Red Linen

This week feels like an All The Things week.  The house is s-l-o-w-l-y coming back together after all the upheaval of the last few weeks.  

The boys' room is more or less done; I can't put pictures back on the walls until the end of the month, but the furniture is all built and in place.  FedEx messed up the delivery on the bunk beds  (it is always something!), so we are still missing the under bed drawers, but at least I was able to work with our task rabbit person yesterday to assemble the beds and the desks.   Their room looks so different from before!

  I'm sort of embarrassed how long we have managed in this house without proper dressers for the children.  I'll take some pics after everything is up on the walls and I get stuff on top of their dressers and desks--right now it resembles a generic dorm room.

And of course, IKEA messed up our delivery on Monday and neglected to deliver one of the two boxes for the girls' bed, so I have to wait another week before we can finish up in the girls' room.  I'm hoping that by this time next week, all the furniture building will be complete, and we'll be ready to finish putting the house back together.  The kids are having a hard time coping with everything being different, and I'm having a hard time living with all the chaos and frustration of companies who can't manage to do their jobs.  In any case, the living room is clear enough now that I can contemplate putting up Christmas decorations this weekend--I usually try to get them up right before St. Nicholas Day (which is on Monday).

 

But enough about that.  This is one of the dresses I made for my winter rotation: a red heavy-weight linen dress.  It is exactly like the charcoal one I made in the fall but heavier.  I finally remembered to put a note on my pattern to remind myself to raise the back neckline a few inches.  I should probably just redraft it higher, but I do occasionally make it where originally drafted and like it, so I guess I'll just leave it.  No construction notes, just a straight forward, easy TNT make.  I zig-zagged all my raw edges in addition to pinking them, as I find linen frays a lot.  The red is really pretty--much more of a true-blue red than the photos make it seem.  I'm a fan.  I think it goes well with this sweater.

It is very cold today (the highs are barely going to hit 20F) so I didn't want to faff about in shirt sleeves.  You've seen this before, so I think you get the idea anyway.  Nothing to see here, moving right along. 😉

Just the facts:

Red linen dress: Simplicity 1080, heavy weight linen in crimsom from fabrics-store.com (I *love* that place), bias tape

blue undershirt: JCrew via thredup

cream heavy weight wool sweater: Banana Republic (thrifted--either ebay or thredup, can't remember)

Pavlovo-Posad scarf: bought in Moscow in 2002 (still one of my favorites despite a few moth nibbles)

earrings: etsy

boots: Uggs via ebay