The Two-Month Dress

New Look 6802, finally finished.

A close-up of the twist overlay, which gets lost in the print unfortunately, and so the dress looks kind of blah from a normal distance. Oh well, it's not going to be a wardrobe showstopper, but it will be perfectly fine in the office rotation. And it will move into winter with a cardi layered over it. So, the end result is a win overall, even if a boring win.

The reason it was a two-month dress is this pattern piece right here. I KNEW when I saw it that it looked too skinny for my body but I foolishly plowed on ahead anyway. (Why do I do that?)

I got this far at the end of July. From the front, not so bad.

From the back, sausage casing to the max.

This is where it, and my sewing mojo, sat for the last two months:

To be fair, I haven't been missing because this dress beat me. I've just been involved in some other things, and with a pretty full closet, hadn't felt an overwhelming need to sew and the desire to sew went with that.

But the desire is back and not only did I cut out and sew a new version of NL6802 this weekend, I also cut and sewed another NL6097. So now I have TWO new dresses to wear this week.

And I've also been eyeing the fall fabrics in the stash and inspiration is setting in. I think the mojo may be back for a while.

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The fix for the sausage casing was to move the back skirt piece away from the fold 1" and then add a matching 1" to each side of the back bodice:

For completeness, these are the patterns for this weekend's makes:

Back in the Saddle

Stay tuned. There might even be a completed dress photo and blog post tomorrow.

I think …

… I might sew this weekend. Not sure if it will be something new or re-making something old, but I do feel the itch again.

I heard from the Marine on the ship, via his buddy's military email account. It was an unexpected surprise. He's doing well. The only complaint about life on the ship is that he now has to wait in line for everything again (like boot camp).

Also, yesterday was my one-year anniversary at The Best Job Ever. The wonderful Big Boss was away from our office but remembered and sent around a nice email note. As you can probably guess, I still love my job. :-)

That is all. Carry on.

Random Monday Thoughts

1. I still haven't sewn a stitch.
2. But I'm thinking about it.
3. Especially since my gift from Elaray's giveaway arrived last week. (Thanks so much!)
4. The RNC is in town.
5. What a PITA.
6. Since last Thursday, I'm not working at my usual location, and instead we've been temporarily moved to the firm's main Tampa offices near the airport.
7. My commute is now twice as long.
8. Thankfully it's only for a week and a half.
9. And they ARE nice offices with lots of new-to-me faces to put to the names.
10. I was hoping we'd have today off due to Hurricane Isaac, especially since all area schools are closed.
11. No such luck.
12. But traffic was very light this morning, so that's a plus.
13. The Marine is in the middle of a Typhoon going over Okinawa right now.
14. So we're "sharing" hurricanes/typhoons thousands of miles apart.
15. He was supposed to get on a ship last week and be "at sea" for a couple of months but the impending storm delayed their departure.
16. Which he doesn't mind a bit.
17. And neither do I, since communication will be almost zero once he's on board.
18. Someone asked, and YES!! Still loving my job.
19. And no, there's no new man.
20. I've just been a lazy slug blogger is all.
21. Frankly, I wouldn't even know where to meet any new (or old) men right now.
22. Not that I'm really looking.
23. And with that, it's time for work.

Just lazy

I'm alive. :-) Just haven't been sewing or blogging, except for the wadder I made a couple of weeks ago which I will blog about soon-ish. And, yes, my graphics/photos pulling from my website are messed up on the blog, I know. I hope to resolve that soon.

I'll be back in a bit. The August heat has set in and I'm being a lazy dog. Thanks for your concern, though. It's appreciated.