First of all, I wish you a mighty happy new year! How was x-mas for you? Mine was a blast because I got a dressform from Mr. *jaszmade. Obviously he thought I need one to get my garments fitted… teeheee… yep, I understand the hint! It’s a used Diana dressform and the best of all: She is pink! Yep! It’s a she! I called her Adelheid after one of my many Alter Egos Heidi, girl of the alps… LOL! Why Alter Ego? Well, some peeps think I looked like her (in the anime) when I was little.
Anyway, what I wanted to tell you today is the story of my sew/craft weekly successes of last year. I started in november after deciding to change the concept of my blog (Remember) and actually managed the challenge of sewing weekly since then: I’ve sewed finger gloves for a friend’s birthday, some cool mod slippers for myself, for my mom, dad and *mr. jaszmade, made a crazy amigurumi cat for my brother (doubtlessly inspired by Amineko) and last but not least I made some dresses (modelled by Adelheid). I love dresses, don’t you!?
The first dress (upper left) is inspired by a burdastyle dress (sorry, can’t find the link anymore), the second by a vintage BIBA dress. I made a similar one in autumn red/brown. The third one I already showed some weeks ago: It was inspired by Sew Tessuti. Last but not least the pinkest of them all: My “I love Mary” dress with a felt daisy brooch (ya, I could have ironed it, sorry).
The only problem I have now is that I don’t know if I am going to wear all of them or if they are just dresses I made for hanging in my wardrobe. Duh! I am an all black and white type and I feel overdressed wearing a turquoise or even more a pink (!!) dress! I train myself in wearing them at home but well, guess before making more “awesome dresses for my wardrobe” I rather need to figure out what I want to wear and not what I want to sew. After stumbling upon Sarai Mitnick’s (Colette patterns) inspiring post about her sewing goals for 2012, I sat down and thought about my own.
My sewing goals 2012
- buying only fabric when I know what I want to sew next and know that I am going to use exactely THIS fabric next. Otherwise I tend to buy fabric because “it looks so vintage” or because “the pattern is so awesome” without recognising the colours or style won’t suit me or even more the person I am (like the pink dress… huh!?)! Do you know that? ACK! So frustrating!
- After loosing quite a bit of weight I need to adjust all my patterns. I already did but they aren’t perfect anymore. For god’s sake Adelheid promised to help me on that! It’s muslin-time, I guess… gah!
- making the perfect trousers pattern. I have tried already but in the end I don’t wear the finished product because it is too short on the hips, the pockets look odd (is there a secret how to make them stay in place!?) or well… they just look like self-made :S I do *SO* adore Carolyn’s sewing (well, who doesn’t!?), she even can make jeans looking like “real ones”, can’t she!? sigh…
- learning patience. I really need to improve my sewing for humans. It is not that I am not able to do it better, I am just too impatient to make it. Doll’s clothes are different. I enjoy making them look sweet but when sewing for myself an awry neckline is not what haunts me in my dreams (see pink dress – but then again… I won’t wear it outside my rooms anyway, right!?)
- sewing only clothes I actually wear
- sewing only clothes I actually wear (yeah, twice for me to remember!)
I think that’s already enough to accomplish! What are your goals?
February 5th, 2012at 8:08 am(#)
My goal is to work on a simple dress each week for blythe & your sweet & easy patterns will help me do that as in the past I have only knit & crocheted items for my blythe. I am finally learning to use a sewing machine!