We have water, enough food, and some new craft projects on hand to prevent boredom in our kid. All that's left to get today is a box of wine (this thing might last three days, after all!).
Anyway, now seems like a good time to hold a giveaway. I contemplated giving this dress away after I made it for Kollabora.com last spring. The fabric is a gorgeous olive silk crepe de chine from Mood. It was $17/yard, and was just a dream to work with. In fact, that's the reason I'm giving this away.
I have just enough of that lovely fabric to make a new minidress, which I will be working on during the hurricane this week. This dress here, sewn from Simplicity 1872 is a little on the modest side for me (when it comes to evening wear anyway). I never really thought I'd wear it, but was torn because I love the fabric so. However, now that I am making something else out of crepe de chine, I finally feel ready to give this dress away:
I'm 5-foot-3 and think this dress would look great on someone my height or several inches taller. My waist is 30 inches, but there's a ton of ease in this, so even someone a few sizes up could easily wear this (Or if you're smaller, cinch it). I'm a very average B/sometimes C cup, and there's a lot of room through the bust, plus it's a wrap front, so you could always go with a camisole underneath if your chest is so big (bless your heart) that it actually fills out this generously cut top:
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| A gust of wind made it flare out like that! |
The color would make it great for a holiday party, or other special event.
To enter, just comment and tell me what would be in your hurricane preparedness kit. I'll accept entries up until the storm breaks, cutting it off and drawing a name at random when the sun finally shines again.
For a second entry, follow my blog (there's a little button thingie on the right of the page). Or if you're already a follower, just comment to tell me you are, and you get two entries too. I don't play favorites (except when it comes to boxes of wine).
Stay safe everyone, and happy hurricane sewing!
I live on the Gulf Coast, so I actually have a hurricane kit! I would be sure to put your important papers where you can grab them if you must evacuate, i.e., birth certificate, passport, insurance papers (especially for your home, hope you don't need them), and prescriptions in their bottles, so they can be replenished if necessary.
ReplyDeleteAlso, set up an outside call contact. Frequently, the circuits in your immediate area become overloaded, but you can reach a friend far away, say, California (that's where mine is). So, make them your contact. Be sure your friend and family have the contact's number. If people can't get you, they call the contact. You can call the contact since they aren't in your area, etc.
Now that is some helpful advice. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your blog and have been a follower for some time. In my hurricane kit: my compact, single burner naptha-using camping stove. It would be a shame to have all of the ingredients to make something delicious and not be able to take full advantage! I also consider part of my kit the new Ottobre issue, which I am holding out from reading until I am rained-in.
ReplyDeletePS: These stoves are not for use indoors! I would likely use it near the entrance of the open garage.
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ReplyDeleteI'm in SC, though about as far inland as you can get. Both my brothers live on the coast and have had to evacuate a few times in the last five years or so. They come to me when that happens. My advice would be to try and preempt the evacuation so you don't get stuck in the rush. Otherwise, I'd make sure to have some sort of project to work on and lots of wine!
Well I love the dress and think it would fit me! I would definitely have a project to sew, something to embroider, and a good movie.
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ReplyDeletegorgeous dress! i'm not entering for it as i have no occasion for anything fancy and i'm pretty sure the top would fall right off my wee little bosom... but seriously, that silk looks divine!
ReplyDeletegood luck surviving the hurricane. irene left us w/o power for a week (i'm up in massachusetts) and i'm hoping sandy won't knock down the giant trees that surround our house... oy! as far as prep, for us it's movies, books, board games and craft projects!
I have no hurricane kit, even though we've been getting a hurricane a year for the last three years. I just assume we'll be fine surviving on water from the rain barrel and my stock of homemade jam. Perhaps I should put some thought into this... hmmm...
ReplyDeleteEnter me for the dress, please! It would never fit me, but I would be happy to find a home for it among my roughly-Sue-sized friends.
Definitely those battery operated head lights you strap on! I am going to follow as well. Thanks and be safe :).
ReplyDeleteMy hurricane preparedness kit? A gigantic bag of cheesies, portable DVD player and melatonin for the kids. A gigantic bottle of wine, book and flashlight and earplugs for me. Yup, that's about it. Maybe some granola bars or something?
ReplyDeleteI'm almost certain I already follow you, but if not I will do it right now.
Gosh that dress is pretty. Even if it doesn't fit me, would it be so wrong to hang it in my closet and rub my cheek against it once in a while?
Beautiful dress, Sue!!!! We're all earth quake-y preparing-y on this coast after last night! Figure we'll drink toilet tank water and luckily (read: lazily) all of our camping supplies from the summer is still gathered in a ready pile at the top of the basement stairs. Nothing says, "Curse you, approaching Tsunami!" Like a gooey camp stove s'more!
ReplyDeleteSo gorgeous. You have such a great eye, Sue! This may actually fit me post baby, but does look gorgeous on you! In preparation for the storm, John bought water and canned soup. I got cookies!
ReplyDeletei'm 5'6" and busty and would fill that baby out like a charm :) it's so gorgeous, I can't wait to see you new make. I live in earthquake country, and what i have on tap is a bunch of water, a case of wine, a pack of stretch lace and some ball point needles. water, wine, and undies forever! hope you and yours stay safe.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love this dress!! And I do follow this blog--although not officially.
ReplyDeleteI would pack Scrabble, for sure. Several bottles of wine, both white and red. Smoked oysters, for sure. Some crackers. Candles. Two novels: one a hefty Victorian novel, maybe Middlemarch? And the other should be lighter and more hopeful -- maybe something by Fannie Flagg. Batteries. A sexy movie. An action movie (but nothing about natural disasters, or post-apocolyptic). A creepy movie -- something with ghosts, I think. Mary Poppins (the movie). Candles. Knitting supplies. Craft project stuff.
Bronwen
You're hoping for a long storm, huh? Sounds fun!
DeleteOkay, now I "officially" joined, Sue.
ReplyDeleteHope everything is going okay.
This is a gorgeous color! I follow via RSS, and I'd love this dress to hang in my closet! I am really happy to hear you are okay, I was thinking about all my sewing friends who are on the east coast.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we don't really have severe weather like this in Seattle, my storm necessities: flashlight, water, foods. For fun things: books, board game (I like scrabble, but maybe it would be high time to ACTUALLY finish a game of monopoly) and perhaps some knitting.
DeleteYou had me at Sexy Big Bird. . . My storm includes enough tortilla chips, booze, extra blankets and rainboots for the whole fam.
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