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Today was sewing day for Roxanne and I. We have told her niece that we would make her wedding dress. She wants a two piece dress, with a skirt that has these poofs in it (it looks better than it sounds) and a bodice. Today, we fitted the bodice. She got wrapped in duct tape - over a t-shirt - and we drew the pattern and cut it off of her. Carefully, of course. Now, Dev, I'm going to be asking you some questions, so be ready! (but not right her, right now. Oh, darn, I guess that means you have time to hide if you want to...)

No, the thing that you will really like - well except for the part that you are looking at pictures of me (come on, admit you would rather look at pictures of someone cuter, say, Raine) - I took pictures of what got finished today. OK, both tops still need a little handwork done, AND I really got Ron to take the pictures, but that's just details...

The first top is a tunic-y top that I made by combining two patterns. The original body pattern has a cutout in the back, which I didn't do this time, but the next time I make it, I think I'll try it That top was sleeveless, and I definitely wanted sleeves, so I found some from a pattern I thought would be compatible, and it was. I really like the length on that top, an find myself drawn to longer tops. It also has a small dart from the arm hole. I made a blue dress with a similar dart that works well, so I was happy to try it on this one. I just love that tye-died and batiked fabric, it is really soft and beautiful. It is kind of hard to tell on the photo, but the dotty kind of areas are butterflies.

The second top is on that was on hold for a couple of weeks, I got some of it sewn together, but needed to put in a couple of button holes for the ties to come through. Then the ties weren't cooperative so we got the cording. I looked for red, but found the brown. Roxanne found the red. We decided to combine them. It will a perfect top to debut Valentine's week.