Simplicity 2491 vintage sewing pattern

My middle daughter told me Friday that she did not have a dress for her concert performance for Tuesday.  She is a tween and nothing ever fits her when we go to the store to look for dresses so we figured we had to sew it just like last time.  Going through my patterns. I found out that her measurements put her all over the board on what size clothes she could fit.  Meaning no pattern would fit her well either.  So we found a vintage pattern , simplicity 2491 view 2, in my collection that was a little loose in the chest area but too tight in the waist we figured if we dropped the front darts it would fit her as her waist has yet to start to get smaller should start happening in the next 6 months. Because of this no little girl patterns fit her and not teen to adult patterns fit her either.  I figured the waist measurement would not matter in a loose dress like this ie 3 inches too big at the bust.  Also it being about 3 inches loose  would give her ease of movement plus growing room.

Much ado about nothing

I did a little for this play this year.   4 over coats for narrators, 1 dress for a narrator, 10 hats for the boys a few hats for the girls a few wedding veils for the girls, repairs to older costumes, loaned a few masks for the ball scene....  Pictures will follow when I get the items back did not have time to photograph them before they left my house already in dress rehearsals.

I am back ...had a nice vacation

Making red edging

I am making some red edgings to use in my Romanian point lace.  This is one of those projects that I just carry around with me to kids soccer games and the like.  Don't have much done yet but hope to have lots in the future have not figured out a project for it yet just prepping for something. Well I sort of have some ideas but they are a little scattered still and not fully worked out yet.