I’m pondering something for a current refashion project, and thought I’d get some input. I’m turning one of my old knit dresses into a skirt, because the bodice never lay quite right and I think I’d get a lot more use out of it as a separate. (Plus it already has pockets!) I was playing around originally with just turning the original midriff piece into an elastic casing, but it’s way too bulky with all of the gathering. So now I’m removing the piece altogether, and discovering that apparently I did the gathering directly onto this piece, it’s not holding together with the mesh lining as I’m removing it. (Bad younger me.) I’d really like to preserve this lovely gathering, but I do also need to retain the stretch or it’ll never fit. For now, I’m clipping the heck out of it as I go, but I need to figure out how to baste this back together without losing the stretch, and also what to use as a waistband. Should I try removing that gathering in the midriff piece and use the original fabric to make an elastic casing? I do also have that wide black elastic that was popular awhile back as an exposed waistband, and I rarely tuck my shirts in so that would probably be fine.
(The third picture is the original dress. Not shown is the ridiculous amount of internal elastic engineering I had to do to try and stop this sagging over my chest.)
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’m a bit behind on sharing. I can’t show my most recent finished project (two of the women in my book club are sisters whose kids play sports at different local high schools, so one of them paid me to mash up tees from each school into something for their mom to wear to games when her grandkids are playing each other — she loved it!) But I can show the low-budget Viking costume that I made for my older son’s end of year history writing/oral report project. He chose to do his paper on Leif Erikson. The pants and shoes were things he owned. The tunic was a bedsheet and trim from Michael’s. I found the pattern free online, though I had to fudge it a bit under the arms because the proportions were meant for an adult, not a 5th grader. The armor piece was a suede-looking quilted pillowcase that conveniently matched the look of his inspiration picture, and even more conveniently already had a button closure on the back side. All I had to do was remove the rectangle bits that made the ...
I've been looking for a piece of paper I know I kept on the computer desk with the intention of digitizing it for forever. Haven't found what I'm looking for yet, but I did find this handy chart I forgot about. Sharing it here because all of you might find it useful and then I can also find it if I need it later!
