen dress to A Wedding
Here I am in the linen dress I made for Dhorea’s wedding. The ceremony was in the Cathedral on the square in downtown La Paz. As the wedding party was posing for a few photos on the alter, a young man with a camera sauntered down the aisle and asked us (and others) to pose…
A Few Sewing Themed Gifts I Have Received
Although she claims she has ben traumatized for life by having to stand in line with me in fabric stores as I waited to have my fabric cut ,my daughter, MissMeliss has sent me some thoughtful sewing related gifts (as have friends). And now that I live in Mexico, and she lives in the great shopping mall…
Lazy Susan Makes Purses Using Lazy Girl Designs Patterns
About two years ago my daughter was accepted into a writer’s group in San Francisco. she asked me to make a special tote bag for her. I make great totes. But I wanted something different for her. Sew I searched the internet and found Joan Hawley, owner and designer of Lazy Girl Designs (LGD). She designs wonderful, usable,…
Susan Sews a Dress for a Wedding
Since we have been living in La Paz in Southern Baja, we have been invited to many weddings, christenings, business openings, buirthday parties and general parties. We have been invited to a formal wedding next Saturday. I am making a floor length black linen dress ( lined with HOT pink). It is a classic sleeveless,…
Susan Finished the Yellow Sundress
Sew, I have finished the yellow sundress and jacket. I did don the dress and ask my beloved to take photos of me, but it is early morning and there was no good location that would show off the dress, and allow me to have my eyes open. Sew here is the dress and the jacket…
Susan Sews a Sundress
Susan Sews a Sundress Of cool lemon, hot orange, and some batik to tie it all together. While the rest of North America is still trying to shake off the winter chills and gray weather, it is heating up in La Paz in Baja California Sur (southern Baja). It looks like a hot summer ahead.…
Susan Cleans Her Sewing Studio
March 28th, Palm Sunday 2010. My new sewing blog is up! And here is something I wrote form another blog that you may enjoy: Today I am going to clean up my studio. No really, I am! After my Christmas frenzy of sewing almost every gift I gave. My sewing room and fabric cupboards were…
