Janet and I needed some work supplies and took a trip down to the sketchy area of Dallas where all the wholesale & warehouse shopping is for fashion stuff. (It is not the end of town you want to be in after everything closes at 4:30pm!) We went to 3 bead stores and 2 fabric places.
The first bead store was the best, and we bought most of what was on our list there. It was probably 6 aisles wide - first aisle we started on is pictured. It's definitely the kind of store you need to have a list to search for or you'll just want to buy everything!
We found some sew-on rhinestones in colors we needed at one of the other bead shops, but they were much smaller stores and seemed to be stocked with mostly glue-on stuff.
We didn't need any fabric, but we wanted to see what had come back to that street because a tornado hit most of the fabric warehouses back in October 2019. And then the best one of the bunch (and only one that didn't have tornado damage), decided to close when all the lockdowns started a few months later.
It was nice to see at least 4 or 5 of the fabric places are still there. I only thought to take one photo at the first one we went to.
#lifeasacostumer
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.
