Progress on my blouse and weekend antics

So Saturday I went into the city to buy more fabric for my Burda 3/2007 114 blouse. Anyone out there who's planning on making this top take note. The direction are wrong. They say you only need 2yds of fabric but I found that even at 60 inches wide I needed to buy 3 1/2 yrd hence the slow progress on my blouse. The flounce at the bottom of the blouse eats up a lot of fabric. So far my blouse is coming along great. I made one little boo boo though with the button band, a mistake I made at the muslin stage so it should fit right. My mistake was that I didn't pay attention to cutting line on the pattern since this pattern is also used for look 115 so the front band is wider than it is suppose to be for look 114. I'm going to baste the side tonight and see if it still works out okay despite my mistake. If not then I will have to recut the bodice front. Thank the lord I bought extra fabric. I can't wait til this top is finished. It is coming out so nice made up in the black and white satin and I have the perfect white slacks (purchased) to wear them with for the summer. Hopefully I will have a finished garment to show by Wednesday.

I only went into the city to go to the garment district, but I was sidetracked by my sister and I'm so happy that I was. We met up on 34th street and stopped in H&M. I have not been to H&M in a minute. It was like you died and went to maxi dress heaven. They had maxi dresses galore. I've always wanted a maxi dress, something you can throw on and be casually cute but most of the dresses I saw had that cup action or halter top thing going on and I can't wear that. So this gave me an idea to start making my own maxi dress. Something that is a little more modest at the top but still gives you that easy breezy beach look. I'm working out the details on paper, but as soon as it's ironed out I will get to sewing. I was also inspired by the Marimekko line they had there. Check out there website for the great garments.

http://www.hm.com/us/#/marimekko080410/

There was a skirt there that I wanted to so bad but of course they had none in stock. I guess that should be a godsend because this means every girl and her mama will be rocking this skirt for summer and one thing I hate is to look like a clone. So guess what? I'm going to make my own version of the skirt. I have real nice canvas fabric with cute little lady bugs on them. I love the fact that I sew. teehee I also got caught up in a few pieces at the Gap, another spot I haven't visited in awhile. There was a dress that I was dying to buy but they did not have it in my size. This is a dress I'm definitely going to buy when I find a Gap that has my size in stock. It was just too cute to pass up. I did buy some blouses from Express that I was very happy with. One thing I found is that everytime summer comes around and I go through my wadrobe I always feel like I don't have any tops, so hopefully these will get me by till I can get into making more blouses and t-shirts.

Angry Chicken just announced on her blog that Wendy Mullin of Built by Wendy just came out with a new book all about working with knits. It's called Sew U Home Stretch.

I called Barnes and Noble and they have the book in stock and it's lunch time so guess where I'm off to. lolololol I will let ya'll know how the book is.