I've got to make myself something to wear to my cousin's wedding in a few weeks and I've been feeling uninspired by everything.
Today, I went stash diving because I don't want to spend the money on new fabric (I already have tons). The yardage I specifically went looking for is still hiding, but I dug out some other options. I'm still not sure which direction I want to go or what style dress I even want. I've spent at least a month pondering it all. I'm just meh about the whole thing.
My dilemma is a compound problem:
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It's an evening wedding. I almost never need eveningwear and I want to make something that I can wear more than once.
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It's at the beginning of November and it could be rather chilly or still 85°F since it's north Texas. It's one of the hardest months to predict how you'll need to dress.
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I can't wear my gold sequin dress again because it's all the same family attending the wedding (this is younger sister's wedding).
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My cousin said she doesn't really have wedding colors. Her bridesmaids and mother will be wearing navy and all the flowers are white.
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Wedding attire etiquette is the same as for film - no black, white, or red.
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I don't really look good in dark and/or cool colors. So I'm really having to push myself to be enthused about most of my choices. If I could wear any of my bright fabrics, I'd have a million options.
The fabric I was looking for is a cobalt blue and I don't remember how many yards of it I have. Probably only two. It's not a good color on me, but I have the perfect heels to go with it.
What I did find was a navy linen with metallic gold in it. It is super sparkly in real life but it just looks like denim in photos if I'm not trying really hard to show the shine. (First 2 pics)
I love the "earth" print semi-matte satin, but it feels a bit casual because it's a print. It is the most me in terms of bright colors I would normally wear without being too fluorescent.
And I also have 14.5 yards of the crinkled shiny teal stuff. It's pretty dark and from certain angles, it almost looks black. I bought it from the Barney & Friends end of show sale probably 10+ years ago. It's probably polyester, it's not super thick, and it has decent drape. I just have no idea what style it wants to be.
I don't know. Nothing is really speaking to me. Meh.
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 finally finished the quilt for my daughter. I couldn’t take pictures of the entire thing (her room is a disaster zone), but here’s some of the patchwork and the embroidered square I made because I ended up being one short. I did learn that I’m going to need to find a better way to lay out any future quilts that are twin sized or larger, because I had to keep shifting it around the slightly too small area of our basement carpet and the backing ended up getting doubled up in multiple places. By the time I discovered it, I couldn’t bring myself to unpick that much of the quilting, so it’ll have to stay. But I think it’s going to be awhile before I do any more quilts. Between this and the patchwork jeans (which I did end up having to shorten some), I’m feeling burned out on big projects for now. I did cut out a basic knit tee, so hopefully that’ll be enough of a palate cleanser to get me over the lack of motivation to sew that I was feeling by the end of this.
