Sewing room sneak peak..

Hi All,

Working on fancying up my sewing room and thought I'd show you a few sneaky pics and how it's (kinda) coming together..

The white roses you see in the vases are dried from my wedding day and were gifted to me from close friends so it makes them extra special :)

Also just received my Butterick B5895 pattern, and am super excited to search for fabric :)
Oh my gosh, I am so in love with this fabric on Tessuti fabrics

*sigh* unfortunately my husband would kill me if I purchased any at that price..

Also working on ANOTHER B5748 I know I know.. its a pink and white polka dot cotton sateen and it feels lovely:) Will post pictures once complete.. (highly likely to be the day of the wedding it's intended for, oops)

Two New Looks

I first saw this pattern on i heart fabric, I swear I find so many things on Erin's site haha..
It was a post about Clothing Inspiration, and she had matched popular clothing brands with Sewing patterns. Score!

I absolutely love Cue dresses, but find they are always too short for my liking.. and out of my (Husband's) price range.

So I decided to give New look 6124, View E a crack and see if it would end up looking even remotely like a bought dress..
I didn't make the peplum, because let's face it, I don't really need extra material in the hip department.

Firstly I made my muslin from a poplin cotton that was on special at $3 a mtr, another great thing about this dress is it only needs 2 mtr's of fabric!

I didn't really get a lot of pictures of the muslin because I wore it out that night.. You can kind of see it in this picture below :)
But I did the sleeves a little differently from the pattern.. I gathered them a little to give a ruched effect. I think it turned out ok :)

The actual intended fabric is a cotton sateen at $12 a mtr... I clearly haven't got the matching patterns etc down yet, but will try harder next time.. Let me know what you think :)