A Woman Divided

Hello friends!  I am suffering with a bit of sewing split personality disorder at the moment.  Practical me wants to compile a collection of TNT patterns for essential items.  Creative me wants to tea dye crinkle gauze, and hand paint silk dresses, and put glass seed beads on everything, and do all kinds of other creative projects.  Balance has never been my best attribute!

My beloved TNT t-shirt pattern has gone the way of the dodo bird.  Somewhere in the move from the basement to the main level, it just vanished never to be heard from again.  I still have the original pattern, but the truth is I was starting to fall out of love with this pattern anyway, and by the time I got the thing to TNT status I had Franken-patterned the hell out of the original pattern.  So I have decided to start over, from scratch.

About a month ago Lauren at Lladybird posted about the method that she uses for t-shirt necklines.  I tried it that afternoon, and it rocked my t-shirt sewing world.  It is just basically a bound neckline, but I lurve the look of it.

Bound Neckline on T-shirt

If you follow my instagram, you may recognize this pic.  This is what the bound neckline ends up looking like.  I think it just looks so much more polished than the regular neckline method I have been using.  I plan to incorporate it in to my new t-shirt TNT pattern, and may even toy with using it to "hem" sleeves as well.

There are many other TNT patterns to be made including pants, jeans, cardigans, tank tops for layering, so many things!

Then there is this whole creative wonder world that is spinning around in my head.  The things that I want to make.  Do you ever suffer from creative ADD?  All these beautiful ideas swirling around in your head, and not enough time to get them all down on paper, much less to actually make them.

Sometimes random inspiration keeps me up sewing in to the wee hours of the morning.  That is my favorite kind of creative energy.  When you become so passionate about getting something made that sleep, food, and everything else will have to wait until you can get that fantastic creative idea out of your head and in to reality.  Am I the only one who turns mad sewist in the wee hours?

Fall Sewing List 2014

With my wrist and hand injury, since I can’t really sew (though I did finish off a t-shirt yesterday and am paying for it today) I am working on things like organizing my sewing area, making my Fall sewing list, and cooing over fabric that I want to buy but can’t justify at this time.

I am normally not one to deprive myself when I find a fabric that really grabs me.  But, there is a lot of potential change that is happening around here, and the thought of adding to my stash and having to drag it half way across the country is just not appealing at all.

There are a lot of great things that I want to sew for Fall 2014, and I have a lot of light sweater knits in the stash that are screaming at me right now to make something beautiful out of them.  Most of the things that are really inspiring me right now have nothing to do with sweater knits though.

A few weeks ago when the temperatures dropped in to the 40s at night, and before I went on the disabled sewers list, I sewed a red and white stripe sweater knit into a self drafted dolman style tunic.  It is really cute and is already getting a bit of rotation in the wardrobe.  It is great with jeans, which I wear a ton of this time of year.   It is just a really nice transitional piece that I have been .

So what am I looking forward to sewing this Fall?

First things first, I am looking forward to sewing my wrap dress for the Curvy Sewing Collective Wrap Dress Sewalong.  For the sewalong, I am sewing Butterick B5898 but I will be sewing it with either long sleeves or three quarter length sleeves (can't make up my mind).  This is going to be done in a great red and black ponte that I found at Hancock Fabric.

Green Style Creations has a great raglan t-shirt that I am looking forward to diving in to this Fall.  I see many great things in this pattern, including a spirited shirt for my favorite college football team.  I may split it down the middle and make a raglan cardigan out of it as well, but we will see if I manage to get to that.

Burda Style #7168 in view C is also on the list.  I have a piece of eggplant purple faux suede that is calling out to be made in to this casual jacket.  Paired with a fitted t-shirt, skinny jeans, and tall boots, this jacket will become a Fall Classic.

I also intend to make Burda Style Animal Print Dress #133b from the downloadable site.  Am I the only one that thinks things get confusing between the patterns in the magazine, the downloadables, and the paper patterns all from Burda Style?  I have a cream and black animal print ponte from Fabric Mart that I am going to use to make this.  I really like the shape of this dress, and think it will be very cute paired with tights and ankle boots.

I know there will be many more items that will be on my Fall 2014 sewing list, but these are the ones that I will be sewing as soon as my wrist heals.  

So, I gotta know is there something that you are looking most forward to sewing this Fall?