Despite the fact that I am exhausted and bleary eyed, I am headed into the sewing room to complete the 4th of July ensemble. I actually started yesterday and have the pants to the almost complete phase. Then it was off to the movie theater to enjoy the Twilight Experience -- 3 movies, one night. It was a lot of fun and my first triple feature. Luckily, we got there early 4:40 p.m. (6:30 p.m. movie start) and got not only a great parking space, but great seats. Even ate movie food (which almost immediately caused swelling in my fingers from all of the salt - had to spring for one of those gigantic waters). The cool thing about the package deal is that we got lanyards and $10 gift cards. It was wild to see how many people were in line waiting for the 12:01 a.m. movie as early as 8:00 p.m.!! But I digress...
Here are the fabrics I am using:
These fabrics also managed to find their way into my cart:
I just couldn't resist these -- they are so cute. I'll be making Taliana a couple of summer dresses out of this.
These also jumped in the cart (stupid jumping fabrics).
I'll be making simple summer skirts for myself. This heat is nothing short of brutal, so I thought simple summer skirts with t-shirts for a cool summer "uniform."
The hardest part of making an outfit under pressure was decided on which fabrics to use with which component. Here's what I decided:
I'm really excited to finally be using these patterns. They are all from Pink Fig patterns. Since the high temperatures in the Seattle areas are only around 70 degrees, I decided to go all out with a kiddie couture ensemble. I'm making the corset style shirt in the Julie top; The Olivia Top is comprised of 2 fabrics, and the Bella pants (minus the pocket), will be made from the starred fabric (actually, the pants are complete minus the elastic at the waist).
Now that I have shirring instructions in hand from the Portabella Pixie website, I'm off to complete the Olivia top, which I am making with 3/4" sleeves and no bottom elastic. Then I'll tackle the Julie top, which, at least to my eyes, seems to be the most complicated. We shall see.
Until next time, happy sewing...
4 comments:
That is so crazy! I thought I was the only one who went to fabric stores that had jumping fabrics! Glad to know this eerie phenomenon happens elsewhere!
That phenomenon happens in Montreal too ! Those are some cute skirt fabrics that jumped your way :-)
AND I had never seen jumping fabrics...am going to visit my store's fabric dept soon and just see what jumps into my cart. :)
Love the kids fabrics and the others are great too. Love your taste and style. B.
Those paisley fabrics look like they will make lovely skirts! I wish I could sew...hopefully I will take a class some day.
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