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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Flosstyle galore

In February, I gave you two posts on Flosstyle's Zoo pattern, but I could have given you more. Today, I am finally showing you the rest of my Flosstyle collection. Flosstyle has just released a free pattern piece for a long sleeve add-on to the Zoo pattern, making the content of this post very relevant again! On a second nore, summer is slowly approaching here, which is where the pattern is intended for. Related to my previous post, Lauren S. do not forget to email me about the give away!

In February, I showed you the reversible knit romper and a zipper tutorial on a woven romper. I had also sewed a reversible woven romper though. One side has bright yellow flower from Soft Cactus. The other side was a scrap left from making this blouse, and is also from Soft Cactus.The pattern itself explains a way to make the romper reversible, but I of course chose an option that was not supposed to be reversible. I just made it work though. Would anyone be interested in knowing how I did it, for a future tutorial?

I have been trying to improve my photography skills, and the use of props is advocated everywhere. Using props confuses the hell out of me, but I am trying. You can only learn through trying right? I asked my daughter to search for something dark and she brought me the witch hat, and we just rolled with it. We had a blast during the shoot, and that is the most important part.

There were a few days between when I cut the dress and sewed it. In the mean time the arm cycle was adjusted in the pattern. I did not wanted to trow away the pieces that I had cut, so I just added contrasting orange to make it the correct size. Flosstyle pattern usually come with a super inspiring modification section, and so does this pattern. I could not help myself to come up with another type of modification though. I added elastic to the waist, instead of tying straps. The straps look great but my daughter can not tie them herself, so I went for ease.

The last Flosstyle project that I am showing you today is not from the Zoo collection. This is a hack of the Super Suit Set. I cut the bodice pattern pieces around the waist and ruffled a skirt on it. Easy peasy. My youngest refuses to wear anything else than dresses. She is a princess, she tells me about ten times a day.

I attempted to a sibling shoot all in Flosstyle. Getting them all to look and no socks showing was apparently too much to hope for. You can see the dress is very versatile in size. The Zoo collection officially goes up to a size four, but my kids are relatively skinny.

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).

Thursday, February 25, 2016

Kids Clothes Week Winter 2016 #1

Droomstoffen stocked up on several beautiful black and white fabrics. A few of her blogger team members received four "jersey fat quarters". The original fabric is 140 cm wide, so we got about 70 cm wide times half a meter long (the length might have been a bit more on some of the pieces). Getting such a gift is right up in my alley, I loved the challenge to turn the pieces in full garments.

It is Kids Clothes Week, which means sewing for at least one hour a day, and I have been cutting and sewing several hours this week already. Today, I will show you the garment I started last, but finished first (seeing I only used my serger, no twin needle needed). I had already used both fabrics for something else and while investigating the remnants, I figured I could turn them into a Lila. A shorts jumpsuit Lila, because I did not have enough fabric for a full leg version.

I crafted an alternative bow (being lazy to read up on that pretty bow I had seen earlier). When using two different fabrics, I think it is advisable to use something to break the contrast. I am not sure if my bow was the best way, but it will have to do. In my one-fabric Lila I am not missing the extra detail, but in my earlier created color blocked Lila, the little flap is a true eye catcher.

I did not make a snap bottom opening on the jumpsuit (following her lead). My daughter is on track of not needing a diaper anymore, and I hope that in summer she will only wear her underwear. She does need help in getting the jumpsuit on and off, but that would not have been different if there would have been snaps.

The fabrics I used for this jumpsuit are this penguin and geometric fabric. Check them out in the Droomstoffen fabric store, you will love them for sure. So, no official theme sewing for me this time, my own theme for this season is black and white. You can check out some other sews on black and white from the blogger team here. She coincidentally also used the Lila pattern.

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).

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Release of Zoo collection and week one of Project Run and Play

I am a Strategic Management scholar, so I am all for synergy. Today, Flosstyle is releasing their newest pattern, the Zoo Collection and today is the first day of Project Run and Play season 2016. Week one's theme of PRP is "all knits" and one of the styles of the Zoo Collection is a knit romper, I did not have to do any math to see that one equaled the other.

The Zoo collection is a mix and match collection for babies and toddlers to make 17 different options and there are some extra modifications (and a doll pattern), so this pattern means a lot of play time (for both the sewist and the wearer). You can make dresses with different types of sleeves, shirts and rompers, it is too much to list all the options here, but check out this picture on their Facebook page to see a great overview they have very pretty and insightful figure.

The first time I came across Flossstyle is when they released their Jukebox collection. Their patterns are great for both beginners and more advanced. The beginners will enjoy all relatively straight forward base options in the pattern. The more advanced will love the modifications. For me it is like a short class in creativity, seeing all the options makes me very excited. Even if I did not sew up a full dress from the Jukebox collection (yet) I love the ideas that I got from it.

Last week, she referred to me in a blogpost as "Misses I-can't-help-herself" and it is so true, I managed to hack the romper sleeves during testing... I did ask permission beforehand though. One of the options, the Giraffe, has a shoulder closing. I wanted to make a reversible knit romper with shoulder closing, but I also wanted sleeves.

Based on the existing sleeve I cut tulip like sleeves that slightly overlap at the top (due to the overlapping shoulders) and have no seam under the arm. I am satisfied with the look, but if I would do it again, I would make the sleeves a bit narrower, they look more like a butterfly than a tulip. I also had to slightly adjust the leg hem, because the flower fabric was not high enough to cut a full romper.

I believe all these fabrics are from Lillestoff, Joyfits is my standard source of Lillestoff fabrics. The front of the orange/brown side is split because I was out of fabric. I made four garments with the pattern and I made my son a basic shirt (more about the others later this week). The pattern officially has a newborn- 4years range, but my kids are skinny, so with a bit of extra length I made a quick shirt for my six year old.

So, Project Run and Play is back in its old format, yeh! In the fall of 2014 the last old format was organised, and that was actually my first. When I linked up my first outfit in the first week I got my first comment ever! That post was the first one to got 50 views in a week, Project Run and Play therefore has a special place in my heart. This week's theme was easy peasy for me, I love knits and they are my prefered fabric.

The Zoo Collection is on release sale until Saturday, it is 25% off. The pricing is in Australian dollar so the discount would make the pattern around €6.70 excluding taxes. You can buy your copy here no code required.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Dyyni baby skirt, free pattern release

I promised you another coat, I know, and it will come soon, but let's have a tasty intermezzo with the new and free skirt baby version from the Dyyni skirt. Pienkel released the Dynni skirt a few months ago and here you can see my first version. Today Pienkel is releasing a free version in baby sizes, the only thing you have to do is subscribe to her newsletter, but you can read all the details in the release post.

Seeing as I already sewed and blogged the skirt, (in a bigger version) there is not much extra that I can tell you about the pattern. Except for the fact that this baby version is great for smaller scraps. This first skirt, the golden one is cut from a fat quarter. A few times before I mentioned the Fat Quarter set from Robert Kaufman that I bought at Modes4U, for this skirt I used another piece from the package. I had to cut very efficiently, but I succeeded. The gold detailed fabric is that special by itself that I thought that one layer was enough.

The second skirt is a two layered version. The top layer is a Petit Pan fabric, that I once won. The gray fabric is an uni version of the previous Soft Cactus line. My eldest did not own any skirts at this age, but this one sees her sisters wearing them every day, so she loves to get some skirt action herself.

Both my skirts have pockets, the Dyyni is one of the few patterns that has pockets included, and the explanation is perfect. You will get hooked like me, and start adding pockets to everything. The third Dyyni option, the ruffled skirt part is also explained in the baby version. My skinny 2.5 year with her 47cm waist still comfortably fitted in this baby skirt.

I made these pictures while the sun was disappearing, so there was no time for changing onesies and neat pony tails. Check out Pienkel's post on how to get this cute and free pattern, this will make a great baby gift, or just to sew your own daughter one.

dxI 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).

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Lila release part 2, the jumpsuit with blind zipper

Earlier this week I showed you my first Lila jumpsuit, today I will show you the second. The Lila pattern is a joined production between Lily&Woody and Compagnie M and it is packed with options (but you probably knew that already). At the moment, there is a blog tour going, so check out the all the beautiful tester garments on the designers' blogs.

For the first version I had chosen for the cross over bodice option, this time I chose the standard bodice with the mandarin collar. The mandarin collar was officially only an option for woven bodices, but I of course totally ignored that (it was my second garment, so I had fulfilled my tester duty). I stabilized the collar with a stretchy interfacing and the result is great. My daughter's head easily fit through and the collar stands up perfectly.

Instead of using snaps for leg closure, I used a blind zipper. This is not an official option in the pattern, but it is relatively easily implemented. I cut the legs slightly wider (because I had to compensate the button strip and ironed on non-stretching seam interfacing (long strip). A year ago I was stubborn enough to try to sew a zipper in jersey without interfacing, but I have learned a lot since then. My longest blind zipper was a bit shorter than the entire leg opening, on both sides of the legs there is a small hole of one centimeter above the leg cuffs, but that stays nicely closed and doesn't show at all. I added a small strip of folded jersey on the inside of the garment, while sewing my zipper. This strip functions as a zipper guard, I didn't make a picture of it though.

I added the faux flap option (I first cut it incorrectly, but bravely cut a new one), I didn't fold the seam correctly, and now the flap sometimes stands up a bit. This is easily solved with one hand stitch but that last easy step will probably never happen... does it sound familiar to anybody?

The blue flower fabric I once bought on a fabric market and do not know which brand it was (it was a very inexpensive coupon), but if I would have to guess I would say Stenzo. I bought the light blue fabric at Joyfits.

During the shoot I was fighting with the sunlight. With the curtains open some parts where high lighted too much, with the curtains closed it was a bit too dark, I am clearly still learning.

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