Another dress

This last weekend I got a few dresses started.  

They really do not take that long but I do have to sit and sew on the buttons.  And make the buttonholes.  I do that by hand.  

Russell calls them my Pride and Prejudice dresses because they are a bit more fitted then my frontier dresses.  They still go close to the ground.  The funny thing at work today I was craving the same dress in corduroy.  Black, brown, green, and red.  Probably more then one black.  I am laughing at myself because that is just not practical for the season.  I think I am really craving autumn! 

Halloween type bag for the Faerie

I went fabric shopping this last weekend.  I really did not need to but my favorite fabric store for quilting fabric had a 25 percent off everything in the store sale.  I tried to limit myself to eight pieces of fabric.  I did pretty well.

But then I saw these:

These prints are so my kid!  I could not pass them up.  I bought a half yard of each.

 

and made her a bag.  She screamed with happiness when she saw it.  Later, I got a text that the skeleton fabric glows in the dark.  She was so excited!

For less then one hour of work, it is an easy way to make a smile!

a new dress

I have been working on new dresses.  I have an old Simplicity pattern that I dearly love.  My family calls it my frontier dress.  The ones I have had though are starting to fall apart and shrink in length, which is a sure sign that the fabric is going.  I have been putting more together.

I have been changing the top and changing the skirt.  I have taken five patterns and put them together the way I wanted to.  The first time I did it in front of Russell he was confused and curious.  His mother sews straight from the packaged pattern and does not deviate.  I always deviate except maybe the first time.  It is the way I cook as well.

 

The changes on this one is that the bodice is fitted and so is the waist.  It has a mandarin collar and sleeves that end at the elbows.  It goes down to my ankles as well.  I really like it and find this shape very comfortable.  But I do sometimes get taken for Mennonite or Amish, especially when I add an apron!

it is an addiction

Aprons. 

They cover all of me and help me keep my clothes clean.  I have pockets!  I made this one in muslin because I wanted a very plain one.  I keep thinking a should double layer the bottom and I might.  It would wear longer that way.  I did not really plan for that on this one.  Maybe I will for the next one.  Of course there will be a next one silly!  It is an addiction (and I wear them at home every day!).

finding peace

I have been antsy lately.  I would really like to take a road trip out of Houston.  Hitch up the trailer and go.  But I know that is not going to happen until September.

So instead I cut out small squares of fabric.  Scraps of fabric that are not big enough to make anything else out of and would be thrown away.

 

I make nine square patches with them.  The process gives me peace just like spinning yarn does.  You can just think I am crazy.  But at least at some point there will be enough squares to put a quilt top together.  Then we will sleep snug and warm under a quilt of peace.