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Sew Much to Sew, Sew Little Time

First order of business is a holiday party dress. This will also be a prototype for the MOB dress. I've gotta get the holiday dress done before December 4th, which is the date of the first of 3 holiday events I know of so far. I'm going to use Vogue 7823 . Gonna do up a muslin first. Sandra Betzina herself recommended it to me as flattering for my figure. It's got great reviews on PR, and if the muslin looks halfway decent I'm off to find some pretty fabric.

After my holiday dress is finished I've got a bunch more patterns to make up:
  • Petite Plus Shapely shirt, using a denim-look stretch woven with a subtle sparkle
  • Unique trousers, using a bottom weight blue stretch woven (coordinates with the shapely shirt fabric
  • Simplicity 5469, in a stretch velvet that will go with my blue pencil skirt and maybe the blue stretch wovens.
  • Vogue 7333, or another pattern tbd, using a really nice tone-on-tone subtle stripe black polyester.

I don't want much, do I?

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