Sewing and random babble

[ladyofthethread]

Hmm… I know I’ve been lazy about posting and commenting lately. Should try to work on that a bit. ^_^;;

July 4th was rather boring here. Went to JoAnn’s and the mall with my family. I picked up the latest volume of Fruits Basket at the mall and got 3 yards of floral print cotton at JoAnn’s (under $8 thanks to a 40% off coupon). Made a relatively quick skirt with it over the weekend.



I used view A of this Vogue pattern. I wanted to try out one of the views with more layers but I bought all that was left of that print and it was only enough for A. Nothing else really caught my eye at JoAnn’s although I was hoping to get 2 or 3 different prints to make some random summer skirts and dresses. Will check the fashion district later this week for that and costume stuff.

In other news, we’ve been having problems with leaks lately. My parents had to patch the roof on Sunday and we still have a moldy closet to deal with. -_-

Banks have been a bit annoying, too. If any of you ever get a name change (like getting married), make sure that it’s done consistently across different accounts or you might end up wanting to bang your head on a wall when you need to do a transfer in the future. My mother learned this the hard way!

We’ve also been talking a bit about whether we’re going on vacation this summer but haven’t come to a conclusion since it’s ridiculously hard coming up with something that everyone would agree to. Among other things, my siblings never want to go anywhere on vacation and seem like they’d rather just sit in front of their computers. >_>

Comments

[spookloops.livejournal.com]

I've been wanting to play with Vogue for a little bit - how user friendly are their patterns, and true to the sizing on the envelope? I have this pattern currently: http://www.voguepatterns.com/item/V8364.htm?tab=list/skirts_pants_includes_designer&page=all but would love to play with their vintage patterns.

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a pretty skirt. :-)

I have a few Vogue patterns in my collection but this was the first time I actually tried to sew from one. I remember one of my instructors at Parsons complaining that Vogue tends to have a lot more pieces and be more complicated than McCalls and Simplicity so I had kind of avoided it before. ^_^;;

I didn't have any big problems with the pattern and the skirt went together pretty quickly (took me about 6 hours, including cutting the pattern and fabric). But I do think this one is more complicated; There's more asymmetry and more layers in some of the views than you'd find in a McCall's or Simplicity skirt.

As for fit, I made a size 12 (intended for a 26 1/2" waist according to the size chart) and it fit my 27" waist fine. Going by the size chart, my hips are a size larger but I didn't bother to alter since there were 6" of ease at the hips.

[spookloops.livejournal.com]

Good to know! Thanks much for the info!