The Skirt Challenge: Part 2

Yay! I finished something, here is a quick look at the skirt I made from the skirt challenge. My friend hasn't finished her yet but with some nagging she'll get it done. The outfit isn't really pulled together I mostly just wanted a picture of the skirt. It felt good to finish a project.

The Skirt Challenge

My friend from Montreal who does Homebaked Fashion was visit me for the weekend. It was nice to have someone who spoke the same lang as me around, patternmaking talk that is. It was so great to have her in town, we always bounce ideas off each other and get feedback. We both really liked these sheer shirts from Charles Anastase's Spring/Summer 2009 collection and we wondering if we had the balls to pull it off.

So while we in the fabric store, looking at fabrics that might work. We decide to go for the same fabric and then make the same skirt. Laughing that it would be funny if we wore them together but being in different city new it would be okay. So like a mini project runway challenge . We did start our patterns but then spend the rest of the evening talking and enjoying wine. So this week I hope to get time to work on it and get it done.

New Spring Bows

Spring is here. Well at least the sun is, it's still cold but I had enough of my winter jacket and winter boots, so I packaged them up and into the storage closet they went. I did some spring cleaning in my sewing studio, I caught every dust bunny, that had free range and sweep them up. If dust bunnies did look like bunnies I would keep them. 

I started a new collection of colors for my bow necklaces, so far the colors are pastel yellow, mint green and peachy. Also a vintage orange chinese print. Here's them in a work in progress stage.

GET OUT OF THE HOUSE

With winter and the cold, I tend to not leave the house unless I have to. So when I found out about craft night with a DJ put on by Spins & Needles. I thought I should go. I did go with my roommate, even though I had a fever and cold. It was fun in my fever haze, I made these robot pins from shrink plastic. It's was very magic watching them shrink in the toaster oven. They called them shrink-a-dinks, this made me laugh for quite a bit.

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