picture of McCalls 2026
off kilter quilter
Kate Dicey
Well done! :) It's a very pretty pattern.
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karlisa
Thanks! We have altered the pattern in terms of length and have
eliminated the back piece that has the inverted pleat and are using the
back lining pattern piece instead. As you can see in the photo, the
dress falls nicely in the larger of the photographs, soft deep folds.
My sister prefers this look over the one in dupioni, but still wants it
more fluid
lisa
Doreen
That's a beautiful pattern! Thanks for finding it, Larisa. Lisa, your
sister's dress sounds lovely, and I hope she realizes how lucky she is
to have you custom make it for her.
Doreen in Alabama
Kate Dicey
Indeed! And we MUST have pix of the dress when it's done! :)
karlisa
As soon as they let me out of the mental hospital after the wedding,
I'll post some. I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the dress or
the wedding cake. I must be mental to agree to making both of those!
hehehe
lisa
Pogonip
>
> As soon as they let me out of the mental hospital after the wedding,
> I'll post some. I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the dress or
> the wedding cake. I must be mental to agree to making both of those!
> hehehe
>
> lisa
>
Fancy weddings are for masochists. Someone sent me the following joke,
which only a woman -- especially one who has "done" a big wedding - can
understand.
Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her
excitement-- not even her parents nasty divorce. Her mother had found
the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best dressed
mother-of-the-bride ever!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new
young wife had bought the exact same dress! Jennifer asked her to
exchange it, but she refused. "Absolutely not. I look like a million
bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.
Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, "Never mind sweetheart.
I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."
A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress.
When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, "Aren't you
going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion
where you could wear it." Her mother just smiled and replied, "Of course
I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the
wedding."
--
Joanne
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Doreen
> As soon as they let me out of the mental hospital after the wedding,
> I'll post some. I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the dress or
> the wedding cake. I must be mental to agree to making both of those!
> hehehe
>
> lisa
>
Lisa,
I'd be more nervous about the cake, if I were in your shoes. For some
reason, a cake I bake to give someone, or to take to an event, is about
a hundred times more likely to fall or come out whompy-jawed, or be
otherwise flawed, than a cake I make simply for us. That's just regular
cakes, you understand...wedding cakes are NOT in my repertoire!
But your cake is going to be perfect, just like the dress. That's a
promise.
Doreen in Alabama
Karen Maslowski
Brains and experience trump youth and cuteness, every time. :)
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
www.sewstorm.com
Phaedrine
wrote:
> Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her
> excitement-- not even her parents nasty divorce. Her mother had found
> the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best dressed
> mother-of-the-bride ever!
>
> A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new
> young wife had bought the exact same dress! Jennifer asked her to
> exchange it, but she refused. "Absolutely not. I look like a million
> bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.
>
> Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, "Never mind sweetheart.
> I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."
>
> A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress.
>
> When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, "Aren't you
> going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion
> where you could wear it." Her mother just smiled and replied, "Of course
> I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the
> wedding."
Hah! Good one!
--
I fear me you but warm the starved snake,
Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. (Henry VI, Shakespeare)
BEI Design
Pogonip wrote:
[ ...]
> When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, "Aren't
> you going to return the other dress? You really don't have
> another occasion where you could wear it." Her mother just
> smiled and replied, "Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the
> rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding."
One of my all time favorites! Thanks for reminding me.
Beverly
karlisa
Oh, that is too funny! Thanks for sharing. I'll have to pass it on to
my sister.
lisa
karlisa
Doreen,
You're right. I am more nervous about the cake than the dress because
I know how unforgiving the heat can be in SC. I have these nightmares
of the icing melting and sliding off the cake. It was 83 degrees here
today and it's only April. I can't imagine what June will feel like!
I hope she's serviing alcohol at her reception. ;-)
lisa
BEI Design
"karlisa" <mick...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1145327746.8...@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> You're right. I am more nervous about the cake than the dress
> because
> I know how unforgiving the heat can be in SC. I have these
> nightmares
> of the icing melting and sliding off the cake. It was 83 degrees
> here
> today and it's only April. I can't imagine what June will feel
> like!
> I hope she's serviing alcohol at her reception. ;-)
No, no, noooooo, in my experience, that will only make you feel
*hotter*! ;-)
Doreen
> Doreen,
>
> You're right. I am more nervous about the cake than the dress because
> I know how unforgiving the heat can be in SC. I have these nightmares
> of the icing melting and sliding off the cake. It was 83 degrees here
> today and it's only April. I can't imagine what June will feel like!
> I hope she's serviing alcohol at her reception. ;-)
>
> lisa
>
Lisa,
I'm probably the last person who should try to give advice on the
subject, but if you're worried about the effect of the summer heat on
the icing, what about rolled fondant icing?
It was in the 80s here today, too. What happened to spring? I'm just
not ready for hot weather yet!
Doreen in Alabama
CypSew
you laugh.
Emily
CypSew
visit them very often, do you live nearby?. I am waiting for them to get
in their new home before my next visit, it's been much to long, and even if
it's hot, I won't mind. After all, here(Houston), we are having almost
record-setting heat and as you said, it is only mid-April. In the
meantime, I am making her and I a few matching outfits to wear while I'm
there. I found the cutest pattern in a book from House of White Birches on
patternless sewing.
Emily
CypSew
pattern-----". The book doesn't have patterns, simply the directions for
making things. Anyway, the dress is a very attractive sundress.
Just wanted to correct my error in writing.
Emily
karlisa
Emily,
I'm in Columbia, which is by many accounts one of the hottest cities in
this state, as it sits in a geographic depression. I heard on the news
yesterday that ya'll had record-breaking heat in Texas. I hope this is
just a freak incident and not an indicator of the summer to come.
I'm not familiar with House of White Birches. It's a pattern drafting
book?
stay cool!
lisa
Museumbitch
Karen Maslowski skrev:
> Joanne, this is one of my all-time favorite jokes!!
>
> Brains and experience trump youth and cuteness, every time. :)
>
Although I did something similar when I was but a wee lass of 19! I'd
bought an evening dress pattern that I figured I could easily adapt as
a medieval dress for SCA. I found out that a woman I particularly
disliked had the same pattern and had the same plans for it. In order
to ensure that *I* was first, I wore my velvet dress to an event in
rural SC during July! I made a point of drinking a LOT of cold water to
cool off but it was worth it!!! (insert evil cackle here) I looked nice
and the jerk who'd been hitting on my boyfriend decided against using
that pattern after all.
Good thing I'm middle-aged and (relatively) mellow now! :-)
Erin
wurstergirl
posting the pattern picture, Larisa. How lovely that dress will be.
Now I understand about the accent waist ribbon, too. Did y'all already
talk about her accessories?
Regarding wedding cakes, I had a friend make ours for an afternoon
wedding in July. It was cake pans filled with fruit-flavored mousses,
iced on the outside, and stacked on pillars like a regular cake. She
assembled it moments before the cake cutting because it would all have
melted. (108 degrees in the shade.) You can see in pictures it's a
leaning tower of mousses! Nobody cared but my mother...
Pora
karlisa
We haven't really discussed accessories. I know that she has asked me
for a swatch of fabric so that she can take it shopping for things.
I'm also giving her the mockup to take so that she can buy a new
"squisher," as she calls her body shaper.
Your cake sounds delicious! I am not a big cake eater, but I enjoy
decorating them. Now if they were serving "iced bridal brownies", I'd
be making a bee-line to the dessert table. :-) I tried to dissuade
her from making all three tiers with the same flavors, but she's pretty
insistent. I think we're going to have a ton of cake leftover so I'm
making the top round a dummy cake, since it's the one that is
traditionally saved. I'm not telling her that, though. lol. I'll make
them a fresh 6" round for their first anniversary. This cake would not
freeze well for that length of time.
lisa
CypSew
Stauffer, with few less than 200 pages of directions for making different
items, some clothing and lots of home decorating. There are sketches that
show all intricate details plus excellent photographs in bright colors that
show the finished products. I have no interest in the company or the book
except I am quite excited about making some of the items from it.
Emily
Bobbie Sews Moore
or just maybe you might bring it the next time to come to SC and I could
borrow it and mail it back to you??? Hope you get to come over sometime
this summer.
Barbara in SC and now FL
CypSew
together again for a visit. At the moment, I have some ocean blue plisse
with boats, etc to make the little one a dress from one of the designs, the
directions sound so easy. If she likes it, she know what she likes to wear,
I intend to make several summer outfits.
Emily