Not-So-Haute Couture

That's what The Manolo calls it, like this one: lodonstreetfashion .

No sewing has happened for weeks at my house. Why not? I'm trying to figure it out. First off, Dh & I radically changed our eating habits by giving up sugar & refined frankenfood. It's not the first time we've done that, but this time it's do or die (and I mean that literally, what with the high blood pressure and all). A body can only handle so much change at once, plus it takes time to shop for and prepare actual, real, true fresh food. It's worth it, though; we feel great and are losing weight, but I haven't got any sewing done. Just when I started getting used to our new eating habits & thought I might get my sewing groove back we noticed that house prices in our neck of the woods have stopped going up; indeed we are now seeing such phrases as, "price reduced" and "motivated seller" in the local real estate ads. So we're checking out the housing market. Going to open houses affects my sewing time! Plus, if we do buy a hou

DH needs some more work shirts. Last time I got what I paid for, cut I still want a bargain! Maybe this will do: Fashion Fabrics Club

What The Sartioralist does for New York, Face Hunter does for Paris (and other European cities), apparently.

I had a week off of work and did I get any sewing done? Nope. I wanted to, and after a couple of days of vacation I'd finished up some other stuff & was ready to, but I organized the sewing area instead. My (small) fabric stash has been swatched onto index cards, with the fabric itself neatly tied into rolls and stored in a labeled flip-top bin. Gone are some once-promising but now-wadder-chalk it up as a learning experience-projects such as my bodice sloper and a previous princess seam blouse that I had altered into oblivion and could no longer figure out where I was. I am sticking with 3 of my basics at this point: Basic princess shell Basic darted blouse Basic pants with the princess shell at the top of my list, since it's summertime and this is a sleeveless top (however, I would wear it under a jacket or sweater at work). Both the shell and the darted blouse are very close to becoming well-fitted, tried 'n true patterns and I'm excited to start making them in d