Showing posts with label velvet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label velvet. Show all posts

50s Pleated, Possibly Sharkskin Fabric Skirt Alteration.


Hello lovely people. I hope you all forgive me for my hiatus as I scrambled to find work. The news is, I haven't found any long term work, but I'm trying to get out of my rut and get back into the blog and just trudge on. I hope and I'm working on leads for things (let me know if you found some!) and maybe something will come up soon.

Sewing Side Work

Hello all.
I'd like to thank you all for all the support over these past days.
It's been much appreciated. 
Still no luck on the job front and I'm trying to stay positive, but stress is stress.

In the mean time, I'm cobbling together some of my odd jobs and seeing how far I can go.
One of which is my gig of doing alterations/mending of vintage for Playclothes.
If you have never been to Playclothes, you should. It's one of the best vintage clothing stores in California. 

Projects come together.

Happy Monday one and all. 

Hope you had a lovely weekend. Mine started with a long walk to the pet wash so Brian could get nice and clean with his medicated shampoo. He was stellar by the way.

Working on my beauty regime.

Happy end of the world, everyone!
Okay, if this *were* the end of the world, then you wouldn't be reading this and rolling your eyes that I made an end of the world joke, so we are all better off, right?

Back to business...


My Christmas List!

HappyPostThanksgiving/FamilyStress/BlackFriday/BacktoWork/StartoftheHollidaySeason!!!
Whew!

I got started and finished early. 
I put up a wreath on my front door over the long weekend.

I got pretties!!

Good happy Friday everyone. Whew. I know it seems redundant, but I am still recovering from the last couple of weekends. From work to dance class to extra sewing projects to cooking (made pesto for the first time) to build up of a lot of stuff, to cleaning...geeze. It just kept going and going.

BUT NOW!!!! I feel things have slowed down a bit and 
I can get back on track to my normal creative schedule. Yay! 

First things first. I bought myself some pretties.


Thread!!! 
I wanted to get a decent spectrum of thread for my serger and 
I decided to invest in some spools. 
I love stocking up.

The Gutted Cloche


How is everyone doing? 
It seems it's been slow around the tubal-interwebs. I presume people are out enjoying the summer before school starts. Since I don't have to worry about school in any capacity (yay), I've been sewing.

I designated this week my week to get rid of projects. I had paperwork I needed to complete, a freelance project I've been putting off, and other odds and ends. This cloche is one of them. I've only had it for a few weeks, but I don't want the project to get numb on me.

Catalog Sunday

This Sunday are fashions from the late 30s to the early 40s.

Montgomery Wards 1937

Chicago Mail Order winter 40-41

Sears winter 40-41

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