David and Daisy

Fabric, Dreams and Life

Lotus Dress

Almost done .. it is hard to finish a dress when you’ve only been able to work on it for 5 minutes each week.  The dress is lined, and if I hadn’t had to hand sew the lining to the dress at the zipper, I might have finished tonight.  I just have to attach the [...]

Pillow Project

Perfect timing.  With a new living room to decorate, my Jessica Jones fabric order arrived!  I can make pillows for my sofa.

I also bought an orange canvas.  I’m not sure if I will make the pillows with the pattern on the front and the orange on the back, or if I will make 2 “stacks” [...]

Changes

I still have the half-done dress sitting on my table.  We’ve been busy, first recovering from the illness/hospitalization, and then … we bought a house!

And we close in less than a month. So I’ve been a little preoccupied. Not enough exercise or sewing happening. I hope to exercise tonight and get some sewing done [...]

Lotus Dress Progress, and Changes

Finally – I have a photo.  I have to say – I LOVE the fit of this dress.  Perfect.
I really don’t like the contrast pieces at the top.  I’m going to recut them in the main fabric.
I also don’t like the belt with this dress, so I’m taking out the belt loops.
I was also going [...]

And Life had another idea …

We were hit upside the head with major health issues and hospital visits last week.  All is well, but as you can imagine, I haven’t even looked at my sewing table this week.  I’m hopeful that I can maybe get that dress finished, oh, before Spring.