Self-Imposed Deadline – Or Else!

This is just a quick post to say there will be a completed Beignet Skirt blog post by Sunday…or else! It was going to be a skirt for Easter, but Easter came and went. My sewing time has been minimal of late because we’ve been lucky to have lots of family visitors these past few weeks, but now I need to get back in the game.

So I’m writing this post in an attempt to peer pressure myself (me pressure myself???) into finishing this skirt by this weekend. I bought this really beautiful cotton blend tweed on my last trip to New York, oooo Garment District goodness :) I guess I should consider myself lucky that I learned to sew after leaving NYC; where would I have fit all that fabric and sewing equipment in my tiny room? Methinks my roommate would’ve been none too pleased about everything spread out in the living room — unless I made her a coat or two — she has about 30, no joke!

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An Oolong in Strawberry Fields

It was such a beautiful day out today, really more of a summer’s day warmth-wise, so I took the opportunity to take a few photos of my newly completed Oolong dress from Colette Patterns. The day was also quite windy, which you can see in some of these photos (cue big hair!). I bought this pattern last year, but only got around to it when I included it as one of my pieces for the CP Spring Palette challenge!
An Oolong in Dandelion Fields?

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In the Navy: My 1940s "Seabee" Trousers

Oh, happy day, my high-waisted, wide-leg “Seabee” trousers are finally finished! It all started when I decided to join The Cupcake Goddess‘ Trouser Sew-Along back in January, which finished in February I believe (it’s been awhile). I didn’t do the official sew-along BurdaStyle pattern. Instead I went with a pattern I already had in my stash, the 1940s Empire Waist Trousers from the Decades of Style Pattern Company in Berkeley, CA. She updates vintage patterns from the 1910s to the 1950s, so this pattern is a style that would’ve been sewn up by home seamstresses of the early 1940s! These trousers are so incredibly comfy – I LOVE them!
Please excuse the overcast day. It’s the best we can get around
here lately. (And, I’m freezing!)