Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Late national love



In the Netherlands we get a bit crazy about orange and the color of our flag around Kingsday (end of April). Most people dress in orange, and wear pretty similar clothes as when there is a national soccer event. Usually, we do not join the masses on Kingsday (I usually realize when I am on a flea market that day that there is no stripe of orange anywhere in our combined outfits), but this year I went a different route. I found some awesome Dutch fabrics at Textielstad, bought a few meters and made all my kids something out of it. I already showed you my eldest's outfit and my son's, but I did not have time to show the clothes my two youngest wore.




You know I love Sofilantjes*, they are my go-to patterns if I am free wheeling. A year ago, I translated a guestpost to Dutch on the Sofilantjes blog to make this awesome dress hack from the ADVT* shirt pattern. It went on my to do list, but got buried under pattern tests. Now it was the perfect time to try it. I actually hacked the hack a bit. I kept the bodice in one piece and sewed the bias on the dress without an extra seam. I am not convinced if my shortcut actually took less time, but at least I tried something new. It turned out a bit short, so it might actually turn into a tunic, but it is still cute in that case.




For my youngest, I did a triple way hack. I used my most favorite Sofilantjes skirt, the high low skirt from the Litore. I used the bodice from the Nivalis*, that curve make me so happy. Finally, I used the short sleeves from the Aura*, that little pleat is so cute. When I made pictures a few months ago now, I actually forgot to get a close up of the sleeve, but you can see how that pleat looks here.




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1 comment:

  1. Toffe outfits !! En niet overdreven nationalistisch, zoals de meeste van jouw landgenoten 😉

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