Pullover and a Skirt

Here is one of the pullovers that I made last year with this one.

The skirt I made a couple of weeks ago. This is an 8 gored skirt that I drafted with godets. I drafted the skirt for floor length and designed the godets to start knee length (20 ins).

The pullover is made of a charcoal knit & the skirt is made with a black denim, very lightweight. So I can get away with wearing denim and it's not even Friday.

A huge shout out to my co-worker for taking the second pic of me in the ladies restroom.

Pullover Mania!

So I got carried away with the pullovers that I made last year. It's Butterick 5100.
Originally I made the blue sweatshirt version linked above along with a dark grey & a navy blue. I never got around to taking pictures of the other. Just kept forgetting whenever I'd wear them. Well needless to say I've made four more all the tunic length. I really wish I could have taken pics of them on the days that I wore them but the camera and the tripod weren't home at the time. So I took them all this morning wearing a pair of jeans. But I'll describe what I wore with them to give you an idea. I sewed them all this week one for the next day to wear to work.

I made this fleece backed knit on Sunday night for Monday morning.
With this I wore a brown turtleneck & brown pants that I made in PMB3.


Then Monday night I made this beautiful Ivory knit. I bought this later at a discount fabric store and it was on sale. It's from the Liz Claiborne collection. I wore this with a black long sleeved v-neck t-shirt and a pair of black pants that I made from PMB3.


On Tuesday night I made a brown knit pullover and wore it with a olive boatneck long sleeve t-shirt and a a-line skirt that I made in PMB4.


Then on Wednesday night I made a black pullover in knit but this time I left off the collar and finished the neckline with facing. I wore this with a grey long sleeve v-neck t-shirt and some grey w/black pinstripe pants from Express.

I got lots of compliments on tunics but I received more compliments from the ivory & the black pullovers. More so from the black because it didn't look like the rest of them. Anyway I think that I'm done for now unless I can find another color I may want. Moving on to something else right now just not sure what yet.

I have been nominated

Thanks to Bonnie D & Aminat for nominating me. I truly don't know what to say but THANKS. I don't get very many viewers and this is much appreciated from the few.

Now to nominate other wonderful Kreativ women is going to be hard since there are tons already that have been nominated. So forgive me if I've chosen you and you have already been chosen.

Here are the rules for this award:
Copy the award to your site.
Link to the person who nominated you.
Nominate 7 other bloggers and link to them on your blog.
Then leave a message on their blog notifying them you have nominated them for this award.It would be easy to list more than 7!! I tried not to nominate people who had already been nominated.

Jackie http://sewingbyjackie.blogspot.com/

Debbie Cook http://stitchesandseams.blogspot.com/

http://sewhooked.blogspot.com/

http://sewshy.blogspot.com/

http://sewable.blogspot.com/

These are ladies that I could find that weren't already nominated.

Happy New Years Day Everybody!

I decided to make a list this year, I like to call it my "Plans of Action". One for personal and one for my sewing goals.
I'm not going to bore you with all the details but here a few from both lists.

Personal:
1. Listen more / Speak less
2. Stop putting too much thought into things

Sewing:
1. Sew a wardrobe (either mini or large)
2. Sew more (using more of my current stash of fabrics and patterns
3. Complete more projects
4. Buy fewer patterns this year

So I just need to decide which of my projects that I've been wanting to do is more important than the next.

Leaving you guys with a positive thought for the day:
Until today, you have been waiting for someone to tell you something or give you something that would make you feel okay. Just for today, give yourself permission to be okay with yourself. Accept that who you are and where you are - is just right! - Iyanla Vanzant

Wishing everyone a very happy and prosperous year!
Until next time!

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!