The Rainbow Spinny Dress

I've had a lot going on this week.  I can't believe I haven't posted anything in a whole week.  Bear with me.  Lots of stuffs goin on for the next month or so but I'll be around  : )

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So...one day I go back to the newly opened Joann's in my area to get more of what I had gotten the week before (amazingly soft and light cotton/silk blend).  When I got in and there wasn't any, I was for once content to leave with nothing. *gasp*  However, my sweet little lady had another idea.  As usual, she comments on a fabric in each aisle:  Wow, this is beautiful - or - Look at this one mom!   But this time, she happens upon this cotton fabric with a black background and randomly shaped and colored flowers. 

"Ooooooo mooooom this one is sooooooo beauuutifuuulllll!"  Well, it's alright,  I think to myself.  I convince her to walk with me and she just stops and says,

"But mom, we didn't pick up that beautiful fabric!  It's just sitting there and someone else might pick it up and then it will be gone and there wouldn't be any more and it was sooo beauuutifulll."

She's really starting to get upset.  She's never been so attached to a piece of fabric before - so we go to look at it and she tells me what a nice spinny dress it would make and of course we end up going to get a yard and a half cut.  It ended up being $6 something for all of it instead of $15 so I can't really complain.  I know how it is to be hopelessly enamored with a piece of fabric, and who am I to deny the beginning of my sweet girl's love of fabricy things.

I sat down with a ridiculously small amount of minutes left in the day and an idea, and somehow I managed to make it work in a few hours, with no pattern or little person to try it on (did I mention I should have been sleeping?) but I ended up with something that was really pretty great.

After ranting about it to anyone who would listen for a week or so she finally had her magical spinny rainbow dress and loves it. 

Don't let the angelic sleeping girl picture fool you, it's all a big scam.  Seconds later......

 

I took a picture of her more recently in it but I can't find it right now.  Maybe (or not) I will get it updated later.  It would be helpful to see what she actually looks like standing up in it...

 

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Because I didn't get to it earlier this week, and because it made me laugh, here it is for this week

 

 

freewillastrology

Am I willing to put up with more crap.  That is the ultimate question isn't it.  Don't see how I really have a choice.  Bring it on.

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Funny pin this week

stuff I would do

 

Totally would do this.  Which would probably be followed up with a somewhat heated discussion about why it couldn't possibly be incorrect as it very literally followed the directions.  Which I would win whether it got a passing grade or not. Because it's awesome.

 

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~myfm~

So very much music going on this week.  But this one I have heard a few times and it is so very lovely ~ See Beneath Your Beautiful

I can't wait until my sweet girl starts randomly singing this one : )

 

 

light spotty dress for my girl

This was kind of a spontaneous endeavor that kind of worked out I guess.  I don't love love the dress but kiddo does so I guess that's all that counts. 

So, I got this dress at the bins,

 

and then I came home and put it on this zombie.  (but it's okay mom, zombies don't exist in this world)

 

A slightly better view of the thing ~

 

 

It looked pretty straight forward so I just got started.  Seriously, I just laid out some fabric and cut it a bit.  Nothing particularly creative but really it is an easy dress to make.  Lots of gathering but easy.  I added an extra line of....gather???...because I thought it would look better and it does.  Other than that, here's a dress.

 

 

A two hand heart rating is not too shabby.

 

 

That's about it.  I think my zombie girl has recovered.

 

 

 

 

myfm ~ Pokey Lafarge again.  And again...good lord that man knows how to play a harmonica.  And again - I mean come on - he breaks out a kazoo in a good way...yes, apparently it's possible.   I got to see their s.p.e.c.t.a.c.u.l.a.r. show last night at the Grey Eagle and it was amazing.  And now it's got my girl dancing around the room.  Good times.

Kick Ass Dress!

Another tale of instant fabric love.  Randomly walking through the fabric store this one just jumps out at me and yells - I need to be a kick ass dress!  Obviously it knew what it wanted out of life.  Who am I to interfere with that??  On top of that I had just found this amazing vintage lace at my favorite crafty store, Garage 34 and I thought the two would get along fabulously (and they do). 

I actually have been working on this one for awhile.  I had to put it away for awhile because we weren't getting along and I needed some space.  But, we've managed to come to an agreement about what should happen with the back so I went ahead and finished it.    I'm going to say I didn't use a pattern on this one.  I think I started out with one but I had to take one whole piece out (What?) and the top was just figured out so, yes, no pattern for this one : )  I have to say I am pretty impressed with this one.  I've not attempted such an open back before and I love love it.  I think I will add something fun to the top part where it connects but it works for now : )

and the back!

 

Finished just in time for my Welcome Back party.  Hello all,  I'm back : )

love love this cheesy girl : )

 

 

 

myfm~strangely enough Valentine's Day by Bruce Springsteen.  I've been working on this biography of Mr. Springsteen that I got at work a few months ago and wanted to check out all of this revolutionary music I was reading about.   He has about a million brilliant tunes. I'll probably introduce you to some more again soon.

Sweet skirt June Week 2

So, not a whole set but I already have a top that goes with this (not the one in the picture I couldn't find it and I'm impatient)  so why make things more difficult?  I got this fabric ages ago in Japan and I knew kind of what I wanted to do with it but never got around to it.

I apologize for the wrinkles but I'm still currently sans iron so it will have to do for now.

 It came in a strip with three of these lovely fan designs on it so the easiest thing to do was to take advantage of those predestined sections and make a sweet skirt.  I briefly considered a dress like thing but just no.  I had to get lining for it because crazy thin + white = just not something I'm looking to share with the locals.  I was really excited to find the exact kind of fabric (mostly polyester with some rayon) at the fabric store.  I was also really excited that I went (for the first time since Thanksgiving) for one thing and I left with just that one thing.  Also, I had a coupon so it didn't sting quite as much. 

I didn't use a pattern for this one because it was really just fusing the pieces in a decent place and making a waistband which isn't really all that hard.  Just time consuming.  I forgot how long it takes to get a waistband like that in place...

ta daaaaaa

....and this boys and girls, is why we always use our tools in the way they were intended.  For the record, rotary cutters don't make good seam rippers.  At least I somehow got a moustache out of it...

myfm ~ I heard this at work this morning and it's so sweet.  Emmylou - First Aid Kit