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Tag: dressmaker

  • No. 41 Scam vibes, muumuus, and my Limelight

    OMG Yalllll. I’m back over here and I ain’t never leaving again! I learned my lesson the HARD WAY! Lemme tell y’all what happened. So y’all know I sew right? Right. I wanted to incorporate my houseplants somehow into my blogging. If you didn’t know I grow over 150 houseplants and they are so pretty y’all OMGGGG

    Anyway, after milling over ideas of how to share ’em like I share my sewing I thought I needed a new blog dedicated especially to them. Don’t ask me why I just didn’t use this one; I knew I should’ve. I told myself so many times before I actually agreed to that foolishness that I shouldn’t. Chileeee against all my better judgement I did.

    Now I didn’t want to immediately complain but I have no choice in this situation. As soon began to build the site I got irritated. The site was so fukkin BASIC. I didn’t think it would be so fancy because the site itself looked prehistoric by damnnnnnn. The features were so difficult and downright odd. Whole site just seemed to be against any user ever. After studying how to personalize everything I managed to get a post up. It was an absolute mess too! Everything was out of place. I never seen anything like it! I was irritated ASF to say the least and after a short while I decided I would cancel the subscription effective immediately.

    *Blood pressure rising rapidly*

    Attempting to cancel the subscription was the most ridiculous part of the whole embarrassing debacle that was my houseplant site. Now of course there was no one to talk to about cancellation; only AI and an email. It took me over a week to actually get the “subscription” cancelled because it took them over three days to answer the mandatory email I had to send for help!–insert eye roll– Imma stop here because I can literally go on and on smdh Anyways, I decided to incorporate my houseplants into this blog. I have a subscription for this one too and TBH I’m not sure why I even wanted another one. This one never presented a single issue; the other site WAS an issue. I kinda thought it would kinda be better to keep them separate. I do want my two loves together in one place though! Expect more of my tropical family along with my sewing okay? Okay.

    *Blood pressure rising rapidly*

    Now lemme update y’all on my sewing stuff. I’ve only finished that striped dress that I blogged about last as a patterned project. I free-styled a muumuu for myself a couple weeks ago too. I used a piece of olive green colored linen blend that had been in my stash for eons. I kinda wanted to test a few decorative stitches on one of my machines so used my impromptu muumuu project to do that. I used purple thread and it ended up being so cute. No pictures though; it really wasn’t for show. (I can show you guys if you insist) What I have been doing is a lot of mending; for myself and my bestie. She bought a whole buncha ready-made muumuus but they were too long. A few of them were gifts were other folks too. I fixed those up. She came and got those and brought a few more of her own for hemming but they’re still on my sewing table LOL I’ll get to em soon. I do have a matching separates idea in mind but I need some kinda fleece something to pull it off.

    I didn’t plan on including any photos in this post either y’all; it was mainly to gather my peeps in one spot again. My plan is to take a few photos of my most recent plant purchase and share with you guys. So that means I’ll be back soon. I gotta get a few photos of this pretty gal. I’ll give you a clue who it is. Some of my folks that follow me elsewhere may have seen here already. She’s completely NEON and her leaves are on the larger side. Feel free to add your guesses to this post. I’ll be back soon too share her pretty self and some information on her journey here!

    Talk soon,

    Christy

  • No. 37 Big Cats, Zebra, and Safari Demure

    How is everybody doing? I’m doing just fine this evening; keeping it cutesy and very mindful. Very demure. I cannot stop saying that even if I tried LOL! I love that gal on TikTok and I swear I’ll never delete that app…it is just hilarious! Now this post is about a pattern mash-up I daydreamed up one day in June; Sunday June 16, 2024 to be exact. I kept thinking of a halter maxi dress and these two fabrics that I’ve had in my stash for eons. Quite often I’d pull both of the fabrics out and admire them but never found anything to make with them. When my ideas came together for the halter maxi I immediately fished those two fabrics out to make my new dress. The two fabrics have the prettiest Safari prints and went beyond well together. When I first got them I loved ’em a whole lot. I’m also still sewing for hot weather because our forecast is still well over the 100 degree mark. Now on to the deets on the dress and patterns.

    To create the dress I used two McCall’s patterns; the halter portion of M6083 and the skirt portion of M7834. I’ve made M6083 before quite a few times before. (View D of M7834 only one time though) I had almost three yards of both pieces so it was more than enough to create the tiers on the skirt. I fussy cut the fabric to showcase the prints because they really are what makes the dress special. I cut a size 16 from both patterns and the fabrics are some kind of buttery cotton blend. They are sooooo soft. I sewed it up using two of my machines because I had one set for all the gathering the skirt required and the other one for the regular construction. It was a super fun sew but kinda extra with all the fabric that the skirt portion called for. The bodice needed some fixing up because it was too big when I tried it on. I ended up taking it in an extra 5/8 of an inch. Overall I LOVE it.

    Imma show yall the pictures now because I have the internet guy coming over to install a new modem and fix the wall outlet. Got a sweet potato pie in the oven too! I’ll talk to you good people soon I promise! (There’s a video at the end of the dress right after I finished it)

    Love,

    LOLA