Sewing Under the Influence: Ahoy!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Ahoy!

I'm taking a break from my quilts for a bit to tell you about my newest hobby: sailing.

...joking...

One of my favorite movies is What About Bob?. You HAVE to watch the "I'm Sailing" video clip. It's one minute long. Do it. You know you want to.

"Dr. Marvin! Guess what! Ahoy! I sail! I'm a sailor! Isn't this a breakthrough?! Out on a boat...on a lake...way far away from the dock...with the wind, and the wind, and, and the sky and everything?? AHOOOY!"""

No, really, I am taking a break from my quilts (just finished one last week!) (and I have two more to work on!) to sew a couple little ties onto some onesies. I had a friend special order a tie with a sailboat theme (hence my reference to What About Bob), as she's going to an 80th birthday party for someone in her family, and there is some sailing significance.

not sewing the little onesie to itself is difficult

As soon as I finished her order, she called and said her cousin wanted the same thing for HER baby boy, so ... fabric shopping, onesie buying, and bing bang BOOM! Two sailing twinsies in onesies will be showing up to the party in STYLE!

corners are difficult

So my question is...when using a zig zag stitch, how do you make the corners identical? As I'm turning the shirt, sometimes it looks like I went over it twice (like the top left corner) and sometimes it looks like I completely skipped it (like the top right corner)! Any help on that one?

Maybe I can get a cute picture of the 2 boys in their shirts and post an update! I'll see what I can do for you, faithful readers...

Did you watch the video clip? :)

4 comments:

GrammaJinxMarch 5, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Thanks Melody, now Dave and I have to watch the whole movie!!
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HollyMarch 7, 2012 at 7:12 AM
I typically use a straight stitch becuase of that problem so I don't know what to tell you.. cute boats though!
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UnknownMarch 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM
How did I not know that you love What About Bob? It is one of my favorite movies of all time. Yet another reason we are friends. :)
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

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