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vanillafluffyI spent the weekend house-sitting for the Cs. One thing about being over there, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I can always find something to read. For instance, AI had the latest copy of the Pyramid Collection catalog lying around...read through it and fell in love with their Coral Reef dress.
While I was in the neighborhood, I visited Hancock Fabrics+---no, I *didn't* buy any!---for some thread to match some green fabric I've been meaning to make a skirt from. And, thinking of that dress I was pining for, I browsed their pattern books.
This is the Pyramid dress I fell in love with:
and this is Simplicity #2947:
Not exactly the same, but close enough! I think the Simplicity version will be easier to sew, since it doesn't have the skirt fitted to the bottom of the bodice. (What?! It's about time I did something with the sewing machine I inherited!)
I also like that #2947 includes patterns for a pair of wide-legged pants and a shrug. Pants are the most difficult item to find, for me, at least, and a shrug will help move some items to year-round wear---or keep me from being chilled on the rare occasions when an establishment's A/C is too cold.
I have oodles of fabric I can make a trial run dress from. Which is a Good Thing, because Jiminy Christmas, the price of fabric, wtf?! And WHEN did the standard width go from 45" to 60"? I totally missed the memo on that!
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+ Originally, when I went in there, I had the ulterior motive of wanting to snag something cheap to make curtains with. The ones in the living room are 10 years old and look it, and I'm not overfond of the tab tops I have on the sliding glass doors.
I found an awesome cotton print I would have LOVED to grab to recover my ottoman and love seat and hide the fugly fish forever. However, enough to cover those two pieces---even at the ridiculously low Clearance price---would run me more than my biweekly tank of gas, bathroom tissue and assorted necessities and bills. No can do.
Said print had a brown background sprinkled with little ivory dots all over and punctuated with bigger dots in yellow, pink and green. Very Fiestaware! Hmm, maybe I could get just enough to make a tablecloth and some chair covers...?
It's true: When you have TIME, you have no MONEY. When you have money, you have no time.
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While I was in the neighborhood, I visited Hancock Fabrics+---no, I *didn't* buy any!---for some thread to match some green fabric I've been meaning to make a skirt from. And, thinking of that dress I was pining for, I browsed their pattern books.
and this is Simplicity #2947:
Not exactly the same, but close enough! I think the Simplicity version will be easier to sew, since it doesn't have the skirt fitted to the bottom of the bodice. (What?! It's about time I did something with the sewing machine I inherited!)
I also like that #2947 includes patterns for a pair of wide-legged pants and a shrug. Pants are the most difficult item to find, for me, at least, and a shrug will help move some items to year-round wear---or keep me from being chilled on the rare occasions when an establishment's A/C is too cold.
I have oodles of fabric I can make a trial run dress from. Which is a Good Thing, because Jiminy Christmas, the price of fabric, wtf?! And WHEN did the standard width go from 45" to 60"? I totally missed the memo on that!
+++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Originally, when I went in there, I had the ulterior motive of wanting to snag something cheap to make curtains with. The ones in the living room are 10 years old and look it, and I'm not overfond of the tab tops I have on the sliding glass doors.
I found an awesome cotton print I would have LOVED to grab to recover my ottoman and love seat and hide the fugly fish forever. However, enough to cover those two pieces---even at the ridiculously low Clearance price---would run me more than my biweekly tank of gas, bathroom tissue and assorted necessities and bills. No can do.
Said print had a brown background sprinkled with little ivory dots all over and punctuated with bigger dots in yellow, pink and green. Very Fiestaware! Hmm, maybe I could get just enough to make a tablecloth and some chair covers...?
It's true: When you have TIME, you have no MONEY. When you have money, you have no time.
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Date: 2010-04-12 12:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-04-12 12:14 am (UTC)The Simplicity dress is really lovely. That's an excellent idea you have about making a trial run version, and also about making a tablecloth and seat covers out of the Fiesta!Fun fabric.
Big Lots sometimes has slipcovers on sale for a really good price. You might keep an eye out there for one, and maybe for some twin size sheets to turn into curtains. They don't look like sheets if you just run a line of stitching across the top to turn it into a narrower rod pocket.
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Date: 2010-04-12 01:06 am (UTC)Big Lots...hmm, there's a thought. Maybe I'll wander over there tomorrow and see what they have in the way of slipcovers and sheet sets. It's hazardous, tho'---they're right next to a Chinese buffet that I like.
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Date: 2010-04-12 12:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-12 01:16 am (UTC)I took sewing in high school, where I learned how it was *supposed* to be done with regards to laying the patterns on the grain of the fabric and how to match plaids (which I've never attempted) and how to operate a sewing machine. I haven't had one in ages, though, and this one is a bit spiffier than my old one. I'm SO glad I got the manual with it!
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Date: 2010-04-12 10:08 pm (UTC)Actually, one was a gargoyle. The other was a leather embossed celtic knot checkbook cover.
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Date: 2010-04-13 06:45 am (UTC)My favorite dress in a black and white movie would have to go to one Myrna Loy wore for a party scene in one of the Thin Man movies. It was striped, bias-cut and had a ruffle. That May sound like a recipe for a hot mess, but it was divine. Then again, so was Myrna Loy.
I personally think I resemble a young Barbara BelGeddes, myself. She also starred with Mitchum, tho' it was a western. As did Myrna, come to think of it. Alas, I was born about thirty years too late....
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Date: 2010-04-13 04:36 pm (UTC)LOVE MYRNA LOY, although for some reason I tend to confuse her with Claudette Colbert. Myrna could hold her own opposite Gable and Spencer Tracy as well as having that effortless charm thing going with William Powell.
"I read you were shot in the tabloids."
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Date: 2010-04-13 05:49 pm (UTC)That dress? Snazzy!
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Date: 2010-04-13 05:52 pm (UTC)http://pics.livejournal.com/karaokegal/pic/000ewc6g/g15
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