Thank you for not being perky » dress http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com Love, Minnie Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:40:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Follow the pattern instructions! http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/follow-the-pattern-instructions/ http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/follow-the-pattern-instructions/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:59:38 +0000 Minnie http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/?p=513 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is the dress I would like to make, the variation with sleeves.

cute pattern

I’m looking a bit angry in this photo. Pay it no mind.

So the pattern calls for lt.wt crepe, lt wt pique, or lt wt linen.
I found a gorgeous purple silk chiffon that I want to use instead. can I use it and then use linen for the lining? Or will I regret going against the pattern instructions?

The skirt is bias cut and it’s not like chiffon has no drape… but sewing chiffon is still tricky for me and I have no idea about pairing something super drapey with something less so like linen.

I checked my closet and I have one dress in see through polyester chiffon that has a silky sort of lining. So the dress has no form at all. and I have one dress that has the same collar shape as this one with and it is made out of stretch cotton and it works fine.

So, in conclusion, I believe I will just try it out. I shall wake up Jack and go to the fabric store. I have a whole four day weekend coming up in which to sew this. And work on all my other commitments.

I think I have too much going on. When am I going to find time to make spats for upcoming holiday shows. I keep having horrid flashes of no one buying my spats. So far that hasn’t happened but it’s still nightmare fuel. I have some cute new designs I am going to do once I get around to getting the sewing done.

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]]> http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/follow-the-pattern-instructions/feed/ 2 is working on her dress, almost finished. http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/is-working-on-her-dress-almost-finished/ http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/is-working-on-her-dress-almost-finished/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:31:04 +0000 Minnie http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/?p=243 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> well, my dress is almost finished. Yesterday I worked on sewing on the second to last piece. I had nightmares about it after I went to bed. The dress was 4 inches too short somehow and made me look fat.

The piece I have left to sew is the next collar point piece. I think that the front facing and collar on this dress were needlessly complicated AND the worst part is that when I was ironing on the fusible interfacing I kept messing it up and finally I was like, “fuck this noise, I’m moving on.” And now I am paying the price because the facing pieces are sort of rumply and the interfacing is coming off. The second I wash this dress that shit is going to fall right off. SONOFABITCH!

I keep day dreaming about the NEXT thing that I am going to sew and how rad it will be. hahahaha. I have to stop myself from abandoning this dress.

I’m thinking of ways I could salvage the facing problem, I could rip it all off or I could quilt it. man, I have no clue. I decided to use white pearly snaps applied with my fancy new industrial snap putter oner. I’ll try to finish it tonight or tomorrow.

Look at all the cute dresses on this site: http://www.angelfire.com/planet/getgoretro/dresses.html!

crappy blurry picture of my dress in progress:
dress

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]]> http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2009/is-working-on-her-dress-almost-finished/feed/ 2 My dress – An update and a sinking feeling http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2008/my-dress-an-update-and-a-sinking-feeling/ http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/2008/my-dress-an-update-and-a-sinking-feeling/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:36:25 +0000 Minnie http://www.thankyoufornotbeingperky.com/?p=227 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> It’s amazing how little you (and by you I mean me) can manage to get one in 3 hours. I’m still working on my dress in fits and starts a little here and there.

Months ago I had a huge tearful saga about the sleeves. Who knew sleeves were such little bitches? I had made a pattern adjustment ot the sleeves but when it came time to sew them in they seemed HUGE. So I at first assumed that I had fucked up the adjustment and I went through this absurd range of emotions. Mostly about how I was DOOMED TO FAIL. Recriminations about my idiocy and incompetence were flung at my head, there were tears involved and a certainty that I would never succeed at anything EVER in my entire life. Sometimes I wonder how I have made it this far in life…

But as it turns out the adjustments were correct and I am NOT DOOMED. Cap sleeves are apparently a bitch and take practice (shocker) and there is a crapload of ironing involved.

The sleeves are done and came out pretty well with only a little bit of accidental pleating. Now, I am on the collar and front facing.

I have another sinking feeling that it isn’t going to fit very well also that it is too busy with the bird fabric. DAMMIT. I feel sad.

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