I went to the sewing guild group on Saturday and took my Lilly rose ufo, and the december dress. Yes, it's still unfinished in March!  I moved up the 3/4 waist belt and shortened it as marked. the placement is ideal BUT the carpenter's mantra of measure twice, cut once holds true for sewing.  As I shortened the waist belt I did think "huh, that's ( Read more... )

"Only" got a little lymphedema to recover from and the lesion fare up is all over.  So finally I can start sewing again ( Read more... )

I didn't get as much done yesterday (at the sewing guild group) because I hadn't bothered to change the overlocker thread & neaten the edges that I was going to need (sleeve hem, CB seam etc). I got the darts onto the correct side of the front right piece, and the other front darts sewn, along with the shoulder seams. The irons were busy so I didnt ( Read more... )

I went to another sewing guild retreat not the weekend gone but the one before, and will have some photos to post after tonight. I got one of my UFO shirts completed - though I need to adjust the bust dart length, so will do that tonight before taking a photo of it. I realised this after wearing the shirt on Saturday and thought it was too close to ( Read more... )

I've got a month until I need my next costume, a friend is hosting a regency era Boxing Day dinner party. Complete with 3 removes for dinner. We all get to make something to bring so it's not a huge cooking burden on her, and as there's so much food vast quantities of each aren't needed even though there's 12 of us ( Read more... )

Last night I cut out Decades of Style #3004 in a khaki wool twill, and I was able to raid the stash for matching thread and a good enough zip.  I'm not sure that I could get a better zip in-store so why try. I even have a button that works.  It's a boring colour that's suitably useful in that it won't clash with a lot of colours I wear, though I'm ( Read more... )

I had a long weekend away in my own city, looking after friends' dogs while my friends were out of town. I started with the discovery that I had brought both pairs of computer distance specs with me, and not 1 of them and my reading/sewing distance specs. That meant it would limit my ability to sew for much - eyestrain = headache = not working on ( Read more... )

I've done better than I thought with my UFOs, and if I can knock over the regency stays I can even get a bit excited. Even a mock up of them will be enough to decide if I'll continue to to work on them ( Read more... )

Now that my urgent costume fix has been made & had an outing, it's time to focus on Real Life clothing.  First I think I'll finish my half cut out skirt ... I started cutting this out almost 2 years ago. It was the first Saturday in January 2012, and after cutting the front 2 pieces I realised the back piece wasn't in the envelope ( Read more... )

I've got 5 items of work clothing started and incomplete, and this list is in order of preference.

Work clothing UFOsblue linen/rayon herringbone 1930s skirt - half cut out ( Read more... )