More sneak peeks at client project for this next week! Can you guess what animal this is gonna be when I’m done carving it out tomorrow?
I’ve got this furry mask head and gloves to finish up mail out early in the week. Then start my daughter’s wig dying and sculpting process and sew up a quick two toned cape for my first iG client who is local to Chi-town! Woot! I can’t wait to do nothing next month 🤪
But really can I ever do nothing?! I know I’ve got Christmas gifts to finish up 🤦🏼♀️🤗🎉
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Moving quick at the end.
There’s always a lot to do at the end of making a garment and it’s a constant back and forth between the pinning stages, sewing, and ironing. All the prep work and fittings are to make sure this part goes as smoothly as possible. The other night I made a huge mistake and had to replace an entire front panel. Luckily I had just enough fabric to do so, but now there can be no more mistakes. It would be extremely detrimental as the fabric took three weeks to get to me to begin with. Thus the nature of special orders and minimizing eco waste. I got all the panels put together and the lining attached to the front in one cohesive piece. Though this required lots of sitting and reading pattern instructions and thinking and attempting to manipulate to understand the process. I figured it all out in the end and by the time I went to bed it was nearly complete for it’s fitting today. I just need to iron the endive smooth and flat and do the fitting and so long as it fits well, we can make placements for buttons and priest vestment collar tab. Then finish those up and drop off finished tomorrow!
Whew! So excited to get there and then see it in action at the wedding this weekend 🤗😍
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This skirt pattern calls for 4 yards of fabric. I have two and a bit. I hate waste. And so many patterns waste so much fabric. I know it’s harder when you have a pattern in your fabric especially when dealing with stripes or plaids, like I am here. But if you’re smart and creative you can figure out how to make the pieces fit and patchwork the sections that need it. For example you can see where I need to add fabrics for the waistline for several panels, I chose these to be the side panels as they are less conspicuous and where pockets will be added as well, also hiding the fact that I had to pieces some sections for the sides too. By the time I’m finished adding the accoutrements and other details the patching will either be invisible or look to be part of the final look anyway.
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This also was work performed almost two weeks ago now. A week ago I fell down the stairs with my daughter and am suffering pretty terribly where the most pain occurs when I sit down. After sitting at my desk trying to get started this morning the pain was so pronounced I had to just stop and go lie on my side. I’ve been super depressed about this all day. Tomorrow, dr and finding out what we can even do for this injury. Then hopefully I can get back to work ASAP. Just another thing that got shoved in the way of this project. C’est la vie.
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My sweet office buddy was worn out after his walk with dadda, but he sure did jump right up with me when I got up to go to the bathroom! Ha! 😅
So much behind the scenes and business legal activities this month! Soooo much sitting behind the computer too! Lots of editing, detailed writing and planning. So excited to show y’all what I’ve been doing next month!
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