tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910398184797148652024-02-19T01:11:09.475-05:00A Fabric FixationAllisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01716213095620396409noreply@blogger.comBlogger378125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491039818479714865.post-86049719059121749542016-10-02T17:49:00.002-04:002016-10-02T17:58:16.326-04:00cats strolling about and a new sewing space.My blogroll is gone, and I can only assume it is a casualty of cats strolling across the keyboard.<br />
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In more exciting news, we've moved, I have an enormous sewing room (with walk in closet and full bathroom -- it used to be an in-law suite) which I will have pictures of soon.</div>
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While I'm intensely annoyed by the loss of the blog list, I'm also kind of impressed that cat-strolling was able to accomplish it. <br />
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I could remember the actual names of about half the blogs (some are tagged in my head as things like "that-French-lady-from-one-of-the-me-made-months" and I have no idea what the blogs are actually called -- so if for some reason, you happen to know what was there, please let me know. Also, any particularly interesting people I should be following, but wasn't. Thanks!</div>
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Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01716213095620396409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491039818479714865.post-64271491947931034912016-07-09T23:32:00.000-04:002016-07-09T23:32:57.980-04:00Continuing forward<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
The blog hasn't shown it, but I've actually been doing quite a bit of sewing. (Also packing and cleaning, as we're getting ready to move, but that's another story). I got pregnant fairly soon after our wedding, and started in on maternity sewing, but I wasn't ready to announce anything until I finished the first trimester. Which didn't happen. </div>
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For me, just acknowledging the miscarriage publicly has actually been really helpful. So many people have told me about their losses and subsequent healthy babies, and its been comforting (perhaps not the right word, but you know what I mean) to hear just how common this is. Also, I've always felt secrets screw people up, and I try not to have any. For several months, this was the biggest thing happening in my life, and I hope it will be again sometime soon. For the moment, I'd like to share the projects I've been working on.</div>
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The pants are the only fully finished garment -- I had a pair that had been languishing in the project pile because I was too lazy to put in the fly and waistband -- so I decided to turn them into maternity pants, sewed up the front and popped on a stretch band. (yes, the color is wrong, but I was trying to work from the stash, and this will force me to wear a shirt long enough to actually cover it up properly) </div>
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Next closest is the rainbow dress -- this is simplicity New Look 6122 -- not actually a maternity pattern, but I figured empire waist, gathers and knit would carry me a ways into the second trimester and it would be great for a summer wedding we're attending next week. Its been put aside for the moment, but I plan to finish it sometime soon, as the fabric is gorgeous (I'm a sucker for bright colors) and wear it later this summer.</div>
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The blue shirt is a self drafted tunic top, with side panels for extra space (i.e. I cut it too small the first time) -- it still needs hems and things.</div>
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The red dress is McCalls 6074 -- also not officially maternity, but once again, empire waist, gathers and stretch seemed like a good plan for the early sections. I also plan to finish and wear this one later this summer.</div>
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The swing shirt, Simplicity 1113, is another non-maternity co-opted to my plans -- its kind of tent like - so I think its going to wait for a hazy future day when I'm huge and I'll deal with it then.</div>
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I have the same plan for the other periwinkle shirt, Megan Nielson - Cara , the only actual maternity pattern of the bunch. The things that are for full later in pregnancy will wait until I have made it to the second trimester and am closer to needing them.</div>
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We'll be trying again, when its healthy, so I'm hoping that I'll get the chance to use all of these some time soon, and can be a happy beach-ball of a person. (Random thought -- 'trying for a baby' is really the only time when its 100% socially acceptable to inform whomever that you're having a lot of sex and have everyone congratulate or encourage you. Heck, some of of my professors from college know, and so does the local rep for IEEE Connecticut. Manners are an odd thing.) </div>
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Shocking no one, the <a href="http://lovesomephoto.com/">professional pictures</a> are far and away better than the ones taken on people's cell phones.<br />
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It was such a crazy day - and I still only remember it in snatches and bits</div>
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But I'm really happy with the pictures, and more importantly, beyond happy in my marriage. (yes, yes, we're a month in. But still.) </div>
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Greg is pretty much the best.</div>
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All I have is cell phone pictures from friends and relatives -- but more when we get the fancy ones from the photographer.</div>
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The chiffon-only beading is happening in the center bust, due to the nature of the overlay, and all around the transition from the opaque section to the overlay. It is... delicate work. But I'm chugging along.</div>
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I've put together the upper bodice - so the next week or two are all about beading.</div>
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The center front is peach instead of white -- don't be confused, this is still the muslin. (Yes, I started beading early, I got excited, but the place that still needed work was the bust not the midriff... mostly...) </div>
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I'm sewing them on in sets of three, anchoring the third with a sort of back stitch (I don't know proper beading terminology). This will be the midriff - beading will continue up the sheer part of the bodice and down to around my hips.</div>
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<br />Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01716213095620396409noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491039818479714865.post-10407277105237977602015-12-24T22:03:00.000-05:002015-12-24T22:03:35.757-05:00Bodice muslin nearly complete!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Granted, it will be all the same color, but this is more or less what my dress is going to look like. (Also beads) I'm thinking of putting a small crinoline underneath to make it more of an A-line instead of just falling right off my hips... but that can wait until everything else is done.<br />
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I want to do one more version with the chiffon overlay, to get the wrinkles, and that funny fold ober my bust out, but otherwise, its looking pretty good.</div>
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The bodice is a super hybrid franken-pattern. The front of the underlay (highly modified) is New Look 6557, the back of the underlay is a cropped Vogue 8727, and the overlay is By Hand London's Anna Dress, also cropped.</div>
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I'm about 90% certain the pulls on the lower back are due to it continuing beyond my natural waist and not having room for my hips. In the final, the skirt will be sewn on and the area beneath it trimmed. (Also, it will be reinforced and beaded, which will help)<br />
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Think happy thoughts, since I'm going to start on the beading tomorrow!Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01716213095620396409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491039818479714865.post-16537265490024658152015-12-07T20:27:00.001-05:002015-12-07T20:27:46.838-05:00I have a skirt!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This doesn't do justice to all the pinning, gathering and hand basting that has been going on to connect the three layers of the skirt. (Cotton batiste half-circle base, silk chiffon full-circle middle and silk chiffon 2.5 full circles for the top layer.)</div>
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My fiance has taken to storing his swords in my stash.</div>
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The current plan is for a beaded chiffon overlay, somewhat similar to this. I am going to use the Anna dress for the upper bodice, to get the cap sleeves and boat-neck, but there will be an under-bust seam and discrete midriff. (Also, the tiara, headband, sparkle-hat she's wearing? I have that too.) (Its kind of too much, but its also kind of amazing. I was trying to find something similar to what Mary wore in her wedding - a wreath like look, and found the actual vendor for the above headpiece. In the description, it is listed as 'as seen on Downton Abbey, season four, so off to google I went, in a giddy frenzy. It is stupid sparkly in person.)</div>
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Not really dress related - but fun - Greg is practicing calligraphy, and if he is happy with the result, will be doing our invitations.</div>
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<br />Maybe something along the lines of ....<div>
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I'm already set on (and committed to) the flowy chiffon skirt -- but most of the bodices I've been thinking about don't really need chiffon -- in fact, they are better with something sturdy and structured. But a gathered sort of a bodice, with an opaque something or other underneath, could look rather nice.</div>
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The theme of my wedding is stress free and happy. (Even if I have to kill everyone to make it happen) This means my dress can't be so delicate I'm spending the entire day worried something will happen to it -- so I decided to investigate pre-shrinking all the silk chiffon I'd gotten so that the water that I *know* will get spilled on it when I get excited, forget I'm holding a glass, and start talking with my now-empty-because-I-dropped-the-glass-on-my-skirt hands doesn't ruin everything,<br />
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The process changes the texture and the opacity -- as everything has tightened up, its a bit thicker and not as smooth. While I prefer the look of the untreated silk, the shrunken is still very nice and will be a lot more robust to whatever I throw at it over the course of the day. (Although, realistically, I am 100% going to be wearing a full length bibbed apron during whatever part of dinner I get to sit down for)<br />
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soon to be 12.9 yards.....Allisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01716213095620396409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-491039818479714865.post-81683321189866667642015-11-08T19:21:00.001-05:002015-11-08T19:21:06.119-05:00halloween!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We went as a black plague -- Greg was a doctor and I was the patient (victim / body / whatever) or.. more accurately, I got lazy and didn't feel like doing the 1400s giant horned hat, veil and gown I'd been planning and just made myself a shift instead and declared it a couples costume.<br />
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He made his own mask -- it is composed of two layers of craft foam, a muslin backing and held together with rivets and waxed thread. He used the lenses from welding goggles for the eyes and sneaky air holes on the bottom.</div>
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My costume is actually a civil war era shift - simplicity 1139. I'm aware its 400 years off - but, I had it (the pattern, not the shift) and I figured no one would actually notice. (Besides -- how much did shifts really change?) Anyhow, it is SUPER comfy... so I might see if I can dye it, wear it with a belt and work it into my regular wardrobe.<br />
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(and have been, for a little while, but we just got around to getting a ring and making it public)</div>
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(This has also meant he has gotten stuck with all my ramblings on about lace and silhouettes and such. For all that he is learning to sew, I think this may have been a bit much. - SOOOO now I get to yammer on to the internet, and the joys of fancy fabrics I usually forbid myself since they just don't fit into my life.)</div>
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I know I want some sort of straps or other over-the-shoulder-something, a long, full skirt, and some kind of textured embellishment - but otherwise, I'm not sure what it will end up looking like. Right now my thoughts are running along these lines:</div>
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Whoever drafted this pattern really punted hard - rather than facings or binding or lining or anything, it just calls for folding over and sewing. Not even with stabilization - no way the armholes won't grow like crazy. So, someday, when I'm less disappointed by this dress, I'll probably do a binding of some kind. However, for the moment. meh. Mostly just a bit annoyed over wasting fabric I really liked.</div>
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I'd intended to make the front and back mirror images of each other.....</div>
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Alternately known as the Woman Cave, the Sewing Room and MINE</div>
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ahahahah MINE.</div>
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I have my table for my machines, a couch for lounging while I hand-sew, a tv for stories and shelves for all my things. Not pictured, is the door to the back yard where (once tamed) I can take pictures, and not yet hung, is a full length mirror. (I've been without the past year, which has made fitting tricky.)</div>
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Moving has been going on for the past nine weeks - and is juuuuust about done. Which means sewing fun times again soon. (Well... some home dec. I've promised Greg a slip cover the keep the living room couch from getting too catty.)</div>
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My fluffy dress got its first outing, and I got around to taking pictures.</div>
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This is the most thoroughly 'finished' dress I've ever made. The pattern is a modified tried and true, B5748. This time I went with a gathered skirt to best utilize the border print.</div>
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