The beauty of a mockup is it doesn't take much time and you don't waste the nice fabric. Unfortunately, most projects die at the mockup stage (for me at least).
Right after my last post, I grabbed a scrap of muslin and started draping & drawing a hip-pack on myself. I worked out how big the pockets needed to be by drawing around an old gift card (I keep it in a notebook with my bag making patterns), my phone, and my hand while making sure they were all in places that didn't fight with leg bend and allowed for sitting. I also cut the edges to the angles I liked visually.
And that's when I decided a hip-pack was going to be overkill for this situation. So I'm going to pivot and make a slightly modernized 18th Century pocket instead (see last pic for an example). Afterall, there's going to be a "Dress like a Pirate Night" on the cruise.
I still want to make a pattern for a hip-pack like this because it will be perfect for things like a museum, fair, or concert when I don't want to carry a purse or backpack. But I think I'm going to put it aside for now.
#hippack
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.
