A little color blocking nightmare party....v2127 gives me ideas

 So I am working on Vogue 2127, that Miyake top.

Does it have hot quilting cotton potential?

Maybe. I bought the Tula Pink Red Queen fabric on pure impulse, and now I have to figure out how to make it go to work. I did use the green Chrysanthemum cotton for a swing top after I did this sampler.

I did a similar test with the TokyoBots (a dress I should get to wear this week).

Thinking about this:

https://helensclosetpatterns.com/2018/09/10/the-refashioners-2018/

What is probably going to happen is the Siena Shirt. I've color blocked it before and liked the results.

And Siena wins the Red Queen Lottery! And I had to buy a yard of the painted roses polka dots, but they do look super fine together.

Metro Safety Survey

 

This is a real survey from my real bus service. And yes, I would love to be the Czar of Bus Routes

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And another dire warning from Feedburner. I dunno..

Post Script to Shirt Search

 

This shirt has taken quite a beating, so I am sure they made it more than once.

And here is a hint as to how it's constructed

The pieces on the upper right have grain lines on them: the collar piece could be on the bias anyway.

And here's the closeup

These pages are from Pattern Magic 2, not my book, not my information. My photos of the library book (I sold my copy apparently)

Anyway, I won't be making one soon, I still have too much work, homework and helping pack up someone else's stuff. But I will.

Housekeeping Again: Resubscribe with new service follow.it

 

Feedburner is dead, or will be shortly.

I could take all your emails and drop them in another service, but that seems rude.

So, if you want to keep getting whatever it is I am serving, you will have to subscribe with this widget for follow.it

https://follow.it/about

They promise not to be jerks. 

We shall see.

It's down towards the bottom of the blog, below the monster label cloud (that got big and not so useful. I will have to reconsider).

Putting it at the top looked really rude. I cannot make it smaller

but there it is.

Actual sewing content soon

Don't you own an iron?

 

Vogue's photo not mine

Oh c'mon, this is VOGUE for goshsakes

https://somethingdelightful.com/v1789

I promised myself I would not do this again, but I have been seeing more and more of this 'handy hands at home' finishing on pattern photos, and WHY

WHY do you think this is going to sell your pattern to me?

If YOU can't finish it nicely, WHO can?

Misses' pants, high waisted, very loose-fitting through hip, have waist facings with boning, pleats, side seam pockets, invisible back zipper. B: hem band.

I have never pretended to be any more than handy homemades. I tend to rush at the end and skip nice finishing, at least for myself. I can do a super nice job if someone hands me money.

For myself, not so much.

This does not make me think I am going to be able to get better results than they did. Or if that hem and the stuff going on at the top of the waistband is intentional, well... that's a choice.

This Shirt Is My New Obsession: Christine Wada is a genius

 

I am clearly losing my touch if I missed this last week.

To my credit, I am watching this show on a teeny laptop in my basement

(which has been a balm and a blessing during our heat wave)

not in the promo art

So we gotta take this one apart because I WANNNNNNNTTTTTT

I am trying to find photos of the back of this shirt. Pretty sure I am going to have to make my own screen grabs of this. 

But I did find this, which proves how AMAZING the costuming is on this show

https://twitter.com/sophiadimartino/status/1410512718952607744

Also pretty sure after an hour of sketching that I am going to have to drape this to see how to make that one seamless piece and which way the bias is running on it to get it to drape that nicely. That's a woven shirting fabric.

This post will be continued. Any ideas or suggestions, lemme know in the comments. If you know anyone with any intelligence on this shirt PLEASE pass my query along.