Summer Dresses

Finished another pair of summer dresses today.

Different fabric, but same style as the first pair which

I posted pictures of here. The point of the summer dresses

is not to create a whole line of varied styles but to

mass-produce as many as I can before the summer is over.

No point wearing spaghetti-strap anythings in the winter,

I say. I have fabric to make just one more pair of these

simple dresses before finally moving on to a different pattern.

And by then it will be Halloween and I'll need to

bring out the fleece and make costumes instead!

An attempt at variation:

The highlight of my short sewing hour* this afternoon

was finally producing a decent blind stitch.

Sheer laziness was the impetus. I mean, I'd known

for a long time that the sewing machine was capable of it

and today, faced with the choice between old-fashioned

slip-hemming and a self-tutorial/experimenting, I chose the latter.

Optimistic but sadly naive - several wasted pieces of fabric

later, I gave in, muttering, and unearthed the manual.

Later I found a video tutorial here. Bah.

*Note: I sewed for an hour today but of course the dresses

were begun two days earlier. I hardly ever start and finish anything

on the same day anymore. Except maybe eating.