the saga of the ginger and the skirt

like a responsible unemployed bored-out-of-my-mind attempting-to-eat-healthy human, i made a grocery list and went to the store at 2pm.  $80 later, i had the fixins for 3 dinners, some veggie sides, breakfast, kitty kibble, some snacks, and cookies.  these cookies.  ginger molasses crackly topped crunchy-on-the-outside-chewy-on-the-inside bliss. 

no seriously.  everyone who tries these cookies says OH MY GOD THESE ARE FRIKKIN AMAZING! 

so i busted out the ginger i made back in december and lo and behold, 30 days spent in an apartment above 78 degrees and IT MOLDED!  greenblack [probably] toxic fuzz eveeerywhere.  fuck.  so i got the emergency ginger out of the fridge [who has emergency ginger??] and peeled it.  ummm well it was about 2 weeks old and had a funny blueish tint.  so i stomped back to the grocery store at 7pm. 

bean, sausage, and kale soup

after pinning this:

Source: curryandcomfort.blogspot.com via Liz on Pinterest

i thought... waaait i think i have a recipe very similar to that.  and lo and behold, i do.  so i made it.  and i successfully reduced the recipe from 6 servings to 2.  no wonky amounts like 1.3 cans of beans or 5 sausages. 

2nd to last

so i bought this lovely bundle of polyester for i think...$1.99[?] during my last thrift store excursion.  this is the second to last piece.. and the last one is seriously hurting my brain.  it may just become a scarf.  anywho, the top was sheer 3/4 length sleeves with sheer pleats on top over a nasty stained white one-piece thing attached to a weird-length skirt. 

super close up pleats

while finishing [ack!] the last netflix streaming season of torchwood [which reinforced my fear of children], i picked apart pretty much every seam in that lovely dress.  then i took the skirt in about 2" on each side to make a-very-nearly-hoochie-short strapless dress and ..well frankly there wasnt enough fabric to add elastic at the top.  def need that extra 2".

since id ripped the sleeves off, i ended up keeping the neckline of the original dress, cutting straight flaps down the front and back, then sewing it onto the strapless thing.  voila! 

the seamless pledge

i, liz, being of sound mind and empty checking account, am taking the seamless pledge until i find a full-time engineering job.

i will not buy new clothes [even at target/tjmaxx] except undies
i will continue to thift-and-sew ...but not until have worked through my inventory stockpile a bit more
i will probably not buy vintage as i cannot afford that ish
i will continue to attempt sewing with patterns.  i will also find more pattern-ready tissue paper for making my own [successful?] patterns
i will join the flickr group and post regularly

since my job prospects are on most uncertain terms...this pledge may last longer than i hope.  but lets just say it started january 1st and i cheated once.  but really...i didnt yet know what i was planning to do.  so estimated duration... january-march? 

sewing catch up

excessively tight-waisted big-hipped wool skirt from the last thrift-store trip.  cropped, sides taken in, zipper removed and resewn, peplum added.  it is green.  i swear.  not brown. 

danaah!  i know my hair looks all kinds of wack.  im ok with it.  but after i took these pics i rehemmed the lining of the skirt.  no longer sticking out just slightly.