The Purple Wedding Dress - First Cut!

This is it... Cutting time. #mydailysew

A photo posted by Stephanie Lochet (@slochet) on Mar 7, 2016 at 3:29pm PST

On the Road

So I didn't do any sewing today because we're on our annual trip to the border for Borderfest with our pipe and drum band! But I was at least able to make some other kind of pretties during the long drive!

Keeping my hands busy on the long ride home... #coloringbook #teacups

A photo posted by Stephanie Lochet (@slochet) on Mar 6, 2016 at 4:03pm PST

Task Board Progress

I'm always looking for ways to improve my work flow and efficiency, and a couple months ago I discovered the concept of the kanban board. I appreciated its simplicity, and decided to give it a try. I've really loved it so far, and love seeing my progress as projects move from to-do, to doing, to done!

Oops

This is what it looks like when your box of meticulously cut and sorted by color box of fabric strips gets dropped on the ground. #oops #mydailysew

A photo posted by Stephanie Lochet (@slochet) on Mar 4, 2016 at 3:18pm PST

The Purple Wedding Dress - It Begins!

So after much planning and thinking and sketching and deciding between fabrics and muslin-making, I'm finally at the cutting point for the actual dress! I'm making a vintage inspired silvery purple silk wedding dress for my friend, and I'm so excited about it!

This is always the scary part, though, cutting into that gorgeous silk. Once you cut, you just can't go back. But that was my task today, measure 3 or 4 times and CUT! I'm looking forward to making this silk fabric sandwich, as I mentioned in my instagram earlier today.

About to make a silk bodice sandwich! Silk dupioni underlined with silk organza, and lined with silk habotai. Yum!! #mydailysew #lovetosew

A photo posted by Stephanie Lochet (@slochet) on Mar 3, 2016 at 1:55pm PST

I'm sure many of my daily sews over the next couple weeks will be concerning this dress, I can't wait to start piecing it together!

Spring Apron

Little birdie apron ready for spring! #mydailysew

A photo posted by Stephanie Lochet (@slochet) on Mar 2, 2016 at 2:48pm PST

My Daily Sew Challenge

So, yeah, February happened! I even got an extra day in February and still managed not to make a single post. I have been really busy with lots of sewing projects, I just haven't had a chance to sit and make long, thorough posts about them. Also, when it's not something for me (that I can model, take pictures at my own pace, where there's no rush getting it into someone else's hands, etc) I seem to have a harder time getting around to blogging about my projects.

So I've decided to do a daily posting challenge for myself, at least for the month of March. I will post something every day about whatever project I'm working on at the moment. It might just be a quick instagram, but I will do something every day for the month of March! Maybe that will help me get my blogging mojo back. :-)

I'll be tagging my posts with #mydailysew here on the blog, as well as facebook and instagram.

First up today is just a shot of a bunch of my tissue holders wrapped up and ready to be taken to my booth at Austin Gift Co. I sometimes think I've made more money from selling these than all of the aprons and dresses I've sold combined! They are such great scrap-busters, and they consistently sell.