I spent pretty much the entire weekend on the sleeves. I cut off the old pearls, and went back and reinforced each slash with some extra stabilizer. Then I started on the pearls. I watched a LOT of netflix. Last night, I threw it back on the undersleeve and pinned it on to see how it was looking: There’s still…

Yesterday I had a dr’s appt, which took TWO HOURS just for a freaking refill and pretty much wasted me for the rest of the day. But, I did get a little bit done. I dyed my undersleeve fabric: I really like how it turned out. I just put it in a tiny bit of “pearl grey.” Some of my…

Yesterday was an interesting day. I got to work and the power was out. It was pitch black in my office. It stayed like that for an hour and a half before they got it back on. I spent the time reading on my phone curled up on the couch in the entryway. Then, found out we had visitors coming…

I didn’t take pictures of any progress last night. But, I got the bodice taken apart and shortened, and mostly put back together. I didn’t put it all back together because I started second guessing where I wanted the skirt to go. I’m hoping to get the skirt pleated and on by tomorrow night. I did also finish all the…

Last night I got the bodice finished up, and finally got to try everything on: Buuut once I had it all on, I realized that the bodice is too long on me, and too pointy. So at lunch today I’m going to take it part, tonight I’ll shorten it and put it back together. Hopefully that won’t take long; it…

Well my grand plans of finishing Anne and working on all kinds of things over my 3 day weekend went bust. I started out strong on Thursday night, finishing my underskirt with the exception of a hook and eye at the waist. I also discovered the cause of the problem with my old hoopskirt and fixed it. (Basically, when I…

Last night! Back to work on Anne! I finished getting the underskirt put together, got the front piece cut out and sewn in, and finished the interior edges. Tonight I’ve got to hem it, then pleat and finish the top edge. Then I can mark that off my list. Friday I’ll be all over the place working on different stuff.…

Had a nice weekend at my grandparent’s. Shopped, ate, embroidered, napped, got rained on, fed a stray cat. I bought some decorative stuff for Anne but didn’t find trim I liked yet for the top. Bought some fabric, fabric paint, some new scissors, etc. I’ve decided what to do on the Anne skirt seams. I’m going to redo 3 of…

I’ve been having trouble with the seams on the skirt puckering. I sewed the skirt seams like I normally do satin and they looked – fine. Not fantastic, but very minimal puckering. Passable. I finished the interior seams same way as I did on the bodice and the puckering went up by about 50%. Now they don’t look so good.…

I really dug in to try to finish the skirt last night, but finishing the interior seams took longer than I expected, so that’s what I did most of the night – they’re still not done, still finishing up a few places. I did cut the pieces for my underskirt, and with what was left over, played with the cape/train…

This is the good kind of drama tho. Like as in, dramatic dresses! I didn’t get a lot done last night. Dinner took forever, so didn’t even get in my sewing room til 9. I cleaned up, and cut out my new train pieces. Almost messed it up, but thankfully had enough to recut and fix it. As you can…

Friday night I went to see Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the Orpheum (part of their summer movie series!) with dad. It was a lot of fun; we sat in the first row of the big balcony and people had coconuts they were banging together so it echoed all over the theater LOL Saturday morning I embroidered –…

So I went to spend some quality time in my office last night. I went to grab the bodice pieces out of my pattern bag – they were already cut since this is the same pattern I used for my previous Anne in 2009 – only to discover they were not in the bag. I grabbed my two versions of…

Part of the reason I was rushing on Peggy was so that I could get everything finished and the fabric scraps put away so I could have a clean office to start on Anne. Because Anne is seriously taking up some room. I got the skirt pieces cut last night and sewn together quickly. I pleated it just to see…

This is part 2 to this post, way back OVER a month ago… So I thought my fabric searches were over and done with. I had that last 4 yards coming in from Murfreesboro and that would give me 14 yards all together, which should be enough. Well time goes by and they never call to say my fabric is…

First off, many thanks to my husband who has been dealing with Joann Fabrics for me trying to hunt down more of this fabric. Secondly, a lot of this post is just me venting frustration. First off, why would you ever manufacture a fabric only 45″ wide. This needs to stop. The shortest should be 60″. So, to recap, I…