Defying Gravity with Gowns

...So, this is really a sewing blog, but one usually needs some sort of inspiration, right? I have no event to go to that requires a ball gown, but I was reorganizing my notebook full of magazine rip-outs and found these photos again.

I really don't know what magazine these are from. These rip-outs were sent to me years ago, so I only know the designers from the bottom description lines.

Christian Dior

Emanuel Ungaro

Versace

Christian Lacroix

Gaultier

(Please excuse the wrinkles.)

If I could, I would...

If only I could get my hands on an outrageous amount of black tulle and black silk dupioni--I know just the type of evening dress to make.

I have not sketched my idea yet, but imagine the combination of--if this combination is really fusible--Grace Kelly and the vamp (the seductress, not the vampire, although current fads indicate that vampires are seductive).

I would say that I could save this idea for my future, future wedding dress, but the idea wouldn't translate well with white, cream, or pale fabric. Black it must be. Oh well, maybe one day.

I'll just dream until then.

Mini Things Among the Green

Whether the idea had been influenced by an Alice in Wonderland-like dream or not, I woke up one morning earlier this week and immediately decided that I had to make a mini wardrobe. Of course, I couldn't let it stay empty, so it's filled--although sparsely--with mini outerwear and coat hangers.

And then I thought, why not also make a chair to go with it, too? Whatever elfen-like creature that scrounges through the closet will have to have something to toss her clothes upon.



I was going to make a bed, a bedside table, and a lamp to go along with it, too, but I then remembered the stack of traced and cut patterns that I have ready to go...

First Post!

I have so much free time (well, compared to previously—I'm not exactly acting as the vegetable on the couch)! To prevent myself from going crazy, I've been reading tons of blogs. Initially, most of them were artsy/food/life blogs. My selection then narrowed and escalated into a singular focus of me exclusively reading sewing blogs—TONS of sewing blogs. Which explains why my clothing sewing count now has risen to two completed tops and one coat in-progress. (I'll post those another time.) Additionally, the to-do list consists of one Vogue dress, one military-style dress, one Grecian-style dress, and one coat for the upcoming, much upcoming winter (hmm, I wonder the sudden predilection for a bunch of dresses?). The to-do list is shown below:




All of these accumulated in the past two months. The previous count—or rather, the non-existent count—was zero. Am I crazy? Yes, probably, because it seems that instead of detoxing from the stress of the previous semester, I've been heaping the stress upon myself with all of the seams that I've had to rip out from sewing the wrong sides of pieces together sequentially not once, twice, but thrice times.

While it seems that all I'll be talking about on here is sewing, sewing, and more sewing, I figure that my frantic spurts of sewing will taper off at times to allow and, probably more truthfully, to require other topics and endeavors to take over for that time being. Additionally, this summer promises to be a fairly exciting one; and with going off to college in the fall and knowing that I probably won't have time to update everybody about to my life in between getting to know my classmates, homework, eating, homework, exercising to keep off the threatened “Freshmen 15”, homework, something might give. Just a bit. But since a visual aspect can be factored in (granted, Skype allows one to do show-and-tell quite well...), you slightly seem to get the better end of the deal.