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my little sewing nook

woah. so it's been three weeks since my last post. i don't even know why. this past three weeks has been a bit of a black hole of creativity. i think the best thing i have made is heaps of hommous. great hommous but hommous non the less. i'm back on board though. the love interest snaffled me a desk from work and now the sewing room is pimpin, it is definitely a place that the sewing gods can roam free. now i just need to convince jess to stop hanging his underwear up on the cartain rails...
ok so i have one dress to go. it's about time too. i'm not necesarrily bored with the two dresses that i've been running with so far but as summer approaches, or threatens to (bloody melbourne weather), i feel that i need another look in my artillery as i will need to wash more frequently. i have decided to add a bit of flair to the final dress, make it more of a party frock. so this one is going to have a fun full skirt so that i can spin around and feel like a princess. also it's going to have a lower neckline as the couple of hot days that we have had have left me a little concerned about how i will manage through the summer without the trusty singlet/shorts combo that i usually embrace in the height of a stinking melbourne summer.
i had started the dress, as you may recall, in a black and white check and black crochet cotton. it really wasn't floating my boat so i made another trip to trusty sydney road and succumbed to a pretty summery pink and white stripe cotton that i had dismissed on several occasions. it's really light and lovely but it will be a little bit of a challenge with the stripes. i experimented with paper by drawing stripes on it at cutting it up to see how the skirt will look. i've decided on a sort of chevron pattern so hopefully it works out...

hopefully the fabric version works out like my shonky paper experiment...

the reverse is a really cool purple black and white check. i'm meeting the love interest's family on saturday so it need to be finished by then. two days to make the whole thing? no worries...

ok it's much prettier in the flesh. in the fabric?