It's been a while - But I'm SEWING!

Well folks, it has been a Loooong time since I've been over here. But I am finally here to show you what I've been working on!

SO Miss Charlie, Miss Marina, Miss Mel and I (ok and some others probably) have tickets to The Burlesque Ball which is next Saturday night. The dress code is Black, Red or Burlesque. We all had a million ideas about what to wear - some being very expensive, and some being reasonably easy. We made a couple of visits to Gallery Serpentine and got ideas, but couldn't really afford to buy any new pretties.

I did some searching on eBay and google and came up with some cool ideas. I have some fabric left over from another project which is really cool, and I've wanted to make a rockabilly style dress with ever since. Burlesque is a close second and a worthy runner up!

I wanted to make a 'frou frou' skirt - y'know ruffles and such. Miss Charlie found a 'Ra-Ra' skirt dead cheap somewhere and grabbed it for me. I had some left over fabric to use, and I went out and bought 50 buttons.

I already have an underbust corset I have borrowd from a friend (thanks Kath! I <3 You) So I came back home and proceeded to add the majority of the 10m of red lace to the skirt. I still had some of the button fabric left over so I decided to make a bit of a bustle to add a bit of pizaz. I lined the left over button fabric with the new red satin. I also had left over sating so that became a second bustle layer to try and break up the button pattern a little. I added the bustle tonight and it worked quite well (like I surprised myself!) I did take some of the button fabric to put on the singlet on the boobies! y'know, tie it all together.

Now I just need to make some straps for the singlet. I had a really cool idea to thread buttons on to ribbon as fake straps. I tried it on the train to Newcastle the other weekend and I like it, I think it will work out well.





I put it all on tonight and I quite like it. I am looking forward to finishing it all off and wearing it out next weekend.

OK, sure, I'd like to win the best dressed competition, but I don't expect to.

It is nice to be enjoying sewing, probably for the first time ever. There hasn't been any swearing, no manic sewing the night before (though there's still a week for me to suddenly realise something...) and I'm making it all up as I go along and it's usually working well and matching what's in my head.