Showing posts with label blouses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blouses. Show all posts

17 November 2010

Sewing Adventures....


Yes!
They are finally finished....
those 3 silk blouses that I agonized over...
and squirmed each time I looked at the folded
fine silk laying on my sewing desk.

I worried,
stewed,
bargained (in my head)
and looked very hard for someone who would take on the task
of transforming the luscious threads into something 
wearable.

then I gave up, or in.....
and sought out patterns to make for myself.
YIPES!

Curtains, yes...
pillows, yes....
handbags, yes....
clothing, Oh *#&# no!

But 
I started slow,
and prayed each and every time 
that I put the presser foot down.
and finally,
I have finished.

And 
I just might start wearing them next week....


This first one was a bear!
I tackled it last,
and I am very glad too,
the "cross-over" neckline had me flummoxed....


I had to take out the two front seams, twice...


this one was a breeze, it is simply
2 squares (front) and one rectangle (back).



but this is my favorite!
I love paisley...
and this fabric is especially yummy,
thick, heavy as cream, silk
that worked very easily.
Not the simplest thing I have ever done, 
but probably the most satisfying.




And because the fabric was so expensive,
I didn't throw one scrap away,
I simple started sewing them all together and made a 
couple of scarfs...crazy quilt style....
smiles.


These are my Christmas gift to me...