My Sewing Space

G'day all and Happy New Year. It’s been a hot start to the year here, between 35°C and 45°C!!

Anyway it's been a year since I moved back to my home town from Melbourne, and I finally have a usable work space!

Still needs a lot of work, sorting out patterns, peg hooks for the 2 peg boards, storage or display for my vintage suitcases! I have 10 now! The most 1 has cost me was $7 dollars, most places want at least $20...

I’m thinking something like this but free standing (renting, can’t put holes in the walls) Make each shelf the a little bit smaller than the suitcase, and space them so they just fit.

This is my little man enjoying the sun!

Anyway back to sewing!

Happy New Year all

The Sew Weekly Theme: The Colour Purple.

Yes Colour, not color! I am Australian after all...

After a busy work week, well busy for me, I’m posting about my dress for The Sew Weekly Challenge: The Colour Purple!

My creation this week will most likely be worn for a wedding over the weekend, Pics to come.

It’s also been a stash busting dress for me too, I've had the fabric for about 6 months now... It was purchased from J and O Fabrics, I recommend buying from them. It was easy, quick and rather cheap! Most fabrics are $9 a meter and I found out postage for international areas was $13 for less than 7 yards!

On to the dress! A different combo of New Look 6699 was use for this. The first combo was for my ‘Mum’ dress! It’s a really great pattern with LOTS of options!

I LOVE pansy and I LOVE purple! So this has to be one of my favorite dresses to date!! The fabric has a fair bit of stretch and is not too heavy, we are in summer over here now, my favorite time of the year!

Fabric: Printed cotton, 2 meters, $22.30

Pattern: New Look 6699 $8.50

Year: 2010's
Zip: opp shop zipper $0.60

Buttons: None

Time to complete: 5 hours.
Pattern Difficulty: 4/10
First worn: August 2011.
Wear again? Yes, can’t wait!

Total Cost:  $31.40

Also as its now December and that time of year, here is one of my favorite Christmas songs!

Happy sewing!

The Sew Weekly Theme: Mad for Plaid!

So once again I’ve gone back through the Sew Weekly Challenges I missed (there is a heap I missed) and pick one! 

So this week its: Mad for Plaid!!

I actually finished my dress for this challenge on time….I just didn’t post it!

 When I saw this challenge I knew the exact fabric I wanted to use! I had about 1.3 meters of 45’’ purple fabric that I got a garage sale a few months ago. I wanted to use Simplicity 6023. for this week but pattern pieces were missing!!! I asked for help over here took the advice! I also looked it up to find a year and came across this picture via google, This lead me to Tanit-Isis, surprise, surprise a fellow Sew Weekly member!

So Tanit-Isis, you inspired me so much here is my version of Simplicity 6023. 

 

I had to cut 4’’ off the skirt pattern as I didn’t have a whole lot of fabric! Lucky I’m only 5 foot short! I just love the dress! The puffy sleeves are just too cute!

Fabric: Printed cotton $2.00

Pattern: Simplicity 6023 $0.30

Year: 1970's
Zip: opp shop zipper $0.40

Buttons: self covered, 3 from a kit $0.90

Time to complete: 8 hours.
Pattern Difficulty: 7/10 (missing pieces)
First worn: August 2011.
Wear again? Yes, now its summer!

Total Cost:  $3.60

Happy Sewing!

Woah, I forgot to write my blog...

I have sure neglected you blog, it’s been almost 2 whole months!! I’m back now I promise <3

So here is dress number 3 and 4 as I mentioned in the last post…

Both dresses are made with Vogue 8184 (one of my favorite patterns)

This dress was a commission piece. It was worn by “Rizzo” in a local production of Grease! No photos from the production yet. That is me in the picture but its pined up in the back as its a 10 to 12 and I'm an 8.