Day off today (they're cutting down my hours at the J since they hired someone else to work cutting counter...I applied to a couple Other Retail Locations this afternoon because I swear every single other corporation pays more than they do) and I had nothing much to do (other than aforementioned Other Retail Location applications), sewing-wise...I ( Read more... )

First I cut out a dress for Saturday out of green cotton sateen - but then realized there was a fade line along the fold, which ended up directly at the CF of the skirt and bodice. Hmm. Unhelpful! Don't think I didn't consider trying to pass it off as a "design element", but it isn't an even fade, so that didn't work! After some more thought I ( Read more... )

Got the second sleeve all sewn in, and the back bodice edge taken up, so now I get to actually finish all the edges, thrilling. Except for the neck edge since that'll be enclosed by Fur Collar. Actually remembered to buy a little piece of wide twill tape from work tonight to cover the waist seam, too ( Read more... )

Just a couple of random bits:

I did finish my remnant 1950s skirt, and am reasonably pleased with it (it's a skirt with three pieces, how exciting can it be?). I wore it today and took an extremely crappy picture of it.

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I made most of a skirt today - just have to tack down the facing. The fabric was a stupidly good deal - it was just under a yard of blue and black lightweight wool suiting, when remnants were 75% off, plus discount, so I ended up paying under $3 for the piece. How could I resist? (I couldn't ( Read more... )

While things are cooking and people are not here yet, thankfully (what am I thankful for!)...

I finished it in good time for Thanksgiving! And I think it's rather cute. Made from Simplicity 1284 (modern reprint of a 1960s pattern), and nice and easy to put together (though it would have been much quicker if I didn't finish all the seams ( Read more... )

Worked on my turkey day dress today - got the main part of it sewn together, just basically have to do fastenings and finishings. Why do french seams make everything take fifty-seven times longer? Very annoying.

And I tried it on, and it was too small in the butt, and I was all WOE, and then I realized I was trying it on over sweatpants. Oh.

Somhow I got a bee in my bonnet that I wanted a new dress to wear for Thanksgiving. I'm tired of all my skirts, and most of my dresses are summery (because they're easier to make. Less in the way of sleevils!), so instead of going shopping like a Normal Person, I...well, went shopping, but for fabric! There's a cotton print at work I've had an ( Read more... )

Yaaaawn. All right, so I'm a bum and decided this morning it's not in my best interests to finish the polka-dot dress now. Partly because I started getting twitchy about not sewing on K Parr for so long, partly because I realized I don't have a zipper in the right length/color, and partly because it's a fairly full skirt and I don't want to hem it ( Read more... )

Just the hand finishing left on one dress, which I'm working on now, and then the other I've got the skirt put together and the bodice fitted - that was the only pattern in this sewing spree I haven't used before, so I had to take out the absurd amount of ease they put in, and take the waist up a bit. As per usual ( Read more... )