Mirroring Suzy Bee Sews - Life So Strange It Should Be Fiction

Also known as the stashbuilding exercise (because of course, the one thing I need is more fabric.......Ha!) It was a great day, big thanks to Kat for organising it and driving me around the city. I got a huge kick out of recognising patterns walking around (a few Tiramisus, a hollyburn and a Surreau!), plus matching voices to faces and meeting some other sewists ( especially anyone  who can get a Simpsons Frogurt reference!). It was a huge day though and I was absolutely knackered by the end of it, the heat, a thumping headache and my usual ability to stress myself to pieces over new experiences/meeting people/new places means I was pretty haggard by the time we finished! Got some great fabric though and discovered some new shops, I really loved Rathdowne Fabrics , GJ's Discount fabric , Darn cheap and the Alannah Hill outlet . I love the ones full of fabric rolls or remnant bins that you have to dig through to find a gem, the fancier ones intimidate the hell o...

I cut out this version straight after finishing the last one, I love this pattern! I've had this fabric in my stash for a while, it was one of those preshirred fabrics that are hemmed on one end and shirred on the other, I suppose its so you could make a really quick strapless dress out of it. I chopped off the shirred bit and just used the bottom half. I had plans for this to be a teal knit on the top and the stripes on the bottom to break it up a bit, but the teal ended up too tight and got chucked aside. Luckily I had enough to cut out the bodice from the leftover stripes! I always seem to struggle with knits being either too stretchy or not stretchy enough! Same sizing as last time , I did add about 1cm to the bodice front though and it sits nicely underbust now. I love the stripe layout, the pattern makes it really easy, I cut everything in a single layout using this technique . It means the stripes are identical and makes it so much easier to sew. I read a  blog post  th...