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Drooling over this dress! That fabric is delicious!

Dress by Brandon V Maxwell

Also, my mother would be pleased to know that I used a pattern from her collection, purchased sometime before I was even born, to make the skirt for my costume.

If there comes a time in the future when I think working with poly fabric, pre-pleated with mushroom pleats, is a good idea please smack me upside the head. At least the cotton lining fabric is making it suck a little less, and making my machine want to sew it a little more.

Yay, the fabric for my Weird Girl dress came today! !

My first official commission has been completed and is at a party with its new owner!
It's extra nerve-wracking to do a project for someone else, when I already want everything to be perfect.
I think it was mostly successful, and I learned lots, plus I have a new piece for my portfolio! Thanks to Alison for letting me do this with and for her!

Apparently it's been a while since I drafted a sleeve. Sorted it out, now I just have to match some plaid. Resisting curling up with the soft flannel instead...

It's funny how there are basic garments, like a button up shirt, one sees every day, yet when one tries to use those elements, the garment needs much studying.

Success! You would never know the fabric wasn't red to begin with! iDye is the best!

Working on the commission I took on. It's times like these when I wish I could somehow have every fabric I pictured in my head made in just the weight and fiber content I desire. In this case I am settling for the right fiber and pattern and dying it.

It looks like I'm taking on my first commission! EEK! It's simultaneously exciting and terrifying!