Our pony club declared that they were having a "Western Day". The kids were going to experience everything Western - Western riding, videos of Western horses, etc. Of course, we were encouraged to dress up too.
I have no idea what possessed me. A Western shirt and a bandana would have done just fine. But no. For some reason, I, not my lovely daughter attending Pony Club, but I ... I got all carried away and decided that I had to make some chaps for Sabina. Initially I had visions of brown leathery chaps, but imagination very quickly took me towards pink chaps with tassles. (I LOVE tassles.) For two days I was like a whirlwind possessed (or should that be tornado possessed?).
Two days - that's how long it took to buy the material (and tassles), surf the internet only to find that free patterns for chaps are hard to come by (but x-rated sites are not! sheesh!), create a pattern out of paper ("Mama, I'm not going to wear those, they will rip"), cut the material (oh, do be careful, there's no going back), and then stitch it all together (they fit, yay!).
The final product was a hit, but it took me a week to recover from my whirlwind effort.
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