We are back!

And boy am I tired!

We went to Hubby's hometown this past weekend and we got back last night.

There was no sewing go on this weekend. We drove across on Thursday night and got there Friday morning. We stayed with family and had a ball!

I'm a Drama Nerd

What Be Your Nerd Type? Your Result: Drama Nerd You sure do love the spotlight and probably have a very out-going and loud personality. Or not. That's just a stereotype, of course. Participation in the theatre is something to be very proud of. Whether you have a great voice for musicals, or astounding skills for dramas/comedies; keep up the good work. We need more entertainment these days that isn't television and video games (not that these things are bad, necessarily.)
Literature Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Social Nerd
Science/Math Nerd
Musician
Anime Nerd
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Blue Tunic

This is a pullover sleeveless tunic from Butterick's last fall/winter season.
It's B5100, it comes in 3 sizes.
I made version A. I made three different colors, sweatshirt blue, navy blue & dark grey.
They are great to wear and they are versatile and easy to mix and match with jeans for slacks.

Two dresses and a top

I love wrap dresses! Too much I believe. It's the essential item for the "on the go" woman.
Here are two dresses made from the same pattern. Sorry these are not on me but the next ones will be as they didn't look very nice on the dress form.
The pattern that was used was BWOF 09/2006 # 115 (using #114's collar).
This pattern was easy to sew & serge, no darts and fits like a dream. It's a TNT, must sew over and over and over and over again pattern!
The tan & black herringbone dress is a very fine knit and was very easy to sew on the sewing machine. This fabric does not wrinkle (so wonderful). It's very breathable. Now I must say that I wear a camisole, tank & on Monday and shirt underneath this dress because Burda is not modest with the neckline hear. So if you're wearing this to work cover up! Or there will be a major peep show! As me how i know!





I like to call this one my sacadelic funkalicious dress. For some reason this fabric reminds me of the 70s. Not sure why but it does. I love this one as well it barely wrinkles. I got this fabric from Vogue fabrics last March 2007 and wasn't sure of what to make of this fabric. I contemplated on it for over a year. When I decided on this dress I kept asking my mom if I should use a contrasting color to tone it down and she said no and I'm glad that I didn't.
This one I sewed on the serger after reading a Threads article (summer 2008) on how to sew with a serger. The article is good and is left out on my table for future references.
I love this top. I made this top using PMB4. It's a cowl neck (which i love, and you'll be sick of from me by the end of the week) with dropped shoulders and flared sleeves. The style has a flared waist as well which I'll omit the next time I'm making it because it gave it a maternity look. It's very warm. I used a sweater knit but it pills really bad on both sides. Won't use the fabric again ('m sure I'm out by now I have something else to post later with this fabric) but will definitely make it again. This fabric wrinkles (right out of the dryer) really bad as you can see.


More to come!

Just call me lazy!

Hi everyone just call me lazy!
I have been sewing but have been too lazy to get someone to take pics of me.
I promise to do this becuase I have made quiet a few items that really need to be seen.
So look for them this week. I'll post them separately so that I don't overload the system.

What I'm planning!

Here are some items that i'm planning on making for the Fall/Winter 08 season.
All came from BWOF. Some I will actually use the pattern from the mag but there are some that I would try my hand at in PMB.
And here they are. Please click on the image to enlarge.

Where have I been?

Busy mostly.
Working out at the gym and with my personal trainer. Not too much energy. I made two dresses in the past month so i'll take pics and post them soon.

Not much else is really going on.

Until next time...

Yeah... I didn't like this blouse! BWOF 06/2008/107A

After messing around with this blouse for a few weeks, I decided that aweek ago that I really didn't like it as much I thought.I cut out a size 42, the largest size and did my waist and hipadjustments before cutting the fabric.

Front View - I played around with buttonholes to see if I wanted to dobuttons or snaps (snaps won).

Front Side View - The pattern called for and elastic side waistband andit was not very flattering to my figure. Pleats went it just fine andwith no problems. Waist and Hips adjustments well, as usual.

Neckline / Collar - Came out fine and this was the easiest part otherthan the pleats.

Sleeve - With the pleats the sleeve hem was tighter than normal. Minoradjustments done to the sleeve. Sleeve needed to be 1 size largeraround the hem (size 44).

Back View - not a very good back view, model is much smaller than I am.It was on the fold and a breeze to sew.

So I'm going to move on. I have a very busy Saturday coming up so I'mgoing to try and get some sewing done on Saturday night or Sundaymorning.I did trace out and cut BWOF 06/2008/#120It's sized for petites do I did my waist and hip adjustments first thenI lengthened the front and back pieces and joined the pleat lines. I have some crinkled brown batitse and as well as some cream eyelet that would make two really pretty dresses. I'llhave pics of that soon.

HAPPY SEWING!!

Sorry no Sewing!

I didn't get any sewing done this past weekend. Seems like so much was going on. I had to work Saturday and that was most of the day. Then Hancock Fabrics had McCall patterns on sale for $.99 and had to check that out before I went home. So there's one near home so I went there from work. Talked to my mom before Hubby came home and then when he got home we both napped until around 10pm. Then on Sunday we went to see Hubby's best friend's new baby. Maryn (girl) was born last Tuesday (6/24).
So the BWOF 06/2008 #107 is still not finished but I do plan on pairing it with one of these little ditties that I picked up this weekend Skirt #1 or Skirt #2. Both have contrasting hem bands, a feature that I truly love. I'll have to take pics of the fabric that I'm planning on using and maybe you can tell me if I'm going too crazy with the print or not. Would really appreciate your feedback because sometimes i can just over do it and then it won't be worn from disgust. Anyhoo! I'm working out after work today and then there's that pile of laundry to do so we'll see if there will be any sewing done today. Oh! I decided on Sunday when Hubby and I were playing our usual game of Scrabble, that I would do the arm alterations because it's only around 5/8 for the alteration and that's too simple to not do it!

BWOF 06/2008 # 107A/B

I currently joined a sew-along with the Burda English group.
I started on it late because i got my issue late and i had other things going on (who doesn't).
So here is the blouse that we are doing. It's due before the next issue. I can't say with all that I have going on right now that I'll be done by then again but who's keeping count. I'm trying to learn how to play around with PhotoShop or something close to it. So that I can make my wardrobe plans as pretty as some of these other women out there that know a thing or two about it.


I love these two features that BWOF have.
I will be posting pics of the muslin soon. I have also played around with the idea of doing buttonholes instead of snaps. I'll have some detailed photos of that. Also I'm going to try Sigrid's suggestion about the sleeve head. And do an adjustment to the sleeve because it's tight around the bicep.

I love Red! From my head...

Down to my calves!
This dress is from New Look 6697.
I used red cotton jersery. Check out my review on PatternReview.com.
I also added in the review the problems that i was having with the neckline facing.

What I'm doing

Hi All!
I'm in the process of trying to loose weight and still want to sew as well. So along with working out i've been working on this dress. New Look 6697 it's a faux wrap dress. This is very quick and simple. I'll be done with it today and will have pics to post. My weekend was ok, hubby had to work and Mom was out so it was just me and Phoebe (dog) all weekend.

What's Upper!

Hi everyone! Vacation was great! It was so great to not have anything planned. We really enjoyed ourselves. We had a very lovely anniversary last week as well. No sewing took place (yeah, I'm sad about that) but it was for a good reason. Hubby helped me rearrange my sewing room so I'll have pics to post for that. We painted and I was able to catalog (still doing that) and get an inventory of what i have. That was great, it just took a really long time to do it. So all of the fabric is counted I just need to finish stapling the swatches to my index cards and finish the descriptions of everything. Yesterday I helped hubby organized the garage. Tossing out things that we don't need anymore and moving shelves around. Oh well... back to reality! It's early in and early out for me today (doc appt). So I'll get a jump start on everything again today. I have to finish painting my sewing room, we got a really pretty green paint (my favorite color) from the OOPS selection at Lowes. So maybe I'll be squeezing in some sewing this week. We'll see!

Rat Poop!

Andrea, that was for you!
Our meeting is cancelled! Now what am I going to do? Oh I know I could just finish up the OTHER stuff that I have going on this week. And maybe i'll get a pedicure too. Still looking forward to that vacation!

This weekend...

This weekend we meet again! I still have slopers to do, a pair of shorts for mom, laundry that just can't wait another day! Today I shall try my hand at these tasks and see what I come up with. Next week I'm on VACATION! It is mine and Hubby's 10 year anniversary! Whoo Hooo! Hubby and I have not planned anything! Whoo Hooo! So I'm planning on sleeping in late (yeah right, the noisy dog) and doing some sewing until I hear differently.

Finished Projects from the Summer of 2007

I just wanted to post some pics that I found and I didn't know that I still had.

1st here is a lime green skirt that I drafted from PMBv3. This is a flared gored skirt, the flare is set on the highest setting (8). It also has a waistband. This skirt was also done in black. I'll try and get some pics of that one since I'm wearing the black one today. In this pic hubby and I are celebrating his 34th birthday. So I'm rushing because we have reservations and I didn't remember about taking pics until we were about to leave and it was either now or when we got back home and the pretty lime green skirt would have been wrinkled, and boy do I hate being wrinkled!

2nd here is a pic of a skirt that was also done in PMBv3. This skirt is gored with no flare and godets have been added. The godets are in two lengths. The shorter ones are in the front and longer ones are in the back. Note to self: Next time put the longer godets in the front and the shorter ones in the back so that my C-Curve is not as obvious. I know there is no hiding it but GEE just wait until you see the pics from the backview. Also this skirt is not worn in these pics so I'll also snap this one as well. Also check out the details that I did to the hem! I'm so proud! These are just regular stitches that I found on the machine. I used silk thread so that they would shine. I cut the remaining part of the off as close as i could to the last stitch. I didn't put any frayblock on it because this is a denim fabric and i wanted it fray very nice and it does. This one was was also done in hunter green (my favorite) and a light tan (lighter than khaki) that has the prettiest drape. I'll try and get pics of these as well since Hubby bought a tripod, so now I can take pics of myself and not have to wait until Mr. Demille (Sunset Blvd) is up to it.

The Prom Dress

Here are the pics of the infamous prom dress. I took pics of her in and out of the dress. This dress was made in PMB4. I used the the halter dress with the mid-drift design and made straps to criss-cross in the back, the skirt is A-line and floor length. The dress was made in white crepe and the mid-drift section is made of lime green satin.

Giving it another go!

Trying out this blog thing again....
I just finished a prom dress. Will post pics very soon. It nearly drained me and I can't see anything in my future except for moving my sewing room around yet again. And then I can post pics of that when I'm done with that. I've got a sewing meeting next week on the 17th and I'm supposed to have some slopers done before. Yeah right! I just can't see doing that right now either, especially if this room isn't done by the weekend.