Thursday, May 31, 2012
My Anthem
Spent all day sewing. Hopefully tomorrow I will have my party dress and a new skirt to showcase. In the meantime here is the new lining I´ve added. I had to recut the skirt pattern, but make it a bit longer.
Two weeks until we move to Paris. Nothing but heel heights & hem lengths.
The series finale of Gossip Girl was killer, can´t wait to see what Blair does with her new home. My money is still on Chuck for being the ¨real¨ Gossip Girl. Now that it´s over there is just one more show finale left until the summer. Can´t wait until Sunday for Game of Thrones.....
Lining is attatched, now time to shorten the hem & add straps.
Two weeks until we move to Paris. Nothing but heel heights & hem lengths.
The series finale of Gossip Girl was killer, can´t wait to see what Blair does with her new home. My money is still on Chuck for being the ¨real¨ Gossip Girl. Now that it´s over there is just one more show finale left until the summer. Can´t wait until Sunday for Game of Thrones.....
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Party Dress
Working on my party dress because I finally picked out the material!
I start out with about 10 pattern pieces and will end up with about 27 pieces of fabric to put together. The bodice has 7 pieces alone and with 3 layers of bodice including the outside, the lining for structure and the interior pieces, that comes out to 21.
Watching C.D. for inspiration. How do they get so much volume into those skirts?
I start out with about 10 pattern pieces and will end up with about 27 pieces of fabric to put together. The bodice has 7 pieces alone and with 3 layers of bodice including the outside, the lining for structure and the interior pieces, that comes out to 21.
My monster hanging,. Not too bad. Now it´s time to stitch her together.
Later I will add some under layers to the skirt to give it more volume.
Watching C.D. for inspiration. How do they get so much volume into those skirts?
Monday, May 21, 2012
Frida and Crafty Chica
I got my amzing hard back book Self Portrait of a Velvet Dress finally, and I was totally inspired but had not idea how to incorporate what I know about sewing with the things I want to do. That´s when I found Crafty Chica´s Guide to Artful Sewing. Kathy Cano-Murillo is evidently the latin sew goddess I´ve been needing all along. She loves to spice it up and offers some really cute ideas for bags, clothes and house accessories that I can wait to get into.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Juices flowing
Today I´m studying up on sewing. I´d consider myself a novice at this point in the craft but now that I´ve got several projects under my belt it´s time to go to the next level. My good friend and partner-in-coudre brought over a wonderful book called Built By Wendy Dresses in which she describes so clearly all the important steps in making clothing. I´ve racked up a collection now of pattern books and others that don´t nearly explain so clearly how to go about sewing something you´re actually going to wear.
In addition to this book my Mary Thomas´s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches just arrived. Because of my love all things Mexican I really want to learn to embellish clothing with colorful designs by hand.
Once this little gem below comes in I will be up to my ears in inspiration! Really I think I am Frida reincarnated or at least I wish I was so I could wear all these amazingly beautiful outfits everyday. Modernizing them will be the challenging part of the projects.
In addition to this book my Mary Thomas´s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches just arrived. Because of my love all things Mexican I really want to learn to embellish clothing with colorful designs by hand.
Once this little gem below comes in I will be up to my ears in inspiration! Really I think I am Frida reincarnated or at least I wish I was so I could wear all these amazingly beautiful outfits everyday. Modernizing them will be the challenging part of the projects.
Feeling so Mexican today, I think we will break in our new pressure cooker with some Carnitas!
Diet Days
So, I´ve been feeling sooo out of energy lately and my schedule has been all over the place with travels and such. I think it´s time to finally get into the health kick for summer and start eating a little better. No more crackers, cookies, breads and all those other things that drag us down. Today I gave our new food processor a spin and made this yummy shake. Surprisingly I couldn´t taste the spinach.
I´m not a stickler for measurements so basically adjust the following to your liking.
Small low-fat yogurt
Banana ( I used about 3/4)
Crushed pineapple
1 cup of water
2 handfuls of baby spinach
Then mix and sip. Soooo good.
I´m not a stickler for measurements so basically adjust the following to your liking.
Small low-fat yogurt
Banana ( I used about 3/4)
Crushed pineapple
1 cup of water
2 handfuls of baby spinach
Then mix and sip. Soooo good.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Pillow
On Monday we visited a Japanese fabric store in Barcelona I´ve been dying to go to for a while now. There was so much beautiful fabric that was quality that I just couldn´t decide on what to get. So I picked up a couple of pre-squares for about 4 euros each and put together a little pillow at home today with some gold bordering I picked up at Toto. http://www.nunoya.com/ I know it´s just a couple of squares but I put in a zipper and a separate pouch with the stuffing. I´m really pleased with myself.
Song of the day. So haunting. So beautiful listening to this in the park on this warm sunshiny day.
and for good measure, some of The Cure.
Song of the day. So haunting. So beautiful listening to this in the park on this warm sunshiny day.
and for good measure, some of The Cure.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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