Sew Perfect for Every Body!

Yesterday I decided that I needed a dress to wear, today. I did make the dress but I was not happy with it. I designed a shift dress with ruffles around the collar. I hated the ruffle. It did not lay the way I wanted it to. Because the fabric was really too thick for the type of soft ruffle effect that I wanted. So I removed the ruffle that I put on. I searched through my stash of fabric and of course I did not have the right type of fabric in the right color. When I removed the ruffle I stretched the neckline in the front of the dress so I need to make some more adjustments to it. When you wear a jacket with it no one can see the mistakes or the dress. So once I have fixed it to look the way it really should I will post it correctly. It does not pay to wait until the last minute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the evening I have been crocheting Tri-Color squares for the guest bedroom. Two shades of blue the other color is white. I ...

Lion Yard Is doing a new Crochet A-long. I was not successful with the last one. I went to the store to pick the color yard and nothing appealed to me. So It was a project that never got started. However I should be better with this one. Since I was already crocheting it should be easy to start something else. These are the square I am crocheting in the evening after dinner and before bed. I should have a lot more done but Oh well. The yard you see at the beginning are the colors I will use for the New Crochet A long. Will be interesting. I have never crochet this Motif before. I am looking forward to it. My White Pizza is heating in the oven. Hubby should be asleep so tonight is as good as any other for crocheting. I still have not started my yummy chocolate brown coat. Soon I am sure. Do something creative every day!

I have not used the blog in a while. But I have decided to return to blogging. I guess the blog is like my sewing momentum. I can get started and sew every day for days, months years and then suddenly I stop. No reason I just stop. So I guess I’m back again. Okay so the winter coat that I want to make is chocolate brown and the lining is the same color. I have decided the quilt the lining with the batting that I use in making baby blankets. I am going to do the stitching by hand. I will be using gold metallic thread and I want the center of the stitching to be my name. In a graffiti style that I created years ago in a poster that was destroyed when my family home was involved in a fire. After thinking about it I changed my mind and decided that it say “a mere saffron of the valley” the reason this works for me is because if I ever had a clothing store it would be called “Amere Saffron”. I have not drawn the perfect lily for this sign so it stays in my hea...

First let me apologize for not updating anyone who actually reads this blog with the exception of my self and Betty occasionally. The dress is completed. The wedding is over and she loved the dress. The final fitting was the week before the wedding and it looked beautiful. I am actually proud of the hem. It was the correct length. I was prepared for it to be off a little the sewing machine was up and read to go but when she put it on with the shoes she was to wear for the wedding you could see it float across the floor as she walked. I was very happy and extremely relieved. Hems can be scary things. I could tell you about the summer dress that was to be a Maxi that turn into a summer tunic to wear with leggings. Sounds laughable but believe me when I say the tunic hem was lopsided but at that point I just left it as it was just so I could wear it. I need something to show for my effort. My next project is a winter coat for me. Chocolate Brown! Yummy!