Struggling with Lavender

I'm supposed to be working on a lavender/pink/blue fairy costume, but am having nothing but troubles. Too much pain all week to do anything creative.  I had in mind a specific fabric I "knew" I had, but after looking through every box twice I couldn't find it. Must have used it all up. There were no other light purple fabrics at all other than a lavender satin and a magenta sari. I figured the best thing to do was to make two costumes and let the customer choose. But then just to make sure there really was nothing better available I though better go check out the fabric store.  They had nothing in lavender that was suitable.  Brocades and silks in every colour but no light purple.I did find a sheer knit with purple threads that I though might "jazz up" the lavender satin I had at home, so got a little. They didn't have any lavender beads either - except for some lavender "pearls", so I got some of those as well.

Then today I cut out two bodices and sewed them. The lavender satin with the metallic knit over top was a pain to work with as it was very stretchy and any roughness on my hands caused the threads to catch and pull. When I did finally get both bodices sewn they were too small. I guess I cut too much off the back of my pattern prototypes, because the two back sides were too far apart.  I figured I could use the bodices for sexy lace-up evening gowns, but I'd have to start over with the fairy bodices.

I decided the metallic mesh over the lavender satin was too risky to use - even though it did look very nice - but I can't have an expensive outfit have the threads pull so easily, so I looked through my dyed quilt fabrics for a lavender blend. Found one. Then when ironing on the interfacing I accidentally fused one of them to my ironing cloth instead of the bodice fabric!! So I have to start over again.  Or maybe I just better quit for today.