Darnit Jim, I'm a potato sack, not a cute shirt

I started on my shirt/dress jumper thingamabobby (you remember, this one)  last night, and almost completely finished it.  I'm making it out of a dark grey fleece, which is pretty easy to sew, although when you screw up, it's not at all easy to rip a seam out of it, thanks to the fluffiness of the material. 

I discovered a few things in my endeavors - which, truth be told, I probably knew these things before... but here we go anyway:

1:  I suck really bad at putting zippers in... or else my machine does... because it doesn't like to sew straight near that zipper at all... especially on lumpy fleece.  Even with the zipper foot on... either I am doing something wrong, or that machine just hates zippers.  It wants to jump all over the place.  Very annoying.  And not at all attractive when your zipper is in the FRONT of your garment.

2: Patterns LIE about sizes like big smelly dogs.  My shirtdress thinger (which really needs clever-er name) is a big ol SACK.  Mind you, at the moment, it's a one-sleeved, zipperless sack, but STILL.... it is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.  "Go by the bust measurement" the pattern said.  Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.  Why'd I listen to that?!  I could fit two of me in there from the waist down.  So now i have to figure out how to take it in.  Which I think will be mostly from the back seam, since apparently I am abnormally long in the back and it doesn't lay right back there anyway.  And yes, I have had this pattern sizing problem previously... but this particular pattern is in Euro sizes, so I thought, perhaps, the size SIXTEEN that it recommended for me was like... a US 10.  NOPE.  Liars.

I'll have to post some pictures later... befores and afters, hopefully!  Then you can see the horrible potato-sacky terror that this thing really is!

Afterthoughts:  Hmm... I really thought I had more than two discoveries.  Oh well... more later, I suppose, if I think of it.  My brain really isn't organized at all.... get used to it!

A new obsession? Or an old one revisited...

I think I am about to embark on a clothes sewing rampage... I keep seeing really cute patterns that I want to try.  So far I only have one, this: (cute shirty thing, right?  but man, lookit that poor girl's wonk hair!)

(image courtesy of Burda)

But there are also craploads boatloads (I should work on my internet politeness!) here:  http://www.hotpatterns.com

Let's see, I want this one,

this, any number of these (excluding that horrid wonky fringey thing.... what?) But OH, that ruffley one at the bottom, ahhh, for the love!  I also quite like this dress.
Also, in the latest issue of Burda's World of Fashion, which I am really coveting a subscription to, there is another boatload of cute, simple, and sleek patterns... marred only by the occasional uggo!

Also, I really love this one, for the white hat- it MIGHT look good on my misshaped head!!!

 

(obviously courtesy of Simplicity!)

Well, I suppose that concludes your mad pattern ravings for the day. I'm off, I must find a money tree.  And no, still no pictures of anything I've done lately!  Not that it matters, because you've all seen it all by now anyhow, and for now, this is still my super sekrit blog!  mwahahahahahahahaha............