**clears throat and taps mic** Is this thing on? OMGGGG guys how is everybody? Yall know my life is like a movie and I cannot make up anything that happens on any given day! I won’t go into too much detail about my life’s happenings but I will share that I recently moved from my old place! I wanted to move so bad from that area and complex with a whole host of reasons why; I no use in going into ’em now because I’m already gone. Long story short I’ve been in my new place a little less than a month. I absolutely love it around these parts and my new sewing space. It’s pretty much sewing central just as I imagined when I decided to move. I always apologize for the long pauses in my blogging and sharing stuff and I’m here to do that again. Forgive me y’all! In my defense I thought my laptop was broken. My GRANDdaughter was using it one day and my GRANDson leaned on it and needless to say we all figured that was all she wrote. Or so we thought. But I didn’t get rid of it, I put it back in its storage bag and put it away. I couldn’t just throw it away for some reason. That was months ago. Fast forward to last night I took it out of the drawer and plugged it in. It powered right on! I was so happy because I love my little laptop and I really didn’t want to get rid of it or have to buy a new one. Okay now on to the patterns of the hour and a little bit about ’em…Even the newbies know I have a ton of patterns. Like a literal ton of them. For some reason I just could find no inspo in not even one of them. Sometimes I get like that. When that happens my go-to for sewing ideas are my sewing magazines and books. They never let me down. I ended up sewing a new beach bag and dress with same name as yours truly! If you’ve a sewing maniac like me you’re aware of all the sewing magazines on the market and have a few favorites. One of my favorite publications is Simply Sewing. I ended up pulling out Issue 44 and whipped up two of the patterns that it featured. The patterns of the hour are The Lola Dress and The Beach Bag. The bag is hugeeeee; its already one of my favorite bags I’ve sewn. I used a hounds tooth denim for the exterior of the bag; it was already in my stash. The dress I created out of a yellow-orange cotton poplin I’ve also had in my stash for a long time. I never throw fabric away; even its its “ugly”. My motto is one day it’ll be perfect and for the Lola dress the “ugly” fabric absolutely was. I started both projects on the 26th (of this month) and they were both fun, easy sews! But the star of both pieces are the zombie nurses! I lined the bag and the dress with a piece of “Beauties and Brains” fabric which is another piece I left in my stash until just the right time…Wait till y’all see the pictures!
Now let me stop rambling because y’all know I can go on and on…I snapped a few pictures of my new makes and I’ll include ’em below. Yall can literally see the zombie nurses through the poplin on the dress which is quite literally my favorite part of the it (besides the pretty color); I’m glad my idea worked out. The set is giving Summerween which I don’t mind because Halloween is another one of my favorite days. *Good Friday and St. Patrick’s Day are a couple other faves of mine* I gotta check on dinner too; it’s in the oven. See now I’m talking and talking again lemme show y’all these photos! I’ll be back soon I promise!
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