Halloween!

After my knee surgery this summer, I had some extra time on my hands that would normally be used for playing tennis. So, among other things, I decided to sew something I could wear for Halloween.

I found some red and black fabric and a pattern that made me think vampiress (more Bram Stoker, not so much "Twilight"). Unfortunately I put off finding some fangs to go with it until too late, but a little red paint on my neck and I was a "just bitten", soon to be vampire.







A couple more pictures:

Another pillow

I used the tutorial on this awesome blog to make a "5 minute simple pillow" cover this weekend. It did take me a little more than the advertised 5 minutes, but that's probably mostly because it's a really large pillow:


-W

Grey Skirt

Fall is quickly rolling in here, and I'm hoping to avoid another fall/winter/spring of day after day of jeans. They're quick and easy and go with everything, and luckily I work in place where I can do that if I want. But, I just feel more put together in a skirt. So, this weekend I made a half-circle skirt out of some grey fabric I've had for a while. I'm not quite sure what the fabric is made of -- it has a little bit of sheen to it -- but the color is one of those perfect neutrals that I find go well with almost any color top.

Sewing this went pretty quickly -- now that I know what I'm doing, I could definitely whip up this pattern in a few different fabrics. It almost took way longer than it should have when I lost power this weekend, but fortunately it came back on just as I was about to start hemming by hand. The blindstitch foot on my machine is probably 100 times faster than me sewing by hand.

Anyway, pretty straightforward and simple, and yet fun to wear. Here are a few pics:






















Coming up next: I started cutting out the pattern for a fall dress. Which reminds me, I need to get more tights to go with it.

-W

P.S. I got a tripod on my way home from work today, so hopefully I'll get more skilled at taking these self-portraits with it over time. It still doesn't help me get over how uncomfortable "posing" feels...