Santa's Hat

It's been a rough week, so I'm nowhere near where I had wanted to be by now.  But I have started. I finally cut out the dark purple for Santa's hat, and decided on the trims. Each row had to be basted by hand first because I'm working with velvet, and everything 'rides' if you don't.

The next step is to do all the decorative beading. I can bead to about an inch from the edges, so it won't get in the way when I sew the hat seam. 

I've decided that I'm going to go with my original plan of a separate shirt and vest, and in the fabrics I chose last winter. I've cut out some pants, but still have to cut out the shirt, and I need to design a vest pattern. But tomorrow is Friday again already, and that means cleaning up everything  in my work spaces, for grandchildren on Saturday morning.

And I could be up to me ears in laundry tomorrow as well.  Our dryer stopped working last week, and the laundry has been piling up. Hopefully be fixed tomorrow.

And we are supposed to get our very first snowfall overnight, which is always very exciting! Although it is coming along with an 'Extreme Cold Alert', as temperatures dip to -14 C overnight.  So I'll see what it's like out there in the morning, and if I want to venture outside for pictures.