Front view. I love the kimono sleeves.
I started sewing a little crafter's smock from this book last May just after the successful completion of a few projects. I was overly ambitious in trying this one at the time since when I was sewing the sleeves I didn't understand the instructions and sewed the arm hole shut. Frustrated and not sure how to fix it, I folded up the project and stuck it on a shelf. It wasn't until just last week that my sewing skills caught up enough to fix this and not just let all that cute fabric go to waste.
We've been slowly remodeling our kitchen. In order to get a sense of what we were getting into we took down part of the drop ceiling. What we found were asbestos ceiling tiles, just like the original parts of the house. Unfortunately, the tiles had been sacrificed for the installation of the drop ceiling sometime in the 1980s. We've searched for a non-abestos version of the ceiling tiles to no avail. It came to us this morning while flipping through our This Old House magazine that we should ask the restoration experts. We'll let you know if we get an answer. In the meantime, if you know where to find the replacement tiles, let us know.
