I made this dress yesterday.Sadie helped cut it out (by covering herself with rubber stamps while I worked and Delia slept) then stitched during the day here and there, ending at 1:30AM hand-sewing the bodice lining in. It's McCall's 5042 - a simple shell in another civil war repro fabric. This dress is way nicer than I am. Like I should not be swearing when I wear it, I meant to accessorize it with some bold jewelry for the photo, to balance the sweet, but it's one of those mornings where I am lucky to be dressed at all.
I have decided dresses are my new uniform-they are so easy and simple, and feel like I am cheating when I wear them. I need to sing the praises, again, of the invisible zipper (I know Mellisa is crushing hard on the lap zipper right now and check out her lovely dress!) but this is so easy with the right zipper foot-it's like going though an automated car wash-once you get the tire in the groove you are all good! There a great tutorial here.
Pie pride. I had to shoot this because of the pristine nature of the filling. It's blueberry pie here (the mailorder recipe is from the funny money) and with the miracle of refrigeration, it looks like a perfect slice of pie! I like my pie room temp, so I discovered this by accident, when somehow, we didn't eat a whole pie in 48 hours and needed to pop it in the fridge.
On a unrelated note, Pete went out last night and came back with a funny algorithm (he's programmer, you know) so, to find the age of the youngest person you can date that is still socially acceptable you take your age, divide in half and then add 7 years. I find this terribly entertaining, I am not sure why.
