Rain & Sewing

This morning we woke up to it raining.  Such a wonderful thing to see in the valley of the sun.  Our weather has also finally officially become fall like.

Yesterday after work I started on K's Halloween costume (Butterick pattern 4377).  I got the cape & lining cut out. Tonight I will cut  out the dress.  The cape is a chocolate brown crushed panne velvet fabric with an cream lining and the dress will be turquoise crushed panne velvet fabric.  Joann's had the crushed panne velvet on sale for $2.99 & since this dress & cape today a huge amount of fabric, it was the only way I was going to buy it.  Total cost without my time for the fabric, lining, thread & zipper $90.  My oldest daughter paid $150 for just an unlined cape at the renaissance festival in AZ last spring.  Maybe I will make her one too.

RAIN!

Yesterday an event happened in the Phoenix area that does not happen very often… it rained! We are expecting more rain tonight and through the rest of the week.  Yeah!

I put a call in to my son to cover up my dad’s 1992 Winnebago parked beside my house. We have a 12’ RV gate and the space to have it parked at my house. The deal is, if it is parked at my house, we get to use it. However, it leaks, and it leaks badly if we get a heavy downpour. I am really glad I had Z cover up the RV, because it started to pour around 9:30 pm.

We have not had a good down pour in a long time.

The other issue we had to deal with is, I do not own a dryer. It died a couple of years ago and I decided not to buy a new one. My oldest daughter Y did her laundry and it was hanging on the line. Luckily our line is between the patio support posts, so it was under cover. But, when it is raining there is too much humidity for the stuff to dry. She ended up bringing her laundry in and hanging it in the bathroom. In the summer I can hang a load and it will be dry within an hour.