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
Tonight I learned how to do foundation paper piecing (fpp) without sewing through the paper. I've never had any desire to sew through the paper and then have to rip it all off. This was much faster with no ripping required in the end!
I plan to make this Jack Russell Terrier block into a decorative pillow.
#FoundationPaperPiecing #fpp
A client I made a cosplay for a few years ago won tickets to The Kentucky Derby in May and commissioned me to make her outfit! This is going to be a fun build!
Her inspiration is from a dress in Singin' in the Rain, and I found a good starting point pattern to use from Mrs. Depew Patterns that has a similar vibe. It's a repo of a 1920s evening gown.
I printed her size and taped it together this afternoon. It isn't the cleanest draft (lots of pointy curves), but it seems decent enough and I can clean it up. I'll start on a mockup in a few days.
#derbydress
Making lingerie out of scraps again. This is a scrap of Liberty of London lawn (left over from a blouse) and some lingerie lace I bought on Etsy (where it is extremely affordable and available in an nearly-infinite variety of styles/colors). I went with a band of sheer ribbon and matching straps.
This is a pattern I rubbed off a bought nightgown.
