My hubby was recently gone for a week on business. I’m sure I could fill up my hours while he’s gone without help, but my wonderful (almost) DIL Em decided to plan something fun for us. She organized a candle-making evening and invited some friends over to my house to join us.
Here’s our little gathering, and everything was all over the counters. We had wax to melt, candle dyes, essential oils, jars, tea cups, and empty votive candle holders to fill. 
From left to right we have Tracy, Jess, and Em.
I donated some of my china tea cups to the cause. I never use them. I barely use my china, and when using my china, I have mugs I prefer to use. So, these lovely tea cups are finally getting used.
I also hot glued the saucer to the cup to make it one unit rather than two pieces. It’ll make it easier seeing as no one is trying to drink out of it.
Here’s Em showing a little votive candle holder she reused.
And here’s Jess enjoying the scent of her homemade candle.
I made a sweet little lemon-scented uncolored candle in this little votive holder.
I also made a lovely pink candle in one of my husband’s grandmother’s tea cups.
We all had fun, and made as many candles as we wanted. I had a 12-case of jars and only one or two had already been used. So we have lots of options each.
Here are all my candles. My hubby wants a jar one.
Em also made a bunch of heart-shaped candle melts. Unfortunately, when she was removing them from the mould, both of mine split in half. Being as creative as she is, Em had a solution. She used hot wax to glue them back together.
It was a really fun evening, and we’re already planning another evening. I think we should start our Christmas baking soon.
Happy creating!
This lovely lace is from Libelle Sewing. Everything else was in my stash.
I brought the back straps in a bit because my friend is petite, however, they still look wide on the display. I’ll have to see how they are on her.
I hope it fits perfectly. I haven’t had a problem with sizing for the Watson before, so here’s hoping for one more perfect fit.
For my July entry, it was back to the drawing board in terms of design, and pattern. I just didn’t feel like I wanted a second swimsuit right now, so I asked Em if she wanted one. YES! Yes.
It’s pretty adorable. But it’s also too small. I’ve never made this pattern before, and I’d need to size up the bottoms for sure. Sadly, they won’t fit Em, and they won’t even fit on my display.
The front of the Marsha pattern has some adorable features too. A fabric twist at the center front.
I’m sad this is too small, but am glad I tried this challenge and learned a few new things.
Here’s my second pair.
I moved this seam only because I wanted it a little further forward. I could move it forward still, but really, I’m just playing with the seam at this point.
Happy creating!
This turned out to be very pretty. Of course, there are still a few changes I want to make, but this fits so well. All the adjustments I learned are making this my best fitting bra yet.
I also lowered my bridge, and raised the bottom of the bridge, and widened the bottom of the bridge too. And added the Gothic arch.
I’ve moved the strap placement over on this pattern. One of the things I love about the Ruby pattern is I don’t have to pull so very much all along the underarm with my elastic. Just a little pulling and it fits well.
Here’s the side view. Look how nicely the cup is fitting into the frame. Oh, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I’ll never get tired of seeing how nicely the cups fit in after taking that class with Jeanette.
The final adjustment I made was to move the straps in on the back.
Seeing as the bra has white in the lace, I thought white lace trim would be perfect for these panties.
These are my self-drafted Hipster panties, and you might notice the side seam is forward a little. That’s just so all my side seams aren’t hitting all at the same place.
And the back.
It’s been a long time since I was a bride, but I love my new blushing bridal set.
After making a few pairs of pants and never having a decent way to display them, I thought these legs were perfect.
The hanging display went into my car right away. It’s lovely.
Here are my new capri pants on the display, and the back view is just not at all what I was wanting. But the front and side views are nice. It’s a good thing the legs are free standing and can be turned around.
That’s Catherine there too. Both displays were on hand for my friend to showcase her knitting crafts.
Despite being so long, my capris look much better on this display than any display I’ve tried yet.
She’s awfully skinny, so I had to pin the pants on her.
Yes, this display is definitely much better than anything I’ve had to show pants before. I’m glad to add her to my small collection.
In fact, these were the left-over CLs I used for my May Challenge entry. I did have enough after cutting out my newest agnes.
I adore this! Polka dots are a favorite of mine.
I pulled out my Coverpro machine to finish the neckline, armholes, and hem.
It really does such a nice job finishing.
I’ve ordered a few prints from them and have loved them all. For this one, as an agnes, I was thinking something along these lines.
I’d have the frost detail meet and graduate up and down on this one. I think it will look great.
I love how this turned out.
The back is amazing as well.
Yes. I love this!
Here’s the view from the side.
And the back view. Again it’s pretty much the same as the front view.
All of these were finished with my Coverpro machine. 
I’m feeling very inspired with these new tops, and think I may look at what other fabrics and patterns I have to make for summer.
I think these are adorable! In fact, I like them so much, I went on to cut out five more variations! I’ll show you those after I show you the side and back view of this first pair.
And the back view.
I used up the last of the stripes, and that inspired me to make a pair in the last of the black with white polka dots. These are so cute.
I have two more pair of white with black polka dot panties all cut out, but somehow with a whole rack of thread, I didn’t have any white thread.
Aren’t these great? I hadn’t decided if I wanted the black on the bottom, on the top, or color blocked, but I knew they’d be adorable together.
Here they are side by side.
I like this one a lot better.
As I was drawing this, I realized exactly what it was I didn’t love about the first two combinations – I wanted more continuity between the top and bottom pieces. So Rad Patterns’ Panel Undies inspiration struck again. I could do an ombre panel on the tankini bottoms as well.