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Whose Legs Are These?

Photo: Bartholomew Cooke/LATimes Magazine

The stockinged legs in the foreground belong to one of our favorite Project Runway models. Can you guess who this is? Mouseover for the answer.

Heidi Klum to Produce "Seriously Funny Kids"

ANOTHER reality show from Heidi? Where does she find the energy? Click here for more from Variety.

Another Portrait of Shannon in her Christian Siriano Wedding Gown

Photo: Inspired Art Portraits

Tiana Dress for Hailey B-3351

This is a dress up dress for my granddaughter Hailey who loves the Princess and the Frog movie. She's been asking me for a Tiana dress so I used Butterick 3351. I made it a little big so she could play in it for a couple of years. Put a grow tuck in the hem to let down later as she gets taller. I changed up the top -gave it a sweatheart neckline and gathered the rest of the front. Not crazy about it but it's to play in so it's fine. My youngest daughter got engaged on Sunday so will be working on her wedding dress soon. The wedding is in November so have lots of time to get it finished. Picture of Cowin J Pussycat whom I thought looked cute that day while I was taking pictures for the blog.

Nina Garcia's Look Book: What to Wear For Every Occasion

Nina Garcia has authored a new book on style. "Nina Garcia's Look Book" will be released on August 10, 2010 but you can pre-order it now on Amazon.

It's Not Too Late - NYC Fans Head to Season 8 Event!

Photo: Mark Yonskie

Our Mark Y is on the scene and reports that Tim Gunn is on site!

If you are in the New York area here’s your chance to be part of Project Runway! Come join us and cast a vote for your favorite look in one of Project Runway Season 8’s challenges.

Stop by our designers’ showcase on Sunday, June 27th from 2pm-4pm & let your opinion be heard!

Helen Mills Event Space

137-139 West 26th Street NYC 10001

Between 6th Ave. & 7th Ave. on the north side of the Street

You will need to sign a confidentiality agreement and an appearance release in order to enter the showroom. No cameras allowed.

Congratuations, Shannon Siriano

Shannon Siriano and Evan Greenwood were married yesterday in Detroit and of course Christian Siriano designed his beautiful sister's elegant gown.

Photo courtesy of Brad Walsh

Congratulations to the happy couple. Shannon, you looked glorious!

Weekend News from Heidi Klum, Malan Breton, Christian Siriano and Tim Gunn

Heidi Klum is on the July 2010 cover of the Russian Tatler magazine.

Christian Siriano is in Italian Vogue.

Click here for the latest musings from Malan Breton.

Tim Gunn supports the New York Fashion Industry in this article from the Wall Street Journal.

Katrina Kaif Unveiled Femina Magazine’s 50 most Beautiful Women

The gorgeous Katrina Kaif unveiled Femina Magazine’s latest issue. The magazine covers ‘50 most beautiful women’ in its latest.  Also present at the event were Shazahn Padamsee, Prachi Desai, Anushka Sharma and others.

Femina has come out with the much-awaited India’s 50 Most Beautiful Women list, with five stunning collector’s edition covers, featuring five of India’s most unforgettable women. These 50 women have been voted to the Femina list by readers from across India, in polls carried out extensively across media, including the magazine. Take a look…

Project flop: Butterick 5285 full skirt

This one is all my fault: I was bad and made up Butterick 5285 in a navy cotton sateen when the pattern calls for lightweight fabrics.

After putting this together, I found out why the pattern calls for lightweight fabrics: significant gathering is required, and the (admittedly) thick cotton sateen made the skirt blousy to the extreme.  I spent an evening ripping the skirt apart, took 6 inches (3 inches each side) off the back, and stiched it back together.  The result is still craziness:

At first I thought (more likely, tried to convince myself) that the front was cute, but it is nuts, too:

I wanted it to be this Louis Vuitton:

But it turned out this Louis Vuitton...:

Images from style.com

Not good.

I would really like a full skirt for summer, and I adore the shape of this skirt.  While the pattern is very easy to work with, I think it has an inherent flaw: it would require a really lightweight fabric, but it doesn't call for a lining, so the skirt would be see-through.  Lining the skirt might make it too thick for the gathers.

I have Simplicity 2413 in my pattern stash, and I may sew the full skirt in that pattern.  But for now, the poor navy sateen is in a pile on the sewing room/guest room floor....

Heidi Klum on Jimmy Fallon Last Night

Heidi Klum offered a couple of tidbits about season 8 last night.

“We had an incident – well, three incidents – where they basically dropped like flies and we had the ambulance come three times in a row,” she said, referring to Project Runway contestants.

Click here for the full episode (third segment.)

Be a Part of Project Runway History - Sunday, June 27th NYC

If you are in the New York area here’s your chance to be part of Project Runway! Come join us and cast a vote for your favorite look in one of Project Runway Season 8’s challenges.

Stop by our designers’ showcase on Sunday, June 27th from 2pm-4pm & let your opinion be heard!

Helen Mills Event Space

137-139 West 26th Street NYC 10001

Between 6th Ave. & 7th Ave. on the north side of the Street

You will need to sign a confidentiality agreement and an appearance release in order to enter the showroom. No cameras allowed.

Project Runway Season 8 Premiere July 29th at 9:00 on Lifetime

The 90-minute premiere will be followed by the new "On the Road with Austin and Santino" show at 10:30.

According to The Futon Critic, "It's not clear how or if "Models of the Runway" will be incorporated into the new season.

A Lifetime spokesperson wouldn't confirm any of the above developments however multiple sources now insist it's a done deal."

Click here for the full story.

July 29th is also Tim's birthday.

All Austin Scarlett - All the Time

One of Project Runway's most memorable designers, Austin Scarlett has inspired a new website "Austin is Burning."

Screencaps of every Austin appearance in season one are posted in glorious detail.

Click here for more.

Thank you David!

A Nugget from Tim Gunn's New Book

In addition to fashion advice, Tim offers some insider gossip in his new book: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making it Work.
Tim dishes on an encounter with Anna Wintour at designer Peter Som's fashion show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in 2006.

After the show, writes Gunn, "I was with a colleague from Parsons, and we had been discussing the will-she-or-won't-she-take-the-elevator question, so we ran over to the elevator bay to see if Anna would deign to get on. She wasn't there. Then we looked over the stairway railing. And what did we see but Anna being carried down the stairs. The bodyguards had made a fireman's lock and were racing her from landing to landing. She was sitting on their crossed arms."

Click here for the full article.

Christopher Straub Originals Now Available on eBay

Dear BPR,

I wanted to let you know about an online sample sale that I have going on. I'm offering some one-of-a-kind, handmade pieces from my previous collections. I need my studio space back so EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!

Thanks,
Christopher


Click here for details.

Sewing Miss Daisy

Made one of the Lil Blue Boo Recycled T-shirt dresses again. Emma Daisy loves cheerleading so cut up an old t-shirt and made her a dress. No model pics yet. Also made another version of the kwik sew nightgowns for Emma Daisy with some scraps from a shirt I'm working on. And of course a matching doll dress to go with it.

Weekend News from Tim Gunn, Malan Breton, and Qristyl Frazier

Click here for fashion tips from Tim Gunn and Marie Claire.

Liz Smith reports from the set of The Smurfs movie. Yes, Tim is in the scene!

More tips for your weekend wardrobe from Tim here at More.

Click here for Malan Breton's latest musings.

Project Runway Season Six designer, Qristyl Frazier will show her latest collection at "Full Figured Fashion Week" in NYC. Click here for more information.

Lindsay Lohan: "The lies that are created, to the detriment of my career"

Want to know how Lindsay Lohan garbage? She has published an exclusive interview with the new Star magazine. It is so bad. In general, the Lohan family seems to prefer the radar for their statements, but from time to time, be lucky and get a quote from U.S. Weekly and People. But this is only one explanation - which is an interview. Guess what to say "our Crackhead sober, what you never had to drink anything, ever, and all those lies are" destroyed his career.

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Oh, milkaholic dumb. In his first interview since forced to wear a SCRAM bracelet and less than two weeks after the consumption of the monitor detects a small amount "of alcohol refers Star Lindsay Lohan to have just behind their addiction and his career back on track." Enough is enough, "frustrated the actress said in our June 28" should let the people make me live in peace.


"The Star Party Hard wish above all the idea that they are out of the car like Star broke the news that the SCRAM exploded at dawn on 7 June fell to refute, while on holiday in post Katy Perry MTV Movie Awards bash. I have not touched alcohol or something, "he stressed. He adds: "The lies that [to be compiled is] detrimental to my career." Although Lindsay, financing safe for your make-up or no role in the play of hell porn star Linda Lovelace does, she insists played directly incorporated Bracelet 24 May be, is likely to mean the temptation to give the Hollywood party scene hard hit. "It's a constant battle to stay sober every day faces unveiled," an insider in this article. For the full report and a full interview with Lindsay - and others in your area who do not know - 28 June collect Star today.


[From Star Magazine] Yes, probably would, some of us the benefit of the doubt - be still, Lindsay is not that we'd never heard of something that has a technical problem, and heard I bet SCRAM bracelets are not 100% accurate. If these are not in the mood for it. Lindsay snapped after years of lies, which is always the poor innocent victim of an unfair world full of conspirators, crack heads and those who hate their mission to destroy their lives, many of us are over. Many people make each new story, each new interview, each was Shenanigan see again with a simple "even know what this F-cking crack head mind is so far" ..
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Overlooking New Look?

I forget about New Look patterns.  Perhaps becase the patterns are not prominent on Simplicity's site.  Or because New Look patterns are never on sale; while they are always a cheap $3.99, it seems that every weekend either McCalls, Butterick, or Simplicity are on sale for 99 cents, so I gravitate towards those.

In any event, I shouldn't overlook New Look as there are some real gems.

This could be another version of The Perfect Dress - but this one with a great tie neckline:

I want that red dress in that fake red/white fabric...

I've been seeking a pattern for the white top below: just a 3/4 length-sleeve woven top pattern that's not a tunic.  It's suprisingly hard to find, so I was excited by NL6868:

It got so-so reviews on Pattern Review because of a wonky facing (if you look closely at the model's top on the site, the neckline facing is a little crazy), but it's such a great top that I may have to make it work.  Can't you see it in an eyelet?

My favorite is this skirt:

The short length and pleats look high-end RTW!  It is definitely on my (huge) to-sew-list.

Klum: Season 8 Episodes will be 90 Minutes Long

Photo: Jennifer S. Altman/For The Los Angeles Times

Heidi Klum offers a little season 8 scoop for Project Runway fans: We're going to have more time next season," she announces. How will they manage that? "We're going to make the show an hour and a half long," adding a half hour to the running time. "It's for all the people out there who need to know just a little bit more of what's going on." Designers, start your hemming.

Click here for the full article from the Los Angeles Times.

No word about "Models of the Runway."

Maya Luz Spring/Summer 2011 Collection from StyleWeek Providence

Enter to Win a Trip to Christian Siriano's Spring 2011 Runway Show

O-Cel-O™, maker of innovative and stylish home cleaning products, is partnering with designer and Project Runway winner Christian Siriano to give the everyday scrub sponge a fierce makeover with a pop of fashion. To kick off the partnership, O-Cel-O is inviting consumers to enter the “Clean with Style” sweepstakes for a chance to win a New York Fashion Week Getaway and a backstage pass to meet Christian Siriano.

One lucky grand-prize winner will enjoy a trip for two to New York City to attend Christian Siriano’s Spring 2011 runway show. At the show, the winner will get a sneak peek at the fashions that will inspire Christian’s scrub sponge designs, as well as an exclusive opportunity to chat with the designer backstage. Click here to enter through August 13th.

Katy Perry’s boobs are proselytizing for “the Lord Jesus Christ”

was published shortly after the video of Lady Gaga for "Alexander", Katy Perry on her high horse Jesusy tweeted "The use of words such as entertainment is so cheap as a comedian tells a joke fart." Many people assumed this was to go gaga, but not really concrete evidence. However, not properly ... Katy far. Katy told E! that his "tweet blasphemy was a general statement that is not specifically Gaga. Although she says she is often hurt by her boyfriend, Russell Brand and his statements against the" Lord Jesus Christ. ... Yes, she is a gospel singer and her father is pastor. You understand me not Oh, Katy and says something about the fight against hypocrisy? What fight? "Let's get this right: Katy Perry is talking all about building people.


Smack Except Jesus, then you have found a shock. Has done so much for boyfriend Russell Brand. But despite what the media and have read and digest each enough to see to 140 characters, or absolutely everything Lady Gaga. Then broke the blogosphere last week with the news caused a controversy by Perry Gaga Twitter this week, which went gurls in California, the singer about his new album to promote, and of course, was in a situation is potentially embarrassing situation to questions his contentious Gaga field tweet apparently the religious iconography scolded in his video for "Alexander does. out it was just a major misunderstanding." I'm a fan of the crowd, "EW said in your honor. He added that the religious practices, which says to, "swear that entertainment as cheap as a comedian tells a joke fart" is, was not even mentioned Gaga, and his place was more of a non-particularly in general. "But everyone should be a cat fight. I think people love cat fights. It is a turn-on for people.


"So if someone could sometimes be man-to-be." The other day I yelled out the window. He said something a little bit of color, the kind of blasphemy of the Lord Jesus Christ, and gave him a slap in the face for him. "Certainly not, what would Jesus do?" It's just kind of rooted in me, and it is hard to walk. But everyone knows I am a big fan of Lady Gaga.


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If you want to be obsessed with him through my tweets, something like 10 of them. "Very good. But perhaps he should stop, but his tour was to get the refusal. But he also explained his remark in an interview on French radio this weekend, he was from another artist who was not very accurate excited." Recently I have seen things that are just a little ... I do not think I would, "he said. "How do you know that Madonna was on the cross? So, my friend will sometimes say things that are ehhh ... where I come from, it is for me to say that ..." But you self-conscious enough to know that your opinion is not shared by all difficult, and the matter is taken is necessarily justified. "[People say that I am] very hypocritical person," How can you say that and



[sings] "I Kissed a 'Girl? Spirituality and sexuality are two separate things. If you decide to put on the same subject, it will be interesting for some people. Everyone knows that ... I've said 100 times in my Twitter: I'm one of the largest and the fans of Lady Gaga Madonna and Russell Brand. Some people have different views. "And some find it difficult to adequately express the first time. Lady Gaga can certainly relate to this issue.


[From E! News] I have that some people "different opinions" and someone who is very religious can be friends or have sex with or marry someone who does not have a shit God or religion. Very good living and let live. But the explanation for his hypocrisy Katy - "Spirituality and sexuality are two separate things. If you decide to put on the same topic, it is for some people" of interest - This is weird, right? As Katy thinks she is there to give us the love of Jesus more with their breasts? I think what you say? Her breasts are prosthelitizing. And also, just go judgy Twitter as holier than thou ", whatever that was made by ..
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Gathered-back slouchy top: Vogue 8514 (first knit project!)‏

I bought Vogue 8514 because I thought - based on the pattern picture - that it was for wovens, and didn't even bother to look at the fabric suggestion. You'd think the lack of darts would have tipped me off, but moving on…

I adored the gathered back of this casual top, so I decided to use this pattern as my first venture into knits! I was going to make a solid top, but Peter suggested a stripe knit we saw at H&M Fabrics. While his outfit choice Saturday was questionable, his fabric intuition wasn't: I love how this turned out!

Vogue 8514

I made View B, but ended up taking over 4 inches off the length: unaltered view B is crazy long!  Like, beach cover-up or knee-length dress long.  A Pattern Reviewer felt that the instructions were goofy: there is no discussion of serging and the facings are interfaced. As a novice knit sewer, I didn't notice any of this, and felt that the pattern overall was incredibly easy: the sleeves are kimono shaped instead of set-in, and the gathering was super-easy to do.

It wasn't lightning fast, as the sleeves are also gathered and finished at the bottom with a band - details that took some time to complete:

I'm mixed on sewing knits: I found it difficult to prep the knit before I cut it. It kept shifting and stretching on the mat. However, once I wrestled it down and began sewing, what a breeze. The material was easy to maneuver, and the lack of darts makes a project much faster.

Frankly, I don't wear really wear knits, so I don't think I'll sew with them often. Also, I think I'd like to spend my precious, limited sewing time creating dresses or skirts that are more expensive to buy than knits.  But the overall ease does make sewing with knits very attractive...