I've been meaning to post progress pics as we do things, but I'm a few weeks behind, so this is a bit of a photo dump.
I brought a dresser from my house and organized the ironing stuff. Top two drawers are all fusible things. Bottom two drawers are Janet's patterns with a drawer for garment bags in the middle.
We hung a few more photos and an 1883 poster. There have even been a couple more things added that were waiting for frames when took these photos.
It took about a week of sorting (piles of bags in photo 7 and that wasn't even all of it!), but now all the beads & sequins are organized by type & color at the studio! It was like the longest game of memory to match all the like items together. And everything fits neatly into the bookcases with very efficient use of space thanks to The Container Store containers I bought to hold the beads & sequins. No more digging through boxes and having to pull half the shelves apart to find something!
Last photo is our fabric shelves. We can see what we have and there's room for more with it neatly rolled.
#SewingStudioBuild #organizing #fabricstorage
I spent the day priming things for paint and then I remembered to shoot a quick video. #SewingStudioBuild
I started cutting all the edges while Janet was away yesterday morning. When she got back after lunch, she pulled out a roller and started filling in. I'll put a pic below in the comments. #SewingStudioBuild
We broke for lunch and then came back with a portal ac unit plugged in to an extention cord from the house. Can't wait until they finished hooking up all the electrical and we have the mini split cooling the room for us - it was stupid humid today! #SewingStudioBuild
I draped a really rough half-scale ruffle tail for one of the debutant dresses Janet & I are making. I just eyeballed and freehand cut a scrap of (un-ironed) muslin in a spiral and pinned it to my little dress form to make sure it was long enough to reach from hem to waist. Then I marked the folds and traced it onto graph paper and cleaned it up. The graph paper makes it easier to copy at 200% and tape the pieces back together.
I'll transfer the enlarged frankenstein paper pattern to brown paper when I'm back at the studio tomorrow or Friday and then make it out of the real fabric.
#ruffle #fiestabuild
I made 2 of these valentine garlands. Found the tutorial via Instagram and thought it would be perfect to send to Ashley, my daughter in Oregon, and Madison, my birth daughter in North Carolina.
Pics are from Ashley.
