New Dress

I finished a couple of dresses over the last two weeks. First, I'm rather proud of how they both turned out. The red one is fully lined and I did a muslin first to check the fitting. I let the pattern out a bit, and then had to take it in just a little in the bodice to fit. I think I'm going to have to learn to alter the more fitting dresses to be a half size larger in the hips! But, that said, I also found that I don't like just quickly taking pictures of the dresses. The red one (which I am posting a picture of now), turned out okay. The green vintage dress I feel wonderful in, but the picture looked completely frumpy! My husband is going to try taking another picture tonight, but I'm disheartened by it. I go from, "I should work out more and eat less," to "I should be happy that I'm within my weight limits and I already run 12-15 miles a week and do weight and ab workouts." I want to go home tonight and have nachos and wine, but that *really* defeats the purpose and will make me feel worse. So, I will continue on my path, and see if maybe I can take better pictures, and do something better with my make-up! I sure want to look girly and pretty, but I'm just not there. At least not in recent pictures!

This is made from Vogue 8648. I sewed a size 12, letting out a bit more at the hips.

I won't post the other picture right now. But I will say that my Mother said I should try standing to the side and posing more like those models do - not to be a model, but to help the lay of the dress!

Pictures!

I have a few pictures here of my recent sewing. First, a picture of the daisy dress I did for my Granddaughter:

And here is a close up of the flowers I sewed on the front of the dress:

It's not too easy to see them in the picture, but I think they are really cute on the dress!

Last night I sat down and finished a blouse for myself. First, I made it out of cotton. I should realize that I don't own any work blouses that are made of quilter's cotton, so why I would try and make one that way I just don't know. On the plus side, I learned (remembered) a few more things about putting patterns together and I'm happy about that. On the negative side, the armhole lining just sticks out. I do need to tack it at the top and bottom, but I just don't think that will help. I'm going to have to do some research on techniques and see what I can improve. But, here is the picture:

The colors are pretty (it's really more of a teal green), but it's just not a style for me.

To try and cheer up a bit, I did cut out the pattern pieces for the vintage dress I really want to do and ironed the muslin to get ready for that. I've been reading up on fitting and I want to try to do some measurements and fit the top of the dress nicely (not too tight!) and then buy the nice material to make the real thing!