Happy Mothers Day!!

           To all my blogger friends have a Happy Mothers Day for the rest of the year!!!! Celebrate every day as if it were yours and thank God he gave another day to celebrate it!!!!!!!

GwenSews

First I want to thank GwenSews for making a comment on my page.  I don't get very many comments and when I do I am elated that someone wants to acknowledge that I am out here trying to connect with the sewing world. So Thanks sooooo  much Gwen for your comment, it was really appreciated. I was trying to reply to the comment and my cursor was pointing on the delete, although I never pressed delete, your comment was deleted!!! NOOOOOO, I don't want that!!! Someone was kind enough to take the time to talk to me and I accidently deleted the comment. Then I tried to find out if there is a way to undelete. Looks like there is no such button!!! Then I tried to send an email to Gwen Sews and clicked on her box and attempted to befriend her and it added  another block to my followers!!! I am confused!!! What happened????. Blogger.com help me out!!!

Ok I am signing off  because I am frustrated as you can see.


Enjoy your day. Happy Sewing. God Bless and all that other Good Stuff!

Its Done!! And Another Twist to the same two patterns has evolved!!

 This took me forever!! The top is fully lined and has sewn in interfacing. The pattern did not require a lining but I thought it best for my taste. I still have to put hook and eyes on the skirt and top but I have to move right along to the next variation.

 This would look a little better if I had the hook and eyes attached. When I changed the pattern to a top I didn't consider that I would need a separating zipper in order to get into the blouse. Ouch!!! I opened up the darts a little rather take the zipper out . Its ok for me but if I made this for someone else I would use buttons like I did in the top you see below. That's a bit of a pain because you need someone to button you up!!!

In this top I added the peplum from B6582 to the top instead. The skirt is the same as above w/o the peplum of course. I have sewn a few other pieces for the show but they are not complete. If I don't get pics before the show I will certainly post pics of the actual show. It's just a small tea party show like last year but I still need to get a lot of sewing done in this small space of time.!!          

Happy Sewing and Have a Blessed Day!!

Slow Progress on New Look 6003 and B6582

So here is where I am so far. The progress is extremely slow because of all the "other sewing" I am doing. "Other sewing" meaning alterations on pants and costumes for children. I have a fashion show in May so if I don't leave this "other sewing" alone I am going to be stuck!. Anyway, The skirt needs a zipper and the the lining to the hem is a pinch too long. You can't see it in the front, that's why you only got a front side view (he he) Anyway, the top is pinned to "Lillie"(for those who don't know that's the name of my dressform. So I need to purchase a zipper and finish the top and then I will be on to project #2 which is the peplum top and the straight skirt,which is partially cut and sewn.

Butterick 6582 update on my progress

If you remember in my previous post  I am making two blouses and a dress with this pattern. This is the first blouse which will be a straight form fitting blouse. I lengthened the pattern and redrew the dart lines for the back in the above diagram.

In this picture, as you can see I lined up the armholes for the front and back and lengthen the front to match the back, again retracing the darts. When I attach the lining the bottom edge will all be attached.

This is the cut out of the fabric. I will use these same pieces to cut my lining. Which I will show in future pics. This fabric is georgette. Since I am stash busting, I don't see that I have enough lining fabric for both the skirt and blouse so I will have to purchase some lining to complete this project.!

Have a nice day and please post your thoughts. I would love to hear from you!! 

Butterick 6582 and New Look6003

After much deliberation I decided to work with Butterick6582 and New Look 6003.

I have done some sketches because I will be doing some variations on these two patterns. Butterick 6582 will be made into two different tops and then I will do the dress View C in this Fabric:

My inspiration came from Christian Dior Spring/Summer collection:

I love the criss cross over the shoulders. I can't wait to put mine together!! I just won't be wearing sheer fabric. I don't think I want the attention that would come with wearing a sheer dress like Dior's style. Although, it is very pretty on the runway. The New Look skirt will have some variation to it as well, but that will have to be a wait and see. The fabric that I am using for the tops and skirt are light teal. I haven't taken any pics so I will show that to you next time. Please talk to me!!! Tell me your thoughts.  Would love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by my page!!!                                                                   

Fine Designs in Motion!!

These are as many pictures I could put together since I started blogging and sewing. I hope you enjoy my sewing expeditions!! I tried to put this on the sidebar but I can't figure it out. At least not right .

now. And for some reason I am having trouble focusing on sewing outside my alterations. I can't focus on what I want to sew next.... it's been alterations right now!!