Kintropy In Action: Clearing one’s head

Once in the while to clear my head I go on an outing. Hannah is becoming more mobile so one day I took her to the JoAnn fabric craft store. I love looking at raw materials. Hannah just enjoyed being out and the colors and shapes. It is also dangerous place for me. I try to stay in the bargain fabric area.

Since Hannah breaks out from most fabrics, her grandfather Zadie has become her designer slash tailor. He found elastic without latex and makes all her pants to protect her delicate skin from the rest of the world. So I cruise the discount fabrics for 100 percent cotton fabric for her clothing needs. I still can spend more then our budget allows.

As we were walking through the higher priced fabric section Hannah said the word "Wow!"

It was a dress on a little girl mannequin. All two toned and shiny. It was adorable. I eyed the pattern hmmm 10.00 dollars. I better talk it over with Zadie before I invested in it.

Over the next few weeks I had a casual conversation with Zadie. I mentioned we could use it as an incentive for walking. Truthfully floor rolling it is not practical in a dress.

He laughed, "I’m making it anyway!"

Have I mentioned I love him? So this Friday for my alone time I went back to JoAnn’s and procured McCall’s Pattern M2590 and then had fun shopping for fabric. I ended up with a beautiful 60’s inspired pink oval fabric for the skirt part and chose a brownish magenta that was used as the outline in the ovals for the top half. That was for Zadie and me, of course, Zadie demands she wears pink, and he’s right she looks great in it. For Miss Hannah who loves yellow, I also ended up with a bright yellow zigzag fabric for another skirt part. I found a solid burnt orange color that was the same as a color in the zigzags for the top half of the dress.

I’m quite excited. I don’t get to do this kind of thing too often. I actually was looking forward to these kinds of things when I found out I was having a girl.

It is amazing the most inane things can give you a lift in your step.