to margaret's surprise, tomorrow is finally st. patrick's day. to my surprise, she is super excited because it is the day she gets to wear all green. apparently she is really looking forward to dressing up and let me know this today, the day before. being that she is a wee bit irish, i felt i needed to help out the little lass. i did a quick scan of what she had in her drawers and closet... all i could come up with was last winter's smallish 2T solid green turtleneck. hmmmmm.... so being that we would be indoors all-day, due to some sleet and snow, i decided it was a good opportunity to whip something up. at first i thought perhaps a dress, then i remembered that i've been wanting to try the cool little smockette pattern from over at the mayfly blog. so i dug out some green (almost teal) fabric and went with it. and as you can see by the photo above, the st. patrick's day get-up is almost complete. i was hoping for it to tie on top of her shoulders and be reversible, however i think it is a little too small for that - so i'm going to go ahead and add some buttons to the straps, which i stilll have to choose from my slim button collection, and that should give it a little more length. so i hope.
and that was my friday. a nice ending to the week. indoors, sewing, listening to itunes with margaret, creating. and to top it off i just may have found a silver lining in having to have had that cold... it has left me with a somewhat scratchy throat, which i discovered makes it a lot more fun to sing along out loud with the ever raspy voiced grace potter. cheers.