Sunday, February 28, 2010

See? I'm a procrastinator! Ahhh!

Ok, I got really busy and haven't sewn anything in the last several months.  However, I just bought a serger yesterday and am now getting ready to finish my existing project and start several new ones.  I'm going out tomorrow to get some fabric to make a dress for my sister, so I'll write the next blog on that project.  See you soon!

Friday, September 18, 2009

First Project

Ok, I'm gonna start my blog with a dress that I started over a year and a half ago and ended up putting away for a while.  I really want to get it finished, so I'm gonna start working on it again this weekend.  I used view F (bottom right on pattern envelope) of New Look 6459.  At first, I had to do some adjustment on the pattern size (cause certain parts of me were a tad larger than the pattern allowed for).  I put it away for a few months, cause I moved, and when I came back to it, I had lost some weight.  Not realizing this, I worked on the dress and tried it on, of course it was too big.  So, now I have a little re-adjusting to do, as well as hemming the dress.  The pattern is a tank top style, but I've decided I'm going to convert it to a halter.  The neckline is also extremely low cut (too low to be appropriate for anything I want to wear it to), so I'm going to add a small panel inside the front of the bodice, to make it a little more appropriate.  We'll see how it goes.  Here are a couple pics of what I have so far.


View of the front



Front Top



And the back

I apologize for using the back of my chair to drape the dress over, but it's all I had available at the moment.  Still unpacking and getting organized into my new place, so it's a little messy.  Anyways, this is my first little project.  Hopefully I can finish this weekend or early next week and I'll post some pics of the finished dress. :)  See y'all soon!