Showing posts with label scraps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scraps. Show all posts

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Coloring the girls



Last week, I showed you the clothes that I sewed our son during the sewing weekend in October, today I will show you what I sewed our daughters. When we made the pictures, my son was in a surprisingly good picture mood, so he will turn up a few times today as well. This blog post is picture heavy, especially compared to the amount of words. All these clothes were created with patterns that were at least once on the blog already, and the I believe our middle daughter wears about the 20th Domi that I sewed, so I have not much to tell you about these items. If you do have any question in the end, just write me a comment.


After I sewed that Orbis for our son, I had a good amount of fabric left and I cut a hacked Foliis* for our middle daughter. I cut the front pieces at the selvage in an attempt to create a neatly finished bolero without closure option. It did not work out exactly as I had in mind (as is sometimes the case with experiments), so after the shoot I added one single snap to connect the pieces at the neckline (like with the Aura*). After sewing these two bunny pieces there still was good amount of fabric left, and she cut a sleeve for this awesome color blocked dress.



I wrote it before, our middle daughter loves the Domi*, so I sewed her a candy version during the weekend. I clearly developed a love for striped knit rib fabric, and this candy fabric combined lovely with this double pink striped rib knit. A few weeks after our sewing weekend, when I sewed this giraffe Regina, I made a Giraffe Domi from the remnants. It is such a grateful pattern.



After cutting that candy Domi, I sewed a Nivalis tunic* from the remnants. I did not have enough to cut long sleeves, but I found this over-the-top pink fluff in the "free for all" pile and I just love the result. She always gets compliments about this top when she wears it.



When you are sewing with remnants, sewing small dresses is often the best type of project. I therefore also made our youngest two dresses from the free for all pile. This blue dress is a heavily hacked Nivalis and the color blocked dress is a hacked Simple Dress.




I also sewed two pieces for our eldest, but she did come last this sewing weekend. I created a glitter high low tunic with the ADVT *as base. The Art Gallery owl fabric was from her stash originally. The last project that I sewed during the weekend is a good example of too much of a good thing. I also sometimes go overboard on my fabric combinations. She gave the good example of also showing the projects that can be considered a "fail". Well, this Orbis for our eldest is definitely too much even for me, but my daughter does not agree. She gladly wears it, and I believe she even has worn it too school...




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). If you buy anything through my affiliate links (*), I get a small commission (the price stays the same for you), I am very grateful for everything that feeds my fabric addiction.



Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Beestyle tunic



Due to my testing frenzy from the previous month, some projects remained unblogged (I did not want to bore you with too many posts). This week was free of deadline posts, so I am blogging about something that I sewed months ago (during my sewing weekend), the Beestyle tunic from Beekiddi. This morning my daughter wore one of the two tunics that I made, which was a good reminder of my blogging backlog.



I came across the Beestyle pattern in the International knit sew-along group. In that group, many cool creations turn up and many of them have a jersey strip sewing in-between the seam. I love the look and used the Beestyle pattern to experiment with it.  I bought the pattern in my search for patterns perfect for scraps, and this indeed turned out to be a winner. From all the different fabrics that I used in these two tunics, only the foxes had not come from my own collection. Sofie was the original owner but did not blog about her project, but you can see and buy the lovely dress she made with it here.



I presume you would have expected that my daughter would be over the moon with this huge pocket! I really like the lines on this pattern. I only made the girl version, but there is a boy version as well. The pattern is German, but I did not really use the instructions so I can not tell you if they are good. There are a lot of pictures though, so that should be enough explanation. The pattern is without seam allowance, so do not forget to add them. There are several hood options for the pattern, but I went for a plain round neckline. Unfortunately, there is no size table, so I simply measure across the chest to determine the size I needed.



I really love how all these bolt prints together still works (in my mind at least). I will not bore you with links to all the posts that I used these fabrics in (because these were all leftovers from when I made something else), but that would be a nice scavenger hunt if you are bored. I took pictures months ago as well, so although new shoot would be outside now, these were still taken inside.  For the pictures we paired the tunics with jeans, they would be perfect with capri leggings as well. Note to self, finally start those capri leggings you have been planning for months!



Monday, June 27, 2016

Jigsaw/patch work summer dress



I am not a serial cutter, meaning that I cut one project sew it, and cut the next. If I have a pile of unsewn projects, I will loose interest in them. My enthusiasm span is short, so I have to finish the cutting-sewing cycle quickly. This keeps things clean and organized in my mind. At the moment I have a bit too many project floating around, most of them aren't cut yet but I feel some stress due to all the plans I am trying to finalize the coming five days. My solution, just sew something extra that was not on your sewing list.



I was again allowed to pick a fabric for Droomstoffen and I picked a lovely viscose jersey. It is soft, flowy, perfect colors and the drape is wonderful. I immediately knew I would sew a shirt for myself from it. I am copying one of my own favorite store bought shirts for it. After cutting, I was left with a small piece that was screaming to be used. Times like those, I am so grateful of having a small toddler in the house. Her clothes are perfect scrap busters.



I did not have a clear plan when I started cutting (not the most effective sewing method, but I enjoy the process). I had one relatively large piece (when I started I had less than a meter and I had cut a woman's shirt from it, so "large piece"should be taken relatively). I tried to squeeze a circle skirt from it. I managed to cut 9/12 of a circle from it (in three uneven pieces). I pieced together a bodice (including toddler belly option) from five smaller pieces and finished it with a binding in the same fabric (because there was no way to cut even half bodice to line it with). I added a triangle to the dress to get the right waist size (I did not have enough fabric to put in rectangle strip).



All those seams do not really show, or at least they do not bother me. I added a picture of the back that has that strange extra triangle, did you spot it? I already know this will be on of her favorite summer dresses. You will have to have a bit until I show you the shirt, although I cut it already, it is not one of those projects I am planning to sew within the coming days. The same goes for the fabric, it is not yet online available at Droomstoffen, but it wil be soon!



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