WIP Wednesday

This week I dabbled in some paper piecing for our Guild's block lottery.  It went really well, and I hope to make another one of these before the meeting.

I found this fabric at Walmart (I know! Crazy!) and I've got it cut to make another Ruby Dress.  The pattern revisions were perfect, so I can't wait to get this finished.

And I'm onto the arms of my Sweatshirt Sweater!  I'm a little concerned that it's going to turn out too big with all those increases, but the cuff fits well at least.  I switched to smaller needles, so I'm going to see if that slows the growth.

Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday!

Ruby Dress Pattern Testing!

I was so excited to get to be a pattern tester for Made By Rae's new dress, the Ruby Dress.  She made the Arrow dress a while ago out of some gorgeous Ruby Star fabric, and then she just made it into a top and wrote up a pattern for it.

Now, full disclosure, it's not the best shape for my body, and maybe with some tweaking I could make it work, but I just wanted to make it as it was intended before I took liberties.  Also, cutting it down to a top as is would make it awesome, but I haven't gotten around to it.  It's basically a really great start that you can modify to your heart's content.

The pattern is really fast to make.  It's basically a yoke with some gathered fabric.  The only part of construction that took a bit of time was the bias tape around the neck and the arms, and that might just be because I haven't done that technique before.

And how cute is this fabric?  It's Makower UK that I found at the local Ace Hardware/Ben Franklin's, for about $6/yd!  It's out of print now, but they have the entire line, and I think I need to buy all of it!  And the light pink is something I found in a box of fabric my mom gave me.  I'm pretty sure it was used to make dresses for me when I was a toddler.  Awww!