Even little Mississippi couldn't escape the winter storms that have descended upon the country this week. We've had some snow, but especially more ice than we've had in a long time. And the snow only turns into more ice every time we turn around, including on the roads, so I'm not going anywhere I don't have to be. A silver lining in these silver days is that more time to sew has landed in my lap!
Stash busters are really the name of the game this season, so I pulled out leftover Bolt fabric that I used to make this dress...
For the remaining fabric, I found a blouse from Kana's Standard that I could squeeze out of the yardage I had left, if I left off the lining of the bottom half of the blouse. It's pictures only if you can't read Japanese, but if you've ever made a shirt with lining, or even facing, it's fairly straight-forward. Despite the generally easy construction, I made a few mistakes by being experimental that I spent too much time undoing.
Other things that are getting done while on a little winter vortex break: yoga, projects for my part-time job, setting my sewing room up completely. Oh yeah, the last one is a feat! I've just been piling things in there haphazardly since I moved most of it in the week of the wedding. 🙄 However, trying to finish this blouse up in the mess was the last straw, so I finished it up as much as I could.
Let's savor the irony of this situation -- just as I'm typing up these last words, the power, which I just thought about how grateful I was for it, has just gone out due to the freezing rain. C'est la vie. Well, at least now I have a moment to plant more projects, right? 😆
Happy Sewing!
