Sunday, October 30, 2011
What next?
I want to make this Butterick jacket, the view at the bottom right. I have enough of the tobacco/camel wool fabric as well as the black. I am thinking of making the sleeves in black and the rest in the other color. I want to wear the jacket with the new skirt; but I am thinking that just may be too much color blocking together. I think that doing that I could still use the jacket with other black pants or skirts.
I would really appreciate your feedback about this. Is it to much color blocking? Please take a moment to comment. Thanks.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It’s almost a skirt
I had an opportunity to try on the skirt this evening after work. I added the lining and prior to doing that, I had taken deeper side seams on both the skirt and lining. I may let out the seams a little as I am seeing some puckers. Those could be where I need to press the seams again or perhaps not.
I thought I would take a few photos of how the skirt will look when finished. I need to sew the front and back facings together and then attach to the skirt. Then hem the lining and the fabric.
I made the decision to use a black exposed zipper.
I plan to make another skirt from this pattern but use one of the other views. I think after that I will make some jackets. Time for a new direction and a new sewing challenge.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Progress
With all that going on and getting bedroom prepped, no sewing took place yesterday.
This AM I have been going at a fast pace of making the Butterick skirt. Front and back pieces are sewn. Next zipper, side seams, lining made and insert, hem and new skirt. More later.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Crazy week
I am so looking forward to the weekend. New bed arrives tomorrow and once all that moving in and out is complete I plan to sew. I continue to take the 5, 10 and 15 minutes of sewing I can spare to keep the sewing going.
TGIF!
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
A moment here and there
We are in the process of redoing our bedroom. This is also occupying some of my free time between working, eating and sleeping. So I take my moments here and there to do a little sewing. As things stand now I should be able to finish the skirt this weekend.
More later.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Plans can go awry
Today I am much better and was able to cut out the skirt pattern. I am using two wool pieces-wool gabardine. One is labeled tobacco, a golden brown color. The other is black. both are left over fabric pieces from other projects. I am making the view that the model is wearing. I also used the pattern pieces for the underskirt for another view to cut out lining fabric. I always line wool.
Here is a shot of the front and side front pieces laying on the cutting table. The flash somewhat washed out the color of the tobacco wool fabric. It is actually much darker than this.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Final sewing for Monday 10-10-11
I did cut out another test garment using some free crinkle knit fabric that someone gave away at our ASG meeting several months ago. Everything went together well; you can see it somewhat in this picture. Black of course is hard to photograph.
It fits well from shoulder to shoulder. But it is a little too tight through the back. I used the smallest size as normally SW patterns run pretty large on me. Next one to try will be Size 2.
This was the last thing I sewed today.
Holiday weekend sewing
I finished Simplicity 2413! Two new skirts thus far for fall/winter.
I have had this pattern forever and recently learned that it is OOP. I saw a review on PR of this skirt and it looked lovely on the reviewer. I decided it was time to pull this out of the stash and make it up.
The fabric I used was included in a fabric bundle from Fabric Mart. This has been around in my stash for at least two years if not longer. It was great to sew. Not sure of the actual fabric content and it is a stretch woven.
This skirt was fairly easy to sew. It does have some tedious sewing requirements such as numerous pleats that require accurate marking; a fold over facing again requiring accurate marking. A side invisible zipper that needs to be stitch accurately because there is a side pocket as part of the seam for one side of the zipper.
It is not lined which is good again due to all the pleating and such. The fabric I chose seems to work well for one that is not lined.
I marked the pleats with marking pencil but recognized that with the fold over facing, the markings were not going to be so visible unless I marked on the right side of the fabric. I decided to baste stitch the pleating marks which worked out great. In the end I had to take deeper pleats as the waist was a little to big.
I like the skirt, but it feels a little full. The model’s version of the skirt on the pattern envelope does not look as full. I was concerned about the horizontal stripes on the bottom skirt band. When you are short that is not necessarily the best look as it can of widens and cuts you off. But 2/3’s of the skirt is vertical stripes, so I decided it would be okay.
Here are photos of the completed skirt. The first one is the skirt on the hanger; there is sash hanging down the front.
I am holding the pleats in this view.
I like the pockets.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Fabrics from Waechter’s
I wanted to share with you my recent fabric purchases from my trip to Asheville and Waechter’s Fine Fabrics.
I had so many choices to make; their selection was great but I was on a budget so I had to leave some of my fabric wants behind.
I loved the fit of the Vogue 8750 skirt pattern that I decided to purchase a dark navy blue cotton bottom-weight fabric to make another skirt.
I love the feel and weight of this fabric.
Displayed near by was some 100% rayon fabric. One particularly caught my eye was a navy blue background with shoes printed all over. I want to make a blouse/top to wear with the navy blue skirt to be.
This photo does not do this fabric justice. The blue background is much darker than it appears here.
The fabric below is another rayon of crème, gray and blue. Again to made into a top/blouse.
The final piece was a gray textured knit. I am thinking cowl neck knit top for this one.
Back from Asheville
I did get some time to visit Waechter's Fine Fabrics. They were about 10 minutes from the hotel. Once I checked in and knew I had about four hours before the reception, I entered address into Verizon Navigator and I was on my way. I did find some fabulous fabrics and picked up a few independent patterns. Their employees were so helpful and entertaining. It was a great visit.
I have been recharging camera batteries so I could take a few photos of my newest items to my fabric/pattern collection.
I resumed my sewing again yesterday evening and getting closer to finishing the Simplicity skirt. It is not a real difficult pattern to sew; the challenge for me is the sewing steps are rather different from my thoughts on how you would sew it. Yet their way makes a lot of sense.
I am hoping that I now have several weeks ahead of me for sewing and less traveling. I have so many sewing ideas and items I want to sew. More later.
Monday, October 03, 2011
Front view 2 V8750over exposed
Front view V8750
Semiside view-Vogue8750
Back view V8750
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Skirts
I think I posted previously that I am using a striped fabric with the stripes running vertical and the band at the bottom edge will run horizontal. I read through the instructions last night and glad that I did. I would not have pleated the fabric the way the instructions have you do it. I think that the instructions are probably better than if I had done it the way I was thinking. There are pockets and side zipper involved and can see where it would be better to sew those first than doing the pleating first. I will share more about that later.
I have another business trip coming up next week; I will be traveling to Asheville, NC. Waechters' Fine Fabrics is located there and has been several years since I visited their shop. They are in a new location since I was there last so looking forward to seeing the new shop and all the goodies. My plan is to go there first before checking into the hotel!!!! I have my priority in clear focus.
I will try to take some photo shots of the completed skirt and the Simplicity work in progress. More later.
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