no music playing currently. tyler is playing video games.
why are we up so late, you might ask. well that is a very good question - we're usually in bed by a respectful hour. we went to game night. it was pretty fun. we played a few rounds of killer bunnies (total dork game... but really fun) and some team trivial pursuit. when the last game finally ended... we came home. but weren't tired. and so now tyler is playing his uber dorky video game he got on boxing day (and is totally addicted to), and i am embarking on possibly the most daunting task i have ever faced.
there was a big sale at fabricland today. i went, and was VERY excited to find that the vogue patterns were on for $5.99 - which is amazing. i had been eying up the vogue vintage patterns for a while. they are regularly $33. but they are the same patterns they had in the 40's and 50's. i got two dress patterns. one from 1948 and the other from 1957. sooo cute. i also got some fantastic fabric for the easier of the two patterns. its the 1957 dress. the fabric is satin-ey lime green with brown giraffe type spots on it. i love it. its kind of... almost tacky, but awesome. love love love it. i also got a pattern for some skirts which i could wear to work, and some fabric for the dress pattern i got for christmas. it was a good haul. i came home feeling VERY accomplished, and with some steady sewing work ahead of me (after cutting out patterns for what would feel like eternity!).
i will note to you the one major error i made. i couldn't find the sizing chart for the vogue patterns. i got one that was a size 6 - 8 - 10.
when i got home i quickly busted out the pattern for the dress which i planned to make out of the wonderful fabric i found, and started cutting. i then think, 'i should look for a sizing chart somewhere before i cut for a specific size'. the other pattern that i got for christmas is (i'm pretty sure) standard dress makers size? i am a size 6. i found the sizing chart for this one... OH NO. i should be a 14. and i had already started cutting...
refusing to give up the beautiful plan i had in my head for this garment... i remember my handy dandy set of rulers (from my brief go at fashion design school in 2006) and decide, 'no problem, i'll just grade the pattern pieces up two sizes!'. so i cut out all the pieces in the size 10.
so now i have the most daunting task of my life in front of me. first - trace all the pattern pieces on to news print. second - grade everything and hope that my logical thinking is actually the right way to do this. third - cut all the now news print pieces out. and then follow pattern instructions as usual.
i have done two SMALL pieces. luckily... there aren't that many pieces for this pattern. and luckily they all seem to be graded fairly easily... at least i THINK it makes sense to me. and what the eff would i do without my hip curve, and curved ruler, and oh so handy clear ruler.
i'm sure i will be writing about frustrations with this product. i am REALLY hoping the outcome is good.
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ooh good luck! I wish I could sew from patterns, it sounds like so much fun. It's too bad I didn't know you were into vintage patterns like 2 years ago when I went to france! BECAUSE, when I was in a tiny tiny little village there, me and Andreas were walking and we just happened to notice an old farmhouse with some really awesome OLD cars outside of it, and a sign that said "more in the back". So on a whim we decided to go and look, and it was just full of cool old stuff, including two huge piles of vintage patterns, most of them vogue. they were crazy cheap, like 30 cents each or something. I got a few and gave them to my friend Sarah who I'm not really friends with anymore...it'd be much cooler if you had them. Ahhhh well!
ReplyDeletei must confess it sound more than daunting to me. but i just don't get that kind of stuff. sounds like a good challenge for you and i can't wait to see the finished product. good luckiloo!
ReplyDeleteit IS pretty scary, laura. and it is taking all my will power to make myself do it and not just shove it in a drawer somewhere. i kind of want to do it just to say that i can. ya know?
ReplyDeleteand amy... i am so sad you didn't know i would have loved those too. that sounds like an amazingly awesome score!