Guilty of fabric buying

[frualeydis]

I just bought a couple of curtains from Tradera, a swedish auction site. This is how the fabric looks. It's this piece and two pieces that are 50 x 115 and 50 x 300 cm. I think that I could even get a whole dress out of it, but I was more thinking along the lines of a forepart and a pair of gigantic "hummer claw" tudor sleeves.

Not that I make any progress on my tudor dress or even feel like working on it, but I guess that will change. I'm more interested in mundane clothes for the moment, I actually made two skirts the last two days, I just need to put in a zipper in one and elastic in the other one.

And I'm making progress in fixing the chapter.

Comments

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Gorgeous fabric find, I'm jealous!

I've now finished my skirt - finally - and also the skirt for my sister-in-law in the same fabric and same model. Looks very spiff on both of us, if I say so myself, but it was much quicker to do hers on the machine :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I'm always amazed at how fast things are done on the machine (and how much larger risk it is that it turns out looking crappy). I put on a ribbon on machine on a skirt yesterday and it went so fast! I'm not used to that. The lace on the other skirt was sewn on by hand though, while watching Pretty in pink on the telly. I hadn't seen it since the 80s and it really isn't a very good film. The prupose of the lace was partly to hide the hideous machine hemming I had done.

Eva

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

I know.. it's like it isn't even proper sewing on the machine because it goes so fast.

I think I am even happier that I don't have a proper sewing machine now as I can just see myself wasting oodles of yardage making something, anything, up on the machine just because it's so quick to make. "Only ten minutes.."

[blackraven9.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is some beautiful fabric!! It would look gorgeous as a forepart and sleeves!!!!