January 8, 2009
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The Effects of Inspiration
Every couple of months the Martha Pullen Company comes out with the magazine Sew Beautiful. I have been buying this magazine for sever years now. (19 to be exact.) I don’t make everything in the magazine by any means but it is a very good source for inspiration and is helpful with problems that I have encountered in sewing, especially heirloom sewing.
Yesterday MK and I stopped at the fabric store on our way home from the city where she had a dr appointment. Our local store is closing in a couple of weeks and now we have to drive about 35 miles to find another fabric store. A blessing for my husband since it will greatly curtail my fabric buying but a curse for MK and I when we need something and just cannot run out and pick it up. Anyway, I purchased the latest issue of Sew Beautiful to read when we got home. In it I came across this beautiful little girls dress. Now I feel what we joke about in this house as “genius burning”. I really need to make that dress. I even have someone in mind to wear it.
The fabrics that are used are imported so now starts the research into where I can get them without morgaging the farm. I am no artist but this project will consume my mind until I have all the information about where I can get all the materials at the lowest cost. Then I have to get permission to order them from my husband. He is very good to me and is usually ok about these types of obsessions.
The problem comes when I am actually making the gown. No one will eat or have a clean house or any clean laundry. Nothing may stand in the way of getting this done and getting it done right. What a pleasure it will be to create something so beautiful and to work with such fabrics. Already I can feel the fabric in my hands and smell the new smell of it. My mind keeps going over the steps on how to go about making this dress in the best way. I have even gotten out the embroidery floss for the hand work.
Time to get to reasearching the materials so that I can get started sooner rather than later.
Comments (4)
THat dress is stunning.
@from_mine_to_yours - I hope that when I make it my version is just as stunning.
It’s darling!
I admire seamstresses. There really is an artwork to making clothing for people. Our clothes say much of who we are. We seldom think of the people who design and create the clothes that make such expressions.
Very pretty and classy little dress.