Boy Otium and another Domi

School is starting all over the world, which equals back-to-school-sewing in the blog community. Bloggers are showing off their skills by sewing perfectly matching wardrobes. I am not one of those bloggers. I simply have an inability to sew matching garments. Everything I sew is bold or extremely bold. On her blog, this week, I already reacted that I love sewing dresses because they do not have to be combined with anything (I know other people create beautiful combinations with cardigans and shoes, I simply sew long sleeves for winter and ignore any matching issues with shoes).

One of the many back-to-school blog sewing activities is over here. You can win some great prizes if you sew something with the patterns of their sponsors and link up. I have a weakness for sewing link ups and I owned a few of the suitable patterns. One of the sponsors is Sofilantjes and garments sewn with the Domi, Otium for girls or Bueram patterns all qualify for entering the game. Being my enthusiastic self, I decided to sew all three of them. The Domi and Otium will be discussed in this post, the Bueram is for next time.

Let's start with the Otium for girls. The name clearly states for who this pattern is intended, well, I like to draw outside the lines. I hacked the pattern for my son and my eldest daughter loves the shirt that much, she wants one too.

The main change I made is putting in a zipper. Instead of having a lined front pocket, I doubled the entire front and used the lines for the pocket to position the zipper. I sewed the Otium with the honest intention of matching it with the Domi I sewed a week earlier. The shirt was to be a relatively plain shirt.

While searching fabric for the Otium, I noticed a piece of jersey that was too small for a shirt, but perfect for my Otium hacking plan. I had used the fabric here and all my kids had mentioned how much they liked the print. I mirrowed the position of the pocket because my son is a lefty. In the picture my son is pretending to be sad because of the huge cut in his shirt.

This lead to a non-plain Otium, reaffirming my inability to sew low-key garments. It doesn't match with the Domi, so I decided that I would simply blog about two different outfits. I matched the Otium with a pair of orange (store bought)  pants, I think the combination works very well.

Of course, my son had to have his good friend in the pictures as well. That good friend can now travel with him everywhere without being lost. On the picture below he is pretending to have a tummy ache from eating him.

I didn't manage to make good picture of the empty shirt without my son covering at least a part of it. This picture has the bear inside (and he is pretending to be surprised that his bear disappeared), in case you are wondering what that strange bump is. The dotted fabric is from Lillestoff and the black uni fabric I bought from Joyfits.

Now for the second part of this post, the Domi. After sewing these two, I simply had to sew the long version as well to complete the Domi trifecta. The main fabric is from Hilco. I used a decorative stitch, consisting of little stars, to make the pockets (because not enough was going on yet on that fabric, right).

I lowered the rise of the Domi because my son prefers to wear it on his hips. I just took of 5 centimeter around the entire top of the pattern . My eldest two kids have almost the same hip size, so I will use this lowered rise version for my daughter as well.

Sewing went smooth, taking pictures not so much. I matched the Domi with a plain red shirt. My son did not agree. He didn't like the red shirt, he wanted to wear the zipper Otium. Pictures without a shirt were the only way to avoid the non-matching Otium.

My son loves loud combinations (he is allowed to pick his own clothes) but for the blog I am trying to tone down the crazy wear a bit. I read on several blogs that people feel that blogs show a too perfect life, well that is true here as well. I therefore decided to also include a picture of how this will actually be worn. My son loves it, which is the most important thing right?

I love to hear what you think of my creations. Feel free to leave a comment in the language you prefer (although Google translate might have to assist me if you choose something different than English, German, Dutch or Hungarian).