Over 100 views!!!!

I can’t believe it!!!! I was looking at my blog stats and nearly dropped my bacon and blue cheeseburger…101 views…It’s hard to believe.

I’ve had a few blogs before. I’d set them up, maybe putting in a post or two, and then I’d forget about them. With my short attention span my interests change quickly and what was supposed to be the coolest blog ever just seems old hat.

So what is it that has made me so committed to this blog?

Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m writing about my favorite subject; myself–I mean sewing of course! Sewing is my passion–it’s what I want to spend the rest of my life doing.

Or perhaps it’s because when hectic college life gets to me I can still maintain a shred of sanity by keeping busy with this blog.

I am so glad to see that people are so interested in what I am writing about. I know I’ve said this before, but seeing that people read my blog makes my day worlds better!

So…as I like to say…

Schmaltz aside…

In honor of over 100 views I have decided to show you a collage of what is to come. These are all sewing projects I have done and I hope to blog about in the near future…enjoy!!

Sew on!

Emily

P.S. This week (or possibly next week’s) post is not on here but that means more of a surprise!

The Semi-Original Dress

So I finally got around to posting again…

Don’t worry, this isn’t another “I apologize for my negligence…” post. This is a “Hey look I actually did something!” post.

I started College about three-ish weeks ago–so time and motivation have been pretty scarce. However yesterday I had finished my history paper and was feeling pretty unmotivated to do my art homework so I decided to simply stop working on my art and sew!

What was the project?

A couple of months ago I was feeling terribly bored so I decided to sew a dress. Now, for anyone that knows me that isn’t really big news, however, this time I essentially made an original design (NOTE: I used a portion of a pattern (it was originally a dress pattern and I cut it off at the waist) besides that the dress was my own design) It was pretty exciting especially since it was basically on a whim. I made it from some home decor fabric, which unravels like crazy.

Here is the original photo (from the night I made it)

I was really proud of it. The skirt includes a waistband and a box pleat detail. The pleats are somewhat random because they took up too much of the width of the skirt and I tried to remove them with some sort of pattern, but that didn’t work.

After having the dress sit on my mom’s dress form for a few days, I decided to experiment. I decided to fold the length of the skirt under…and SHAZAM! It was a bubble hem. I mean technically it wasn’t a true bubble hem…but later I got fairly close.

So that was how it remained…until last night.

Last night I sewed in the bubble hem. However, I had been having conflicts beforehand with the volume of the skirt. So after researching what a real bubble hem is–and discovering that it actually involved elastic at the waist–I began to experiment with gathers at the waistline. I think it was a success–for the most part. I forgot to sew the bodice to the skirt (Meh. Minor detail) but it’s okay because the bodice needs to be lined and it may need a little extra something. Here’s how it looks so far!

Not sure when I’m going to finish this but I’ll keep everyone updated!

Sew On!

Emily