WE'RE STILL HERE!

I know, just know, that you have all been on the edge of your seat wondering where we have been in the past few weeks, er, months...

Don't worry, we haven't died or even been injured (minus the occasional/often pinprick). We have been sewing our hearts out, whatever that means, this whole time. And thinking of YOU!

Since it's been so long, and I can just sense that you want to know every single DETAIL of what's been going on, this might be a kind of... long... post. But I will put a lot of pictures up to make it worth it, all the way until the end!

Let's see... Since we last posted, it would appear we were working on bridesmaid's dresses. Not surprising, since I'm pretty sure that's all we did for several months. Maybe years... So a few weeks ago, the bride and groom got married with fully clothed bridesmaids! Yay! When all the pictures come in, I'll be sure to get permission and stick some on here of the whole thing, since  nobody could deny a good look at a few wedding pictures (i.e. dresses). I did manage to get some of the dresses though, so feast your eyes on our toils:

 A and her husband, James in the dress she made

Jess and our brother, in the dress she made (that hem was stuck up in the dress for the entire wedding, and we had no idea until the pictures came in!)

Dana and the groom's brother, in the dress A made

Sierra and the bride's brother-in-law, in the dress Jess made

And last but not least, the greatest picture of all time:

Jess and A, relaxing after the wedding...

So that was our big project of the century. Or at least of the year, I'd say. When we got done with it, I'm pretty sure angels and birds sang because we were so glad that we did it and that it was over. We shall furthermore never use that fabric again. Except we have several yards left so we'll have to... Eh.

So a few days after the wedding, we checked our calendar and realized we had what they call a "Craftsman on the Porch" demo at our local Community House. In a week. Yikes!
We wanted to do something special for the public, and we knew the crowds would be minimal since our little tourist-y town is winding down until ski season, so we decided on a "Recycled Clothes" type of demo. We set about cutting out pieces of our extra fabric so that we could show people how to recycle their clothes like we do. We also hoped there would be a lot of kids so we could convince them that sewing is cool (we did not get that memo until we were teenagers).

We managed to get everything ready, and luckily for us, there were a few little girls and a few older women (I guarantee you they thought we were insane) there and it was just enough to get the word out and have some fun. Our dad (who, incidentally, took the pictures of the wedding and is an amazing artist and photographer) took some pics for us, so, yet again, feast your eyes on our toils:

A explaining the project to our diverse crowd :)

Jess, ironically showing people the rotary cutter and how to use it safely...

The first one to be done! She was sweet and modeled for us :)

Admirers. We brought some examples of what we've recycled.

So that was a few days ago, and we've successfully recovered from everything (I think). Now the big project is to help our sewing room recover. People have been SO generous, giving us their extra clothes, their relatives' extra clothes, extra fabrics, remnants, etc. It's been awesome. However, in all the rush, not everything got put away properly. Or even at all... So we've been working on putting everything in its place (and saying, "hey! I forgot we had that! So cool!"). I conveniently and (mostly) purposefully did NOT take "before" pictures... I'm not that comfortable with your love and support, or my intense humanity. But I took a few progress shots with my iPhone:

Figuring out a place and system for it all...

Getting there. Ignore the scraps on the floor. And again, thanks everybody for all of the fabrics!! Look at it!

I believe this is about 99% of the fabric and clothes, all neatly organized.

So, as you can see, it's getting there. I'm not about to show you the rest of the room, because it is NOT getting there.  But in time, it will. We're working on it tomorrow as well, and I'll try to take some more progress pictures.

Well, that's almost it, I think. Can you believe you've almost made it to the end of this post?! I congratulate you. I promise we will start updating the Etsy site, since that's even more neglected than the blog, and I will most definitely post about it when we do. Also, we'll update you when and if we EVER get back to the poor store that we were going to put skirts in. With all the hubbub, we haven't gotten back to her and she probably forgot about us! o.O

Okie dokie, quelle merveille out.