8 wiksten tank and a few updates.

I made myself a Wiksten tank this week! I had to justify the massive amounts of voile headed my way from Sew, Mama, Sew's $6 sale by saying I was going to make some new shirts for myself, so I made this as a wearable muslin from some thrifted fabric I had found last week.

World's worst picture of myself, sorry!  Was trying to take this fast this afternoon and my dog was jumping at my feet the entire time.  He's high maintenance.  This tank fits nicely with my jeans-tank-sweater uniform!  I feel like I wear the same thing every day.

I wish I knew what this fabric is.  It's woven and pretty flowy/silky like voile, but I don't think it's voile!  It was an awesome find though for $2 for 2.5 yards.

In other news, I've updated my blog design again.  Still a work in progress but I think I like it!

I also finally was able to buy bijoulovely.com!  So both bijoulovely.com and bijoulovelydesigns.com will lead you here now.  I've been trying to do that for about 3 years now, glad the squatters finally gave up :)  And my twitter name now matches my instagram name: @bijoulovely.  Victory on all counts this week with branding!

26 washi dress.

As I mentioned last week, I made a dress to wear to my friend's wedding this past weekend!  I volunteered to be a pattern tester for Rae's new Washi Dress pattern, since I've been wanting to make a dress anyway and knew I needed a deadline in order to get it done.  Plus the pattern is awesome and just the type of dress I'd been looking for.  The pattern hasn't been released just yet, but it should be available sometime this week.    It was released today!  Click here for more information or to purchase the pattern.

This is only the second time I've sewn a dress, and I am very happy with how it turned out!  I wish I had some better photos but I can't find the camera remote so I had to run back and forth before the timer went off to take these :)

The dress is made from some random cotton sateen that I had bought a year or so ago from Joann's.  I really like the way it looks, it's a warm gray with a nice sheen to it, and it has a good weight for this dress since it's unlined.

I definitely see more washi dresses (and tunics!) in my future.  I highly recommend the pattern!