My keeping up the moral challenge

A sketch to start

 In the spirit of "Keeping up moral"

and practicing what I preach


I am going to try to keep up with pictures and

posting my progress on this project


Here is where everything starts

An Idea, 

Peacock on the velvet dress

That leads to a drawing

or in this case a drawing set down long ago


because I liked the way it looked but never used
Although That's not quite true either

I did use it on a dress

A dress I have yet to finish

but the peacock is done here

Nekkid block in it's frame

But I digress








This is typically how I start a project


I get all my thoughts in one place and start

Dress paper pattern

I like using the blank ends to dress pattern paper

because it tears away fairly easily

without distorting my sewing

I draw the pattern I want to use on it first with

pencil and then again with sharpie so I can see it

I pin it down and lay down stem stitch for an outline

Sorry sidways

 Then fill in what ever stay stitching I need

to keep the whole thing stable

While I stitch away











 Not too shabby for a nights work


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I am working with

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