Thank you for not being perky

This is not the first dress I have worked on. Mama Pajama gave me some hilarious Elvis in Space fabric like 4 years ago and I cut my fabric and even started sewing. Right in the middle, though, I moved and never picked the project up again and then I moved again and now there is no way that size would fit me anyway. I’ll go back to it someday.

The difference here is that I know what I am doing more and am going to actually finish this dress and I am confidant that it will come out decently.I made all my adjustements and cut all my fabric except for the skirt of last Tuesdays class. I brought the skirt pieces in to double check that the adujstments I made were correct. They were not. I fixed it and cut out the rest of the fabric pieces, and the interfacing except for the collar -(I ran out of interfacing somehow…). I have sewn the darts intp the bodice pieces and then sewed them together.

So now what? The seams have a 5/8 allowance but now I need to finish them. I decided against a french seam and will use my double overlock faker stitch but I am suddenly worried about it. I guess I need to cut the seam allowance off and then do the overlock? I’m waiting for class tomorrow just in case.

Once I am sure about my seam finishing the rest of the dress should go pretty quickly. I haven’t picked out buttons yet and the dress calls for a purchased belt.

I think I will go to the mustly old fabulous button shop in el cerrito and buy jet buttons. I LOVE jet buttons. Women in books are always wearing kid gloves with 9 jet buttons or whatever and I want that too. Jet has a great feel to it -  cold and heavy.

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