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We suffered a death in the family recently--my mom. She taught me to sew and taught me to cuss while sewing. The second was not intentional. She made me stay with it when I got so frustrated I wanted to give up. Over time, my interest and skills surpassed hers. She started back when it was more economical to sew for kids than to buy ready made. Her machine was a Kenmore and they never quite got along. For my 16th birthday, I received a portable Singer. Portable if you can lift 50 pounds. It had a metal body. I took it to college and made costumes for plays with it. My daughter used my Singer until a few years ago. She sews, too.

Before everything, I decided to sew the silk to muslin, serge the edges and machine baste the two layers.

 This is progress one back panel, the smallest. It's about 80% complete, needing a border at the top and fill-in around the design. It's based on a design I can't post because I borrowed it from somewhere on the interweb.

The bride is impressed! 






Sarah was here for a few days. She'd booked a flight hoping to see Mom one last time. But it was not to be so she visited with us and some of her aunts and uncles and cousins. She slept late and read and watched movies and cooked Paleo food for us which helped me clean up my eating. Our big event was going to In N Out Burger then to the movies to see Admission.

I whipped up a skirt and need to do another. Need to make it more flared and redo the cut of the hem. This is Monique Lhullier, as is the white up and down hem dress I posted earlier.

Today she told me the shop on Fabric Row in South Philly where she bought the silk burned down. Hope we don't need more, but we will need to make the flowers and petals and will also need silk organza for that. Hope some one else on the row sells it. The really sad thing is a fire fighter died in the fire. I imagine a fabric store would go up fast with all the chemicals the material is treated with.