A Dress A Day

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Mostly every day.

October 30, 2009

Linktastic Whatever-Today-Is

Hoo-boy. Have I been busy (and it shows no signs of slowing down or stopping)!

Here's some stuff I would have written about, had I had the time:


City Quilter Subway fabric

That above is City Quilter's new NYC Subway fabric. (I love CQ and try to visit when I have a spare half-hour in NYC. Beautiful, well-laid-out quilt fabric store!)

Mary Beth sent me a link to the Home Sewing Is Easy fabric. Home Sewing IS easy, but maybe not as easy as shown here ...

Our own Cookie's hilarious (and useful) post on hairstyles, over on LuciteBox.

Gwen has some really cute and useful fabric-yardage cards here (which you'll need if you don't just follow my advice in this post).

Robin sent me this link from eBay. Art lover? You want (or maybe don't want) to click.

I love this dress, from Jen at MOMSPatterns:

McCalls 3612

(She's also having a Spooktacular Sale for two days and two days only! Use coupon code 'spooky25' when you check out and you'll save a whopping 25% off of your orders. Code expires at the stroke of midnight on Halloween [EDT].)

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posted by Erin @ 10:10 AM  

13 Comments:

  • At Oct 30, 2009 1:25:00 PM, Blogger Cookie said…

    I've always thought a sash like that is so regal and pretty...Princess Grace's wedding dress had one like it.

    Thanks for the link to my hairdo article : )

    AND I love that subway fabric. It would make a neat lining for a jacket...or for children's clothes, in case they get lost?

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 1:54:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Cookie: Have you read a book called "The Bombshell Manual of Style" by Lauren Stover? I think you would adore it. Even though the bombshell adventures never do seem to happen to me, I keep hoping. It's a wonderful bathtub book, too. --Karen

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 1:57:00 PM, Blogger Cookie said…

    YES - I adore that book!!! Someone gave it to me as a gift, inscribed "For my favorite bombshell" (blush) It has not left my side since.

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 2:37:00 PM, Blogger Gwen said…

    Thank you so much for the link to my "How Much Fabric?" Reference Cards - and the reminder link to your advice! It's delightful! :)

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 3:09:00 PM, Blogger Packrat said…

    Cookie, I got such a laugh out of your hairdo article. No, I'm not your mom, but I probably have some of those old magazines. lol Also, as I type this I'm sitting at one of those little impractical desks. (At least my chair is more comfortable than the one shown in the picture.)

    Erin, thanks for sharing all the links and the pattern.

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 3:12:00 PM, Anonymous Lisa Simeone said…

    Cookie, as ever, you are THE BOMB!! (not one of those chignon bombs, though)

    Erin, the subway fabric is beyond the beyond. And that Edvard Munch fabric is . . .

    . . . uh . . .

    . . . a scream?!

    Happy Halloween!

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 3:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Bought some of that fabric today, after seeing it on True Up! Expect to see it as a shirt-dress soon...

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 6:36:00 PM, Blogger lucitebox said…

    Erin--wow! I am stunned by that subway print. Cookie's right--coat lining all the way!

    Cookie--I couldn't agree with Lisa more. You *are* the bomb. Thanks for meetin' me in the blogosphere. I hope you'll be interested to write more...you're so good! Maybe you could show off the Swedish gardening girl tablecloth in its reincarnation. That'd be swell!

    Happy Friday everyone!

     

  • At Oct 30, 2009 7:22:00 PM, Blogger val said…

    I'm currently considering all of the things I could use that subway fabric for. The pattern has a piece of the 7 line, which is the train I take everywhere. Love it!

     

  • At Oct 31, 2009 10:36:00 AM, Blogger sixties sewer said…

    I want the subway fabric.

    My 8th grade graduation dress (mid-last century) looked exactly like this pattern. It was a pink confection.

     

  • At Oct 31, 2009 12:35:00 PM, Blogger Cookie said…

    << The pattern has a piece of the 7 line, which is the train I take everywhere. Love it! >>

    I can spot the 1/2/3, which I used to take up and down the West Side. Transferring to the N and the R, to get to the catering company I worked for, was a horror. I remember knowing which subway cars to board at which spots on the platforms, to be near stairwells that made all the grubby transfering faster.

     

  • At Oct 31, 2009 11:13:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    This pattern was my ninth grade formal, made in orchid organza. That was in 1961, by the way, and very Mad Men chic!

     

  • At Nov 11, 2009 11:10:00 PM, Blogger Charles said…

    i love that pattern also! so classic and chic! =D

     

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