Going on in the sewing room, that is. Well, I suppose that’s not entirely true. I’ve been tweaking Tatiana’s ballroom dress. I added some more volume at the bottom by replacing the godets, and I’ve been bedazzling the bejeezus out of it. One thing I realized while watching it on the dance floor. Subtlety has no place in ballroom dance competitions. Now, there’s a Project Runway challenge – design a ballroom dance dress. I can just see Nina Garcia having fits over the amount of frou-frou you have to throw at these things to make them stand out on the dance floor.
On a personal sewing level, I haven’t had time to do much. The Chanel jacket is at the point where I’m doing the finish work on the lining. This is the boring part – it’s all fell-stitching. I’ll start blogging about it again once that’s done and I start on the embellishment and final finishing.
I’m also enrolled in Susan Khalje’s class, The Couture Dress, on Craftsy. I watched the first two lessons. I haven’t gotten any farther because we had our big anniversary sale at Gorgeous Fabrics. Once that was over, I had to clean up and restock. Speaking of which, how gorgeous is this super Hawt Designer Silk Twill???
Current season, darlings!
I am severely tempted to use it for my dress. In the meantime, I need to make a muslin of the pattern. Phyllis is going to help me fit the muslin. I also just was asked to do some costuming work, which is due in the next week, so there goes my weekend plans. Don’t you just hate it when life gets in the way? I also have a stack of patterns that I really want to sew, including the Jilly Jean from StyleArc. I feel a little like I have sewing paralysis – so many options that it overwhelms me.
On top of that, DS the elder is the second lead in the high school musical, “Kiss Me, Kate”. He’s in nonstop rehearsals. They did a photo shoot with the four leads earlier this week. He’s on the far right.
L-R: Kate, Petruchio, Bianca, Lucentio
I guess it’s not a whole lotta nuthin’, after all. But it’s not what I want to be working on. Oh well! Back to work and hopefully, eventually back to…
Happy sewing!
Sewing paralysis due to too many ideas and too many exciting things to sew is a great way to describe it! I’m enrolled in Susan Khalje’s Craftsy class, too. I’ve watched the first 7 videos, but haven’t worked on anything yet. Too many other things going on! Love the format on the Craftsy classes.
I’m enrolled in Susan Khalje’s Craftsy class, too…I am stuck at muslin stage struggling with armscye and waiting for my silk organza in the post. It’s my first Vogue pattern ever and I believe the armhole design is way too look. Tonight back to drawing board with Muslin 2…yeah!
meant to say…the armhole design is way too LOW
I’m also in the Susan Kahlji couture dress class on Craftsy! So fun to ‘see’ fellow students. I haven’t even gotten brave enough to cut my muslin yet. I’m big busted and always fight pattern fit.
( Have to get started soon.
Have fun and thanks for the post.
Ramona
Kiss Me Kate is one of my favorites! (We open in Venice ………… will be running through my brain the rest of the day!) Break a leg to the elder DS! What a talented family.
We did Kiss Me, Kate when I was in high school, too! Man, it doesn’t seem like that long ago, but it was actually twenty-something years ago… I hope he has as much fun with it as we did. Can’t wait to see the bedazzled ballgown when you get it done.
I’ve never seen ballroom dance competition or the gowns in person. Those gowns are certainly bedazzled, sequined, feathered, fringed extravaganzas. I wonder if they will become so fancy, that suddenly someone will do something simple and it will be the eye-catcher? Sort of like a Shaker chair in a room of Victorian furniture. Probably not, since our eye is drawn to things that are bright, shiney/sparkly, or move. I’m looking forward to seeing the improvements to Tatiana’s gown.
Sort of. . .the problem is the distance, I would say. When the judges are far away, subtle details and tasteful colors just vanish against the background. Bling and motion and garish bright colors remain noticeable. (Thus I was regularly sent to the far end of the fabric store, holding aloft a bolt of spandex, so that mom and my sister could judge whether or not the fabric was still noticeable at judging distance.) Ballroom dancing has to be even more demanding considering that they have close-ups as well!
One of my little sister’s skating costumes was simple and eye-catching, styled like an ao dai, but the straight-ish cut of the skirt didn’t do her any favors during the spins. The skirt did not spin like a classic ice skating skirt, therefore the spin did not look correct, therefore points were lost. On the other hand, her spinning costume was a tacky foil stick-of-Juicy-Fruit-gum print, but the skirt was doubly full and her spins were amplified by all the shine and volume–with that outfit, with the same skating skill, she won.
I HATE work getting in the way of so much fun.
You have to wear sunglasses when working on stage/theater/TV stuff.
Love, love, love Kiss Me Kate (♪♫♪♫♪♫….any Tom, Dick and Harry….any Tom, Harry or Dick…..♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫) Cute, cute, cute kids!