I had plans to sit on the patio sipping on one of those fancy drinks with an umbrella's enjoying date night with my eye candy, rocking my newest creation........... It didn't happen. Darn rain rained on my parade. Oh well!!!

McCall Pattern Company is coming through with some trendy patterns. I keep telling myself I will not buy any more patterns and there they go releasing some amazing styles. I cracked and got a few more. I promise this is the last time ....NOT!!!

Anyways, one of the patterns I fell in love with was M7601. I had some fabric ordered for a different project and ended up using it for this.  Here is my final look for my date night indoors LOL (Boo Rain)


              

OMG........

Here I was minding my own business living life doing my own thing and I see this pass through my timeline.

@mccallpatterncompany - Congrats to @sewmytime, the overall winner of the #m7542contest! Honorable mentions to @sleslie2, @mondes_threads, Donna M and Christina C. Link in bio for all the deets!


The McCall pattern company was hosting a contest for one of their most popular patterns M7542. This was an easy sew and easy to get very creative with. I decided to go ahead and put in my entry and added lace trim to it. I love lace and find that I am not sewing as much as I wish I could with it, So I said this is my chance.

I was totally honored to even be mentioned as a runner-up and I didn't think I would make it. I went about my business again and then Judith Dee mentioned, I was actually a winner.. Whaaaaat meeeeeee. How exciting.

Anyways, I am thankful someone thought my creation was noteworthy. I love everyone's make of this top and its a great easy sew to try. I hope you try it too. Here are other looks from my entry.

It's been a while since I made something for myself so I decided to make something simple and some what easy. Going through my pattern stash I found something that I thought I could pull off for date night. I found McCall's M6754 and decided to go with the peplum tank. Fabric used was a canary pique knit which I bought from Hancock Fabrics (No longer in business) but these are other options from fabric.com that I found here

To be honest I didn't measure my self out for the pattern. The pattern went up to medium and so that was what I decided to go with. The skirt and top pattern pieces were attached together and so I didn't want to cut them to separate them Instead I traced the top out and used that for my top peplum.

So in the many sewing groups that I find myself in, there is always that one person that posts their work and says "My outfit for church, made it this morning" or This just took me an hour".  This kinda leaves me wondering why it takes me longer than and hour. What techniques are they using? How did they do that?

Anyways, I can officially say I have graduated  and made my skirt in about 2 hours. Yes two whole hours. Now the circle skirt is supposed to be one of those easy skirts to make but the thing that will get you is the waist measurement. I am telling you this because I have made a few circle skirts that were either too big or too small on my waist and I gave up. This is what  I am talking about on the waist measurements.

Wiki how explains it like this: Work out your waist radius. (I can already tell that radius will throw people off. ) You'll need a little math here (Math?? We all know people hate math right?), but you can use a calculator!

• Measure around your waist or hips (the point where the skirt will eventually sit when sewn together).
• Divide this number by 3.14 (pi).
• Divide the resulting number by 2. This is the waist radius