"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, Sewing, Up The Pole on Mar 13th, 2013
Yesterday, I was grousing on Facebook about having an episode of numptiness wherein I assembled the sections of a shaped waistband upside-down and stitched them to the bodice that way, then wondered why the waistband looked like the top of a tent. So, this morning I sat down, fixed the cursed waistband, re-installed it, did […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Sewing, Up The Pole on Feb 24th, 2013
Well, I made a bit more maternity-appropriate clothing in the past week or so. The following dress was made up from some fabric that is so pretty I may well wear it even after the baby is born. The pattern is Simplicity 5034 from 1973. With sleeves ganked from another pattern contemporary to it, as […]
Posted in Sewing, Up The Pole on Feb 11th, 2013
Joel and I have had a disagreement which led into negotiations. What culminated was a deal, the gist of which is that I’m free to dress the baby in nautical attire until such point as the child is weaned. Fair enough, but I do intend to make the most of it. I bought this pattern […]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Sewing, Up The Pole on Feb 3rd, 2013
This is a 1969 Simplicity pattern which was one of two that my Mom or one of my aunts and one of her friends used to make beach coverups when they were in high school. They’d go to the flea market and buy cheap, brightly colored beach towels and then cut the front and one […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, dumb things I have done, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Dec 30th, 2012
“I wish the diapers came with poop already on them..” Said no parent, EVER. So, of course, I had to make one! Apologies for the doody sloping downhill – I should have pinned it rather than free-hand stitched it in place. Then again, how anal do you really want to get about something that’s only […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, Holidailies 2012, nostalgia, Sewing on Dec 6th, 2012
IMG_2718, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. Because I was working on this You may well ask what in the name of heck it is, and I will answer that question right away. It should be, with a bit of good fortune, a waistcoat made out of six neckties braided together. To make it, you […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Sewing on Aug 1st, 2012
The first time I saw the movie poster for 13 Going On 30, I thought, “ohmigod, I love that dress!!” I went and saw that movie at a double feature of it and Mean Girls. Talk about tennybopper fashionable chick-flick heaven. My only disappointment was that the fabulous polka-dotted dress from the movie poster never […]
Posted in Sewing on Jul 31st, 2012
A while back this fabric was on sale for half price. I impulse-bought two yards, with the intention to make a dress. It turns out I didn’t buy quite enough fabric for the pattern I’d originally intended to make up, but I did, in fact, buy exactly the perfect amount to make this: I used […]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, nostalgia, Sewing on Jul 7th, 2012
As far as I’m concerned, this is pretty much a perfect outfit. DVF-style wraparound dress, big-ass brass cuff bracelet, tri-tone (brass/copper/stainless) earrings, black-patent wedge sandals, red nails. I’ve been really into this sort of 1970s glam thing lately and have a hard time making myself wear anything that isn’t a wrap-around dress and wedge-sole shoes. […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Sewing on Jun 10th, 2012
I’ve made a couple of shirtwaist dresses lately, a nod to that sort of late-1950s/early-1960s style that seems to be floating around courtesy of Mad Men and Pan Am and the like. Also, because I like that sort of style and it suits my figure. Anything with a great deal of structure and a well-defined […]