I’m Not sewing

Seriously. I am not sewing best now. I mean, I’m still thinking about sewing, and planning to sew, and still doing the occasional bit of mending, and Lord, am I ever still purchasing fabric (look here soon for something made of real dotted SWISS) but I’m not actually sewing. too much work best now, and the weather’s still too crappy for the instant gratification of make-summer-dress, wear-summer-dress.

So this, then, is not a recent creation, but a ‘test garment’ that I did several months ago. It went together fine, and then I realized that I didn’t have enough of the ‘real’ fabric to make the dress now that I knew it actually fit, so the project was abandoned. This test dress is wearable, though! I need to hem the sleeves (or rather, tack down the facings), shorten the skirt (and eventually hem it), and I have to take the front of the skirt apart and add big flappy patch pockets, but that’s not a big deal.

I’m calling this the jelly bean dress, because it reminds me of nothing so much as it does Yarnstorm’s lovely jelly bean cushions. I think if I ever were lucky enough to meet Yarnstorm I’d have to wear this dress … and then we’d eat candy-covered cupcakes that matched it. I’d better get cracking, right? always better to be prepared.

The fabric is from the remnant table at Vogue, from the depressingly tiny “60 inch broad cotton prints” section; I’m there so much I ought to really send the nice remnant-watcher lady a Christmas card. and this is a vintage pattern, but I don’t remember the number and if I go upstairs I’m going to wake my little boy, and if I wake him he’ll wake my husband. The boy doesn’t have school today, so might as well let ’em sleep …

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