The Late Night Sewist

Hey!

I usually don´t care too much about season´s trends, I just sew and wear whatever I fancy at the moment. But occasionally I also seem to hit the current trends. The last surprise was an email alert from an online shoe store announcing that this autumn, animal prints and snake skin effect are back in fashion. This happened while I was basting snake skin piping to my new dress!

 The pattern is McCall´s 6243, view C:

This is the first time I gave up on insisting to cut size 12 (because this is what the size chart tells me on the Big Four patterns) and gave size 10 a try. I am happy that I did, because I didn´t have to take in nearly at all at the side seams and basically the dress fits me without any alterations. The only thing I changed, was adding the snake skin piping to the topstitched seams and omitting the exposed zipper, I used an invisible one instead.

The fabric for the dress is the same as I used for the Burda peplum top approximately a year ago, just in a different colour. I bought them together back then, indecisive what to do with the beige one. But after I saw the snake skin piping in Athens right before leaving in October 2012, I knew it was a perfect match.

As I have mentioned earlier, I will be off to Zurich for work in a few days and I decided I needed a dress that I could wear for the conference. I think it is appropriate, not too flashy but could also be worn for a drink in the evening.

At first I was a bit scared to sew the piping, thinking that my sewing machine would find it difficult to handle, but I had absolutely no problems. However, I have no idea, how it will behave in wash.

The brown leather shoes are a recent addition from Poland, where I found leather goods to be a lot cheaper in comparison to Estonia.

The weather here in Estonia has been getting colder, but I am having hopes for a beautiful golden fall! I still have a few summer projects unfinished, lacking just a seam or two, I hope I will manage to show them before it would be too out of season!