Back to the drawing board

My feather skirt was all going according to plan - I spent lots of the weekend working on it, and an identical one without the feather...

A little too identical. I had to cut them both a bit shorter, shortened the one with the print, then thought I was shortening the one without the feather...when actually I was cutting 8cm off the printed one I had just shortened, wrecking the print. So now I've got one featherless skirt and one sewing disaster reminding me that there's no rage like sewing rage.

My featherless skirt. 'Scuse the lack of ironing.

Found some pretty geraniums though; they're making their way into a painting.

And at least I didn't sew my finger to my garment this time! How about you, had any sewing disasters lately?

Technical difficulties mean that today's post has had to be replaced with a picture of a cute cat. Better luck next time!

Glass half full

I had a bit of a gocco disaster the other day. As I was exposing an image onto a screen, a gust of wind blew the paper out of place and only about half of the image got exposed onto the screen. I kind of managed to salvage it by printing part of the image and using it to make patches. So now these kowhai seedpod patches will be coming with me to the Auckland Art & Craft fair. They're printed on denim and reinforced with interfacing on the backs.

Simplicity 2497

I finally finished this dress. And when I say finished, I mean I left out the ruffle, left out one of the pockets because I couldn't figure out how it could exist alongside the invisible zip (which is by no means invisible) and did a pretty slapdash job of the hem. And I think it's going straight to the op shop. Half of it is way too big and it looks a bit too Robin Hood for my liking. Never mind, it's a step up from the last green dress I tried to make.

Regretsy

I made this dress this week. Well...I made most of this dress. And I thought I was being really thrifty and clever, making it out of an old sheet that was the most lovely shade of green...
Then I put it on. And Mr Millicent Crow said "Hey, that looks like the Pak n'Save uniform! Or like you're a doctor, and you made your own scrubs!" And he was right. It hung terribly, was all wrinkly, was too big and clung in a weird way at the bottom of the pockets. You could tell it was made out of an old sheet, and not in a good way. It brought back memories of working in a supermarket and having to sign a form to get your belt to go over your uniform issued to you...as if you'd steal the hideous thing. So, Burda 8706, I won't be making you again. At least I put the zip in relatively straight...the second time!