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heap of handmade garments 10 14 2018 2 comments well hello there it s been a while and not for lack of sewing because that s been humming along over the past couple months as i ve worked to fill some gaps in my closet mostly it s for lack of photo taking because honestly i really do hate taking pictures and when i finally muster up the effort to take some pictures on the weekend most of my newly made clothes are in the hamper because i ve worn them all week now this of course is the best problem to have because it means that not only were the things that i made not utter failures i ve had more than a few of those in my day but that they re actually well loved garments and really what more could you ask for now because of my utter disdain for taking photos i decided that the only way that i d ever get around to blogging about handmades would be to include several items in one post so today i present my first pair of ginger jeans my first melilot shirt and my fourth wiksten kimono let s start from the bottom and work our way up shall we i ve been interested in making the ginger jeans since the pattern first came out but then i got distracted by the birkin flares and then the persephone pants and when i thought about fitting a new pair of pants i just felt tired there s something overwhelming about diving into a new pattern for the first time knowing that you re going to have make multiple tweaks to get it to fit right so in the end these sat cut out in my basement for several months until i could muster up the nerve to sew them up i had great plans to baste them together first to adjust fit issues especially since these are made out of lovely cone mills denim but i knew that i d never get around to actually making them if i did that because i really hate making muslins so instead i just dove blindly into this project keeping my fingers crossed that they would look quasi decent in the end i stressed a bit over what size to make because i fell somewhere between a size 8 and 10 i ended up cutting out a size 10 knowing that i could take in the side seams if necessary and spoiler alert that s what i ended up doing and now that they re all sewn up i m wondering if the size 8 would have been a better starting place something to think about for next time i suppose and also for next time they ended up being too long i m 5 6 for reference so i ll need to remove about an inch of length and i ll probably slim down the calf and knees a bit to address some fit issues i opted to not interface the waist band because i m an old lady who goes for comfort above all else and i stand by my decision i also had to move the pockets once the jeans were all sewn up because they were way too low in the position that the pattern recommended all in all i m pretty happy with how they turned out especially since i took the lazy wo man s route and didn t do a whole lot of fitting beforehand apparently the sewing gods were on my side this day now on to the shirt my first deer and doe pattern well if you don t count the free plantain tee i ve always loved their patterns but i don t have a store close by that sells them so i m pretty excited to see that they re now available as pdfs it s a pretty basic blouse no sleeve placket on the short sleeve version and it went together fairly easily although i will say that i went back to using these instructions for the collar attachments because in my opinion these instructions can t be beat the fabric is happy stripes in the navy colorway by cotton and stee l i actually like the cream color way of this fabric more but i was concerned that it would be a tad sheer which would mean that i couldn t wear the shirt to work so i went with the darker color way instead and last but obviously not least the wiksten kimono i m a bit embarrassed to admit how many of these i ve sewn but i really do love this pattern and more importantly i love the finished project i ve made 2 short ones 2 medium length ones and now i want to make at least one long one i figure once i make the long one it will officially be out of my system and then i can move on to some other obsession as for length preference so far the medium length ones are my favorite i obviously love the extra length but i also love the larger pocket i wear them for work a lot and you d be impressed with how much stuff i can fit into the pockets for this version i went with a basic black twill for the outer layer and a cotton and steel cotton lawn for the lining i wanted something neutral and very wearable but with a bit of added whimsy for the lining and since i obviously love to wear fabrics with animals all over them i figured that the butterfly lining would be a good choice as for the sizing i went with my recommended size based on my measurement a size small i know that many folks had to size down when making the version in makingzine but jenny sized down the pattern when she decided to sell it independently and i found the recommended size to fit well which was a relief because i was really worried that it would come out looking huge posted by carolyn at 10 14 2018 email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest garment sewing sewing share this post persephone pants wiksten kimono love 9 04 2018 1 comment well this summer has turned out to be much more eventful than expected and not in all the best ways so it s been a while since i ve posted anything this summer has also reminded me however that creative pursuits are often the best therapeutic outlet in rough times when my dad was hospitalized for two weeks several years ago i knit constantly on a pair of socks and i m 99 sure that those socks were solely responsible for the maintenance of my sanity in any case back to somethings that i ve made recently another pair of persephone pants and a wiksten kimono now this is not my first pair of persephone pants truth be told this is actually my fourth my first were made out of some bull denim from joanns the fit was great but the fabric sags a bit after even a small amount of wear and because they re made from black denim they re fading up a storm the second pair was this striped pair which i still looooove for the third pair i went down a size to see if that would fit better spoiler alert it didn t and those will soon see the donation pile for this pair i went back to a size 8 and made them out of some duck cloth from big duck canvas between the fairly stiff thick fabric and probably going up a few pounds in the past couple of weeks these pants are now really tight and wedgilicious i really do think that the thickness of the fabric makes a huge difference because my striped pair is the same size and remains nice and fitted without being overly tight i m planning on making a full length pair next for the upcoming fall and winter and i ll stay at a size 8 but i plan to use a slightly thinner fabric than recommended and hopefully that will keep the pants from trying to ride up in my nether regions now on to the upper half of my body which is apparently garbed in an ever so wrinkled wiksten kimono i blame the kimono for the wrinkles because i wore it all the previous day too because i love it so much for this pattern i hemmed and hawed about which size to make because everyone commented that you should size down in the original pattern but the ease was reduced when it became a printed pattern so i was at a bit of a loss as to which size to make in the end i decided to follow the size recommendation on the pattern and i made a size small in the short length now this kimono uses an ungodly amount of fabric but that s really the only negative thing i can say about this pattern because i love everything else about it truth be told i ve already made 3 one in the medium length and two in the short length maybe one day i ll get around to photographing them but don t hold your breathe the one thing that i learned in making this jacket a couple times is that i now cut the pocket lining out of the outer fabric too because i couldn t get the lining fabric to be completely invisible on the outside of the jacket and it drove me a bit crazy so now i eliminate this problem by just making the pocket and pocket lining out of the same fabric and i also learned how much i love when pattern matching works out look at perfect collar and that my friends it basically what you ll find me wearing nowadays it may get a little more wrinkled because i m never taking it off posted by carolyn at 9 04 2018 email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest garment sewing sewing share this post mini emerson cropped pants and shorts 7 17 2018 2 comments garment basics it turns out that kids need them too and while i love sewing dresses for the girls and they usually love wearing them they re not so practical for everyday wear so i was excited to try out the mini emerson crop pants shorts pattern by true bias with summer quickly approaching o was in need of some shorts and i wanted to sew up the cropped pant version to see if it was a style that interested her in fact while she initially said that she only wanted the shorts version i made the cropped version first because i think they re just so darn cute and because i had this striped rayon in my stash that i thought would be perfect for a pair of swingy drapy culotte esqe pants as it turned out these short little pants are everything i could have dreamed them to be i love the look of the striped fabric with this pattern and while i didn t do the greatest job of stripe matching on the waistband i m going to cut myself some slack because they still turned out pretty darn cute and they must be alright because o ended up loving them and wears them often and every time she does i think man i wish those were in my size for the second version i made the shorts out of a linen rayon combo leftover from this project the fabric ended up being a great choice for these shorts although yes it wrinkles easily but it s kids clothes so i m not gonna stress about it and i m equally in love with the way they turned out o however has a wee little complaint with them with a somewhat wide leg apparently it s a little too easy for others to see up her shorts when she sits like her mother sits with her legs wide open what can i say all those times my mom told me to sit like a lady fell on deaf ears i tried to convince her that it didn t matter because she obviously has the cutest underwear because they re homemade but this is the age where someone seeing your underwear is apparently a huge deal so we ll have to see if it s a deterrent to her wearing the shorts in the future hopefully not because she sure does look cute in them posted by carolyn at 7 17 2018 email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sewing sewing for kids share this post jessica dress 7 15 2018 4 comments when i first started sewing garments i almost exclusively made dresses fitted dresses flared dresses woven dresses knit dresses i tried them all and had various levels of success there was something thrilling about being able to make dresses as a new sewer and while i m not somebody who naturally loves wearing dresses i was definitely able to incorporate them into my everyday wardrobe fast forward a decade and the truth is that i rarely make dresses anymore my garment sewing is much more practical nowadays and filled with lots of basics and while i was able to wear dresses intermittently to work in the past that s not something that i can do in my current role making them much less useful in my everyday life which brings us to the fact that i haven t sewn a dress for me in long long time i think this alder dress was the last dress that i made hello 2015 but in scrolling through instagram i randomly saw a version of the jessica dress by mimig and my interest was piqued and as i did more digging saw other versions and found that it was a free pattern my interest was cemented and it moved to the top of the queue i hit up drygood designs to look for some fabric and bought the last of this gorgeous blue jacquard originally i was imaging a more drapey fabric for this dress like a linen rayon blend but then i fell in love with this fabric when i brought it home though i had some definite hesitations about using it for this dress it has a more body than i would have liked in a fabric and i worried about how that would look in a gathered skirt plus i worried that the princess seams in the bodice wouldn t work well with the simplistic pattern on the fabric i suppose someone smarter or more patient than me could have done some amazing pattern matching to match things up on the princess seams but while i have many life skills pattern matching is not one of them in the end despite my hesitations i decided to move forward with my initial plan now this is where i mention that in making this dress the person who almost never makes a muslin me actually made a muslin of the bodice i ended up cutting out a straight size small but after making up the muslin i took out some width near the top of the bodice and added a wee bit of width around the waist i also ended up making the pockets smaller because those pockets are freaking huge the actual sewing went together pretty easily it relies on some individual customization so there s no suggestions as to how long to make the straps where to place the buttonholes and it has no pocket marking for the skirt those things really are best made to your individual body or choices but i imagine that for a beginner the lack of even a suggestion could be a bit frustrating i ended up using 1 2 buttons and placing them every 1 75 2 inches i can t remember exactly i do know that i ended up placing 5 buttons on the bodice alone and 13 buttons all together i didn t add them all the way down the skirt this way i have a bit of a slit in the front now here s the great and not so great thing about making your own garment since finishing it i can t help looking down at the bodice and wondering if i should have fit it more around the bust or elongated the straps it seems a little baggy around the bop of the bodice but i also have a bad habit of overfitting things ultimately making them not the most comfortable garments to wear ben swears that it s not noticeable and it s probably just me being way overly critical in a way that i would never be about a store brought garment so today i ll endeavor to remember one of my favorite sayings don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good posted by carolyn at 7 15 2018 email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest garment sewing sewing share this post mini colfax dress 5 26 2018 2 comments with me made may quickly coming to a close this is typically the time that people start to talk about the gaps they ve found in their handmade wardrobe not so over here however because the fact of the matter is that i have plenty plenty of handmade clothes plenty of store 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