Back and Still Alive!!

Assalamualaikum!


Whoaaaa...setelah sekian lama absen akhirnya ditekadkan hari ini untuk kembali. Setelah menjalani minggu-minggu yang melelahkan dengan berbagai uji ketahanan fisik dan mental dan tetap bisa bertahan... Yay for me! (dan sepertinya minggu-minggu ke depan pun masih akan menyita energi)
Inilah yang terjadi beberapa waktu lalu:

1. ke kantor jalan kaki karena jalanan lumpuh oleh banjir. 5 kilo mak! dah kayak hiking kemana tuh.
2. pulang kantor jalan kaki karena muacet minta ampun...daripada berdiri empet2an di bis, akhirnya turun di halte terdekat dan lanjut jalan kaki.
3. kecelakaan di dapur...(kecipratan air panas di dahi) gosong deh. Bioplacenton does help.
4. pingsan dengan sukses di apotek yang bikin panik para pegawainya (thanks to mba Deby sudah nungguin saya sampai benar-benar sadar...semoga magangnya lancar yah mba...)
5. kena flu berat yang berlanjut ke sinus...dan komen dokter 'kalau nanti ga bisa sembuh dengan obat ya kita operasi' (langsung mau pingsan).
6. putri kecilku demam selama 3 hari tanpa ada gejala batuk pilek...hari ke-4 demam hilang dan muncul bintik-bintik merah (kesimpulan setelah googling: Roseola Infantum)
7. si kakak yang tiba-tiba sakit perut jejeritan...hasil periksa dokter karena kontraksi di usus besar akibat menunda buang air besar.
8. nunggu antrian dokter dari jam 17.30 sampai jam 21.00 dan pulangnya disambut hujan badai.

What a month...and I'm grateful that I'm still alive and my babies are okay.

What do you have recently?

Wassalamualaikum.

New Year, New Hope, New Curtain....Why Not?

Assalamualaikum,

Wow...it's 2014 already ...I've been gone for so long I guess.

Happy (be lated) New Year everyone...

At the end of 2013 I got a special delivery from my father in law. My own sewing table he made for me. Yay...It's a 'real' sewing table and perfect. Now my sewing machine has its own place. All this time I was sharing table with my 7 yo boy (Well, I'm petite, so I have no problem with that... yet.)

Yay...

 So, in order to 'celebrate' the new workspace and welcoming new year, I decided to make a new curtain for my kids room. And lucky me...I found a beautiful linen with theme I wanted all this time. It's the festival flag theme...just perfect for decorating kids room.

I never sew a curtain before and I didn't know how, actually. So I just 'do it'.

I did not make a lot of cutting nor sewing on the fabric. I just hemmed the both side, added trim on the top and straps.

The sewing did not take a lot of time, but sewing on buttons was so time consuming. Button?

Yes, 2 snap buttons on every strap. Sound unusual? I don't know. I just 'do it'.

We have regular curtain rod in the house (the one that has rail on it and need little hook to hang the curtain). I don't want to take it down, so I have to improvise on the strap.

Adding snap button on the strap was the perfect solution. I used a 1/2'' snap button.

After an on and off days here it is.....my very first curtain

Before

After

And this is the strap detail

My first finished project in 2014 and lesson learnt.

What do you have recently?

Wassalamualaikum.

Twirly Hat

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Yay....Alhamdulillah...I finally finished the hat I mentioned on the previous post. Yes, it took more time for me just to figure out how to put those hat pieces to one (sigh...)
It was a simple McCall's pattern actually, but... I still cut some pieces in wrong direction. My mistake...

pieces

See those 2 pieces right on the middle of the 2nd row....It was cut in wrong direction. Fortunately there are still remaining fabric.
This is how it looks after I put everything together:

side one...single fabric

side two...with contrast

Yup, this hat is reversible. Well, the pattern does not say it so. But why not? It's pretty on both side.
Now...the out fit is complete. Ready for play time under the sun.

Have a nice day.
Wassalamualaikum.