For anybody who might be looking for me I have gone on a bit of a sabbatical. I am trying to finish some sewing so I have had to curtail my computer fun for a while. It seems that getting online "for a minute" morphs into hours and hours and I don't get anything else done. So....yes, I am taking a bit of a break.
I had two little dresses to make - I have completed one. I had the saint costume to make -- that is completed except for ribbons on the hat. I had to sew Girl Scout badges on the vest -- now I remember how dreadful that is. I have two quilts to finish.
So, I decided to start another project! Of course! I have ranted and raved here in the past about the inability to find some essential articles of clothing so I decided to take the situation into my own hands. You can no longer buy little girls underslips. Oh, you can if you want to purchase online from Gehman's Country Fabrics in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. A little girl's slip is $7.99. However, you can't go to the mall, to Sears, and buy the two-to-a-package little slips anymore. I went to Joann Fabrics armed with a coupon and purchased enough batiste to make two slips. I have used this fabric before to line some little dresses but I didn't want to do that -- I wanted a slip. So, I altered the dress pattern I was using -- a little shift dress -- cut out the armholes a bit and the cut the neck down. I created a placket in the back seam, bound the neck and armholes and will add either a button or a hook and eye and voila! a slip. It is very soft fabric and I think it will work well to add just a nice little layer. I will take a photo when I finish.
Anyway, that is what I am up to and I am on a roll -- if I stop I may never start again. So...back to the machine. Be back soon!
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Quite the creative grandma, aren't you. It's great to hear you getting so much fun out of creativity, there's nothing quite like it. I want to get back to some dressmaking but there's so much stuff out for everything else that it's going to have to wait (but I bought two skirt lengths whilst I was on holiday).
Creativity is fun when it works right! Now, these little dresses have gone together like a dream -- not something I am used to. The quilts are just long, drawn out affairs and I need to get them finished -- they are hanging over my head like an albatross. I am up early and have finished the little slip -- hope it works ok under the dresses. It should since I used the dress pattern to draft the pattern. I would like to sew for myself (I think) but it will have to wait -- too many projects.
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