I have finally finished the polka-dot dress! It took me a ridiculous amount of time to finish it, but it’s complete! Around home it gained the affectionate epithet “that stupid polka-dot dress” because it was always around staring at me, waiting to be worked on. I finished it on the 23rd (it took me almost [...]
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Presenting… the polka-dot dress!
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Stripy black-and-white bag
Posted in not about gardening, sewing on July 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have recently discovered the website for BurdaStyle, a pattern company. On their website (www.burdastyle.com), they even offer some free patterns that you can print out on 8.5″ x 11″ paper, glue together by the edges, and cut out! Score!! I was pretty excited about this, since patterns can sometimes be [...]
Polka-dot dress update
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been pretty unmotivated to finish this polka-dot dress… But I made a rule with myself that I couldn’t work on scrapbooking until I finished the dress, and that has helped Last night while Husband and I were hosting a game with a few of our friends, I kept my hands busy [...]
To-do list for the garden and blog
Posted in container garden research, cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, sewing, vintage dress project on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, considering it’s spring and things are growing in my garden! Here’s a list of things I plan to do in the near future:
photo update of the garden & tomato seedlings
write a “Strawberries” page (tab)
write a “Peas” page (tab)
start looking into thinning the lettuce sprouts
The cucumber seeds haven’t sprouted [...]
I haven’t forgotten about the dress…
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on April 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t forgotten about the polka-dot dress or the green dress (patten as yet undecided). I’m planning to start working on the polka-dot dress this weekend. I want to get it put together by the time my parents come to visit later this month so that my mom can help me hem it
Practice dress
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on March 4, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last night I re-made the practice dress! This time it didn’t fall straight off my body when I put it on, so that’s a definite improvement over the first version In fact, I have pictures:
The reason I have my hand so awkwardly clamped on my waist is to hold the belt in [...]
Practice dress progress?
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I spent all afternoon yesterday (Saturday) finally putting together the practice dress. There were definitely some tricky bits– especially the facings on the skirt that are part of the button-up front to the dress. But finally, after I got home from small group in the evening, I got it all sewn together and went to [...]
Making the (practice) cut
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on February 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night I finished laying out and cutting the fabric for the practice dress.
Not only is this practice dress a test of the pattern itself, I wanted to make sure the pattern pieces would fit properly on the green silk. The green silk is only 42″ wide (nowadays, typical (clothing) fabric widths are either 45″ [...]
Test fabric
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One evening last weekend, I got to hang out with C, and I was discussing the dress project with her. We were at a fabric store and I was looking for ultra-cheap-o fabric so that I could do a run-through of the pattern before I actually cut the silk. She was helping me look through [...]
A project to tide me over…
Posted in not about gardening, sewing, vintage dress project on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
While the weather here in the midwest is cold and nasty, I can’t do much with my garden…
But of course, I need some projects to keep me busy until it starts getting warmer. When we visited my family over the holidays, my mom gave me two lengths of vintage silk that she had had [...]
