Made this dress for the prom, truly a labor of love.

Still here plenty of time

Enjoying life after work. Recent retired, hoping to begin sewing and writing again. Life is good.  Still working on fit.

2 years

Who would think there would be a whole year lapse after my last post.  lots of life has happened in the meantime. Not a lot of sewing, or even buying fabric. Mostly just learning from craftsy, all about fit. haven't mastered it yet. still working on it. I hope to write and sew again soon.

Goodbye July! Hello August!

Well, another month has rolled by, and sadly I have not made much headway in my unfinished sewing. I had a fabulous vacation though in St Thomas. I was able to wear several outfits I made.  Although only one for the Pattern Stash contest.  Needless to say I didn't complete the most.  Actually didnt even upload the picture.  Here it is! 

I liked it so much, I made a second one, which I couldn't enter into the contest, but was fun to make nonetheless.



August, here I come.

June

Well we are more than halfway through this year, and I haven't made a lot of progress on my unfinished objects. I have to double my effort the rest of this year. In the meantime I did complete a summer blouse for my travels this year. I have to bring the unfinished back into focus!

May Madness!

I returned to my blog today, to utter shock that I have not posted since February.  I thought for sure I had posted in March!  Well, I have been quite busy sewing many items.  Looking back, I think it all went haywire when I found a wonderful blouse pattern that i thought I would enter in the pattern review contest.  It is a vintage pattern that seemed easy enough, and the the contest would end on March 31st.  I sewed it up just in time, and was going to take the pictures I needed to enter the contest when I realized I needed set in sleeves on it for it to be eligible.  I was a little disappointed, but I enjoyed making the pattern.  

So along comes April, and I get an Ipad mini for my birthday.  I needed a quick cover for it, so I made my own using a couple of fat quarters I got from Tuesday Morning.  It was fast and easy, and I got the pattern and tutorial from Charmed Liebling site. The tutorial is free and easy to follow, and there is an option to pay $2 to download the PDF.  I chose the free option and had no problem.  

You can find it here:

 http://www.charmed-liebling.com/home/free-sewing-tutorial-how-to-make-an-ipad-case

 I liked the Librarian blouse so much, I whipped up another one in some discount fabric from Joann's. This is a well fitting blouse, and very easy to make!  This would have worked for the Pattern Review contest.

 Then I got back to my original plan of finishing UFO's, i racked up another $10 for finally completing the Sew Fast Sew Easy jacket.  I guess I wasn't too happy with my topstitching, so I set it aside.  But having finished the jacket, I love the way it hangs so I will make another one and just change the collar to points rather than rounded.  I saw one example like that, and I loved it. 

Additionally, I made a pair of white pants.  I needed a little more room as it seems I continue to put on weight.  No picture of those yet, I have a minor repair to make, as the dryer did a number on the band. 

On another note, had a party for my granddaughter, and fell in love with this lighted sign I initially found on Pinterest then surfed to the Oh Happy Day site for the free tutorial.
http://ohhappyday.com/?s=diy+vintage+sign  

Decided to make the sign and it came out great!  I could have added one more string of lights to it, but overrall, I was happy with it and got a lot of compliments! 

Two more unfinished objects

Chalk up another $20, which brings my total to $40 in my self imposed $10 for each completed item quest.  So, there were a couple of purses which I started on last year that went into the UFO bin.  The pink and black is an evening clutch by Burda.  I am not sure why I stopped working on that one, I was very close to finishing.  In fact, all I needed to do was attach the flower and a snap.  It took no time at all.  It will be a fun purse for a night on the town. 

The second purse is a fun weekend purse, Butterick 5109.  I made things a little hard for myself on this one by working with pleather accents.  I am not entirely happy with the outcome, but hey, another UFO bites the dust. This is getting to be fun.  I am still working on the Vogue knit blouse that I mentioned a couple of posts back.  I am sure it will happen eventually.  I am not happy with the fit, so I may have to unpick it and sew it more before I can complete it.