at least for November – at least as long as I’m doing NaNoWriMo.
I did wear the blue dress, and while wearing the blue dress, I made the mistake of going into GStreet fabric and perusing the remnant table, where I found things I must have and therefore bought simply because at $2.97 a yard, it is hard to tell yourself no. Meanwhile, I am contemplating this:
It used to be that I’d build quilts in my head when I couldn’t get to sleep. These days, I’m building a corpse-bride dress out of old tee-shirts. I’m pretty sure there is something wrong with me. Nevertheless (and I haven’t started on it yet) I have this vision of the back of the dress with extra ruffles on the butt as a mock-bustle and… well, I seem to fall asleep before I’ve got the graduated chunks of fabric all gathered. And then the next question, does the smallest go at the bottom of the layers or the top? I’m thinking the bottom, all of a sudden.
Oh, to be paid so I could make funky clothes all day instead of working a real job.
the answer to everything. Sewing instructions from 1926… Bound button holes, here we come…
I have ordered my dress form. It is just a shade too small, but I am going to put a bra on it, stuff it full and use that to round out the corners. Everyone else that I might possibly make something for is bound to be smaller than me and the vintage stuff is narrower all the way around. I wanted an old one anyway, simply because the new ones I touched seemed so d@mn flimsy. I’m hoping a vintage model will last a little longer.
Why must stuff produced in 2000 be so flimsy? I suppose I could spend $1000+ on one, but I have to eat too. Maybe if I win the lottery…
I’m probably a little late to the collections showed at fashion week, but I was wandering around the NY Times and came across the slide shows from Alexander McQueen. Also, I recently watched my first episode of Project Runway. I’ve been thinking about fashion and fabric and drape – the things that look good on my shape and the things that don’t, and high-fashion’s disregard for what actually flatters women, the whole do-it-yourself ethos and what makes that different from what someone like Vera Wang does. I mean, I just looked through Vera Wang’s Spring 2009 collection and I didn’t see one thing on there that was particularly flattering to the models, let alone anything that would have been flattering on me.
I don’t know where I’m going with all of this, but I’m thinking.
I haven’t subscribed yet, but this looks like a place a girl could spend hours…
Vintage patterns available online – Threads
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This has been three years in the finishing… first, to find a pattern. One didn’t exist along the lines of what I wanted. So, redraw a pattern from one found at the fabric store.
Next, to find purple silk. Not so hard.
Finally, figure out how to get a band-aid on the trunk. Oddly, much harder than you’d think.
Now, to find a way to return to its rightful owner…
Is 98% done. I just need to add a hook and eye to the top of the zipper, but come to think of it, since I moved the zipper to the side of the dress, I’m not sure that I’d be able to hook it up.
Next issue: the arm holes are generous. So generous that they offer up a free view of the foundation garments to anyone who happens to be standing beside me. Oops. Does one wear a black bra and forget it? Braless isn’t an option… The Girls need structure…. badly. I really don’t want to undo the entire bodice and re-make it with a smaller arm hole. Put a camisole under it and forget it? damn, damn, damn.
The fabric is beautiful, though…
