This week I am participating in Tilly’s One Week One Pattern blog event… or OWOP (which I like to affectionately pronounce ’oh-woop’).
Since I suck at following directions I thought it was starting a day later then it actually did. It wasn’t until I saw posts by other bloggers like Pincushion Treats and Oonaballoona that I even realized that it started on Saturday and not Sunday. But that’s cool. I’ll just be a day behind everyone else participating.

Now on to my pattern of choice. I used the top from McCall’s 6519.

I chose the top because it was something I could wear to the office Monday through Friday. Also I needed something fairly easy so that I could make 7 of them and not give up half way through. And it was definitely easy! Only 3 pattern pieces if you wanted the pocket so they were really quick to make.

For Sunday’s top I made a casual heather gray knit top w/ a lace pocket. The pattern calls for bias tape around the arm neckholes but I opted to leave the edges raw. Don’t know how good of an idea that was but I like how it turned out.

For Monday’s top I used this animal print jersey (I think it’s jersey) that I found at my local fabric mecca Mary Jo’s Cloth. With this one I switched the pocket to the other side (I totally didn’t even notice this until I looked at the pictures) and instead of a square pocket I made a little pointed one to go on my top in a contrasting black. I left the edges raw on this one too… mostly because I’m lazy.

Looks like I’m rocking a uniboob in this pic but I totally love this one!

Stay tuned for more of this weeks OWOP!

So lately I haven’t been posting a lot but I have been cooking! Every time it annoys the crap out of me that I have to sift through all of the spices. So I decided to come up with a more organized and more pleasing to the eye solution.
I started with all of this. It actually looks better in pics, but in person it was a mess and I couldn’t find anything.

I looked around the internet for some storage jars but the cost with shipping was getting up there around $30-$50. Then I decided baby food jars! A look around the internet showed me that other people had the same thing in mind as well. So off I went to walmart to get a crapload of baby food, some spray paint and a silver leaf pen.

After an episode of 90210 and dumping spices in jars and on my floor I was finished and had my new storage!

And ta-da! Now I can just look down and find what spice I need instead of rummaging around through everything.

THIS dress! Vogue 1280 from Vogue’s recent spring collection has been the bane of my existence for the past few weeks. It has 12 odd shape pieces that seem to go together like a puzzle.
So I’m like cool, this should be easy all I have to do is connect the pieces…. WRONG. I cut all the pieces and then marked each one of them exactly how they were on the instruction pages which took forever. So then I had a big pile of white pieces (my intent was to dye it grey once I finished)
So now it was time to start putting the pieces together which is extremely confusing and after doing about 2 pieces I noticed that if I kept following the directions this dress would have raw edges showing it seemed. The dress as pictured definitely doesn’t have raw edges.
I searched around the internet and no one has posted anything about this dress! I was so frustrated that I couldn’t figure it out that I just threw the pieces in the corner. It just so happened that the new Vogue Magazine has the dress on the cover. Sparking my rage all over again. But alas I’m going to go to Joann’s and flip through it to see if there’s any info on making the dress. I wish there was a 1-800 number that you could call and get help with like Ikea!

Until then I guess I’ll just stalk the internet hoping that someone has made the dress and offered up tips.

I’m not sure I’ve mentioned on this blog how rediculously extensive my pattern collection is especially seeing as how I only started jumping into sewing in November and have probably complete maybe 4 patterns. But I’m absolutely addicted to patterns and I can’t help it! Joann’s is always having a 99¢ sale and the vintage patterns at the Antique store are only $1-$2 it’s like a must. My friend came over last weekend and called me a hoarder. I said “well they were on sale” and apparently that’s exactly what hoarders say -__-

So do you want to see all my patterns? Of course you do. Please don’t judge me.
Click here to see my 135 patterns.

I went ahead and took advantage of the Couture Dress workshop sale that was going on on Craftsy. I’m always a sucker for a sale so getting the class at a 50% discount means I’m all in. A cool thing is that it comes with the Vogue 8648 pattern with the course. I’m wavering back and forth between 2 dresses that I’d like to follow along with.

or Now it’s off to go find the perfect fabric. I can’t wait to take this class!

At least I think this pattern is from the 80′s. It’s Butterick 6549 and I got it off of ebay a couple of weeks ago.

It was really simple and I did buttons for the first time! Like I do with all things that are a first time I put off finishing it for a few days thinking it would be harder than I thought but it really wasn’t at all. The buttons were some gold buttons that I got at The Sleepy Poet Antique Store. I love the buttons! Even thought I put them on side ways -__- (Gives it character)

I really like the dress and I’ll probably wear it to dinner or something. I actually bought some more ponte knit fabric to dye and make another one but the dying didn’t turn out in the color I wanted all. I shortened the dress a lot because it was already potato sackish. But I tend to like a little potato sack mini. I can’t wait to wear this!

Details:
Pattern: Butterick 6529 – $2.99
Fabric: Royal Ponte Knit – $6.29
Notions: Gold Antique Buttons – 25¢

Total Cost – $9.53

Take a guess at what my favorite libation is? Go ahead guess!
So of course the first kooky cupcake recipe I went looking for was a White Russian Cupcake.
I found the recipe at Baked Perfection. In the spirit of firsts, this was my first time making a cupcake from scratch (not sure why I thought it would be so difficult) and my first time making buttercream icing. The buttercream was soooo sweet, but the Kaluah totally made up for it. All in all I’ll definitely be making these bad boys again, they were really really good!

Check out my Pinterest for a crap load of cupcake recipes. I want to try ALL OF THEM!

So last night while I was making my tulle skirt I stopped in the middle because I wanted to make a different skirt out of my Lisette fabric from Joann’s (This is why I never finish anything). Knowing that it would be rainy today, I wanted to wear a skirt to work b/c whenever I wear pants they get wet at the bottom. And walking in heels in the rain is annoying!

But I actually finished this one! And I’m quite pleased. My stitches were straight, my hem looked pretty good, my seams weren’t puckered. It’s a simple gathered skirt from a tutorial I saw on Freshly Picked. Best thing was it was really easy and didn’t take long at all. I started at like 10:30 and was done at about 1:30. I’m really happy with it!

Here’s a close up of the fabric. See that safety pin? It was driving me crazy that the skirt was clinging to my tights, so after searching the internet I heard mention of the safety pin trick and it worked!

What I learned from this project:
» Test out my stitching on a scrap piece of fabric to adjust my tension and stitch length
» The instructor in my sewing workshop wasn’t joking when she said pressing is super important. It made such the difference!

Details:
Fabric ~ Lisette Collection Navy/Green Quilted Look Diamond Sateen from Joann’s – $10
Pattern ~ None!
Notions ~ 2″ Elastic – 50¢

Total Cost ~ $10.50

I’m not sure what qualifies me to make a tutorial on anything, but being that I am home sick & not infecting my coworkers I decided I was going to make a flashy camera strap and share it with you all! There’s tons of camera strap tutorials but I couldn’t find one with sequins which is what I had on hand. So here is my lazy/easy way.

Here’s what you need:

Black fabric
2″ Sequin Trim
Camera Strap (duh)
Invisible Thread (or thread that coordinates with sequins)
Hand sewing needle

First cut a strip of the black fabric to go around your camera strap. All I did was fold it over and then add a 1/2 inch for seam allowance

Then I sewed up the strap. You can choose not be lazy like me and actually use a matching thread color if you want.

Flip strap right side out, and sew on the sequin trim to one side. I chose to hand sew because apparently machine sewing sequin trim can be tricky.

Can you see my thread? No? That’s because it’s invisible!

Et voila! A sequin strap!

Now if you want to be even more flashy, before you slip on the strap, take your strap and spray paint the ends with metallic spray paint. I did this before I started hand sewing so that it could dry while I sewed

And there you have it: A sparkly glam camera strap. I love it!

 

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