All I can say is.. I'm excited!

I just got back from a wonderful sale at the giant-monster-mega-fabric store. Sad but true I have to shop the Monster Joannes from time to time. I got 3.00 a yard stretch lace for my zipperless dress. More knit for cute tops. Some felt for diaper bags. ( I have an enormous undertaking coming up..) and what else... YES! I got one of the turn-y thingies for turning long this tubes (bag handles for me) wax-free tracing paper, PINK headed pins and so so much more.

Labor Pains

I spent an entire week preparing for a photo shoot up in Columbus. With the goal of making one item a day for five or six days I started the week ambitious. I got my mothers purse finished (mothers day of course) and started on the modeling stuff.
Begin the week by sewing a purse... one day off to create something nice for mom.
Day One: 70's boxers
Day Two: Admire the boxers and waste time... cut out a dress
Day Three: Waste more time and fart around sew the dress from day before at midnight.
Day Four: Realize you wasted too much time and waste some more time on facebook. It's actually the fifth day of sewing projects so get really busy and make a shirt. Go home and make another one in record time. Yay! Two projects in one day.
Sunday: Wake up way too late but made it out to Columbus anyway. THEN my adorable model "K" decided she had no interest in modeling that day! It's Ok I haven't seen her in a long time so we visited for a while and I went back to my moms house to rest. My second model "B" didn't wake up till 1:00 so I had a bit of a panic the next day. I got a new dress cut out though. She arrived late in the afternoon and we had a fabolous photo shoot in my moms back yard.

WTF is that?

I'd like to talk for a sec about raw edges. I seem to remember them being not a good thing. Finished seams = Good, Raw Edges = Bad, right? Not only do they look unkempt but they unravel till you have no article of clothing whatsoever. Remember the song. "if you want to destroy my sweater/ Pull this thread while I walk away/ Watch it unravel.. I'll soon be naked/ Lying on the floor I've come undone" ?
I've seen some beautiful dresses lately (on etsy and other sites for handmade clothes) they are artistic and flattering yet when I click to see the larger view I see row after row of raw edges and seams where the thread is clearly coming loose. This bugs me. I understand for a wedding dress you aren't going to wear again. To have it fragile and perfect like a butterfly that will live for a few hours and fade away. But raw and unfinished seams on a party dress or an office shirt seems wastful to me. Especially if it's costing $135.00!!!

My goal for the month is to create useful clothes out of sheets. I made a pair of boxers yesterday out of a white sheet. The pattern was from the 70's so they are 100% recycled :0 ) love it! Todays project is a grey jersey dress from a stretch cotton sheet. The cotton is thinner than I thought and very challenging to work with. (maybe that's why Im onlinje instead of at work.. lol)

Project.... model for myself?

Since the day I decided making my own pants would be cheaper than buying them and ran out for "red tag" Joannes cheap-o fabric (six whole dollars worth!) I've wished I had a smaller frame to model my clothes. I swear, the things I could make for myself... I'd be one of the "recessionista's" (awful word tho) But seriously. I feel that my weight has impaired my art in a big way (haha)





I guess I just don't feel motivated to sew for myself the same I don't feel motivated to BUY clothes for myself. It's always "ten pounds from now" .. or recently "25 pounds from now"

SO I joined Weight Watchers last week!!!! I hope to meet more seamstresses who are doing the same thing. How great would it be to have friends who sew who are also on a weight loss journey? I'll be trying to post more of MY OWN clothing made for my body and hopefully in smaller and smaller sizes!!

A new enterprise

Does Britney Spears think she's Madonna? .. no point in saying that except I just watched the first few seconds of the video for Circus. She's got the Madge moves down!

I recently had a photo session for my new Vintage shop PinUpWife on etsy.com (as yet to open due to massive computer virus.) Trouble, trouble. B-man (my two year old) decided to pick up a scorching curling iron before the session even started so I was distracted, thinking about my baby and his boo-boo so in addition to being a bad photographer I was also a bad stylist and a BAD director. My model is very photogenic so I hope she lets me try again soon!

"Baby when I met you there was peace unknown.. I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb.." Look up Islands in The Stream' by Kenny Rodgers and Dolly Parton.. classic