Pants mock up

Above without waist band, below with

Mock up of the trousers I intend to make just trying out for size, as you can see from the 1st before I added the waist band, they would go around me twice, they seem baggy enough, although not added to the mock up from the calf down the trousers are intended to be tight, not sure yet if button together or ties.

A few new pictures of Jasmine

New Pants

New project started at last, taking advice from Julie I decided to make a mock up of the chudidaar style trouser I'm making for my new Character Gurunda. Stage 1 create a pattern, well Julie provided me a outline pattern but in the end I decided to copy the shape of a existing pair of Jogging bottoms and just widen them, the idea being I can shrink and change the shape during the sewing as they are mock up, so start big 1st. That's done and fabric cut out, currently I have 4 pieces of Fabric each one will go half way round my waist, so some will be absorbed by seams but with 4 bits I think they will be baggy enough, and of the hero pants variety I intend. Stage 2 will be working out the cuffs for ankles, may leave this until I make the real version of trousers.
During this process the hardest bit was stopping the cat nicking the chalk, pawing the scissors and rolling in fabric, who knows what she will do when the sewing machine is rolled out, either run from the noise or try to climb the fabric. Task were so much easier without a Jasmine the monkey, cat.

A cats dinner of it

My wonderful new Cat Jasmine decided to jump on my knee tonight while I was at the PC with my spaghetti bolognaise dinner sitting on my lap.
Jasmine landed in dinner expecting a solid surface or my knees like she normally finds but end up slipping pushing some of the food off the side of the plate onto my knee.
Final result, bolognaise sauce cat footprints on the carpet, spoilt dinner and a big smile at my cats foolish stunt.

The is the 2nd disaster in the last few days, since on Wednesday I think it was, Jasmine decided to jump on the top of wardrobe where I store lots of boxes of stuff.
This was late in the night and was sound asleep when heard a loud crash followed by Jasmine darting down the stairs at full pace, I'm not sure how but she had pulled the lot down, waking me, and possibly the neighbors. 10 second later she darted back up the stairs again at full pelt like a heard of tiny elephants, jumped onto my bed, and meowed.

Ah the joys of Cat ownership, I forgot the fun bits as well the good bits, at this moment I don't know I went for nearly 2 years without one.

Jasmine update

My cat decided to be naughty this afternoon and lick the whole surface of the butter tub I left the lid, coarse sandpaper tongue marks gave the game away, plus the guilty run out of my kitchen when I stood up.

I have now had Jasmine a week and day and loving every minute of it, she has fitted right into to my home, and spend her time pinning me to chair.

Jasmine has now met Julie, but no one else since last Sunday, since I told everyone I was busy this weekend, and I was until the event was cancelled.

Jasmine drug user

The Cat Protection League gave me a goody bag as I left, one of the items in it was a little fabric bag of Catnip which is a legal recreational drug for Cats. So just as left work I gave the catnip to Jasmine who rolled all over the bag, and when I came home later the bag had green stains where she had chewed through the material so I guess she is now a drug user.

Settling in nicely, Jasmine now has a toy (Emu like) bird she keeps dropping at my feet to play fetch, and as soon as I grow tired of throwing it to different corners of the room she chews it & deposit little blue fur patches all over my carpet. The bird now has a neck that is just about attached to the body with one thread.

1st Pictures of Jasmine

A few more picture of Jasmine here
http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j147/richardxl5/Cats/

These where taken 1 hour after collection, she is Tonkinese, not a Siamese as I originally thought, currently doing a lot of investigating and hiding as soon as stand or move, however I have got her to play with a toy, so I think she will settle in quick.