Yes on this dreary Monday I am finally starting my blog. Topic of conversation: Finishing Sewing Projects.
I have been slowly cleaning and reorganizing my sewing area in the bat cave of my basement. I am surprised to find that I have many unfinished objects. Yes UFOs. My dear hubby (DH) thinks I made this acronym up. OH NO, there are many of us with the greatest of aspirations when we enter the fabric store. I have silk, cashmere, cotton batiste, and linen that is just sitting in my dungeon. Well, some is there, some is in my bedroom tall-boy, and some is in my buffet server in the dining room. It likes to travel.
I must inventory everything I want to finish/start and then finish. Currently I'm working on a beautiful OLD Butterick pattern for my daughter's Father-Daughter Dance this upcoming weekend. It is so cute with a batteau neck, and a center panel. I am using dupioni silk cream with a sheer netting with cream floating flowers for the center panel. The rest is in dupioni bronze. Yes I know not a color you immediately think about for an 8 year old. But I had it, almost 1.5 yards and 54 inches wide. So not enough for any dress patterns I had or could find, without going skimpy on the width of the skirt or the length. The pattern is only a size 6, my dear daughter (DD) is slight of frame and measures for a size 5, but longer. So I have adjusted the pattern as best as I could. I would like to finish most of it today...but I don't have enough buttons in the right size...and we all know what that means...a trip to the fabric store...I shall not buy what I do not need.
Kelly O'
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Well, I got it done. In time too. The buttons were a hassle to find. I asked a real person at Michael's. They told me they don't have them. But I've bought them before there. So I found them in the sewing section. I don't know why I bother asking anymore. I made a new petticoat to poof out the dress too. Not the greatest I've ever done, but it did the job it was intended, and no raw edges! The dress does not photograph nearly as well as in person. But I think that happens with dupioni sometimes. I used every Crystal AB hot fix stone (glass) I own. Must buy more. I buy off of ebay, from Taiwan. It takes 3 weeks to arrive, but very sparkly. ONE project done...so many more to do.
