Oasis Swimsuit/Fabric Fairy order is here!

My order came in yesterday!
I am ready to start sewing up my new Oasis bathing suit

I chose the Fabric Fairy because at the time I was looking for swim fabric, they had the biggest selection. Though this design wasn't my first choice, (they didn't have enough material of my first one), I think this is going to come out really cute! Yes I know I called it Fairy Fabric in my last post, it's ok, the link was correct. (hence why some of my projects get gimped up LOL)

I decided to make my own suit when I went to five different stores and could not find what I was looking for.
I have to face it, I'm older now and I need a little (I can't even lie) a lot more coverage than I used to, and still be able to get a decent amount of sun coverage. After almost two months of hunting, I finally found something I "kinda" liked in Panama City,but it still wasn't the all over fit I wanted, so.....

I saw a post on FB for the Oasis pattern and then, of course, went and watched the video. That's normally all it takes for me. When I see how easy she makes it, I'm all in and ready to get on it.

I did pay the extra $10 to have the Fabric Fairy cut my order the same day and, to me, it was worth it. My order shipped fast and was only a few days from order to mailbox, so over all I am pleased with their service. (their prices are pretty darn good too!) and usually the reason I buy from any place. The price....just sayin'

 

This will be the top or bodice of the suit and I am thinking about tweaking the pattern a bit and using some of this for a waistband also. (thinking about it) This is one of those decisions I make when I am almost finished, have to rip out a bunch of stuff and do a bunch more stuff over because I changed my mind, kind of decisions.

In the video she gives the option for leaving openings to put padding in, and I am almost positive that is what I am going to do. I have a few dresses I don't wear anymore that have pads, so yeah, I'm that thrifty i.e. cheap, I'm going to use them for this suit top. 

This is the material for all the straps, (there are a lot of them) the bottoms and the bindings.
I think this will go together quite nicely, and if I don't gimp it up, I will end up with a cute, made by Leah suit to get me through the rest of the summer.
Here we are beaching it until sometimes as late as mid October, so I will definitely get plenty of use out of it. (if I don't gimp it up)



The lining and the elastic, all came from the Fabric Fairy also.


I will probably start cutting everything out tomorrow, maybe Wednesday and keep you up to date!

Josey has a new bed

Josey is my 2 years old German Shepherd. From the time he was six weeks old I could tell him "Josey, go to bed" and he would crawl up in his huge store bought, over stuffed dog bed. As he got older though, he would go to bed, but as soon as he would hear the heavy breathing of us sleeping, he would slink out and sleep on the carpet. That is a big no no. But no matter how hard I tried to get him to stay in his bed he would not.
I finally figured out, that huge, overstuffed bed was making him too hot while he was sleeping, so he would get on the floor to cool off.
We got rid of the bed and he was just using an oversized towel to lay on, something I could just grab up and throw in the wash.
Then I came across this camouflage flannel I had left over from making a neck warmer for my sweetie pie. Hmmmmm.......funny how you find good ideas cleaning up the piles in your sewing boxes.
I grabbed up some left over cheap towels I had bought for making the burp cloths for BB and decided I would make him something a little more "his" than a towel on the floor.

 

There was no measuring, but lots of cutting. 

Josey is a big dog so I decided to use every bit of the flannel I had left and I would just fit the towels to the back of it.

The floor in the foyer was the only available area I could find. 

At 52 years old, the floor is not my favorite place to be working. It's the getting back up I tell ya. But I crawled around down there and got it all fitted together the straightest and best I could. 

Let's face it, it's a dog bed, it didn't have to be perfect. Just hold up.  

One thing I have learned, I love, love the clips to work with way better than pinning.

 

I make a mess when I sew.

 

It was just a lot of piecing and pinning and cutting until it finally all came together the way I wanted it to.

 

It is a messy mess cutting up towels and sewing them together. But I got them all sewn and ironed out with out much of a problem.

 

Sewing the whole thing together took no time at all. I didn't do any fancy stitches, no quilting, no tacking in the middle. Just simply sewed the two pieces together with right sides facing and flipped it right side out when I was finished. 

All that lint!!!

 

A quick top stitch to close up the gap and help keep things somewhat in place.

 

And there it is. A thin, washable "bed" for the brat dog.

 

I think he likes it. He stayed on that thing longer than I could ever get him to stay in his other bed.