Decorating Masks

 

Most of these are decorated with the tatting I did when I worked through The Tatted Artistry of Teiko Fujito in 2016. I hesitated to use them on masks that will be sold to strangers. But when a friend of our died recently, the contents of his house were basically shoveled into trash bags by strangers. Rather put things to use. Any use. 

No Waste

 

 I have another order for masks. I was able to make mask linings from the fabric I cut off when making my A-line skirt. Hooray. It won't go to waste. And the small pieces that remained (left over left overs!) will go to a women's group who make rag rugs. 

Christmas Greetings

 

Much Quicker

 

This A-line skirt was a quick project, whizzed up in an afternoon. This style is a bit wasteful, not my 'cut my coat according to my cloth' type, but it looks good on and I will no doubt be able to use the off cuts of fabric for some other project. 

The Kimono Dress At Last

 

 I'm happy with how the kimono dress turned out, after some tweaking. I probably won't use the pattern again though. The kimono sleeves caused too much angst. 

Buttonholes

 

I didn't quite finish sewing my dress yesterday. I still have buttonholes and buttons to do. I don't often make buttonholes, so I had to look up the instructions! There's a special foot and special stitches and dire warnings about the little lever labeled Push that needs to be down for buttonholes and up for everything else:

I have some flowery buttons that fit well with the fabric. Contrasting buttons would also have worked, but I have these in my stash, and enough of them, so they're the ones. 

Refashioning

 I think I've made a plan to make the kimono dress wearable, hooray. One thing that gave me the 'courage' I needed to make changes was my recent discovery of the website Refashionista.net   It has been going for ten years, so I don't know why it took me so long to discover it! Jilly buys thrift store clothing and then snips and sews and refashions them to suit her own size and style. There are some simply amazing transformations on her site. I had to cut off a section of the back to make it less pouffy, channeling my inner jilly as I did so! I hope to get finished today, fingers crossed.