Last week I played bunco at the home of one of my neighbor’s.  She is a master seamstress and her daughter’s wedding dress was on the dress form in their living room.  It was glorious.  She had sewed over 1,000 pearl and crystal beads onto it, and it sparkled so beautifully in the late evening light.  She told me that she had about a month’s worth of work in it.  As a master of her craft, she didn’t use a pattern, only being inspired by a $5,000 dress.  Her daughter is very lucky, and I was serious wowed by the amount of work and skill that went into that beautiful dress of lace and satin.  Of course, she is making the 4 bridesmaid dresses, the flower girl dress, her mother of the bride dress and she is making the flowers.  The wedding is at the end of the month, but I have no doubt she will get it done.   I’m rather tired for her!

As for me, my sewing has been very simple and easy lately.  I made a few skirts for me last week, and they were just that…simple.  I even managed to model them…yes, I’m sure you are shocked.  The pictures aren’t top notch, but at least I got them taken.  I made the skirts with a cotton-lycra blend and they have just enough stretch to them.  The waistband is just jersey with elastic.  Super comfy!

Then I made Anya a skort for the 4th of July.  She wore it long enough to ask if she could change into her swimsuit.  The t-shirt I appliqued, as well.

Here she is telling the puppy that is following her that she wasn’t going to share her deviled egg. 😉

That’s about it for me.  I have a few summer dresses that I have all cut and want to make for myself.  Hopefully I can start on at least one of them this week.

Right now I sew in our very unfinished basement.  In the near future we are going to have a carpenter friend come over and take a look at it.  He was recently laid off from his work, so we are going to have him work on finishing it up.  We have big plans.  We want a wine cellar, a 3/4 bathroom, a recreation room with a fireplace, and a craft/guestroom.  Hopefully we can get most of it done.  If nothing else, we at least want to get the wine cellar finished up and maybe the bathroom done.  It doesn’t all need to be finished out right away, but getting the sheetrock up at once would be good.  That stuff is so dusty!  Eventually, I know I will be on a few months hiatus from sewing while everything is all torn up.  It will be worth it in the end, but a long process.  I don’t expect much will happen until closer to the Fall, though.  Not to worry…I’ll be taking pictures through the process. 😉