Gotta love Mal-Wart fat quarters...

Current Notes : Yaay ! It fits Abigail, too ! 

Kind of a yawner day – finished some small projects for Beloved Hubby’s work team while he applied the last of the primer coat to the bleachers. We have a bit more sanding to do, then it’s ‘good paint’ and assembly, and I get to use them ! I’ll tell ya’ll, I had no idea these things would be this much work.

Shoot, making patterns wasn’t that much work ! Speaking of, I wondered if the sheath dress would fit Abigail as-is, or would need adjustments. So I grabbed some fresh fabric – which I love, it doesn’t show my stitching at all ! – and sewed it again, a bit longer than the last time, and a bit thinner at the side seams. Fits perfectly, in fact, I could probably go with the regular quarter-inch seams and it’d fit a bit better. It looked good hanging straight, looks great with a ribbon belt. I may bust out the Barbie fabric again and see if it works with Howleen next ! I’m getting better with my neckline and armhole hems, too…but I’m still glad when the thread blends into the fabric well enough so that they don’t show !

What’s funny on this one is that I got the closure backwards. Cut the wrong side short, realized what I did, and cut another one out and got the closure cut right …and sewed the wrong piece anyway. ‘Good’ piece was right there and I didn’t realize I had that first wrong one until after I hemmed the neckline and was starting to hem the armhole. So, on this one, the ‘rough’ Velcro ™ is on the left, soft on the right. Still closes and fits, and in my opinion, it looks really good on Abigail, so it’s all good. Hope I get it right next time !

The fun part’s gonna be altering it back into the jumpsuit / ‘lounging pajamas’ it started out as…