More Sewing!

Dress #2 is complete. Custom-made via emailed measurements & specs. Hope it fits, Wem!!

Can't quite believe it, but I'm jonesing to make another one. This time it will be a little black number, possibly with sleeves. Same pattern, though. I think I may have a problem here--I can't go more than a day without planning another sewing project...

In other news, we got a BBQ from a garage sale. As long as the damn thing works (we'll see... paid $10 for it, so... keep your fingers crossed, hey?) now we can grill! Woohoo! I plan on spending as much of my summer as possible out on our deck... who's with me?!?

Sewing!

I have finally made something with a piece of fabric that I bought at Value Village a few months ago. Okay, it's a bedsheet, I'll admit it. It was about $3, found at the 50% off sale.


I was inspired by Melissa of Tiny Happy, who I read nearly daily. She posted about a dress she'd made recently & mentioned liking the pattern (New Look 6725). Coincidentally, the style was just about what I was looking to create with the crazy floral bedsheet. I wanted something late 60s, maybe mod, comfy & loose for the summer.


I hadn't made anything with a commercial pattern in years--I usually just make things up as I go along, basing my garments on another item of clothing that I like the fit of. So it was refreshing to have exact pattern pieces & instructions.

The other thing I made recently was a t-shirt for my friend Raine. We were looking through my cache of XL t-shirts (from Village de Valeurs, where else?) to find one to rework for her. She loves purple & had been looking for a new purple top. Voila: a lovely eggplanty colour & it had 'Vancouver' on it as well!

Summertime.... & the livin' is easy...

Well, not so much. Summer is my busy season as gobs of ESL students flock to the city & to my school. & then there's the stilting. I tend to have a gig per weekend through most of the summer. Busy busy busy.

So little renovation has happened in the past few weeks. I have, however, actually unpacked a lot of my sewing room. FINALLY. The shelving donated by my lovely sister & brother-in-law has helped the organizational process immensely. Now I am actually getting inspired to sew! I've made a top for myself & a redux tee for a friend already. More projects are swimming around in my brain as I write this...

In other house-related news, our first house-guest has come & gone (We will miss you, Raine!) & we're already pencilling in the second batch of house-guests for next week. At least if we're not renovating the house, we're taking advantage of it. It feels good to actually use all the space we've got: stick a guest in the extra room, use the sewing room for making things, get out on the deck for barbeques & brew beer in the space under the front steps.

The beer experimentation has been interesting. The first batch of lager was... ummm... interesting. Not a lager fan, myself. The second batch will be a stout. Already promising, according to our taste-testing. Looking forward to cracking open some of it around my birthday in August.

Here is a link, house-related, of course:

Vancouver's Ugly Home Craze. City hall spawned weird new housing form: the 'Mohawk.'