Curtains are Cool, Right?

So today I'm back on track sewing. I've been taking apart a skirt that fits me well to get the pattern - I know this is detrimental to my current lack of clothing, but I'm going to use it, I promise!

A friend gave me this skirt when it was too big for her, and it fit me wonderfully, exept the fact that it was a little tight for me on the waist. To combat this, I decided to trace the skirt onto paper first, make my initial changes, then make a mock up or toile before making the final skirt - this seems a lot of effort for one skirt, but after all this I will have a pattern that will fit me!

A New Project and New Bobbin Vows

They're here! Thank the sewing God upstairs!

My Janome bobbins have arrived from China and work wonderfully, look at the tiny little stitches I did here on a scrap. Look how beautiful they are! It's so great to have my machine up and running again. But what to sew with it?

A Night of Designing

Yet again my bobbins haven't arrived! Really unfortunate as I'm getting that 'I need to sews something' itch that often comes after a while away from the machine. So I'm back to fashion sketching today.

If you'd like to give fashion illustration a go yourself, I've included some details in last week's post here.

I apologise for the bad photo, the light is pretty bad here and I haven't yet figured out how to change the settings on my iPad's camera. I'm just playing with ideas for my new fabrics that I bought a couple of weeks ago, I would love to make myself a dress as I've not made one in a while.

Have you bought any gorgeous fabric recently? Any photos would be greatly appreciated!

Really hoping I'll be back sewing soon, and hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Toni