New Dress

I was inspired to sew a dress as a practice dress for my MOB outfit.
After a search, I found a pattern I liked which was a retro Butterick, from the year of my birth, 1952.

I found some great material with Chinese characters on it. I see the characters for 'person' and 'heart' and 'way' but I haven't deciphered them all yet.

And here is the final product; the first dress I have sewed in many a year!

option 4

option 3

option 2

option 1

TSHIRT HACKERS--REBORN!

NOT like these, though!------->

lona was thinking about creating her own "mother of the bride" dress for lynnis's wedding...

what could be more fun than helping her with design ideas, and perhaps each of us creating something special for the special occasion!

hallie and i are going to go through my extensive pattern collection this weekend. look around for ideas, watch at yardsales for special fabric or outfits to alter...

60th Pics

more photos!

check out the slideshow at

www.carlson60.blogspot.com

We're also getting ready...

Games!


Puppet supplies!


Dictator!


Turtles!

getting ready!

we are assembling stuff to bring on friday! can't wait to see everybody...

Reposting the Dress Pic (without my head...)

not quite a tshirt hack...

but my latest sewing project, started yesterday, to be finished today. hallie needed an outfit to be for a history class "salon." she is role-playing Mary Astell, an english proto-feminist from the 1690s. hallie refused to have her picture taken (NOT her fav class assignment, to put it mildly...), so here is ysa looking very formal.

the fabric is polished chintz (free gift from a neighbor), accents of antique lace (pillowcase edging), bodice is separate and fully lined. my old pfaff did a great job sewing through the dense gathering of the skirt--three 60" wide fabric widths gathered down to the slimness of hallie's waist. still to be done are a swath of hook and eyes to secure the back of the bodice.

innes

t-shirts of another sort

should we have t-shirts for the 60th/reunion this May, as we did at the 50th?

Calendar

Lona reminded me today that I am supposed to make a t-shirt hackers calendar.  But I need some input.

• What special dates should be included on the calendar? 
  
• Are all the pictures people want included posted on the blog?  If not, email them to me.
  
• Any preference as to what picture goes on what month?  
  
• I don't think I have the time or energy to do much in the way of collages, so it will probably be one picture per month. Unless someone else wants to make collages?
  
• Who wants a calendar? I need to know how many copies to order.
• Does anyone else want to take on this project?
  

crustaceinnes

I have a few more photos on my Flickr account, but I thought these were the most flattering.

Photo request!

didn't ANYBODY take a decent photo of me in my crustacean inspired carapace dress??? we seem to has zillions of unflattering pix of the mall mutation, but i'd love to see one of the dress that i actually like!

please post it if you have one!

thanks, innes

CHECK OUT THE NEW BLOG!

http://anythinggoespuppets.blogspot.com/ let me know if i forgot to invite you as an author

puppet noir

macabre but oh so entertaining.... I watch all the episodes back to back.

ETA- Do not click play if you are easily offended.

the next challenge

puppet for Pops and Gangang's 60th anniversary party in May!
Puppets can be made out of anything (except for another puppet) and as of now have no size limits.
The challenge, when we all meet, is to put on a show with the puppets we have.

Who's organizing the calendar? I have collected pictures from Hallie, Innes, Pops, and Lona. I can send candidate photos to whoever that luck person is.

Still more...

I am currently uploading all (166) of the pictures Guy took last night on to my Flickr account. Just let me add you as a friend to see them ( I think my user name is PiriTrinnes). I have unlimited file space for pictures, so if you want yours on Flickr, feel free to send them to me.

...and more pictures

enough for now!