Holy Poo Nuggets Batman, have I been busy sewing and growing a pile of fabulous clothes!!
It all began because my family has a long line of pack rats! NOT hoarders mind you, it's all crafty project items we pack away. My Grandmother told me, while sifting through her craft room, how her mother used to keep any scraps of string on spindles for any future use. I looked around her craft room and saw similarities to mine. Piles of random and abstract items of crafting for future projects that pile so high, you'll never finish them all before you replenish the empty space. My mom, her daughter, has similar filled spaces and rooms... well a barn full! I found myself loading ten boxes of fabric from my Grandmothers craft room to my Parents truck to head back home to Florida. I had just recently taught myself to sew. A brand new Fashion Mate Singer Sewing Machine came along with the boxes of fabric that dated from semi-recently to fabrics my Grandmother had from her pack rat Mother.
So here I am with no room in my home for these piles of fabrics so I cut patterns, I make piles, and I sit at the machine pushing through ideas. My idea began with Florida wear. Florida is hot as vacationing on Venus... and I want clothes that are simple, comfortable, sexy, and most of all refreshing to the Florida atmosphere! Usually that means mid-drifts and short shorts which not all ladies feel so comfortable in. I, as such a lady, decided how about loose but decent lengthed shorts; open backs and no sleeve shirts; simple skirts... and so forth. My brain, my scissors, and my new sewing machine is devouring fabrics of generations to create unique and one of a kind garments in a Florida style.
Complete with fancy shorts, open back shirts, jeans turned to skirts and shirts ready for the SUMMER! Oh snap, not to mention clothing for men such as tank tops, button up shirts, and shoe lace draw string shorts!! Sizes vary from around zeros to plus sizes. They are all measured by inches and all shorts are draw strings so the available size varies. The more they fit, if that makes sense!
And in conclusion, I will be having a Fashion Show in March, Friday the 13th, my lucky day! There will be art, fashions for the body, home, and garden and my friends' organic lye soap Moxie Soap Co. There is a door charge and tickets for sale. The tickets are $10 each and you get 15% off all purchases at the show. At the door it's $5 and no discount... HOWEVER all clothes are about half the price they will be available for on MOPEs website after the show. 15% of the ticket and door sales goes straight to the venue, The Space. 50% of the rest goes to helping me create a bipolar retreat which is a whole other blog... which will be done and linked consecutively. Plenty of more awesomeness about the show is found at 'We All Got Issues a MOPEn Fashion Show'.
I hope the turnout is worth the work, but either way the clothing I've created has blown my mind! It's a glorious thing to go from a rectangle of fabric to a shirt, skirt, shorts... the possibilities are endless. I wish we all simply created things to exchange with each other. Damn the man, save the individual but still community empire!! hah. inside joke... with myself... someone might get it. and that makes it all worth it!
