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rosebee ([personal profile] rosebee) wrote2010-03-28 12:06 pm

YAAAYY!!!

A few nights of OK sleep is a wonderful thing! I'm still waking up a couple times between 3am and 6am, but I've been getting back to sleep easily. :)

My sewing muse has returned!! :D ::happy dances around room::

I am *finished* adjusting my knit dress pattern!! Because I don't want to screw the dress up, I'm going to first use the pattern to make a knit t-shirt (do the dress, but chop it off at high hip level). Then if the shirt turns out ok, I'll do the dress. Otherwise it's more adjusting. :(

I have the knit dress, then a linen shirtdress I started last summer but never got very far on. All I've got done is the pattern highlighting, I haven't even traced the pattern out onto the gridded paper, let alone started any adjustments.

After those two dresses, I want to do a simple unlined jacket. Then there's a nice tank-style sundress I want to do.

:D

Pictures from pattern companies underneath cut:


This is the knit dress: The practice t-shirt is going to be out of a black cotton-lycra jersey. The dress is a beautiful cranberry red cotton/lycra jersey.

This is the shirtdress:
I got a nice brown linen for the dress, a comfy brown rayon for the lining.

The jacket:

Just a basic black twill for this jacket. If the pattern works out I have a fine babywale brown & white houndsooth corduroy that I want to make it out of.

The sundress:

I have a nice pretty cotton print for this, with two coordinating ribbons - a wider one and then a narrow one I can layer on top of the wider one.

SQUEEE!! The sewing urge!! It's back! And it's FUN!

Next step - finish washing the black jersey so I can make the t-shirt. Then lots and lots of cutting out.