I’ve been keeping up my Self-Stitched September photos, posting them to the SSS Flickr pool, and some of them have made their way to my blog via finished project pictures, but I thought it was time to catch up from where I left off posting daily. Here’s days 10 through 16. We’ll start with day 16, since it’s an outfit that includes a number of items that normally don’t work that well for me… a full circle skirt (which I love, but flares right from my wide high hips, making me look larger than I appear in the mirror!), a long sweater (I swore off long sweaters in the Tom-Ford-lovin’-90’s. No extra fabric for THESE hips!!), and a wide-belt (a no-no for a large-busted short-waisted creature such as myself) covering up the whole hot mess. But I totally am loving the 70’s social worker vibe I’m rocking today!!
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| [day 16. social worker chic] |
Working back in time… here’s the last week. A study in the declining state of the weather in Minneapolis!
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| [day 15. cords and denim] |
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| [day 14. still warm enough for short sleeves and short pants] |
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| [day 13. a summery frock. a trip to the ice cream stand.] |
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| [day 12. hot weather. it seems so far in the past] |
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| [day 11. the wedding day] |
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| [day 10. note the lack of tall boots, turtleneck and knee-length sweater. same skirt as today, though!] |
That’s all for now! Back to garage sale prep!
Adorable outfits! I do love the weather gauge here, though. You could almost do a scientific study based on the weather patterns passively logged by your daily photos! 😀
You look totally adorable! Some of those "expert" fashion tips..aka 'the no-nos' are really just not right most of the time! That social worker look is working because you have the top light half perfectly proportioned. The belt divides your torso in half exactly and the weight of the sweater is giving the circle skirt an A-line appearance and tapering beautifully. It's a perfect example about why proportions matter more than "fashion tips" great job!
I'm just so confused about a waist. There's the bendy part (on me) and then there's the smallest part, about 3" above the 'bendy' part, and about 3 inches smaller (and i guess I bend there, too, when I lean to the side). Which one is my actual waist?? Sewing is confusing. Or, more accurately, figuring out my proportions is hard. I always thought I was a long-waisted hourglass, but I think I might actually be a very, very shortwaisted pear!!
Those outfits are just fantastic. I am loving social worker chic I could definately see myself rocking that at work, though I can't quite tell if you have big earrings on, which is a social workers essential. I LOVE your day 11 green dress, I really hope that soon I get good enough at sewing to even attempt something like that.