Once I got my new patterns in my grubby little paws, I could think of little else and so I immediately started working on the 1937 Simplicity Pattern...
This one:
So of course I made up a test version:
With a zipper closure on the right side and four fabric covered buttons on the front.
It's not perfect... The welts on the pockets made me a little crazy,
From a distance they look okay, but up close, meh...
Face on it's not so bad:
But it's not really me.. the first thing I thought when I saw it on the dress maker's dummy was "Victorian school marm"... It's not what I was going for. I haven't finished the hem on it, I did put the zipper in and now it's back on the pile of "needs hand stitching".
I did manage to get a zipper in one high waisted skirt and then button holes in the other one. I'm not really sure that I like either one of them. The pattern is cheap and wonky and really requires a lot more drafting to make it fit well. I don't feel like putting that much work into it. I think I'd rather just go back to cranking out pencil skirts.
I'm in the process of moving and re-organizing all of my Retro-Fitted photos from the PC to the laptop. I've lost a ton of images and the organization of a lot more and i'm reduced to trying to reorganize them via mouse sized thumbnails. ARGG.
On top of that, the new laptop has NO PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE... I had gotten so spoiled by Photoscape. They don't make a MAC friendly version, so it's GONE! I looked at iPhoto but it's not downloaded to this one and tells me I need a new version of quick time before it can download. Maybe I'll do that today... I really need a better way to view and store stuff, not to mention crop and edit photos.
Narf!
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