Get A Wiggle On

                    I am attempting to combine my love of easy wear stuff, with my love of vintage. Also, I need to start dressing to make myself happy, not just grab whatever is clean and feel like blarg. In effort to complete this task, I am making shorts! There are two kinds of shorts that I am interested in. High waisted shorts.  -and Flared Shorts: Now, I do feel these are a bit, uh short. Ironically. Which is why I wont be buying from Unique Vintage for my short needs. Ill being sewing them.  (Note, I bought ALL my capris from Unique Vintage, I love them. Review to come) Ive got a couple patterns that Im looking at. The definite ones are Simplicity 3688, and Butterick 5895.   Other ideas are as follows::  As for fabrics, this will be a stashbuster. I have linen in the following colors: Beige with thin black checker board, black, purple, teal, red and beige plain. I also have thin blue denim and a selection of cotton fabrics

Ok, I must admit. I am bitten by the Gothic Romantic Bug. Typically this leans a bit toward Victorian, however, with the decadent costumes of Crimson Peak I couldn't help myself. It was hard too, because I have bits and bobs for white, cream and ecru, enough to make plenty of white, sensible Edwardian undies with no issues and no further money spent. And I was gonna do it too, I was going to lock my inner 14 year old crying for goth ways in her room and sew with what I HAD.  Um.  For Christmas I got a 35 dollar gift card for JoAnns, and while there I found this. One dollar a yard. Six yards on the role.  OH COME ON!!! So off I went, digging through my gargantuan stash. I know I have enough black to kit together a decent mourning undie set, I KNOW it. Just took some looking. I found about four yards of black cotton, and a thin, mystery poly slightly shiny? Also a thin black fabric, kinda like a super thin gabardine? Lastly I found three rolls of smaller

Ive been languishing. My weight has really inhibited my seamstressing, I mean, I KNOW Im awesome. I mean, c'mon! Im adorable! But my self esteem is a solid LOW, and recent health issues have impacted that like the comet that killed the dinosaurs impacted the Earth. I wear character tshirts Ive have for YEARS and jeans and hoodies. I dress like a college kid. Im thirty years old. I mean, theres nothing WRONG with that, but I feel like I should make more of myself. The dresses I have made in the past are a little 'too' much for my day-to-day. Like, I would ROCK them on a themed outing, but I dont feel like myself wearing them everyday kinda thing. I work from home now, instead of going into an office, so getting all kitted out to just say, go to the grocery store or run errands has no appeal. So I've decided to MELD the two looks, slumming it with jeans and a ratty t-shirt, and fabulous novelty prints TOGETHER. I'm sewing a selection of skirts, as well as