as promised: some snaps of the dress on myself - thanks to Vincent!
Dearest Hive Needleworkers & Friends!
Here's a new dress, made from a beautiful old bedsheet: one of the few items of bedlinen that came with us here to our new land - and since we are camping, I grabbed it to make a dress from, as it doesn't really fit in our tent setup 🤭
I started with the pockets! I'd seen a lovely kind of cheesecloth (thin lineny cotton?) dress in the market last week, which I wanted to recreate... And this kind of dress I love with BIG pockets - so I began by focussing on them, befor making the actual form.
Getting used to my new workspace has been a factor these past days - and having my old Brother sewing machine back makes this quite managable 🥳🥳🥳🥳
The older machine is so easy: it just runs along powerfully, and it's like listening to a classic car engine rather than a modern (bullshit) vehicle; the synchrony of the moving parts is tangible!!
I'm working mostly on the floor, in our workshed-house - a funny blend of ancient stone bothy vs modern brick carbunkle: this part where we have a floor blanket for siestas and being creative on, is also full of old tubes and bits of disfunctional furniture (which we're not sure how to recycle, yet!)
I do love working on the floor - it feels more spacious than a table, for sure...
More spacious than this table, which gathers all manner of debris throughout the day. It is the perfect sewing table though - with a favolosa panorama out across our olives, figs and hazelnuts - even if it wobbles a lot with the movement of the sewing machine. 🫣
What a hoo-ha it was to get the pockets in the right way!! I was going to refer to my Reader's Digest big sewing book, but know that it has quite complex instructions.
So I muddled through, and eventually figured them out okay... They simply need another few hand stitches, to seal them in.
The edges of the necks and arms may need some bias-binding to make the smarter, too; I'm not greatly precise at edging.
But the bottom edge came out rather neat.
When @vincentnijman gets up, I'll get a photo with me in the dress, on our new land 🤗🪷💝🥰🌈🌼 - no mannequin to show it on this time.
Blessings to you all - and I look forward to reporting back on the big wine festival next week; we'll be returning to Guardia for that, in a couple of days - and doing a pop-up shop + gallery!
With Love and Blissings!
