Laurel draft and black and white submission cause why not?

Yall, i made a Laurel. it's a top, it's modest, it's challis. It's pretty dope but the darts are a little high. I am writing this blog while i preview videos for my teaching performance portfolio and I am having terror about if my students read this. whatever, they'd be bored quickly enough, right?

musing, dreamy, excess headroom 

here she is: Laurel test case, shown here with my atrocious photos and various efforts at styling, posing, and editing. aaahh!

casual, businesslike. meta. 

 friends, the dart is too high for my full mom boobs. can you tell? go ahead, stare below.

crazed picmonkey makeup and text!

 the back fits soooo nicely. and no fasteners OR stretch fabric required?! sarai did some magic on this one. 

fancy: the dual purpose fabric close up and back shot.

I was going to make 800 dresses and tops when I first saw the pattern. Then i saw this and got obsessed with lace. and underwear....

avante garde high contrast!

short story: I AM STUCK about what other versions to make. I need a meetup. Maybe a fabric swap to get the inspiration moving again...are you in!?

xo 

bex 

math is hard: undies and time

please forgive the inordinate use of the word SO in this post. my editor (LOL) is on vacation and that is how it is!

I have been wanting to make unders forever. and t shirts...but my first renfrew was pretty awful and the second wasn't enough better to entice me back.

so i signed up for this class. the patterns are cool, the teacher is LONG WINDED. the intro is like 2 hours long, LITERALLY. she is not a city girl like some other teachers whose style i jive with a little more, though the content is hella solid and I learned a fair amount in that two hours. i said jive with - shoot me!

ok so anyway. i made a t shirt! it took like 5 weeks between the school and student teaching and maintaining a household and freelancing and oh yeah raising a kid, so. tonight i will bind the neck. i made a cool yokey design choice based on accidentally (?) or maybe frugal fanny-ly? buying an insanely small amount of fabric. i sacrificed a t shirt from my bestie's dance co (check em out! dope!) to make a cool contrast yoke. i lURVE it.

i'll use another hunk of that t (thick, late 90s weight 1x1 rib knit? who knows) for the crotch in my new undies...but that's where we get to the math part.

i was so excited to see amy's fabulous style rendered in these hot --but ass-covering-- undies.  Now that I spend a fair amount of time around teens and tweens, i prefer to cover my cheeks. weird? they (my cheeks) are under my pants/dress anyway, but i feel like a generous dash of modesty won't hurt.

SO this happened. amazeballs, right? right. but the bf's computer/printer is a mac style, which apparently prints whatever size it wants. i printed, & taped & cut a 6 (exactly my measurements oh happy day) and made it up in some leftover mesh. it was pretty skimpy, esp in the crack, but also a little saggy. so, ok, maybe size down and that will raise the back up? (from the pattern it made sense.) when i printed the sections i needed to size down, they were WAY BIGGER than the first printout. what the hell size is my meshmuslin? i have no clue.

sigh

i hate it mostly, that my sewing time is so fractured and grab here and there, so the minor frustration of this confusion sets me back to square one, and i may not get to it for a week or three. i started today hoping for hot unders in the drawer at bedtime. instead i have pages of recycling, a strange pair of mesh ladyshorts, a good relationship, a yummy tomato sauce, a happy child, and chocolate zucchini bread.

not so bad, i suppose. except for the underpants. ;) and please, if you have one, what's your best panty pattern???

xo yalls
bex

dressess forever!

I'm working on a dress for myself yippee! I've been daydreaming about this dress in this fabric for the past couple of weeks.  It's a me-made version of my favorite comfortable go anywhere dress.

But I've also been daydreaming about this one, in this fabric, for maybe longer?

 And this pattern has a big "easy" circle on the cover, and no style options- it is one way (praise the lord and retire the possibilities). So I made this muslin:

hmm.

somewhat snug for school

but pockets! 

this one's for you, boyfriend.

wonkety zipper for the muslin, no sweat. muffin top? sweat. 

pulling in between waist and hips. SO GLAD i tested this first. that is not a spot i usually have trouble with.  (laura mae, this pose is for you :)

those pockets are not supposed to puff. 

yes, the neck is too low.

it got comfier over time...

I put this piece in backwards, so it has this cute ruffle around it. woo!

holy crap it fits my back so sexily.

will it work to just raise the V this way? the shoulders are really flappy.

thought i should smile at least once. :)

 now what? muslin #2? or should i finally CUT THE IKAT???

tune in tomorrow to find out what happened. LOLS.