So...my personal email address is yahoo mail. When you guys leave a comment on my blog, I get email at my yahoo address, so I know when you've commented. And I thank you for ALL of your comments about my sewing, and my health, and my food. I love my blogging community.
Sooooooooooooo....fast fwd to the ASE 2011 and meeting up with Lynnelle...she tells me she emailed my gmail acct but never heard back from me.
So tonight I decide to log on to my gmail account and there are 102 unread messages in there since 2009 (the last time I checked the gmail acct), many from you dear sewing friends. I have a gmail email acct because my blog is on blogger, but I don't use
the gmail acct for emailing. But apparently when I leave a comment on
your blog, it's showing my gmail acct as the reply-to...which I didn't
fully realize (I remember talking with Antoinette about getting the reply-to to not be "noreply-comment@blogger.com" some time ago but I swore we got it to be my yahoo acct)...but realize it now after randomly picking an August email from MushyWear to read. Oh, and it looks like if you click on my profile, it says to email me at my gmail address...
I hope over the next week to address all this outstanding, long-overdue-for-a-response mail!
Holy cow---thanks for your patience!!
(Also, to address recent questions left as comments: Vanessa, yes, I love turquoise and made a turquoise jacket for my bday last year. It has MANY flaws in it so I have not worn it much. And for Ruthie and Lisette, sure, I can write a little tutorial about how to bind the neckline that way.)
Be well and healthy-healthy-healthy!
ETA: Ok, it's almost an hour later--I have read all my unread gmail and changed my profile email and comments reply-to to my yahoo address, YEA! Reading all your mail at once was like one big Christmas present, such fun stuff in there!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Simplicity 2054 view A done and unarticulated
Today it was 83F here so it seems a bit bizarre to make a dress with long sleeves! But here it is, Simplicity 2054 view A, a Cynthia Rowley dress with long sleeves and a monster cowl collar.
I think that picture above makes me look like I'm running for office. "BlossomKyle for President: For a new Sewing America". Or, maybe if I wore my cowl on my back, I'd look like a super hero??
Comments were mixed about the articulated sleeve (i.e. a peek-a-boo or slit in the elbow sleeve) of my muslin of view C. Read all about it in this post.
The muslin looks like this, and I wore it as a nightgown last night. Very soft and comfy:
I wound up not making the articulated sleeve. I love Antoinette's idea of making this in black with the articulated sleeve, and Mushywear's idea of making the sleeves tighter...so there may be another version of this in the future!
That collar is actually a separate piece.
So you can take the cowl collar off and it is just a t-shirt dress...I will try wearing it like I wear Hawaiian leis--not right up against the neck.
Here's what the back of the cowl looks like. It has basting stitches that are supposed to be removed after the cowl is put together but I didn't remove them.
Here's an idea of the monster size of this collar--in the cutting phase:
oh! The fabric is from The Common Thread in Austin, TX. I purchased it with Antoinette and Leslie in Austin back in March. It's a lightweight double knit, very soft. :)
Side view:
Back view. As you can see I added a CB seam to add some shaping for the swayback.
Here's a closeup of the binding finish I used, which is different than what the directions recommend:
I just LOVE how this finish looks:
Here's an action shot
So yea, it's done! Maybe I'll call this my birthday dress?
So what should I make from this fabric??? Seems like the right time of year to use it, and I have a yard and a half of it. It's a double knit from Mood purchased with Antoinette in June.
Farmer's mkt flowers for this week. My favorite flower farmer has packed up for the season so I bought from a different stand this week.
I made chicken pot pie tonight; I haven't made this for about 6 months now and it is SO good. Aren't pearl onions the best? Unlike last time I didn't overfill the dish, yea! No smoke coming out of the oven was just a bonus.
Be well and good night!!
I think that picture above makes me look like I'm running for office. "BlossomKyle for President: For a new Sewing America". Or, maybe if I wore my cowl on my back, I'd look like a super hero??
Comments were mixed about the articulated sleeve (i.e. a peek-a-boo or slit in the elbow sleeve) of my muslin of view C. Read all about it in this post.
The muslin looks like this, and I wore it as a nightgown last night. Very soft and comfy:
I wound up not making the articulated sleeve. I love Antoinette's idea of making this in black with the articulated sleeve, and Mushywear's idea of making the sleeves tighter...so there may be another version of this in the future!
That collar is actually a separate piece.
So you can take the cowl collar off and it is just a t-shirt dress...I will try wearing it like I wear Hawaiian leis--not right up against the neck.
Here's what the back of the cowl looks like. It has basting stitches that are supposed to be removed after the cowl is put together but I didn't remove them.
Here's an idea of the monster size of this collar--in the cutting phase:
oh! The fabric is from The Common Thread in Austin, TX. I purchased it with Antoinette and Leslie in Austin back in March. It's a lightweight double knit, very soft. :)
Side view:
Back view. As you can see I added a CB seam to add some shaping for the swayback.
Here's a closeup of the binding finish I used, which is different than what the directions recommend:
I just LOVE how this finish looks:
Here's an action shot
So yea, it's done! Maybe I'll call this my birthday dress?
So what should I make from this fabric??? Seems like the right time of year to use it, and I have a yard and a half of it. It's a double knit from Mood purchased with Antoinette in June.
Farmer's mkt flowers for this week. My favorite flower farmer has packed up for the season so I bought from a different stand this week.
I made chicken pot pie tonight; I haven't made this for about 6 months now and it is SO good. Aren't pearl onions the best? Unlike last time I didn't overfill the dish, yea! No smoke coming out of the oven was just a bonus.
Be well and good night!!
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Muslin of Simplicity 2054 view C : articulate this
Hello!
I started at 11am and finished this muslin at 3:15pm and that includes stopping for lunch. I wasn't as careful with some steps as I would normally be for the real thing, and I didn't iron it...but hurrah for a relatively fast dress!
I saw this brand new Cynthia Rowley pattern at the Simplicity booth and at the Simplicity runway show at the American Sewing Expo last month and bought it there. I want to add the cowl collar of view A to View C for the real thing, but for now, the muslin of view C is enough. (that cowl collar is a totally separate piece that lays on top of the dress like a scarf, by the way, very clever)
I don't usually make muslins, but seeing as I'm going to use some good double knit from the Common Thread in Austin, TX, I don't want to mess this up.
The muslin fabric is a lime green 'clearance' fabric I bought online, thinking it was a great deal for double knit, without knowing that it actually has all these horizontal lines on it instead of being an even color. It would have cost too much to mail it back and it's been fermenting in stash.
I first cut out a 14 grading to 16 at the hip but determined after the first try on that a straight 14 would be fine, woo!
It had an anticipated swayback issue:
which I fixed with a tuck which I sewed in. When I cut the real thing, I will add a CB seam and do the tuck in the tissue paper.
Instead of making the neckline as the pattern suggests, I finished it as follows (I need to find out what this finish is really called): Sew CB seam of binding. Pin binding to neckline. Sew in a 3/8 seam. Flip binding to inside of garment. From outside of garment, using a ruler, pin the binding down so that it's right on the edge of SAs . From the outside, sew the binding down evenly from neckline seam. Done! Looks great! doesn't flip over or anything like that. The binding is unfinished on the inside, but it doesn't bother me. Also that makes the overall binding lower than what the pattern calls for, which I think is good.
So at this point I wanted to see what the sleeve of view C looked like; so it's one-sleeved. Do you like peek-a-boo elbow or does it look like a mistake??? I'm thinking when I make the real thing, my coworkers might think I seriously messed this one up. Note that you have to figure out where your elbow ends and adjust the pattern accordingly otherwise the slit will not be at the right spot. I had to adjust upward on the pattern by 1.5 inches.
Another sewing coworker identified it as an "articulated sleeve" like Becky did in episode 7 of Project Runway.
I finished the muslin off and I will wear it as a nightgown..without the belt of course!
Show me your elbows!
When my arms are down, it looks like this:
The real version will be a turquoise blue. I might start it today, yea!
Be well and healthy-healthy-healthy!
I saw this brand new Cynthia Rowley pattern at the Simplicity booth and at the Simplicity runway show at the American Sewing Expo last month and bought it there. I want to add the cowl collar of view A to View C for the real thing, but for now, the muslin of view C is enough. (that cowl collar is a totally separate piece that lays on top of the dress like a scarf, by the way, very clever)
I don't usually make muslins, but seeing as I'm going to use some good double knit from the Common Thread in Austin, TX, I don't want to mess this up.
The muslin fabric is a lime green 'clearance' fabric I bought online, thinking it was a great deal for double knit, without knowing that it actually has all these horizontal lines on it instead of being an even color. It would have cost too much to mail it back and it's been fermenting in stash.
I first cut out a 14 grading to 16 at the hip but determined after the first try on that a straight 14 would be fine, woo!
It had an anticipated swayback issue:
which I fixed with a tuck which I sewed in. When I cut the real thing, I will add a CB seam and do the tuck in the tissue paper.
Instead of making the neckline as the pattern suggests, I finished it as follows (I need to find out what this finish is really called): Sew CB seam of binding. Pin binding to neckline. Sew in a 3/8 seam. Flip binding to inside of garment. From outside of garment, using a ruler, pin the binding down so that it's right on the edge of SAs . From the outside, sew the binding down evenly from neckline seam. Done! Looks great! doesn't flip over or anything like that. The binding is unfinished on the inside, but it doesn't bother me. Also that makes the overall binding lower than what the pattern calls for, which I think is good.
So at this point I wanted to see what the sleeve of view C looked like; so it's one-sleeved. Do you like peek-a-boo elbow or does it look like a mistake??? I'm thinking when I make the real thing, my coworkers might think I seriously messed this one up. Note that you have to figure out where your elbow ends and adjust the pattern accordingly otherwise the slit will not be at the right spot. I had to adjust upward on the pattern by 1.5 inches.
Another sewing coworker identified it as an "articulated sleeve" like Becky did in episode 7 of Project Runway.
I finished the muslin off and I will wear it as a nightgown..without the belt of course!
Show me your elbows!
When my arms are down, it looks like this:
The real version will be a turquoise blue. I might start it today, yea!
Be well and healthy-healthy-healthy!
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