Knew it would be a Contender

after traipsing over to Fulton Fabrics to replace the fabrics that had become wadders last weekend.  I figured that a  red wrap dress would set me right for the week and happily pulled out my vacation dress template (Thanks Carolyn, I finally interfaced the pieces and they lay so much better). 

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Then I thought it would be nice to have a wrap dress with a collar and pulled out Butterick See & Sew 5166 and used the collar from that pattern.

Everything went smoothly with the collar construction to the extent I made a template.

I even had the joy of using the Wooly Thread I'd puchased at Pacific Trimmings (A big Thank You to Miriam in KS for recommending that I use Wooly Thread for my nieces wrestling gear.). In googling wooly thread, I learned that its great for knit fabrics too   I used the  wooly threads in my upper & lower loopers of my serger and it purred like a kitten.   I also hand wound the wooly thread onto my bobbin for my sewing machine and love it.  Where have I been, I'd never heard of wooly thread - a girl like me learns something new every day.

Well I was able to complete the dress it fits like a charm, buttttttt at closer inspection, I noticed the the collar sat far away from my neck... ugggh.  Regardless of what I tried, that collar stood away from my neck like it had its own mind.... dagnamit...whyyyyyyyyyyy.

So what is a girl to do.... improvise... well more like refashion....

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The dress became a wrap skirt and added a cute buckle that I'd removed from rtw pants and a buttonhole & button on the inside of the skirt.  Then I thought I need a blouse to go with it and remembered a co-worker asking me if I made a wrap blouse I had on last week and some wires connected in my head and off I went.

I used fabric that I'd purchased at Metro Textiles during a fabric excursion for the bodice portion of the dress to create the wrap blouse and extended the bottom an additional 8".  Again I enjoyed using the wooly thread and serged the blouse together.  The ties took longer to make than the darn blouse... there has got to be a better way to turn those darn things inside out.  Despite a wadder, I did come out with two cute garments.  

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I like the blouse so much I wore it today....

...and to think I thought that wrap dress was a contender...lol

Signing off with my new popsicle maker....I love gatorade popsicles in the middle of the night...

She is Such a Dear

Robin at Yarn Crawl awarded me the Beautiful Blogger Award... Thank You Robin.  Robin noted that she was blown away when she met me  in person.. Can I say that is an Ultimate Compliment... blushing....    And to further mention that I offered  good practical tips and tricks on my crafting was awesome to read and Priceless.  Now if only one could see me in my sewing room short-circuting over pattern instructions ... one may have others words for me... like umm yeah what the hell is wrong with her...lol

 

As you may know from my previous post, I had the awesome pleasure of meeting Robin this past weekend and she is such a dear. It was fun to meet so many like-minded people during the fabric excursion and chat about our projects,  likes and dislikes and walk away with a wealth of information. Let me tell you Robin is serious when it comes to her fabric... sister-friend knew what she wanted and went full throttle. I had mentioned to her during our fabric excursion that she is my Shero of Wrap dresses.... matter of fact I have put B5309 on hold and of course will be working on wrap dresses for the holiday weekend....lol.  In being a good sport here are Some  Interesting Facts about me:

1- Can be very anti-social;

2- A serious hothead when provoked… nothing passive about that…lol

3- Love and I mean love to meditate… anytime & anywhere; if only I could take exercising that serious.

4- I have been a crafter for years, but only now realizing that I am fully in my element, possibly due to finally having my own sewing/craft room;

5- I am a spoiled brat and learning that I can’t have it all... at least that what my guy tells me, but he fails to realize he is the culprit;

6- Have finally come into myself… didn’t realize it would take approaching 50 to accept my idiosyncrasies…lol

7- Wake up each day with a positive attitude, provided I don't have a glass of wine the night before...haha

Of course, I would love to insert my Google Reader list, but that would be stretching it... So I would like to nominate all that visit my blog... awww come on now... you know who you are...


Signing off with another handmade card in the making.