Yes it is peoples, it's time for me to sew! Do you know that today is June 25th and I've made nuthin' this month! Absolutely, freakin' nuthin'!!! Since I must have my Mood garment finished by Thursday evening to post on the Mood Sewing Network on Friday, you know I'm turning my sewing machine on for that. So look for at least one in-progress post soon.
Also look for a few more quick and easy pieces. Now that I've worn only what I've previously made for the last four weeks, I realize that there are a few things lacking in my wardrobe that I'd like to add. Now I could easily purchase those things but with 70 full to the brim garbage bags of fabric sitting in my dining room, I can tell you that I won't be buying much until the memory of putting it all back fades. *sigh*
Which brings me to this dress...
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I posted about Butterick 5211 last July 30th. 36 wonderful people left very nice compliments about this dress when I posted it. Even with their encouragement, I was kinda "meh" about the dress so I never wore it. Just left it hanging in the sewing workroom until it had to be taken upstairs because of the sewing room clean out. Last night I saw it hanging and decided that it was time to wear it. It's over 90 degrees today. It's a lightweight dress, perfect for hot as hell summer days and suddenly I wasn't as "meh" about it especially since it didn't need to be ironed.
Can I tell you that those 36 people were geniuses and able to see something that I couldn't...even though I'd made the dress! I'm wearing it today and it's perfect! Perfect I tell you...so I'm trying to figure out what I didn't like about it!
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Anyway, I have loads more of those trendy rayons left...one in a really pretty pink floral (just gotta find the dayum thing!) that I can sooooo see in this dress. Oh and I'm wearing it with the self tie belt. So Gay, the answer to your question is...I'm just wearing it for the first time today!
It's July so it must be fall...
Lastly, is it just me or isn't it a little annoying that it's the end of June, it's blazing hot outside and all of the stores and designers are showing pre-fall. Seriously?! It's too dayum hot out to think about a coat or even a jacket for that matter! Couldn't they have held off ohhhh for just a few more weeks! Seasons are coming faster and faster these days!
A closing shot...
My photographer/friend at work is now on maternity leave...so I snatched up my co-worker to take my pics...
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...as always more later!
Also look for a few more quick and easy pieces. Now that I've worn only what I've previously made for the last four weeks, I realize that there are a few things lacking in my wardrobe that I'd like to add. Now I could easily purchase those things but with 70 full to the brim garbage bags of fabric sitting in my dining room, I can tell you that I won't be buying much until the memory of putting it all back fades. *sigh*
Which brings me to this dress...
I posted about Butterick 5211 last July 30th. 36 wonderful people left very nice compliments about this dress when I posted it. Even with their encouragement, I was kinda "meh" about the dress so I never wore it. Just left it hanging in the sewing workroom until it had to be taken upstairs because of the sewing room clean out. Last night I saw it hanging and decided that it was time to wear it. It's over 90 degrees today. It's a lightweight dress, perfect for hot as hell summer days and suddenly I wasn't as "meh" about it especially since it didn't need to be ironed.
Can I tell you that those 36 people were geniuses and able to see something that I couldn't...even though I'd made the dress! I'm wearing it today and it's perfect! Perfect I tell you...so I'm trying to figure out what I didn't like about it!
Anyway, I have loads more of those trendy rayons left...one in a really pretty pink floral (just gotta find the dayum thing!) that I can sooooo see in this dress. Oh and I'm wearing it with the self tie belt. So Gay, the answer to your question is...I'm just wearing it for the first time today!
It's July so it must be fall...
Lastly, is it just me or isn't it a little annoying that it's the end of June, it's blazing hot outside and all of the stores and designers are showing pre-fall. Seriously?! It's too dayum hot out to think about a coat or even a jacket for that matter! Couldn't they have held off ohhhh for just a few more weeks! Seasons are coming faster and faster these days!
A closing shot...
My photographer/friend at work is now on maternity leave...so I snatched up my co-worker to take my pics...
...as always more later!