Blues Capsule Project #4 – In Which We See POCKETS Added
suelowYeah I did. What do dresses need? POCKETS. What does this dress have? LINED, PIPED POCKETS. I’m going to leave this photo LARGE because POCKETS deserve close-ups. They are basted…
Blues Capsule Project #4 – My Kingdom for a Sleeve
I started this evening’s sewing a little past 7:30, having had a friend over for wine & chats. She amusingly compared my sewing efforts to an agile project management approach,…
Blues Capsule Project #4 – Lining the Bodice
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I am getting pretty dang tired of looking at this dress. But at the same time, making progress ... just ever so slowly. An excellent colour,…
Blues Capsule Project #4 – Progress. Slow Progress.
Well, I knew that this dress would have to be sewn slowly because of the pattern-matching, but I did not anticipate the delays I’ve had today. I went out to…
Blues Capsule Project #4 – Pinned Together
I haven’t gone to this length to preview a dress in ages. I’ve basically cut apart all of the fashion fabric pieces and pinned them together on my dress form…
Blues Capsule: Project #4 – A Tweed Dress
Here comes another dress! Because having 30 in my wardrobe just isn’t enough, right? Actually, I love wearing dresses and I wear them all the time to work, so it’s…
Blues Capsule: Project #3 – Ponte Dress
I wrote / drafted a whole other post about my Blues Capsule wardrobe project for February 2020, and my asshole iPad lost it before I could save it. I am…
Blues Capsule 2020
This is sort of a placeholder post to start off this series of sewing projects. I’d written a longer blog post about my intentions, but it got lost in a…