Looking through the Garnet Hill catalog recently, I came across the most fabulous linen dress. It is one of those crossover/wrap dresses that do so much to hide figure flaws, and the color--sage green--was calling my name. The hang-up was the price, $98.00. What can I say? I am a cheap-skate at heart, even though I did consider buying it for about 10 seconds.
Fast forward to my fabric store trip where linen (real linen!) was on sale for $2.99 per yard and it came in the exact same color! So for less than $10.00, that dress is cut up and in line for completion using New Look pattern 6674. (I am making the red dress in the bottom right corner in the second picture.) Take a peek:
The scary thing is that this dress has many more pieces than the patterns I usually try. For clothes I don't progress any farther than Sew Easy or Sewing For Dummies patterns, but for this dress I am scaling that mountain. Hopefully I will be posting some successful dress pictures soon!
The last items to be made for my craft show at the end of the month are these handbags:
Getting ready for this craft show has been much easier than my last since I already have lots of things made. That, of course, is another way of saying that lots of goodies didn't sell last time! Oh well, I am hoping for better luck this time!
Have a wonderful day!
