Saturday, November 09, 2013

A Night with friends in "A Little Black Dress"

I had a great evening last night.  Sewing, good friends, new friends, designer fabric and food were involved ~ the perfect kind of evening in my book!  Well hey y'all know I'm obsessed!  *LOL*  I attended the Little Black Dress Party for PR Day at Elliot Berman's!

I'm gonna lead with pictures because thanks to my handy iPad I actually took a few...


Playing the "Name that Fabric" game

The contestants from the "Design It!" Contest
Kathleen & Liesl

Claudine, Kyle, Mary, Liesl, Bonny and Sharon

Liesl and Michael

I did have a wonderful conversation with Liesl who is the owner of Oliver & S Patterns about grading her new women's line, Liesl + Co., up to plus sizes. Thanks Liesl for putting up with me and letting me make my point!  See her new women's line, here!

Holding the winnings ~ fabric goodness!

Me, Clio & Deepika

 ...and this is what I won for answering a question...Valentino was the answer...



2 yards of amazing Missoni goodness!

Finally, Kathy Marrone, the Editor of Vogue Pattern Magazine and I spent quality time talking about sewing.  Peoples, this was truly the highlight of my evening especially when she said that she reads my blog!



It was a great evening with friends, however, please check out my fellow bloggers take on the evening....Clio - Clio & Phineas, Peter - Male Pattern Boldness, and my date for the evening ~ the awenessness herself, Oonaballoona!

A special thanks to Matthew and Eugenia proprietors of Elliot Berman Textiles for hosting such a wonderful event and giving away such great fabric gifts!


Matthew 
(courtesy of Oonaballoona)

and Eugenia

Peter's cousin Cathy won "The Best Little Black Dress" contest and won an awesome piece of Chanel Tweed.  Seriously Peter if you aren't making Michael a jacket from that tweed we really need to talk! *LOL*

I'll be spending the evening and most of tomorrow in the sewing cave, my Vogue pattern arrived and I'd like to have a new dress before the weekend is over!!!

...as always more later!





27 comments:

  1. Looks like a great night was had by all. We celebrated the great PR on the other side of the world too. We all were having a great time "together"

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  2. What fun, what fun! I love that you guys are so close to the action in NYC. And, I also love that you're going to have a dress finished from a brand new pattern before the end of the weekend. You are an inspiration!

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  3. Love love love reading about events like this. How fun. Just wished I was there x

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  4. Seems like it was a great event! Glad you shared some photos with us!

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  5. I'm green with envy! Between the company, the prizes, the comraderie, and the conversations... I really need to move out East. Maybe in another life...

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  6. That does look like a fun get together:)

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  7. It was really nice meeting you too!

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  8. Oooh . . . I am so, so jealous of your fabulous evening! Can’t wait to see what you make with that amazing fabric!

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  9. Ahhhhhhh, what a fun party!!!!! I'm SO sad I missed it!

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  10. So jealous that I don't live close enough to have gone to this! Looks like y'all had an awesome time :)

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  11. This looks like so much fun!

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  12. Oh my...so so SO very jealous! Sounds like it was an amazing night!!! and you can come hang out in me sewing room any time and for as long as you want :) but I'm thinking it would be way more fun to attend one of these functions with you over there lol

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  13. I am so jealous. Sounds like you guys had a fabulous time.

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  14. Looks like you all had a fun night out - and congrats on your win!

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  15. Looks like a fab night, and a nice win. Enjoy your day in the cave.

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  16. I, too,am so jealous of your meetup with fellow sewists! Thanks for posting pictures.

    Karen in Houston

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  17. Excellent, Carolyn, excellent! So happy you had some 1-1 time with Kathy Marrone! I am so happy to see her back at Vogue. :)

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  18. Thank you for talking about "plus sizes". I really appreciate it.

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  19. OOH! Sounds wonderful. That fabric is TDF!!!!

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  20. That sounds like such a fun night, thanks for sharing it with us. Love your fabric, too.

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  21. That looks like so much fun! Can't wait to see how you work the Missoni, but I know it will be fab. Glad you had such a great time :) K

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  22. Looks like you all had a ball celebrating Pattern Review. You can't beat a great LBD.
    Our Sydney celebration was full of sewing talk and chocolates!

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  23. This just looks like SO MUCH FUN! Oh how I wish I could have been there!!!

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  24. Looks like a terrific night! Lovely fabric score.

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  25. It was so lovely to meet you, Carolyn! I am such of a fan of your blog and your sewing--as I blurted out in glee! Can't wait to see what you do with that gorgeous Missoni cut!

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  26. It's wonderful that you are involved with a like-minded group with whom you can share your craft. And, I really envy the fact that you can sew a dress in such a short span of time!

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  27. So sad I missed this! It looks like everyone had a great time.

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