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ch time has passed i d be lying to you if i said i had nothing to post here i do have a few new ish makes not as many as i would have liked by now and not enough to keep the mistress of the sewlutions jar at bay but hopefully enough to make up for my disappearance from the blogosphere my make from march april is actually on the drying rack right now so that will have to come later this dress was my june make it was my first foray into knits and i can t possibly tell you how happy it makes me every time i put it on i feel good and i almost always get compliments on it which makes me feel even better i wear it more than any other article of clothing in my closet except perhaps the black wrap cardi i m wearing it with today i must get the coppelia pattern to make a replacement this cardi is starting to die and i ll be devastated when it goes so the red dress it s vogue 8787 view c with the cap sleeves from another view i honestly have no idea what size this dress is just that it spans several 8 12 6 10 no clue i did shorten the bodice by 1 1 4 and i took in massive amounts of side and back seams i also ditched the zipper because knit in retrospect this particular knit probably could have used the zipper but i do what i want i added the cap sleeves to this version of the dress to make it more work appropriate not that sleeveless wouldn t have been appropriate but well i also wanted to make this dress a dozen times and have all of them look different so there those were the only modifications i made to the dress and it fits like a dream i love the interesting details on the bodice the side gathering and the swooping asymmetrical neckline make the dress interesting rather than it just being a boring basic knit dress also pockets onyx was fascinated by the whole photoshoot thing also a little miffed that i was up in his space when he was trying to take a nap honestly onyx doesn t get miffed about anything ever he s one of the most mild mannered dogs i ve ever met except on walks and when there are cats but our other dog can steal his toys bones etc and he just looks at her and lets her take what she wants in these photos he looks more like a statue of a dog than a real dog he hardly moved at all and just because when you make a full circle skirt you have to have a twirly picture posted by abby at 1 46 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels completed projects dresses patterns resolutions sewing thursday february 28 2013 two altered pairs of jeans completed okay so y all almost didn t get a blog post from me this month it s been a crazy month three classes and an 8 hour a week practicum plus a part time job and dogs my wife and friends have all made for a very busy semester in spite of all of that i did manage a tiny bit of sewing and i m here to share it with you i didn t actually sew these jeans from scratch i feel obliged to tell you that one pair is from banana republic and the other pair is from express what i did was make basically unwearable items into super cute perfectly fitting jeans sadly i don t have before pictures but they looked kind of like this and now they look like this and this no more gape one pair of perfectly hemmed short jeans for flats and long jeans for heels yay so how did i work this miracle you ask you would i found a tutorial through sewing craftgossip com that shows you how basically you rip out the waistband seams cut out however much you need to in the center of the waistband put a couple of darts in above the pockets like below then you stitch the whole thing together again and you end up with this i took two inches out of each waistband and two more inches off the hem of my skinny jeans the ones i m wearing with gray flats those are about as skinny as it s going to get around here i hand stitched the topstitching because i wasn t super confident about my sewing two perfectly straight parallel lines skills with the machine but the darts the center seam and the hem were done by machine these are the first pairs of jeans i ve ever had that fit properly and i m super excited about it i couldn t manage to get the back beltloops back on prettily so i just tossed them both and i don t really care because my shirts always cover the waistbands of my jeans anyway just skating in with a february post i hope you all had a wonderful short month and are looking forward to march and maybe some spring weather or fall for those of you in the southern hemisphere posted by abby at 11 30 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alterations fitting sewing thursday january 31 2013 wool flannel pj pants completed if you haven t yet heard about karen s sewlutions jar it s time to come out from under that rock my sewlution is in the jar and like 21 of other sewlutionists new word can i coin it i ve vowed to complete at least one garment every month for a minimum of 12 garments and post about them for evidence my blog posts tend to be few and far between sometimes all right often but you re guaranteed at least one new make post every month starting now yay my first make is pj pants for my wife they were part of her christmas gift but i wanted to make sure that i made the style she wanted so i didn t make them until we came home after the holidays i finished them two weeks ago but the weather has been sucky for photos so i didn t get any good ones until today fabric gray plaid wool flannel from mood maroon satin for waistband tie bias binding on hems pattern none traced my own pjs onto pattern paper notions athletic elastic for the waistband thread time to complete 4 hours first worn january 26 wear again every day since and hopefully a lot more to come total cost 33 the fabric is a gray wool flannel from mood fabrics and it s really just delicious one side is super soft and slightly fuzzy and the other side is smooth and looks like it could be used for a casual button down the fuzzy side faces inside of course i have more of it not quite enough for another pair of pjs and i m not sure what to do with it i used a maroon satin also from mood for the waistband tie and the bias binding on the hems instead of using a pattern i traced my own pj pants onto tracing paper and used that as a pattern i also checked out the construction of my pjs as i went i vaguely followed the instructions from the book patternmaking for a perfect fit which i got for christmas and i found it useful and pretty intuitive i think the book will be even more useful for more complicated garments there was a minor problem with what i did though i couldn t figure out how to get the proper grainline so i just kind of made it up and i ended up with the plaid not quite matching up so i forced the plaid to match cut the waistband and hem to make up for it and hoped that the pjs wouldn t skew because of my mistake next time i think i ll use a pattern instead of going prancing off into pants making land with no map sorry for the wrinkly photos the pants have been super well loved i used french seams for all four seams so the pants are just as pretty inside as outside also see how fuzzy posted by abby at 10 07 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels completed projects fitting resolutions sewing monday december 10 2012 gender expectations is umbrella the key to equality it s been a while since my last post but next week is finals week and i ll have so much more time to sew and blog after the semester is over you ll definitely get more frequent posts starting next week for now though i do have one thing to share with you i ve been thinking a lot lately about gender norms it comes up everywhere i look from class discussions about how male graduates from my program get higher paying assistant director and administrative jobs while female graduates get lower paying reference librarian jobs to the presidential debate question about equal pay for equal work to the expectation of gender role conformity in lesbian relationships i m supposed to wear dresses and she s supposed to wear men s button downs and ties she actually questioned whether or not i d still be attracted to her if she stepped just to the other side of androgyny and started wearing women s clothing my answer of course was to tell her i d love her in whatever she wore and to be honest the women s pants and button downs and sweaters she s purchased recently are really flattering to shopping at target yes you did read that right shopping at target yesterday i came upon some pretty awesome wall art for kids how amazing right fun bright and educational the alphabet with animals the names of states and their capitals and pictures of what they re known for dinosaurs these are exactly the kinds of pieces i would want in my future kids rooms the three pieces above were on the right side of the aisle when i turned to the left this is what i saw umm yeah flowers fairies and ballerinas all in pastels no one actually comes out and says this side of the aisle is for boys and that side over there is for girls but i m going to go out on a limb here and say the right side of the aisle was almost certainly intended for boys while the left side was similarly intended for girls is there anyone reading this who disagrees with my assessment of the artists distributer s and target s intentions for these canvases for the sake of this post i m going to assume that those are the intended recipients of the above wall art the lower three pieces are very pretty but what does this say about our expectations for our children what does art like this tell our children about themselves and their abilities why is it that the colors that represent boys and possibly the boys themselves are expected to be bold and bright while the colors that represent girls and possibly the girls themselves are expected to be soft and muted when i looked at target s website to see if maybe the best girl s art was online and not on the shelves maybe it was all bought up i found that everything was very gender defined there was a picture of the solar system in boy colors complete with the names of the planets and there was a dollhouse in varying shades of pink to list just two among several other items that implied through various images that boys are somehow worth more than girls if we create things like this for our children and put them on their walls we tell our children that boys are more athletic more intelligent more talented and girls are only good for being pretty empty headed future housewives and possibly pop music stars how is it that we are still silently but very clearly perpetuating this idea and yet we say that the time for feminism is past how can we expect to get equality as adults when we treat our children so differently boys are given engaging information about exciting and interesting things and they are encouraged to read and express an interest in geography and science while girls are given flowers ponies dollhouses and fairytale castles obviously this is a slight exaggeration i know that many of us girls learned to read before any of the boys in our class we climbed trees and played sports and became scientists and it gurus and ceos i guess my question is this why in a time when women have supposedly gained so much equality does the art we create for our children s rooms still reflect a massive gender divide the need for feminism is still here and yet the extreme feminists in our society seem to have given the idea as a whole a bad name i say feminism and you envision a mob of angry women burning bras in street protests and forcing other women to leave their children at home and go work it s this warped extremist idea of feminism that has women like katy perry and carla bruni claiming that they are not feminists feminists do not want to force women out of their homes and into the workplace feminism is the belief that women should have the choice and should be treated and compensated equally should they choose to work you don t have to be an activist to be a feminist anyway off my feminism soapbox if i had children right now i d buy all three of those top pieces along with the outer space one online regardless of my children s gender and i wish i d had that wall art as a kid i kind of want them in my room now back to my search of target s website i did find one and only one semi educational item that was directed toward girls it was an alphabet piece and the reason i say semi educational is because i m not sure i d want my little girl to learn that j is for jeans when it could be for jaguar or jet jar joust jade jack in the box jay jam jelly jellyfish jester jungle jupiter i ll leave you to compare it with the equivalent boy intended alphabet and wonder why the girl one has jewelery clothing flowers and fairies while the boy one has monsters outerspace sports and a treasure map the only similarity is u is for umbrella is the umbrella the answer posted by abby at 9 06 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday november 3 2012 blogtoberfest giveaway winner hi y all i m sorry it took me so long to announce the giveaway winner i m trying to keep up with more things than i can reasonably expect of myself anyway the winner is sois ewed this if you haven t yet checked out her blog you really should she recently made an adorable alma blouse some day when i m not being eaten alive by grad school i ll make that blouse congratulations i ll contact you via email posted by abby at 10 17 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday october 26 2012 blogtoberfest giveaway as promised i m having a giveaway today in celebration of blogtoberfest today you have a choice and i hope i have something everyone would be interested in the giveaway is for a length of fabric and a pattern your choice there are two options for fabrics both a bit summery but if you re anything like me you like to sit on your fabric for a while before sewing it up the first is 1 7 8 yards of a pale lavender linen blend the photo doesn t really do it justice since you can t see the color very well but it s very pretty it would make a great skirt the second fabric is 1 1 4 yards of gray white and fushia striped seersucker it would make an adorable top maybe the sorbetto i have a couple of patterns up for grabs the first is simplicity 2996 a 1959 pattern for pants in four lengths the pants have waistline darts front and back and side zipper closing there s a pocket int he right side seam that s optional it fits waist 25 and hip 34 the second pattern is one that i posted for a giveaway a while ago but was never claimed oh sad beautiful vintage vogue pattern it s vogue s 4067 from 1950 and you have to admit it s just stunning it s drafted for a 32 bust and 35 hip pattern number three is simplicity 5134 a shirt dress pattern from 1963 it s for a ...