That's Sew Shawn: Looking UP

After all that frustration in my last post I decided to put aside the dress and move on to some other things.

I had this really cute fabric that I thought to make a summer top out of, but when I started laying it out with the pattern I wanted to use I found out that I didn't have enough! I finally found a pattern for a simple summer dress with cute pleats around the top and a ribbon at the neckline to hold it all together. It'll make a nice swim suite cover up and when I finish with the hemming (always the worse part) I'll upload a picture of it.

I also stopped at the fabric store to pick up some notions and made the mistake of stopping at the 'remnants' table. With all of it 50% I went just a LEETLE crazy. Here's what I picked out:

Two beautiful polyester (or something) that I know I can make work blouses out of. One is this nice shade of blue:

the other this burgundy wine color that matches another blouse that I had and wore ALL THE TIME. I don't have a pattern 'assigned' to these yet, but I'm sure there's something in my stash. I'm not worrying about it right now because I'm focused on all the stuff I want to do before Viva.

I picked up some dark stretch denim to make into a pair of pedal pushers:

and this adorable green check cotton that I'm going to make into a wrap dress:

AND I picked up this knit:

that I have no idea what I'm going to do with but I'm inspired to do some sort of 'wiggle' dress with a drape to hide some tummy issues. Maybe something like this from Burda

Lastly, and certainly NOT least... remember this idea I had?

Well, I found the same fabric again! enough of it that I'm going to be able to finish this dress.

AND, finding that inspired me to go back to my muslin. I ripped out the seams in the skirt - resewed them with 1/4" allowance instead of 5/8" and whalla all the fitting issues went away! So I'm ready to start cutting into this brown dot! *happy dance*

Oh and a impulse trip to a fabric store near my work was promising too! It's got a huge fashion fabric section (unlike the one near my home that is 99.9% quilting) and I found a dark green and a dark blue check that I'm using to make this dress for my sister and myself. I've cut the green already for my sister's dress.