Wringing A Ripper

Seriously??  I'm out of photo space???  Yikes!  Well, it loaded this one before it bombed out on me.

This is the top of my dress.  The shoulders and sleeves are the back sides of the Shantung fabric.  Not sure about the lighting of this photo because the fabric is actually darker than this.  Oh well.  I've just got the hem to go and tonight may be the night for that!  I don't "think" anything is planned...

Bought shoes last night for it without having a sample bit of fabric with me.  Yeah... I was thinking ahead...  So if it doesn't match, oh well!

It just dawned on me that I'm pretty impressed with the people on Project Runway The Show That Must Not Be Named  TSTMNBN.  I sweat over this project all afternoon and evening on Saturday and had instructions from the pattern packet on how to put it all together!  They have to go with their own design and not just follow rote instructions...

However I didn't really follow the directions either.  I did REALLY well with the first version of this dress and read everything to make sure I knew what I was doing.  The instructions never mentioned "the cats" so you know... THAT really caught me off guard...

So when I was doing this one, I felt confident that I knew what I was doing.  Did this seam, did that one!  Then realized that I forgot to leave the slit in the skirt.  Oh I'm supposed to not sew the lining into the shoulder YET until the back is sewn to the front... 

I think I know what I want for Christmas.  About 10 seam rippers.  My two seem to disappear when I need them the most!  I think they were hiding because I've put them through the wringer with this dress!

Oh and before I forget... I REALLY don't want to learn a new format for this blog...  Should I fork over the $2.50 a month for 25 times the photo space????