Sew Luxy

Hey guys! Who's glad to see January nearing a close?! This girl sure is. This weekend Chicago unthawed and crept towards the 50s, thank you Mother Nature! We all needed the break. My latest project is this blouse (McCall's M6927) I made with the idea of wearing to work. I didn't mean for it to turn out so 80s-inspired, but I have been listening to a lot of 80s music lately, so I think maybe on a subconscious level I did mean for it to turn out this 80s inspired. I am not unhappy with it, but the shoulders are very... well, shoulder-y. Thanks, 80s. This fabric is a wool gauze by Anna Sui. I saw it in Vogue and loved it immediately. I knew this wasn't what my pattern called for, and it might be a challenge to work with. I also knew I had to have it. It was one of those 110% regret-it-forever-if-you-don't decisions. In the end, the choice was obvious. Construction! I made some admittedly questionable decisions on this one. The most que

Happy New Year!!! I am certainly looking forward to adventuring through 2016 with you all and developing my sewing skills further. 2015 brought about some big changes for me. Sewing-wise, 2015 was the year I decided to upgrade sewing from something I partook in when the right mood (seldom) hit, to something I do regularly with some level of skill (however beginner that level may be). I turned 28 this year, and leading up to it I kept thinking, if not now, when? In the interest of speeding up my development, I invested in 5 months of sewing classes at  Tchad's Sewing School  , and later started this blog (to give my fickle and sometimes dreamy nature some structure). Having a blog to report back to has definitely kept me sewing long hours at times, but I don't mind it. It's good for me to work towards something I do purely for the love. My only sewing goal for 2016 is to just keep sewing and documenting it in this blog. It's an obtainable goal, as I believe goals alw