a pledge to myself...

I, Kat, do solemnly swear not to buy or borrow any patterns, to try with all my might to stay away from tempting sites like BMV.com, eBay and etsy, even if there is a sale on.

To show self control & restraint in a lady like manner, and to think of the piles of patterns that I have at home and the many, many exciting projects a head whenever I see something I like.

To make a minium of 8 dresses from the patterns I have already, before I consider buying anymore patterns.

To realise in life I can not have everything, so I shouldn't try to buy everything........

Kat

A foray into vintage vogue.

after careful consideration, (I put my hand in the draw and picked it up) my next project is vintage vogue 1043 something relatively easy as it has facings. I'm really excited to start sewing vintage, as I love showing off my small waist.

I wanted taffeta in royal blue or navy, I couldn't find it when I went looking, so I settled on something similar weight wise from Frank Stuart in Glenferrie Rd. ( i think thats where it is) its a dark blue with a slight stretch to it. it also has a nice russle when it moves, like taffeta sounds like.

I'm on to the cutting side of things, lately my sewing time has been dramatically reduced, with house hunting and other things. So it may take longer than I expected.

Other news I recently bought 4 Colette Patterns. I was showing the girls from my sewing class and they suggested a sew-a-long! We are making chantilly as of next week so I'll have two projects on the go. I'm very excited as i have just the fabric for it. It will be quite interesting how the other 3 girls dresses turn out. I'll keep you posted.

Butterick dress

Happy news...I finally won a dressmaker's dummy on ebay for $55. I am so happy! I pick it up on friday, woot woo. If it doesn't work out I wont be too upset as my sewing teacher has offered my hers (the dummy's name is gertrude) for $50. She used to do wedding dresses, apparently its in perfect condition so maybe I'll end up with two!

Have you named your dummy? I've noticed people doing that a lot lately.



Without petticoat

 I recently finished my floral dress, (side note to date I have always made something out of a floral fabric, that has to change, just to mix it up a bit.) It came up a dream, very easy to sew, except that i made a mistake when cutting the gathering i cut too close to the stiching which made hand sewing very difficult, it also wasnt helped but the fact, Ive never hand sewed anything before. Most likely after this dress I never will again. My poor fingers. :)

With a petticoat, unhemmed.

The photo looks squashed but i don't know how to fix it, sorry.

As you most likely can tell its unhemmed, and i have pins sticking it in so it looks slightly odd in the waist, but its fine in real life, i took the pins out. I'm only taking the dress up about 2 cm not 3.2cm like it calls for.

This is not my dress makers model this is just a mannequin that holds my wedding dress, although the dress is big as this manny is only size 6! Tiny. All in all I would make this dress again. Its so nice to wear & will be great for the up coming hot weather. I can't wait!

Thanks for reading,
Kat ;p