A pattern from my birth year.

I am on the hunt for a pattern to sew from my year of birth. 1984. Gah, I am not a fan of the 80's fashion. It just doesn't do it for me.

 If I EVER see something I like...its usually 80's does 50's or 80's does 40's....really meaning I LOVE 40's and 50's....NOT the 80's......but there are a few gems...Jem in fact ha ha!!! If you know who I am talking about then you probably grew up in the 80's and 90's.

ANYWAY...I digress....I am on the hunt. Watch this space.......

Undressing the bed to dress myself.

Remember how I told you about my pattern for the 1950's dress turned up in the mail? Well I started creating the other day. I feel good about the results so far. I did have to call up my mama to ask about how to make sure the dart pattern stayed on the fabric...she taught me over the phone a fandangled pin arrangement....that actually works! so WHOO I have learnt about darts!!!

The fabric I have chosen from my fabric pile is an old set of bed sheets with pink roses on them. Quite 1950s if I do say so myself!

I am up to the part of sewing where you can tell whether the item 1) Resembles the pattern at all and 2) whether it is actually going to FIT. I fear that I may have made it a tiny bit small...it will fit, but it will be snug. LUCKILY this is really only a test run and I don't think I will wear the bed-sheet dress...as it still looks like a bed sheet......just one that fits a seamstress...not a queen.

When I make this dress again, I will choose thicker fabric that can hold its shape a bit better and is less see-through.

What is it will household item fabrics staying as they are meant to be???? a table cloth that won't change and a bed sheet remains a bed sheet?? I am seeing a trend....

Welcome to the dark side of the moon....

                                                       LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!

If by any chance you have read my other blog...then you will know one of my favourite bands is Pink Floyd. Well this is a groovy stretchy knit fabric that was covering my younger brothers ceiling in his flat..So there is a LOT of it!

I can't wait to make something out of it! As I have been wanting to make a zip up sweatshirt..I might use this...and I think it lends itself well to a snug-fitting hooded number. What do you think?

I may have to use a pattern...as I don't want to ruin/waste the fabric.

I'm going on a pattern hunt and I'm not scared.

"All in all your just another, Brick in the wall".

Trials and tribulations

SEWWWWWWW anyway, (ha ha)... I got my pattern for an awesome looking 1950's style dress in the mail today. "All the way from America.." So exciting! My first real proper fancy dancy project! I read it thoroughly and noted down (in my head) the parts I don't completely understand will ask either my Mama or my Mother in Law...both pretty decent seamstresses.

 I started cutting out the pattern on the correct measurement....about a third of the way around I was so sick of my damn scissors...so hard to use!! I hadn't really noticed when just cutting fabric (admittedly it was a tiny bit tricky but I thought nothing of it)....upon inspection and comparison (to some kitchen scissors) it would appear that the fabric store lady sold me LEFT-HANDED SCISSORS. Oh my. Now, you don't know me (or unlikely to) but if you did, you would know that I have NEVER been very good at cutting things with scissors...my straight lines as a child always included snazzy corners, chunks missing and one end of the fabric/paper/card would ALWAYS end up wider than the other.... So why, may I ask did the sewing gods decide to throw me this challenge???? I mean, re-learning everything from pretty much scratch in between nap times and play times is challenge enough...without crooked tools!!! *sigh*. Sadly, I do not have the receipt anymore either....I will just have to keep on trucking and go extra extra carefully...until sewing Karma changes and I am able to afford  inherit find some new flash RIGHT HANDED scissors.

On a brighter cheerier note, my phone is back from hospital and didn't cost me a thing to fix, so I will post some photos as soon as I have time.

For now, I am going to step away from my new project and let it rest...before some other sewing related catastrophe befalls me.

Happy crafting.