OK -- just because I haven't been posting, NEVER means I haven't been sewing -- of course. It usually means I have been sewing more so that I can have something interesting to take a picture of and post about. I am trying to figure out how to finish a dress I planned out like 6 months ago. I saw this Marc Jacobs dress which was jersey tee on the top (empire waist) and cream colored charmeuse for the skirt. I thought -- $950 for that? I'll make it. But now I am too chicken to attach this amazing charmeuse (it is a purple blue and cream degrade) to my $8 H&M black t-shirt....
But I think I am just going to do it -- and if I end up wishing the top had been different, I'll just make another one. I am only using 1.5 yards of the charmeuse anyway -- and obviously I can afford to get another top.
Also, now that my one quilt is off at the longarm place (yay!), I had to get to work on the other one. Lydia picked out these 1930s repro fabrics in jellyrolls, and said she wanted her bed quilt out of them. They are fabrics I literally would never have chosen in a thousand years -- BUT -- that has made it very nice to work with them. I wanted something that wouldn't require a lot of extra work, and that would let her examine all the different prints as often as she liked. I chose this pattern from purlbee, and just added more strips (since I was using 2.5 in strips). Instead of white fabric (I really hate solids -- I need to deal with that), I chose this:
So, now I have pieced all the strips, and I am sewing them up and watching it all come together! Here's a sample of what I have so far:
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