Just thinking...

I have been thinking lately about trying to take my sewing to a higher level. Reading some great blogs like this or that have really gotten me thinking about high quality sewing and not just finishing for the sake of having something merely wearable and also vintage patterns. A while ago I bought these books, just sort of looked through them and put them away. Over at PR I saw that they were offering a Couture Hand Sewing Class and just for the heck of it, I signed up, not really into it all that much. The class and the books didn´t touch me until this morning over coffee. See, last night I cut out a new skirt (BWOF 130-08-2005). I´m using a red polka dot chiffon
(the top fabric) and I didn´t know what to for a hem. Stumped, I opened the aforementioned books and started reading.
I´m going to try doing this "right". And vow to sew higher quality garments and put more of an effort into it.

Time flies

Geez, where do the days go??? It´s already been three weeks since my last post. I started getting back into knitting. I cast on and knit the first Pomatomus. I´m using Chewy Spaghetti - Spaghetti in Vintage (Can´t post a link to my Ravelry page because they´re down, maybe tomorrow) I´m past the ribbed cuff on the second one, but it´s slow going because of all the sewing I´ve been doing. I haven´t uploaded all of the pictures and I can´t find my camera right now, but I´ll do that tomorrow.
In other news, my "baby brother" has his "Abitur" (german high school diploma). He did pretty well considering that a mere two years ago I wouldn´t have bet anything on him finishing at all! So congrats little bro!

Some more positive news: I passed my paper! Yeah! Have to admit, I was a tad worried, because I didn´t put as much effort into it, as I should have. Now I just have to present it to the group in july. Sunday I´ll start work on the presentation. I´m not sure whether I should use the overhead projector or my notebook with Powerpoint. I´ll have to mull over that a bit more. We´ll see.

I´ve lost my knitting mojo

but my sewing mojo is plowing ahead at full speed.
The zipper didn´t arrive in time, which wasn´t a problem, because I just put in a large and chunky one I had on hand. The look isn´t perfect, but not too bad!


Here´s a full view:


a closeup of the back belt:


and here we´ve got a closeup of the pleats:


I wore it last saturday to the party and got a couple of compliments. I felt good wearing it, so I´ll definitely wear it again!

Yesterday I started cutting my next fabric for the next project. I have cut the interfacing and the fabric and basted all of the interfacing to the fabric. Still need to cut the lining, but I´ll be doing that, when I need it. I want to go back to my new machine, which I love!!! I´ll be showing pictures tomorrow. I need to go to bed!