Still sewing...

For anyone who has the Carter pattern by Cyndi & Company, make sure your pattern pieces have *resived 2009 written on it. Things seem to be going along much easier now.

Here is the pleated front skirt with the inverted pleat, although you can't see it here. I've also sewn the contrast bands onto the bodice yoke front and backs. In this pic, the lining is going on. Then I'll be making the skirt placket and sewing the skirt to the bodice. I didn't get revised directions, so I'm making most of it up.

Put on your sunglasses! This is the next thing on my sewing agenda. I think I'll be making View 1 of Bonnie Blue's Shelby Kate.

I was so excited to see Southern Matriach's post about machine embroidery. I've been studying my new-to-me Viking Rose. I also won a good deal for a reader/writer on eBay, so we'll see...maybe I'll play around with that here soon.

Hmm....does everyone know what this is? We're having a cool rainy day, so I thought I'd make some vegetable beef soup with okra! Yum...it's sooo good. It'll be too hot here to have soup before long, so I thought I"d give it one last shot.

Carter

A Carter update: The designer of the pattern contacted me by email the other day. She told me that she has revised directions to this pattern and she offered to mail them to me. I was pleasantly surprised. She also gave me the skirt measurements, which I cut out. The measurements were the width of 45" fabric by 21.5 inches. Cut both on the fold and then cut the front down the center front line to make two pieces. In fact, I cut out the whole pattern. From what I understand, there may be some revisions to the bodice also. I'm looking forward to checking them out.

I have the two front skirt pieces pleated, but I think I'll wait before I go any farther. This linen sure did pleat nicely.

I delivered about 1200 of these today...not to mention about 1200 pre-census census' last week. Whew!

Lizzie says....MEOW!!

SHE ALSO SAYS...WHY ARE THERE THREE OF ME?

Aggravated!

I finished another maternity dress for my daughter last week. I love this pattern...KwikSew 3486. She is due in 2.5 more weeks, so maybe she'll be able to wear it a few times. lol...Our winters are usually very mild-mild enough to wear summerish dresses, but not this year! Oh well, we'll just put it up for another time. (That's wishful thinking for you!)

I had the worst time with the invisible zipper. I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but I was using the little plastic invisible zipper foot I bought from Hancocks. I guess it's getting old, because it kept shifting left and right while I was sewing. The invisible zipper turned out being not very invisible. I ended up buying the invisible zipper foot that was made for my machine...it ought to work much better.

This is my next project (Carter- by Cyndi and company)... and this is where the title of my post comes in. I've got everything cut out except for the skirt. I go to do that tonight, but.....no skirt pattern pieces! I have looked high and low for those things...they were right on my dining room table....where could they be?!?!? I am sooo aggravated. Then I was thinking that maybe the directions just give a rectangle measurement to cut out....ummm....nope...don't see 'em. I'm sure that's what I'll end up doing, but hey...I would just rather have the pattern pieces. Maybe I'll run across someone else who has the pattern and they can tell me if there are even skirt pattern pieces in the pattern.

Sooooo....until I figure out what I'm going to do about the skirt...I'll look over some things I got in the mail. I bought the A-Z book of Heirloom Sewing, a Bonnie Blue pattern called Shelby Kate, and an old Creative Needle baby issue that I missed way back when.