mustard dress

As I said yesterday, I realized that I had enough extra fabric for pillowcases when I was cutting out two dresses.  One is the same mustard linen as the main piece of the pillowcase and the other is brown like the edge.  

I worked on the dress after I made the pillowcases.  It is what my family calls my frontier dress but I have changed the bodice to be a bit more fitted and the top of the skirt to also be more fitted.  I feel like it is much more work appropriate that way.  

I have also never used metal buttons on one of my dresses before.  Here is a close up of them because in the picture of them on the dress they are hard to see.  I actually used the larger one at the top of the opening and the other four down the rest of the closure.

I really liked it when it was done, even if mustard may not be the best color for me.

Here is a picture of me making our bed up in the air.  Which means I can do about anything in this dress.  Make sure it is well pressed and add some pumps and it could be called dressy.  I know I had a hard time not wearing it two days in a row.  I see more linen in the future.  I may change the neck line a bit, but they will all be similar.

mustard and brown pillowcases

My Beloved and i went and bought a piece of mustard linen/rayon this weekend.  It was for me to make a dress for myself.  I had only been thinking about this piece of linen since we had looked at it the last time we were at the fabric store so I thought it was meant to be.  i cut out the dress and had enough to make pillowcases.  I have dearly loved the brown linen pillowcases I had made earlier in the year so I new what I was going to do with the extra!  At the same time I cut out the mustard linen, I also cut out a dress in brown linen that I had bought awhile back but had not gotten too yet.  I decided that it would make a lovely edge on the pillowcase.

And that it did!  My Beloved really liked these (but not as good as the banana pancakes (evil grin)).  He likes the spoil of linen pillowcases as well.  At some point, I am going to have to make linen sheets.  I am dreaming of more linen dresses so I think I will have to make sure there is enough yardage for pillowcases (if not sheets) as well.

fuzzy shirt for my Beloved

Yesterday, my body crashed from the fall.  I slept a lot.  I think I ran some fever but I did not do much other then heal.

A while back I started another fuzzy shirt for my Beloved.  I worked on it a little bit every day.  Then there were just the buttons to go.  This where some button soup we found came in handy.  My Beloved went through the button soup to find nine buttons for his shirt.  All wooden.

Then, with some quiet time, buttons, button holes, and he has a new soft fuzzy shirt.

Does he look nice?

for Miss E

It has been an evening of stitching.  Currently, on my machine but soon I need to put buttons on and make button holes by hand.  The Tall Short persons bag is done.  If you wish to see what it looks like, take a look at yesterday's post.  It is the same as the one I made for myself.  I used mine today, twice! and I really liked the bigger size.  I know have measurements bouncing around in my head.

I have a friend at work, Miss E, who I usually go to the farmer's market with on Wednesdays.  She has the free giveaway bags in her office and I keep thinking that I should make her a bag.  This week she has some tuff decisions so I thought it was a good idea to make it so.  I used some of the bright quilting fabric I bought.  It is really not my style but cool colors.

I few cuts.  A few pins.  A few lines of stitching and here is the bag.  The colors are actually more true in the previous photo.  I lost a light bulb and the camera's battery was extremely low.

Here is the other side.  It is all "wrapped" (i.e., tied with a bow) and ready to go for tomorrow.  I hope she likes it.

feeling better

I am actually feeling better!  This is exciting because I feel like I can do more then spin and listen to audiobooks.  I did get over two pounds of fiber spun and get the skeins drying after setting the twist it feels like an accomplishment.  The slivery grey and turquoise are both going to be shawls.  I showed you the start of the shawl earlier this week.

On the road trip for my Beloved, we went to a fabric store.  Not so different then the ones local but a little edgier.  Both darker and brighter at the same time.  I came home with a bit of fabric.

My Tall Short person really likes skulls and skeletons and when I saw this fabric, I thought she must have it.  They were lacy skulls!

I paired it with a strange owl print.  The owls are strange.  And there are bugs flying around.  And the background is grey.  It is so here.  But the surprising thing?  I had to buy enough fabric for myself!

I made bags for us!  Reversible.  We do not match often anymore unless it is the wearing of black. That is more something my Beloved and I do.

I am going to stash it in my bicycle bag so I always have a shopping bag at work.  I have been heading to the farmer's market at lunch so this will be a very good thing.  Miss E is usually with me and I keep thinking I need to make her a shopping bag as well.  I am thinking there are some other finds from that interesting fabric store that just may fit her.  (grin)