I finally finished the tulip dress, though not in time to actually wear it today. Ah well!
It is from a Butterick retro pattern(4790 if the link doesn’t work for you) from 1952, and considered “very easy.” It was easy as it didn’t require a zipper or anything fancy, though it did take quite a lot of fabric! I need to iron down the darts (looking at the picture I see there is a rather unfortunate bubble at the top of one!), and it needs to fit just a little more snugly at the waist, so I’m going to fiddle with it a bit before calling it done and hanging it in the closet. I am not quite as thrilled as I’d hoped, but once it fits properly hopefully it will grow on me!
In other springy news, things are going very well in the deck garden these days. We now have a rainbow of nasturtiums,
full morning glory leaf sprouts
and lovely green sweet pea sprouts (new this week!).
Now I just have to be patient and take care of them until they twine up the trellis and start to flower in 90 days or so. Seems like such a long time!
Oh! And yesterday night we went to see The Killers in concert, and they were fantastic. One of the opening acts was Howling Bells. The lead singer has an eerie, lovely voice that reminds me of The Sundays and The Innocence Mission. You can hear some of their music if you have the sound up on your computer when you go to their website. Sadly they are not on iTunes, and it appears Amazon thinks their album is only available as a spendy import (I wish I’d bought a CD last night!), but certainly if they’re opening for the Killers some US label will release it here sooner or later. I’m always on the hear-out (ha) for new-to-me music, so I thought I’d share in case you are too!