I've been having a knarly time cutting out this poly chiffon, but I think it'll be delightful to wear, once I'm through.
I've had more practice with cutting now than anything else, thanks to all my unfinished projects. I'm getting less and less scared of it, and getting to enjoy it. I am noticing though, that I dont really like butcher block paper for my traced peices- at least not when Im cutting with something shifty like this chiffon. For future tracing, I might do it directly onto waste fabric- so much easier! And due to my poor choices in fabric purchases over the last year (dog clothing, anyone?) I have more of this than paper anyway lying around.
And of course, something new---
Despite all of my promises to do one thing at a time, the deliberate pace of the Pendrell sew along has me jonesin' for another project. I've now tried to print out the Danielle pattern from Burdastyle twice, but it keeps reverting to a 160% of the image when it prints out.
The first time this happened, I tried to make do, measure the peices and cut them out, but then I decided that would be a waste of everyone's time, and tossed the whole thing. The second time, I decided that Burastyle is against me, I threw up my hands and went with a different pattern for my next dress:
Im going to try it out in a size 14, and see if that does the trick.
So maybe this is going to be that first sheath dress I try out!
Then, after I had this all cut out, and I went to the fabric store to ask my favorite shop folks their opinion of fabric choice, the woman I spoke with hinted that it might not be the BEST design for someone with a less than spectacular waist-hip ratio. she may not have been talking about me- but the comment stalled me out for a good week or so. Does this ever happen to you? Its not that I felt bad about my body- its more that I wondered if the reason I never wear fitted sheath dresses is because they simply dont look good on me, not because they dont fit...hmm.
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