I've got a feeling, that today is going to be......

A good day for sewing. 

Last two weeks have been so hectic at work that I had a major melt down on Friday-at least major for me.  A good Appletini and nice dinner with DH (who also had a crazy week) helped reduce the stress I was feeling.  After a good night's rest on Friday and last night, I am back to feeling happy again.

I also have been very sewing motivated today.  Last night I cut out the fabric for my next skirt again using the Butterick pattern shown in the right side of this blog.  This AM, following my coffee break and blog/email reading, I began the sewing of the skirt.  Here are a few shots of my skirt in progress taken with my iPad camera app:

The pleather is a brown/black croc skin that I think I purchased when I lived in Florida over 12 years ago.  It was going to be a purse, but that never came to be.  The bottom front of the skirt is a brown polyester gabardine acquired from Sewing Studio several years ago, which I was going to attempt to make a pair of pants.  That did not happen either.  So today both have become part of a new skirt.

The pleather has not been difficult to sew and mostly I have sewn from the wrong side which is more of knit type backing. When I topstitched the pieces I switched to a Teflon coated foot and that worked very well.  I decided I wanted to line the skirt so I will work on that this afternoon.

My next challenge is going to be a jacket using faux Sherpa/shearling acquired recently from EmmaOneSock.  Our ASG Christmas party always has a fashion show and this year the show will be about jackets.  More on this later.

Vogue 8750

Following dinner with DH, I spent time moving fabric from one place to another.  This is to begin my fall sewing and to refresh my memory of what I have in the stash.

I knew I had and did find some pleather pieces from my collection.  One is green and one is brown/black crocodile skin.  I want to incorporate one of them into a skirt.  The other (probably the green) will become a sleeveless top similar to this.

My first fall pattern to sew will be Vogue 8750, like the one the model is wearing.  I plan to use a denim fabric purchased from EOS in February of this year.

It has the look of lace overlay.  I washed it previously but thinking about washing it one more time.

It has some stretch to it as well which I like.  The pattern pieces have been cut out and I will pin fit tomorrow.