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09.16.08

Wear a Dress Week & Another Amy Butler Lotus Dress Finished Projects, Random Weirdness, Sarah the Sewist, sewing, work in progress | (5)
I certainly love the Amy Butler Lotus dress. So much, in fact, that I'd planned on wearing this version in celebration of International Wear a Dress Day/Week. Except, when I got dressed this morning, I decided that I really wanted needed to wear these shoes. Which don't really go with my pink dress. At all. If I didn't happen to have a meeting today and therefore be required to present an illusion of professionalism, I would have just worn the aqua shoes and pink dress and said "to hell with it." So, I pulled out my black stretch twill version (and I've got ...

Tagged: Amy Butler, dresses rule!, international wear a dress week, patterns, sewing, shoes
08.26.08

Inked Finished Projects, Portland, Sarah the Sewist, sewing | (4)
I've cooled down a bit on my complicated garment sewing lately, partly because I don't really have anywhere to wear dress, etc, and partly because we're stuck in that weird time of year when I know it's not going to be warm much longer, but don't want to actually admit that I need fall clothes. But I did recently have the opportunity to wear a dress in good weather -- since my hairstylist recently had a lovely wedding on the rooftop of the Ecotrust building in Portland's Pearl District. It was motivation to get the Amy Butler "Lotus" dress that ...

Tagged: Amy Butler, dresses rule!, embroidery, fabric, Finished Projects, martinis, personal style, Sarah the Sewist, sewist, why Portland rocks
07.08.08

Feelin’ Stitchy Sarah the Sewist, sewing, we don't just sew! | (1)
In my last post, I mentioned that I'm planning on making another Burda shirt for Josh---this time with a bit of monkey embroidery... I usually farm out my embroidery needs to my mom, who's amazing, but since this is a shirt for Josh, I'm thinking that I should do it myself. To give myself a bit of practice (Mom taught me, but she's kind of, er, fanatical about stitch evenness and embroidery perfection, so I've never embraced the craft with a lot of zeal as a result), I'm doing some embroidery on an Amy Butler Lotus Dress (this is my ...

Tagged: Amy Butler, dresses rule!, embroidery, sewing, sewist
06.20.08

Not AWOL Sarah the Sewist, work in progress | (3)
Rosanne was the first of you loyal readers to notice that I haven't been posting much lately and ask what I've been up to sewing- and crafting-wise lately. Josh has certainly been making, and posting, a lot more stuff lately. But I promise, I haven't gone permanently AWOL. In fact, I started what I think will eventually be a really fabulous dress, the HotPatterns Metropolitan Coat Dress (the shorter, short-sleeved version). It's a great dress, huh? I'm making it in another fabulous fabric from Bolt---this one's a smoky blue cotton with a bit of stretch (hooray for stretch!). I think it's European, ...

Tagged: complaint file, dresses rule!, Hot Patterns, personal, work in progress
02.03.08

Swell Dressed Finished Projects, Sarah the Sewist | (5)
When Josh, my mom and I went on our little adventure to beautiful Washougal, Washington last month, I picked up some lovely dusty blue wool from the Pendleton Woolen Mill Store up there. For a whoppin' $1.99 a yard. Pendleton makes some incredibly soft wools, almost silky, and if you can tolerate wool, you don't even have to line garments made with their fabric, as they don't seem to use all the irritating chemicals in their wools that most manufacturers seem to love. I had it in my mind that I'd make a funky short, princess-seamed trench coat with black buttons ...

Tagged: dresses rule!, fabric, Finished Projects, sewist