New S.C.A.M.P.S. Meet-up Coming Soon

I'm about to take the plunge to having a weekly SCAMPS meeting at my home in the desert. My boyfriend just started a new part time job, so I'm waiting to see what days he's going to be working. If his schedule is all over the place, then I'll just pick a day and hope he can work around my life. I was aiming for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, then wouldn't you know it, this week he was working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But he's only training, so who knows what days he'll be in the store or if they'll change it every week. I need to move on with my plans. I can't keep putting everything off because he's underfoot.

I'm figuring on keeping the price super low, say $5. a person, with a dollar extra for each family member per day. If we meet from 2 to 7 PM, that's a dollar per hour. Of course people wouldn't have to stay the whole day. Each hour would be a different theme. It's not a class, it's a gathering. If people want to take a class with me, it will be $20 an hour to learn how to knit, sew, crochet or whatever.

Frustrations of Sewing

Happy Autumn. I had to set my quilting project aside to make two Renaissance style peasant shirts for my boyfriend for an SCA event called Great Western War. I don't know when he thought he'd have time to make them but he ran out of time. I think I've never made so many mistakes as I have on this one pattern. I cut the side seam under the serger blade when I lost my grip, I sewed the interfacing to the wrong side of the collar, when I got the underarm seam all sewed up the front of the shirt was 4" shorter than the back. It's a good thing I'm creative because so far I've been able to fix all my blunders. I'm hoping the next shirt takes half the time. And now I have to go re-thread the Serger. My boyfriend just ran out of thread. I told him we needed to make a 'no-sewing after 2 AM rule'. I don't drink but I'm about ready to take it up.