[Masha Richart]

The jacket sounds adorable Sharon! And I can’t wait to see the dress. “Selfish” sewing makes me happy 🙂

[Lightning McStitch]

I’m a bit stuck on what to do with my Weekend Getaway number 2. It’s a dress this time in another sheer, slippery as heck polyester with a pattern to match (do I never learn!).

I am uncertain whether I should:

1: Underline it with my lightweight cotton and treat each piece of double layer fabric as if it were one. Easiest solution.

2: Make an identical dress underneath and have it come together at the front folded out placket and at the collar but otherwise be free. (It’ll have to come together at the hem(s) due to the placket being sewn in together. Will somewhat preserve the sheerness…

3: Make the sheer dress and then make a slip dress out of the cotton. Two separate garments to be worn together (I’d be inventing the pattern for this slip).

Any ideas?

[Sarvi]

I feel that you want me to tell you to do #3. It’s just a feeling.

[Mama_Knowles]

I would go with #3 or #1. I am leaning more towards #1 though. I would just do that because it’s the easiest of the three but if time allows I would go with #3, it seems like the “proper” thing to do.

[Masha Richart]

I think I would probably do #1 because I wouldn’t have the faintest idea how to do much of anything else. But I think an option that allows the lining/slip to hang independently of the dress would serve the sheer fabric better. The slip option gives you a slip to wear with other items (though you probably wouldn’t wear the sheer dress itself with anything else.

[meleliza]

I suggest #4 – make the dress sheer and purchase a Spanx full body slip to wear underneath.

Underlining will affect the hand. Plus, the dress is a little shapeless, but if you wear something with shape underneath a sheer, you will get the coverage of a full dress but at least a little bit of shape suggested by the slip.

[with love Heidi]

#3!

I think I saw a slip sew along on Gertie’s Blog for better sewing.

http://www.blogforbettersewing.com/2014/03/the-slip-sew-along-begins-april-1st.html

[Mama_Knowles]

I am almost done sewing my Chantilly! EEPPP! all I need now is to install the zipper and hem it. It’s coming out very nice too, I just love the fit and can’t wait to start on the next one!

[Nicole]

I have a dirty great roll of jersey lining Shelley, I would be happy to send you some. I used it to line my D&D silk dress.

I am wondering about a sort of loose singletty type dress, maybe attached at the shoulder seam?

I finished Tildy’s Puppet Show shorts and one of Elsa’s items from her request list, a t-shirt.

The Fab Five are all fit and well but unfortunately they have shared their bugs with me. A ‘quick’ trip to Out Patients last night due to a high fever has me sorted with a variety of medicine. Now to finish the rest of Elsa’s list (oh, how I love sewing knit) and then I can make the Garden Party dress for Tildy!

Sharon, how are you keeping?

[meleliza]

Ugh, hang in there, Nicole. It’s the worst when mom is sick. I had to pick up a vomiting child from school this morning. I’ve quarantined him and all his clothes. I am washing and sanitizing the heck out of everything, not to mention dosing myself up with vitamins in the hopes it won’t spread.

So not as much sewing as I’d hoped today, but I am making a wear now spring top for me from the stash. I thought I was done her playtime dress except the buttons but realized that I forgot to hem the sleeves. I’m proud of myself that I stopped to mend hubby’s jeans. He had a small hole in a wholly inappropriate place. 😉 I am going to be strict about mending little things in between fun projects. So when I finish the blouse, I will try to fix the hem in an otherwise perfectly fine Jcrew sweater that’s been hanging in the closet for years unworn. Then, I can do her denim Sunday Brunch Jacket, already cut and waiting. The weather is showing signs of spring, so it will be useful.

[Tamara]

I have six minutes to get these kids out the door to a before school guitar lesson! So i will make it quick! Rest up Nicole. We teach them to share but often fail at the last hurdle when it comes to bugs. The poor la,bs don’t get a choice then do they? Had to take my little fellow to the doc yesterday with a chest infection and now because he has meds he can go back to school. Which is great for me as I can then sit and wrestle with some stubborn glued down lino using a great conglomerate of things to try and remove it. I really want to work on the studio today because hubby is at a clearing sale and can’t do anything to potentially take me away from getting these last jobs done.

Imogen has announced she likes the latest dresses. Which means I will see if I can squeeze her into them. Counting the days til my sewing machine can sit happily in its new room and not on my dining room floor.

[Nicole]

Thank you Melanie and Tamara.

I will take all the e-sympathy I can get.

Tamara, try a heat gun on the lino. That is what I used.

[Tamara]

Oh I came home after an attempt to follow through with doctor’s permission (to allow the poor lamb to go to school) that failed terribly (yes he came home with me) to find that guess what the putrid smell of turps was not the remedy we needed. The heat gun was actually applied to work with the turps. You must’ve been sending telepathic messages to our house and the guys got the message Nicole! Pity Telstra couldn’t use that method – Murray is on the phone trying to explain the concept of “swapping telephone numbers over” because we swapped houses. They have put him on hold for the past half hour at least!

So whilst the hubby is on hold and the boy is lounging on the couch smelling of vicks (and not having coughing fits) and watching Mary Poppins, I might actually get the chance to go and finish off those little painting jobs in the studio. Then I can mark out and start on the floor yaaaay! Then tomorrow I can start shifting the stuff in and of course making room for the wardrobe. So exciting!

[meleliza]

Well clearly I was sewing too late. That tank blouse I was working on? Somehow I snipped a little hole in it. On the front, about an inch below the neckline. I had fussed and fussed with the fit of this thing – and I’ve made the pattern a few times before but never quite got it perfect – and just when the shape was where I wanted it and the neckline bias mostly installed…. I discover the snip. ugh. I know it happens to us all, but ugh. If I cut the neckline any lower, I will flash people every time I bend over. After a small scotch, I’ve decided I will cut the neckline down to the snip and then attach some kind of very wide bias. Unless anyone has a better idea?

It’s a simple loosely fitted sleeveless blouse and this is the fabric: https://www.etsy.com/listing/65352276/super-saletina-givens-havens-edge-walls?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_listing_promoted&utm_campaign=supplies_low&gclid=CKitm6f7i70CFcx9Ogod6RgAaA

[thejennigirl]

justsewit- I hope you get to finish up those painting jobs tonight. I finished hanging the wallpaper this evening, and am quite pleased with myself. I laid on the floor and admired my work for a little bit, and then regretted my decision when I attempted to get up. For what it’s worth, I debated scooting like a worm to the staircase and sliding down the stairs, but instead forced myself to roll around until I get up without touching my precious damp papered walls. My oldest helped me carry the freshly painted studio door up the stairs, so maybe tomorrow I can get it hung.

I had to rearrange my plans since it was near 50*F today, and tomorrow we have a blizzard warning. (O.o) I cut trim for the master bedroom that I had planned on cutting tomorrow.

And, after I opened my package when it came in the mail and discovered that yet another set of window valances were not as pictured when I ordered online, so I went out and bought the fabric I wanted (I had to go into town anyway and drop off my shortest at school) and whipped out 3 valances on the sewing machine in less than 30 minutes. So, I can say I did do *some* sewing. Really, I spent $11 on fabric and 30 minutes to sew and hang the darn things, so why is it, everyone wanted an arm and a leg for poorly made curtains online?! Ugh. I should have just made them myself to begin with, but I was trying to not take on too many projects at the time. Go figure.

I bought several cuts of fabric online last night, and am hoping they shipped today (no notice yet), and have grand sewing plans come April.