My Little Mod Sundress

I am just getting around to posting about my weekend sewing.  One of my goals, as i mentioned in my last post, is to work my way through my unfinished projects.  Last Sunday I completed the first of those projects, a little dress called Shari from Burdastyle:

(Please excuse the poor picture quality-- it is too cold to photograph outside!)

The floral print is from the $2.97 table at Gstreet Fabrics.  It's a pretty sheer batiste-like cotton, so I lined it with white cotton voile from fabric.com.  For the midriff section I used some electric lime linen that my Mom gave me awhile back.

I really liked sewing Shari, and I am happy with the results.  The under bust gathers are a nice detail for those of us with smaller busts ;)  

The skirt is cut on the bias, so the trickiest part was making sure not to stretch the pieces while stitching them together.  And hemming!  I always try to remember to hang up bias cut dresses for a day before setting in the hem.  

More pictures here.

Stash overflow and ambitious sewing

The wall behind my sewing machine is meant to display projects that I am presently working on.  Due to my lack of sewing ambition over the past few months, it looks more like a holding pattern.  Today I am determined to fix this.  The floral dress in the middle?  That's a half-finished Shari.  I wasn't sure how to finish the middle section of the dress, as I had originally wanted to add piping at the edges.  Over a year later, I think I'll be happy just to finish.

Hmm...and here you see the antique rocker adjacent to my sewing niche.  It is covered in fabric — fabric that should be in the fabric cabinet pictured below:

These pictures were taken after this morning's cleaning spree.  I either need to do a lot more sewing before my trip to LA, or start giving fabric away.  Hopefully the latter option won't be necessary.  

Time for a quick lunch break (Vegetarian chili with oven-broiled tomatoes with a side of skillet cornbread), a cup of tea and then... Shari time!