Birthday Outfit

I had wanted to include pictures with this entry, but since my camera cord has up and vanished again (oh the joys of moving) I guess I'll have to come back and add them later :/

I got the entire thing cut out Saturday evening. Sunday was rather busy with church and then carol festival that night, so I didn't get anything done on the dress. Last night I got the dress part all finished up to hemming. I plan to do a rolled hem, so when I venture downstairs, where the serger is, (I brought my machine upstairs.. I have a 'sewing room' downstairs, but I hate being away from everything when I sew, so I brought it up here instead, lol) I'll finish it up then (I love my serger at times) and then this morning I assembled the jacket, all that's left assembly wise is some hand stitching of the collar.

I went with a completely black, flowy material for the dress. The stripes on the rainbow material just didn't agree with the cut of the dress I wanted to do. That was quite annoying. So black dress, the material being one of the much larger pieces of scrap that I got a few months ago from an old friend (several boxes of scraps) and the I used the rainbow material for the jacket. Now that it's done I almost wish I'd used some black on the jacket as well. Oh well. One of the drawbacks to being rushed, brilliant ideas come after the fact.

Either tonight or tomorrow I shall start with the embellishing. I have some ribbon roses that I HAD got to possibly use with the flower girl dresses, but didn't, but they match the rainbow stuff to a T, so I'm going to use them on the black dress, with one possibly being used for a hair accessory (the Indigo one of course ;) lol) I did top stitching with a blend of black thread with a rainbow varigated thread I had just a bit left of. I'm thinking the black thread was too thick for the combo compared to the other thread though, so not 100% thrilled with it unfortunately. Something to rememebr the next time I try that trick (yes, was the first time I've attempted it)

Nice purple zipper in the black dress. And terrible hand stitching of the lining to the bodice *sigh* A hand stitcher I am not :P Other than in cross-stitch, lol.

I think that's likely about it for now, as soon as I find the missing camera cord I'll post pictures in here.

Toodles Doodles!