Hi there. Been a bit quiet of late. Friend having a violent marital problem so have been lending shoulder, tissues and alcohol.
Right, yes the commission is done and paid for. I want to get a good photo of her wearing it so you can all have a look. When I took it in last week she was wearing thick wooly leggings underneath it and tennis shoes - so not the best base for a photo for my album! I'm quite pleased with it, but it wouldn't have been my choice. The dress stays up ok and I took precaution of using transparent straps and I made her some blue ones too.
I've made 3 bata de cola skirts over the past 2 weeks - a blue, a green and an orange, all with cream frills and white under frills.
Making sleeveless lined tops - got 14 to do.
Also got some backless halter-neck button-front waistcoats on the go. They will go with asymmetric short samba skirts: black scuba hip band and then re-jiggled costumes from the depths
of the trunks for the skirts.
Went to the lady in Perpignan who made a set of 14 cross over tops for the little people's presents this year. She charged 20 euros each. No hems finished, gathered cotton sticky-out ruffles on the neck and sleeves
instead of donuts. Still, I bit my tongue - the kids will love them and I didn't have to make them. I just see all that money and think how much they would have cost to produce - very tiny, so perhaps 4 from a metre. Lycra is (being generous) 18 euros a yard. plus 30cms of cotton ( 7.50 euros per metre) Girl has to make a living though.