Next Project Inspiration- Donna Karan Resort 2012

The suit in the pic below is by  Donna Karan resort collection 2012. I fell in love with this suit the minute I saw it and the best part is that the fabric was in my stash. This project is a stash buster.

I started with my TNT skirt pattern and  drew the lines, labeled and numbered each section. See the pic below.

In the image below I reversed the pattern.

Here I cut the pieces apart.

Here is the interlining. The pieces will the sewn to the interlining. I am treating the fabric and the interlining as one.

Once the pieces were cut out, I realize that I had to flip over the interlining. I hand basted  the chalk lines on the interlining and on all the individual pieces.

In the pic below I sewed on the first two pieces of fabric onto the interlining, next to the red fabric a white fabric will be sewn.

The next post I will have the skirt completed. Here on the East Coast spring has arrived early. I had this suit in my sewing que I am going to finish this project before moving on to spring sewing.

Pattern Give Away, Next Project & Crochet Bag

Pattern Giveaway
This is my first patterns give away for 2012. If you are interested send me an e-mail with your name and address.

UPDATE- Butterick 5566  went to Ametlik in the Netherlands.

Crochet Bag - Angelina Jolie"s Bag

In a previous post I wrote about the Angelina Jolie bag that was popular in 2007. The bag is done; however I cannot find the leather handles to match, I may use bamboo handles. Jo-Anns does not have  handles that match the bag. I may use bamboo handles.   Next fall I am going to crochet the Angelina Jolie bag again in brown. I am going to make sure that I have the straps for the bag first.

On The Sewing Front
1. My inspiration- Donna Karan Resort 2012. More about that later
2. A red skirt that has been on my inspiration board for 2 years.

Later.........

Date Night

Last night was a special night for husband and I. As you can tell by the photos below I am dress to impress and so was my husband

This is a photo of me close up. I just love the earrings.

Here I am, just love this dress. This is dress has been in closet for as long as I can remember and it is my favorite LBD.

The pic below I have my black cardigan on.

Here is a pic of my beautiful shoes. As you can I love, love shoessssss!

Later.......

Inspiration, First Project for 2012 and Back In The Sewing Game

Lucky magazine is one of my favorite magazines. The image below was in the August 2011 issue of Lucky magazine.

Below is a fabric that I had in my collection. It has pink. black & white. The fabric is a home dec fabric 54-inches wide. I had 1-3/4 yd.

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The result was a simple and elegant skirt.

.I pair it with a black turtleneck sweater that has ruching on the sleeve with a black belt and some pretty suede ankle boots.

I wore this to work today with the pink belt.

 

Here is pic of my pretty suede ankle boots.

Stay tune, I plan to change this look in the spring by adding a white jacket or shrug with a sleeveless black T-shirt and white shoes, this look will be closer to the inspiration photo.

As part of my 2012 sewing goal is to improve my sewing skills. As far as techniques goes the skirt is fully lined. I treated the lining and the fabric as one. It has a centered zipper and bias binding use at the waist, it does not have a waistband. The skirt was hand basted including all grain lines sewing lines and hemlines. I also bought a DVD from the esewing workshop.com.  More about that in my next post. After watching the video I hand baste the hemline and I learned to hem the skirt by hand and not have stitch show on the front of the skirt.

Date Night

Last night was date night. My husband and I went to the Beacon Theater in New York City to a pre-valentine day concert with the Delphonics, Cuba Gooding,Sr ( the only surviving member of the 70's group the Main Ingredient)and other groups. The stars of the show was the magnificient "STYLISTICS". The STYLISTICS are truly entertainers, the concert was magnificient. The sang all the songs that I grew up listening to as a teenager growing up in the 70's.

This a pic of the interior of the Beacon Theater. It is a beautiful old theater that was remodel.

As you can see I take date night very serious,and just like Ericka I get casual but fancy and after being married for 32-years I am blessed this morning to have a wonderful family, beautiful children and a great husband.
As I listen to the sad new regarding the great WHITNEY HOUSTON I am devastated and truly sad. May God bless her and give her family the strength to get through the difficult days ahead. R.I.P. Whitney.

Date Night

Last Saturday my girlfriends ( one is missing ) and our spouses went on a dinner date and after dinner we went to the  to the movies. We had a great time. As you can see I am doing a bit of color blocking. The blue jeans is from J.C Penneys, the pink sweater, was in my closet  and  the shoes are nude.

Lunch Date and Crochet Project

Hello

Today hubby and I went to see Red Tail, if you have not seen the movie you are missing a treat. It was a great movie.

I started working on a crochet bag. This bag was popular in 2007, and I found the pattern here in 2007. I cannot remember the blog, however I know that blogger live in the middle east and she knit and crochet the most beautiful things by creating her own pattern. The bag measurement is 13-inches wide by 16 inches long. My bag is HUGE, so I checked the instruction and guess what I used a size 5 1/2 crochet needle instead of a size 4 crochet  needle. Oh well, I am going to start all over again. I was hoping to have it done by the end of January. Oh well I am going to start all over again with the correct size needle and hopefully in the next two weeks I will have a finished crochet bag.