Melbourne Sewist’s Meetup
When our powers combine the world gets Instagram’d.
The atmosphere is a side effect of the lighting at Tessuti’s, where we met. I had a hard time eliminating it without flash lighting (which I really didn’t want to use in there). I didn’t buy anything but I did find great joy in reaching out towards things on the remnant table and touching them just as someone else was about to grab them. Ah cheap thrills, I wouldn’t have survived my student life without you.
Also, Kirsty brought me a cross-country ham (the room temperature storage kind – for ironing) from Tasmania! I had no idea what it was and couldn’t open it till I got home (camera bag=no room) for fear of dropping it on the tram floor (which I eventually did on my way off, but it’s alright the wrapping saved it from.. uh.. the fearsome nature of the Melbourne public transport system). Thanks Kirsty!
Hellooo Irish dude!
The pictures from the cafe turned out better; I had a hard time getting the ladies’ attention until a charming Irish gent offered to take pictures of the group. He said some stuff which no one understood (but everyone later agreed was charming) possibly due to his accent and also because they were too busy mentally undressing the poor guy.
I mean look at these ladies (at this stage the whole room was coming onto the guy, including the granny group at back right-Irish? Where?) the guy was loving it – he is so going to recommend Melbourne to all his Irish friends. Totally worth it for the the high percentage of friendly, uniquely attired, attractive smiling ladies.
One person recovers in time to get a picture of the guy. Everyone else is still in, ‘awww.. Irish dimples‘ mode.
Thank you Rachel for organising this meetup and everyone else that showed up for being such awesome company on the day. It was a pleasure meeting you all (in real life, yo!). Thanks, also to Carl for processing the Tessuti photos for hue correction (his immediate response on seeing them was “Hahahaha you took them all in Instagram“). Full list of attendees here.
I’ve uploaded all of the photos I took on the day into a Flickr set (where they have been ‘uploading‘ for the better part of three hours now, so try again this evening if you don’t see them straight away). Please feel free to download them and crop, resize, behead (yourself ), tag, label etc. for use on your personal blog. Please include a link to this post as the source for any images you use.
That phone.. Ms Knipmode there is pissing herself with how awesome it is.
Patterns and fabric used:
Dress - Vogue 1793 Marc Jacobs dress (B) in quilting fabric, fully lined in grey Bemberg remnant. Pockets made out of Javanese batik harvested from an old Motel skirt.
Draped Cardigan – Knipmode August 2011, Vest-18 in acrylic knit. Previously shown here (May 17thand May 22nd entries, respectively).
Modifications made: Shortened the dress, made sway back adjustments on both dress and cardigan and didn’t include the waist tie on the cardigan.
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What a great time you guys had. And your dress is lovely too.
Have a great week.
Thanks, you too!
Wow – it looks like you had a lot of fun! I love your dress – the hair in the photo (never mind the phone) is killing me!
It’s very 60s isn’t it? I was going to comment about it but then I remembered this strange lady I once worked with that did her hair like that every day (thinner body than the model on the pattern envelope) and looked a bit like a lollipop. Or audio recording equipment. So yea, there are people still loving that hair style in this day and age. XD
Looks like you had a lovely time. Thanks for sharing!
Looks like you had an awesome time at the meetup. And how generous of Kirsty to give you a proper sewing ham! You’ll have an easier time pressing with it and wonder how you ever got along without one.
Yea, I’m sewing up a short coat today and it’s got princess seams so I’ll be using the ham for that! Pretty excited. Got all my chores done so I’ve got a continuous block of sewing time ahead of me XD.
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What a terrific day out! And I can see a few familiar faces in the photograph
Your dress is gorgeous,a nd I love that you wore red and yellow together, so cheerful.
Thank you so much for the pattern pyramid package, I received it Monday, and have posted about it today. I just might have traced out my pattern, cut it out and started sewing already too
Thanks! And I can’t wait to see what you’ve made!
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Wow! What a great meet up (including cute Irish picture taker..)! Love the outfit you made too, sighn me up for a Marc Jacubs pattern!!
And why are we not seeing a photo (or two) of this Irish guy? Would have loved the opportunity to virtually undress him, too!
Because it’s hard to think and maintain a lady boner at the same time.. XD
Seriously though someone did get a photo of him it’s just probably safely under a pillow right now..
I want to see him too!