Le jupe de l'evier est fini!

My flirty little sink skirt is complete (well, except for the hem) and is so darn cute! I can't wait to see it in its final home on Rue Traversiere, where I will hem it when I get the final measurements.

I opted not to use my cranky, 30-year-old sewing machine, which I got when I was pregnant with Chloe. It's always given me problems and, frankly, might be the primary reason I don't particularly like to sew. What I do like are pretty things and owning a decent sewing machine can be one way to aquire them.

So here's my new machine, a machine a coudre in French:

It was incredibly cheap, only $75 and it does the basics quite well. The straight stitches are straight. The zig-zag stitches both zig AND zag. It even makes buttonholes, but I don't imagine I will need that function anytime soon. I wasn't quite sure what I'd get for my money at that price, but I am really quite pleased.

This morning I set out to make my sink skirt, which was not hard, only a bit time consuming as I was learning the nuances of the machine at the same time I was trying to figure out how I wanted the skirt to look. By 12:30 it was done and I got out a cafe rod to see what it would look like gathered to approximately the same width as the actual space where it will live.

Now it is folded up in my packing pile, which is growing to outrageous proportions. We leave for Duras two weeks from today!