Christmas Eve: Monday Goals

Well, it is here and not without warning. Christmas Eve. All weekend at the cheese shop, customers kept asking if I was ready for tomorrow. My answer today is the same as yesterday and as the day before: not really.

Vogue 8728: the Brown Dress

"The brown dress" Such a catchy title, eh? So creative I am ;)
I am open to another name for it by the way...

I realized that I mentioned this dress on Monday in my goals, and figured it needed an explanation.

Monday, Monday...

I am going to try something new here this week. I have intentions to do it every week, but we will start with this one ;) I want to put my weekly goals up and then recap at the end of the week or at some point. So without any further ado....

Week of December 17th, 2012:

1. Slip stitch neckline of brown silk dress (cell phone pic above)
2. Finish Keep knitting red scarf
3. Decide neckline options for brown silk: beaded or not?

Three small goals. I think that will be a good start. I am trying to keep what else I have going on this week in mind. It is getting close to Christmas, and let's be honest, I am really behind on everything! How did it get this late in the month already?!?! Is it just me or did the holidays seem to come earlier this year? ;)

Here is to a productive week!

Some Light Cleaning

It has been awhile since I posted. I am sure that you may have noticed. I have decided today that I need some sprucing up here around this old blog. There might be some cobwebs in places there shouldn't be and a layer of dust thick enough to write "shame on me" residing on my sewing machine. I am still here, and today have made the decision that things are going to change. For real. Not like my yearly attempt to stay up past midnight on New Year's Eve — some things I just have to face.

I want to blog about sewing. I want to sew more. It makes me happy.

One post done. Baby steps :)

Wedding Dress: Finished

Well, here is the final project finished with my photos and really fancy photos taken by the photographer. You will be able to tell which ones are mine and which are hers. Trust me.

Finally. A little update...

It has been a long time. Actually it has been about six months. Clearly when I get overwhelmed or super focused this is what happens— something has to give. Unfortunately it seems it is always the blog. But I will say that in those six months I finished my friend's wedding dress, one bridesmaid Bombshell dress, three-quarters of another Bombshell dress, traveled to St.Louis, London, Dublin (finding great vintage finds in each city) and all the while running two cheese stores. It has been exhausting, exciting and rewarding.

Something Stinks: Fabric Prep

As I have mentioned I enrolled in Gertie's online class, and I have chosen my fabric. Much to my husband's happiness, I found in my stash this piece of black and white houndstooth silk suiting with enough yardage of four and half yards. I purchased it about a year ago during a super sale on fabric.com for $4 yard. Even though the class is geared to making a summer dress,  I really wanted to make a slightly heavier dress to straddle the in between seasons. It is lightweight enough to drape, but not too light. And I figured depending on accessory color, I could go either spring or fall/winter with the black and white. Maybe red or plum for winter and pink or coral for spring?

The Wonderful World of iDye

Since I last posted, many things have happened. Well, many and then not so many, really. Let's get on to what did happen, which I will try to put in a timely order: