Sewing

This dress & I have been having an emotional battle for the past few weeks. I assume it was all one sided on my part, but the feelings were all very real. If you follow me on Instagram, or read my last post, you’ll know that this isn’t exactly how this dress was supposed to go. It was supposed to have a scrim fabric (the dilapidated barn chic of fabrics) collar, which gave it a completely different vibe for me. I envisioned a dress that you would lurk around abandon cornfields in. This is not that dress. A flimsy fabric...

I’m totally cheating this week. I originally made this dress in 2016, but I want to make sure I keep to my posting of once a week. I picked this one because my eyeballs liked the previous green dress & this orange dress together. I am actually mid new project, (which I will throw a layout photo of at the end of this post), however it was another pretty distracting week. Also, I tend to lean heavily towards very tedious projects. Not helpful either. I’ve been making some incarnation of this dress since 1999. Some of you may actually have...

My plan is to sew one something a week for a year & document it here. I’m already slightly behind, (who currently isn’t, right?), so instead of being extra precious & perfectiony about my posts, I decided to just start putting things up. Eventually there will more photos, details, etc... But for now, let’s just get started. This dress was mostly inspired by my current haircut, (you’ll see me soon trust me), and my house, (you’ll be seeing a lot of that too). I’ve been very into asymmetry lately for whatever reason. If I go really deep, maybe it’s something...