OH NO! THE WRAP DRESS IS WINNING! LOL!

it’s not looking for for the birds nor the dots lol! the wrap dress is winning by a mud slide lol! I’ve never worn nor made a wrap dress, this is getting kinda scary, might as well start cutting it out, oh the horror of it all!  a friend talked me into buying that pattern a few weeks ago & when they’re on sale for 99c you’re likely to buy most anything lol!

which one should I make for Miss Bossy?

Selection
Votes

Kwik SEw 3160 dress view C
16%
5

Simplicity 1620 dress view A
13%
4

Simplicity 2369 wrap dress
72%
23

32 total

Poll Results: which one should I make for Miss Bossy?

I’ve been told I’ll love it & will want to make many many more, yea right! I’m gonna look like a sack of taters, a water balloon, a bad wrapped present lol! on  a brighter note I’ve been working  on getting ready for photos, Feb. has went by so fast, being out of town for a week & most all this week we’ve had rain or cloudy sky's not good for photo taking so yea there’s a long post coming lol!

VOTE TO DECIDE WHICH ONE I’LL MAKE

March  will be here before we know it Miss Bossy patterns challenge is all about choosing at least three patterns from your stash that you’ve not made yet & to make it interesting you get to vote which one you’d like to see me make in March

doesn’t the birds just scream Spring? lol!

Kwik Sew 3160 view C

how about some fun polka dots?

Simplicity 1620 dress view A

when it comes to wrap dresses I’ve never sewn nor worn one, guess it’s the fear of something coming unwrapped lol!

Simplicity 2369 wrap dress

click the link below to go to my voting poll

http://poll.pollcode.com/2183797#

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU’RE SNOWBOUND?

( daughter’s house  last week)

last week my youngest daughter & oldest grand daughter went on a Mission trip to Mexico with Missionary friends of ours, I packed up tons of sewing/crafting, etc. to keep me busy while the little ones & one teenager were in school all week only we got snowed in lol! sooo we

made chocolate drizzled popcorn with valentine candy corn added, yum!

we made peanut butter cookies

we made snow ice-cream

we made giant snowballs

we made a snowman

we had snowball fights

we had to say cheese! a lot lol!

we finished  a quilt top

 

we played with Ziggie & Brutus & packed as much fun in one week as one possibly can! lol!

THE HORRID MUSLIN

oh mercy what fits this pattern is giving me, well I will not let it get the better of me, not yet anyway lol! my delicious white fabric

 

I had purchased for The Little white dress contest was too pretty & too pricy to mess up so I said yep better do a muslin, this pattern seemed perfect, just a simple lined pullover with or without sleeves with a triangle coming across the bottom to give it some swish when you walk so it seemed on the pattern

so on with the first muslin

not  a clear picture but you can see it’s way too long, after fighting trying to pull it up, there was no way  without losing the angled side

so I re trace the pattern as is, bring the angle piece up to where I need the length then cut out the new shorter pattern

now we have a new front, back & side angle, the fabric is a bad choice but still would have had to been shorten so then it  was on to muslin number two lol!

this far into I’ll give it a chance, from looking at view D it just seemed more swishy than a big ole triangle sewn back into one side lol!

it is finally the right size & the right length, just not the look I was hoping for, I commend these people that I see talking about making as many as six muslins wow weee that's persistence! lol!

SEWING! SEWING! SEWING!

in-between trying to get ready to go out of town I’ve been sewing sewing sewing! lol! here’s the low down on what’s been going on over here

for The Little White Dress Challenge we have a delicious embroidered white cotton

for Fearless February we have the fear of lining lol!

which I am combining with the white dress, talk about fear! I’m making a muslin before I cut into that delicious  embroidered white fabric lol!

for Make A garment A month we have some delicious orchid with which I am making a blouse & a cardigan

for the shift dress sew along I did a tea/black almost like  a paisley print, it has a bottom lol needs sleeves

for  The Monthly Stitch these fabrics are being transformed into pants for the Smarty Pants Challenge, nothing fancy just elastic, still scared of those zippers lol!

have you heard about the Miss Bossy Challenge over at The Monthly Stitch? This one has  a new twist, you post three patterns that you’ve not made & the viewers vote as of which one you make for March, maybe after Feb. is over I will think about it lol!

http://themonthlystitch.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/announcing-the-march-challenge/

FEB. PLANS FOR M.A.G.A.M.

http://makeagarmentamonthchallenge.blogspot.com/

deep rich purples,orchid,pantone seem be be popping up everywhere this season, so for Sarah’s make  A Garment A Month sew along I’ll be getting my orchid on! I will be  making a cardigan from the solid & a blouse from the print, the pattern is a Simplicity # 1920 later I will make a pair of black pants to wear with them

THINKING OUTSIDE THE PATTERN BOX

After having a duh moment, thinking the word independent patterns was a name of a pattern company lol! I went  on a search yea I looked up Independent patterns  ha ha hee hee , I found some interesting pattern companies

http://www.silhouettepatterns.com/

when you click on the pattern to the left there is “other pattern options” click it & it shows several different variations of that pattern, oh yea! I could see it in the red! lol!

these patterns  run in sizes like 1..2…3 etc, different indeed!

http://www.sewchicpatterns.com/

a few links here

http://www.sewdaily.com/blogs/stitchblog/archive/2011/05/31/indie-pattern-companies.aspx

awww polka dots from the Colette Patterns

https://www.colettepatterns.com/shop/dresses

so you see this search could go on & on lol!

do you have a favorite pattern company?

CHECKING IN

where does the time go, do you ever feel like you’re too busy to be busy ? if I had more clocks would I have more time? lol!

do you know how long it takes to add tabs to the top of your blog & add pictures etc.? and do you further know how long it takes to do that to four blogs? well I can tell ya! it takes more than a day lol! anyways that’s what I’ve ben doing the better part of the day, what? you can’t see them? well that’s because they’re hidden till I’m done lol!

my youngest daughter & grand daughter are going on a Mission trip with friends of ours who have been going to Bustamante Mexico for over 25 years,

Alex & Ruby In Bustamante

Heather & Courtney will spend the night  with us Wed.& I will take them to meet up with Alex & Ruby Thur. morning, then  I have to go to her house to watch the little ones for a week, get them off to school every morning, & fun wild times with Nanna as Madison told me lol!  I will be there on my birthday so guess I could throw myself a party  ha ha! there’s a few post to catch up on in the next few days

maybe I’ll take some fabric & get a few projects for Feb. cut out

remember the dress, I felt was a wee bit short for my taste plus there’s was something about it I couldn’t quite put my finger on?

are you ready for this? I pulled the pattern out & seen that I had cut out the back a size smaller ba ha ha ha!so a friend of mine redid the back pattern & added a few inches to the length, so a good rainy day project will be to see if it can be turned into a blouse,  so  maybe I’ll give it another  shot!