Can't Say Strawberry

Words cannot describe how excited I am right now!!

If you look over to the ‘I read…’ list on the right, you’ll see some blogs from my fellow assistants, but also some two from people in the sewing world whose blogs I’ve been following regularly.

First off is Gertie’s New Blog For Better Sewing. This lady has a seriously cool project going on involving vintage sewing. If you want to read the details head to this post where she explains all about it, very eloquently too might I add. Worth following, her projects are so classy, as is her personal style, her discussion of issues concerning us seamstresses and her general writing style!

When I saw her version of this pattern on her website, I thought it was to die for :

 Click here to see Gertie’s version

From the colour, to the shape, to the exposed zipper… I’m in love! I thought I’d have to wait until next payday to get the pattern, but no!! As luck would have it, I searched on http://www.sewingpatterns.com/ and it was there! IN DOWNLOAD FORM! Exciting stuff! I also have fabric I can use for this – it’s a bit of a longshot, but I bought some teal fabric from Ikea in the hope of creating a jacket, but have really gone off the  idea since. I was so excited to have found this online at any rate!

So I thought back to the other seamstress I have on my blogroll, Sew I Thought…, and a gorgeous knit dress that she posted a little while back :

Sorry for the teeny tiny picture, but check out Sew I Thought’s version here, her fabric choice is gorgeous.

I’ve been dying to find a pattern to make a cute woolen dress to wear this winter, and I just found it I adore this pattern, the sleeves are so cute. Lucky for me, this was also on Sewing Patterns, available as a download for only $2.99!

I just need to find the right fabric for this one – I found some wool in Galeria (department store here in Germany) which was nice but a little on the expensive side. Fabric here is a little more expensive, but I’ve found that the cut-offs are always great value for money, and after all, there’s always Ebay.

So those are my next two projects at any rate! I’m so excited to have found both these patterns for such good value for money, I was worried I’d have to fork out a lot to get them. Maybe the second won’t get done for a while mind, I’ve banned myself from buying anymore fabric until I’ve finished with the stuff I have! I’m finshing off a skirt from Weekend Designer at the moment, it’s a bit of a pain in the arse because I must have got my measurements all wrong when drawing up the pattern, but never mind eh!