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#9 finally. Another one that’s making me doubt my ability to sew patterns that don’t have the word “easy” in their product descriptions. The bodice portion was just shy of snug and the ribbon kicked my ass. At this point I think my standards are falling to meet my abilities because I like it . LOL
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Things that Don’t Work
When I’m too tired, my body desperately has me eating high calorie/high carb/ high sugar and no amount of “healthy snacks” can chill out the snacking.
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#8. Dude. This dress kicked my ass and reiterated the policy of “no sewing while tired”. I misread which pattern pieces went to the dress I was doing and didn’t realize it until I had stumbled to what I thought was 3/4 of the way through and had to just vamp to completion because the mistakes I made didn’t allow for me to complete the patterned ( Read more... ) -
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I’ve been working on another dress, but due to life and chores I’m getting through two steps a night if I’m lucky because I get too tired to comprehend the sewing instructions, LOL
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#7. I somehow had never noticed that two of the Halloween fabrics I’ve had all these years had a cat of the same design in each of them. Given that the colors were complimentary I chose to reuse a pattern I used a few dresses ago that calls for complimentary fabrics.
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#6... It reminds me of a prairie dress I wore in the 70s LOL. I used a non See and Sew pattern (Butterick) and it was a bit more involved, but it worked. Bias Tape at the neck that didn’t come out perfect ( I can never get that usage to be invisible as it is supposed to be) but I like it. I broke it down to two steps a day when I started to get ( Read more... ) -
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#5. I like this one. I actually used Bias Tape uneventfully on the sleeve and skirt hems. I felt the need to redeem the fabric after subjecting it to the purple flannel of the last dress.
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#4. The “use all the scraps” policy may be torpedoing the aesthetics of my efforts...
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#2 ; which didn’t come out as I’d hoped. I was trying to use up some cute scrap Halloween fabric and get away with using a fat quarter I already had on hand. The patterned scraps were smaller than I thought and the ones I used could only be used for the back due to size and actually matched better because of the hues it had.
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A quick faux pillow case dress using a .99 Halloween bandana and some ribbon I got years ago at Halloween and that I’m determined to use up with the rest of my Halloween ribbon stash this year:
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