Gold Trimmin'

Designer Larisa Katz

Yea!  Finally finished that Indian print gauze tunic top that I was making from scratch.  I had cut out the pieces for it long, long, ago and it had become one of my year-end challenges to complete.  There were at least 15 pieces to patchwork together, and matching up the print design and grain line was no easy task.

In the end, I decided to add this piece of shimmery gold organza to the bottom hem and sleeves, leaving the edges raw.  I was hoping that would take it out of the 70's and perhaps move it into the future.  Whether that did the trick or not, is anybody's guess.

2012 is The New Year

artwork by Anda Klancic.

But, remember your New Year begins on your birthday!  So says astrologers, and doesn't that make sense...after all?

Therefore my year-end challenge is still valid, which is good, since I'm still working on it.

I've been pinning and re-pinning a patchwork type tunic top made from 70's Indian print gauze fabric.  The material seems to stretch and warp, the bits and pieces of pattern I've cut out have trouble lining themselves up correctly, and then when they do, it just doesn't look right anyway.  So I've been playing with that puzzle for days on end.  At least I'm not sewing and un-sewing it... 

I've also been gluing stretch, fake alligator fabric to a pair of ruined sling back shoes.  Yea, imagine that.  Bit by bit.  A slow process since I don't know what I'm doing.  Stay tuned.

Pix coming when I'm done.

The Long and Winding Road -or- Indecision's Killing Me

artwork by Moki Mioke.

Check 2 more off the year end challenge. After the last fiasco, I thought I'd go for some thing real simple. So I chose a shirt that only

Get Over It

artwork by Elisabeth Lecourt

Continuing my year-end challenge, I certainly exhausted myself with this one.  A sheer blouse with attached sheer lining rehab.  No wonder it lay by the side of the road for so long.  It turned out wearable, but I'll win no prizes for it, let me tell ya.  Yikes, the sewing is Frankenstein-ian, although you can't fault me for trying...and trying...and trying.... 

Well.  The material was so fragile, it simply

End of Year Challenge?

photo by Ross Oscar Knight

Maybe...or at least a goal:  to tackle all those sewing Minima Projects I've started in the last 6 months but never quite finished.

Well, completed one of them today.  Yea, put a check on that list!  I think this was one of the first rehabs I attempted using several white cotton blouses to create a garment that works.  Sew, look and see the results.