Some projects are just too fun

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

So the mailman brings me a box today...

Addressed to G.G. (you know you spend too much time on the Alley when folks don't know your real name..>LMAO)

SO I open it up and the first thing I think is ...Oh this is going to be GOOD!

It is fabric, mock up, altered pattern, and parts to make a corset for Allie. Why is this so fun? Well, you would have to see the pattern she altered! and the fabric and all...Our Allie is a perfectionist (I know big surprise right?? :re ) The pattern is PERFECT, the fabric is PERFECT both in weight and general ohhh thats yummy color! the Mock is a bit sickening :18 .because it is PERFECT! :re Basically I have little to no work to do here...which is very cool.

Now dont get me wrong I love to sew for all kinds of folks and new folks and folks who dont sew are lots of fun too...for different reasons. But sewing for someone with skill and talent (aside fron the freak-out I hope I can do this project justice factor :eek: ) is just neat, and not something that happens very often, as we all very well know Allie does all her own stuff!

Well just wanted to share another of my little adventures in sewing.

Oh and I didnt even mention that allie and I (aside from a slightly better bustline-hers not mine :re ) are practically the same size...So HOW badly do you want this corset again?? Cause you know...it would fit me REAL good.... :ruff :w2 :grin evilb:

Greeneyed (just call me GG :w2 ) Gypsy

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

GG, I can't wait to see the corset you are making for Alli!! And believe it or not, she and I wear the same size corset! :eek: It's true, just ask Miss Tabitha, who explained it by saying that the two of us just "squish" in different places. :rofl

Fannie (who may be "borrowing" that corset) Kikinshoot

[Allie Mo]

Oh GG,

Did you say Allie? I'll be glad to take it! It must be my size too.

Regards,

Allie (with an e) Mo (no e)

[Tornado Alli]

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!! I can't wait to see what GG does with this fabric. It really is yummy and SO not my usual style!!! GG imagine it with a lavender boa around the edges! This is going to be fun.

Actually I have never made a corset before although I fully intend to one of these days! But I am so behind in my convention sewing that I decided now is not the time to learn! I have seen GG's work and I know it will be great! I can't wait to get it back!!!!

GG, as you can see I did what you said and didn't order the bones. When youl figure out what you need, let me know and I will order them and have them shipped to you. I do want the panel in the back and just a self bias edge. You can even do a grosgrain edge if you want since it will be covered with the boa!

This is going to be sooo great!!!!

[Coffee Em]

Okay, now everybody on the board is DESPERATE to see this baby--go, Gypsy!

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

You did great with everything Alli (opps! I always want to add that E :re )

I will do the self bias, it will just be a smoother look and you may want to take the boa off some day and use it another way. Gotcha ya' on the privacy panel. I should have you list of bones in about a week.

The fabric really is great and totally something I would drool over (psst Lizzie it is LOUD and colorful!! :bow ) while this may not be something you normally choose for yourself I really think you can pull much deeper and richer colors off than I have seen you in, you look just as beautiful in pastels Alli, but I think in rich deeply saturated color you would stop traffic...in the best possible way!!

Ok well I dont want poor Em to have an attach so I better get sewing!!

[Tornado Alli]

Funny you should say that, GG. I just told Fannie the other day in Mary Jo's that I really want to make a purple dress! I really can't get by with the fuschias or magentas, but I love rich colors like deep blues and greens. Red is my favorite color and I think a shocking red evening dress would be the ultimate. (hence the Scarlett dress) So maybe next year you will see some of those colors on me!

GG, that fabric kept whispering to me in MJ's one day. I had a huge list of stuff to get and I kept walking by the chinese brocades. This was on the end and the first glance at it was..."ugh!" Passed on by. The next time I walked by, darn if I didn't look at it again. It took about four passes before I actually ran my hand over it. Anyone else do that? Have to run your hand over the fabric before you even consider it? It was somewhere between the fifth and sixth time by that it hit me. Suddenly I saw the whole dang outfit in my head like it had always been there and someone just pulled back the curtain!!!! I stood there looking at that fabric for a good 10 minutes deciding if I had the guts to do it and then I saw the lavender boas and I knew that was it! I bought two yards. You will all see the results of this epiphany at the Saloon Dance at the Convention!!!

Thank you so much, GG!!! I can't wait to see it!

Alli

[Allie Mo]

Hello Folks,

I found it! It will be FANTASTIC! I have never seen fabric like the bodice. It's so so yummy.

Lookie here.
http://www.carolinabelles.net/vb/showpost.php?p=660&postcount=16

I'm just going to fade into the background around these ladies. Mine is all black.

Regards,

Allie Mo

[Coffee Em]

Oh, yes! Fabulous! I remember that! Can't wait for the finished product--Alli, you're going to look ever so wicked. (In the best possible way.)

I thought of the Scarlett red dress, too. And, oh, yes, emerald and forest green, and a really rich purple--they'd look terrific on you. Make you look all aristocratically pale and regal!

Must touch the fabric. Even in a rack of calicos, all the same weight and texture. It's as if I've got teeny flatbed scanners in my fingers, and haven't really seen a fabric until I've scanned it in!

Cheers,
Coffee Em

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

It took about four passes before I actually ran my hand over it. Anyone else do that? Have to run your hand over the fabric before you even consider it?

It's because this art form that we practice is so darn tactile. Who wants to be a yummy looking dress and once you hug a cute cowboy, the feel of the fabric makes him go, "Eeww, scratchy." No, we want to look yummy and when we hug a cute cowboy, he is supposed to think, "Wonder how long she'll stand here and let me hug her?"

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

:w2 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl

[Kid Sopris]

Quote:It's because this art form that we practice is so darn tactile. Who wants to be a yummy looking dress and once you hug a cute cowboy, the feel of the fabric makes him go, "Eeww, scratchy." No, we want to look yummy and when we hug a cute cowboy, he is supposed to think, "Wonder how long she'll stand here and let me hug her?"

What she said! :grin :cool:

[Lizzie Marie]

Not only not scratch them but me also.....I always feel the fabric...some real pretty stuff gets passed by because of the feel...or the way it hangs.....

[Coffee Em]

I dunno, Fannie, some of those cowboys are pretty desperate: "Scratchy...but it sure beats not gettin' hugged!" Still, you're right, that's a mean trick to play on a handsome cowpoke.

Cheers,
Coffee Em