THE DRESS and beyond

Here, finally, are the pic's of the Vogue dress. I'm very glad I took it out of time out. I really do think it learned its lesson and will not make the same mistakes again. Wish I could say the same for me. You can see one of the STOOPID things I did here. Take a look at the left and you will notice a, um, shall we call it, um, generous seam allowance? Sometimes known as not cutting the pieces out all the way. This was discovered when trying to match notches, side seams and ends. Just didn't work out well. ARRRGGGG. I won't talk about putting together 2 pieces of the bodice wrong 5 times. SHHHH! And the tendency for my machine to eat the fabric at the beginning of the seams, or that I failed to mark notches on more than one piece. Those items, I'll just be silent on.

Here are the finished photo's. I'm very happy with it and won't point out all my flaws. After putting the bodice together, the rest was a breeze and I wore it to dinner on Saturday night. It really is VERY low cut. I'm wearing a cami under it, but may add a panel to make it easier to wear.

Next, I'm going to share some photo's of the on-going "work" to restore our apartment after the water damage. Damage occurred on Mother's Day during the torrential rains that deluged the east coast that day. Apparently there was some value engineering going on and some flashing was valued right outa there. Take a really good look at the ladder. No, this isn't in a third world country, nor is this by a local contractor. TURNER CONSTRUCTION (did I say that loudly enough?) built this thing and is doing the warranty work.

And finally, on a much more fun note, I will leave you with a picture of my GStreet haul from last weekend. The photo's don't show the fabric to it's best, but every piece there was off the $2.97 table and includes a couple of really nice heavy weight knits (for the PJ sewalong), a rayon Lycra that feels like a cloud (light green), some stretch cord for fall, and a couple of other fabrics. Also, is MY VERY FIRST BURDA WOF. I feel like I graduated, or something. Entire haul cost me just under $70, and probably is around 20 yards of fabric. The pattern is for a quick jacket, a very easy pattern. All really nice stuff.

There are more photos on my flickr of all this fun stuff.