Sew Perfect for Every Body!

I work for a major hospital in the Pittsburgh area. They have been going through layoff and our department is also slated for some of these layoffs. Because of rumors tensions have been high and caused unnecessary rifts between friends, coworkers and management. Recently I did start to search for jobs and I applied for a job on line with a local courier company. You would get use of a company vehicle and there are benefits with the position. I checked my email and found 168 emails in it. Mostly was junk mail as usual, some of which I spammed and other just deleted. Finally I see the response to my on line application. A sorry we filled the position response! GRIEF! I just went through 125 messages searching for this one and they reject me. See why I don't have that to do. Waste of time! Then I see the offer to become a secret shopper. Cool! I know a friend who became a secret shopper and she loves it. She goes in to a store buys some stuff and then turn in the receipt...

I know it's Tuesday and I do not have pictures. I will tomorrow if I finish the bibs tomorrow. I have finally finish all the alteration to the dress pants for my BIL. I have given him the first pair of pants only to realize that I forgot the adjust the waist. His waist is 48, the pants are waist of 56. The challenge in doing this is the adjustment is done in the seat of the pants. And with this big of an adjustment the rear pockets will be right next to each other. Hopefully he will keep his jacket on. If anyone has found a better way to make this adjustment let me know. All suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Have a great night everyone.

I had planned to get on the computer on Friday night but that did not happen so I planned for Saturday. I need to stop planning things and just do them so tonight at 11:25 you get 3 blogs at one time. Friday's Blog This was the day when everything was to be officially known concerning our jobs. Amazingly enough no announcement was made regarding anything. S and the director went to lunch and she was informed that all was just speculation. Just talk about all different options and how they would effect the running of the department and any changes that may take place probably will not happen until middle or end of march. I believe I am stating it too simply but that is what I get out of it. I have decided that I am going to carry on as if we are going to the new location until some formal announcement is made to say differently. I have my parking hang tag, and I have signed up or the general orientation so I will get the proper ID that will work in the hospital. I am not mad...

Yesterday I should have gotten my parking pass for the new location. But I forgot! So I decided that I will make a special trip to get it today. The line was extremely long yesterday so today should be better. I planned to be there at 8:00am but I got up late. I did make it there a little after 9:00am. I got the permit ,caught the bus home, had the RX for Provera filled made it back home and then waited for the repair guy come to fix the bathroom sink. I had prepped the sewing studio to finish up some the repair jobs that I had started but I know I do not actually start sewing until after 8:00pm. That is the assigned time each day. Some days it happens some days it does not. Today I am under contract to finish the dress pants because that will put $10.00 in my pocket. My customer needs them Sunday. I finally did find the right kind of terry cloth to use for the back of the bibs. When I went to the fabric store I was discouraged by the roughness of the terry cloth fabric. ...

I don't ask direct questions, this is especially frustrating to those around me who need to know some information. I went into his office and made idle chit chat. Finally he said " Have you talk to S?" " I left messages on her phone yesterday and I doubt that I will hear from her. Do you have some information for me to relay?" " Still don't know anything yet." I just look at him and then I say " Well since you said everything will be happening on Friday I will take Thursday off so I can be here on Friday." He just looked at me as if nothing I just said registered with him. " Remember 4, tens so I will take Thursday as my day off so I can be here on Friday and know first hand what is going on" " Oh okay just tell C." New day same ole garbage.

My friend whom I happen to work with told me that she thought I threw her under the bus to save my job. There are a lot of definition in the Urban dictionary to the saying "throw under a bus." This is one : to sacrifice some other person, usually one who is undeserving or at least vulnerable, to make personal gain. What the ?? I was shocked and hurt that this thought even came to her mind. Even more so because nothing I could say or do would change her mind. In order to do this I would have to have known something that she did not. I would have had to know that our jobs were in jeopardy. I found out this information at the same time as she did. Also I would have to figure out a way to make myself more valuable than she. How? She is the one with the friendship and trust of the director. Without her I usually do not have lunch with him and the one time I did the conversation was about what type of training I need to be able to go into other departments. I have had the same conv...

Some people are just short. My husband is tall,inseam 34 inches. My brother in law is short, inseam 23 inches. When men dress pants are not hemmed the inseam is anywhere between the measurement of 34 to 36 you just measure, cut and sew if the man is tall. If the man is short you must measure cut and taper and then sew. If you do not taper the width of the leg of the pants then the pants when worn look like full leg pants. Great for women, not so much for men and it makes them look shorter. Men's dress pants have a taper to them so when making adjustments for short men you must remember to taper the pantlegs. If you forget and complete the pants without tapering them then you will be removing the hand sewn hem, then taper the pants to the correct width and resew the hem by hand. This took 2 hours too long. Grief!

I know I have not been blogging everyday. I also realize that I was to only blog about crafting and sewing but today I have something different that is on my mind. I work at a hospital,in the ENT pediatrics scheduling room. All day long I listen to parents make appointments for their children only to not arrive for the appointment for a variety of reasons, some good reasons, some very, very lame. For all my complaining about the job it is the easiest and least stressful job I have ever had until yesterday. There are upcoming layoff due to the budget cuts that need to be made. The first round of budget cuts in our area did not have any layoff because one of our doctor left our practice to set up his own in Florida, somewhere in the Keys. This second round of budget cuts will result in some layoffs. First we are told this will not effect us then we are told get your resume together. The three of us in this scheduling department are basically in jeopardy of losing our employment....

This skirt is my polyester double knit. I love the way it looks on me and today I received several complements on it. I call the print firework flowers. This should have been my polyester double knit red plaid skirt. But I have 55 different spools of thread and the only one with the right color red has this much thread on it. Cannot complete the skirt with that and I am too lazy, tired, disgusted to go to the store and buy more. When every I buy thread I buy 3 spool per project because I know will use it all in time. I have brick red but cannot bring myself to use it. In my mind the fire engine red is the best color to use to complete this skirt. So I am going to work my creating a projects to do list and draw some designs. I finally place an order for some swatches of fabric for the designs that I submitted to sunflower. I check the mail every day. I did complete my apron and pot holders that match the kitchen curtains. The maid forgot to wash ALL the dishes. I do not like this pi...

The skirt I was working on yesterday looks good. I am very pleased with what I accomplished. I used the sloper that I created enabled me to create this pencil skirt so that it fits exactly as I want it to fit. The fabric is a double knit polyester that looks good and will keep me warm in the winter. Which is the reason I used this material. I have several pieces of this material that was gifted to me. I took them because the prints are retro but I love them. The color is black white and yellow. I still have some hand sewing to complete on the waistband and the hemline. I should have that done over the weekend and will have pictures on saturday. I am also in the process of making a second pencil skirt in a red and white plaid print. This fabric is also a double knit polyester. When I cut this fabric I almost forgot to add the seam allowances . If I continue on this current sewing trend, by the end of this month I should have all the polyester of yester years sewn and ready to ...

OMG! I scream and jumped and paced the floor. I was certain that the Steelers would win, then I wasn't so sure then it was confirmed. I screamed like Ma Harper on Jeopardy. " We Won! We Won! We Won!" I opened my window and I saw several neighbors outside shouting and screaming and jumping around. There were fireworks blasting in the sky no I am not embellishing! I texted messages to family and friends. Traci who is a season ticket holder sent me a video of what is was like at the stadium in Tampa! Then I saw on the breaking news. Oakland filled with people, South side filled with people it look like NY on New Years Eve! The main streets in Pittsburgh are closed down. Schools have 2 hours delay. It's a great time to be a Pittsburgher!

I have nothing to blog about. It Super Bowl Sunday and Pittsburgh is playing. Blog to ya on monday.