Corduroy jumpers and boots

Hopscotch

Pebble drops

foot hops

summer play

sunny day

jump squares

no cares

playin' hopscotch.

       

                                        ~Robert E. Blackwell

                   We painted the concrete squares so that Bibi could have hopscotch in her backyard.  I had lots of help, and oddly enough, there were no real paint tragedies other than a few spots that easily washed off little boots.

         I finished another dress that was started in Nashville at the Children's Corner, a FAVORITE fabric store and sewing school.  It is an adaptation of Lillian,  and the fun  fabric is accented by bias bands.  The dress and bands are both a very soft corduroy, so they were easy to work with and are soft next to Issa's skin.  A glue pen helped to keep the strips straight as I sewed them down, and the #10 foot kept the topstitching nice and even.  It is lined with a pretty lime green gingham.
        
         The dress buttons down the back, and the bottonholes were easy to put in with the automatic buttonhole foot.  I even sewed on the buttons with the #18 button foot.
         Issa had grown a little more than I expected when I cut the dress out, so I used one of the extra bias strips for the hem and it hits her in just the right spot.

         And Miss Mae is perfectly happy in last year's jumper;  if I remember correctly her feeling was..." I don't wike it!"