First muslin of 2014 -- a bust....in the bust.

I have been saving this pattern --

This week, I cut it from some fabric I thought would make some cute slacks but later decided I didn't really like....

It kinda fit, but I'm not sure I like me in something that doesn't have a shaped waist.  I don't really like a top/skirt/seam at the waist real waist, but I really do like a long French dart or a set of vertical shaping darts.  I think it gives actually a better shape and a little more room to the bust area.
 
This straight hanging shift style with conventional bust darts made me look like a green brick with a smashed chest.  I realize it was just a muslin and I should still try this with a FBA, of course!  But, it is pretty unattractive and I may just cut my losses with this one.....and, no photo, yuk!
 
But, I really, really, like this pattern and I have some navy suede - cloth to make it up in that will go so great with navy tights and my brown boots. 

 I'm going to switch gears and make a muslin for a yoked skirt and see where it leads me. 
 
Discouraged, yet hopeful.  Sewing trash can -- so pretty!

Which came first?

My mom made the yellow dress I'm wearing in this photo. A nice little yellow shift. My favorite style to this day. Which came first, though. The yellow fabric or those heinous yellow tights? Certainly, one wouldn't choose that fabric and say to oneself 'I'll just go pick up some matching yolk colored tights for her'. I need to ask my mom about that! I hope she remembers!

Watch [that] Plaid

My newest dress project is looking a little Amish. That's all I see. Amish-ness. I'm still confident that all it needs is a belt, some boobs, and to be shortenend within an inch of its life. Can't wait to accomplish those things! I hope to yet this week and when I do, I think the picture I post will be a significant improvement over this: