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trating plan i d like to have a way to change things up if things start going wrong again i think being able to put aside a run of unsuccessful projects and say right i m going shopping and i m going to find a piece of fabric that inspires me to make a dress would be really good for me and if it s already on the plan it will still feel like i m working towards the goals i originally set for myself second i would like to know if i have the option to do things this way now i don t think i ll ever make a plan that s entirely or even mostly fabric i don t already have but now that i m medicated for my adhd i m hoping i might have a little bit more freedom i m a little bit more able to organise and schedule projects now most of my spring plan failed but almost all of it got done except the slip dress where the pattern turned out not to have the one specific thing i d bought it for and i think i m a little more able to shop with a purpose now technically i have a couple of finished things to photograph and post about but i ve given myself a bit of a mental block after trying to photograph multiple failed projects at once and then obviously not liking any of the photos i m hoping to get my head round that this week before life starts getting mega busy again though at this point i know better than to make promises but soon actual finished projects that i m happy with posted by jen at 18 00 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 15 may 2023 spring sewing a red velvet society dress so i m very aware that i posted a spring sewing plan and then just didn t update here for basically the whole of spring it s not that i haven t been sewing i ve either completed or attempted the majority of my plans it s just that almost all of them involved new to me patterns and my success rate has been very sadly low i hate the maxi skirt the trousers are unwearable i can t get the bodysuit to sit right for photos the zip broke on the shorts the second time i put them on it s been really discouraging also i ve discovered that despite what it says on the envelope the slip dress that comes with m6696 does not in fact have cup sizes so i don t know if it s worth bothering with now i am in active need of things to wear and nothing is working and motivation is now in short supply but amongst all this there has been one single success story and of course it s one of the impractical things saying that i have actually worn this one out already within 24 hours of finishing it and while it s obviously very fancy i also didn t feel uncomfortably overdressed in it even though it has a massive cowl hood i think more overtly vintage looking things like this give me a bit of leeway in this area the style is specific enough to convey this is just what i look like versus i have seriously misjudged the dress code which is not to say i ll be returning to overtly vintage styles generally but it is useful when you want to go out for dinner on a thursday night wearing a red velvet dress with a giant hood this is the society dress from gertie s patreon and it has a view different options shorter a line skirt or floor length skirt with godets short puff sleeves or long bishop sleeves massive hood or no massive hood obviously what i immediately wanted was the most dramatic version possible but that s a lot of fabric and i didn t know if i was going to like it so to test it out i made the a line skirt and short sleeves i was not prepared to give up the hood even for a test plus i wanted to know how it would sit on me i made a straight size 8 h cup by shortening the skirt a couple of inches and taking about an inch of width out of the hood i managed to fit it onto three metres of fabric incidentally i still ended up putting quite a wide hem on this one to get it to sit above the knee and i m 5 8 with long thighs so i think knee length skirt might be a bit of a misnomer for the most part it fits me very well though it doesn t quite sit under my bust the way i think it should i would add a small amount of length to the bodice for any future versions i found this to be a fairly simple project in terms of construction and i did most of it in one afternoon the instructions as written for almost all of gertie s knit patterns seem to preclude the use of an overlocker all seam allowances are directed to be pressed open but i ignored that because i refuse to return to the tedious days of the zig zag stitch and did almost all of it on the overlocker except the neck facing i hemmed the skirt and sleeves and secured the neck facing by hand and that bit took many hours and was not completed in the same afternoon something that surprised me was that i didn t end up shortening the sleeves i almost always do when they come out boob length like this but when i pinned them up they just looked weird i think because of the puff at the shoulder and i ended up doing a very narrow hem to keep as much of the length as possible the style of the bodice seems to be enough to prevent the massive boob shelf look i usually get i m really pleased with this dress and hope i can find ways to wear it semi regularly i do intend to try the full ridiculous version at some point and if i were more of a vintage person in general the base dress would be amazing for everyday wear i keep thinking about trying it but i know it wouldn t work for me this dress is me because it s wine coloured shiny velvet with a massive hood super glamorous and unnecessary and a version meant for daywear would just make me feel kind of dowdy shame really because it s so comfy but at least now i m ready for any future parties that require me to come dressed as vintage red riding hood i m not sure yet what s happening when it comes to posting the rest of my spring projects ideally i would still put them up here in some form because reviews of patterns you didn t entirely get on with are often the most useful ones for other people and for future jen who comes across one of the patterns in two years and wonders why she hasn t made another but we do run into the age old dilemma known as putting pictures of myself i don t like on the internet and i m just not sure i m in a place for that right now but we ll see my busy february and march spilled over into april as well so it s only this past week that i ve finally had a bit of breathing time next week is also chill and i m hoping to use it to pair patterns to fabric and find the motivation to try out another pair of trousers i cannot possibly stress enough how much i need another pair of trousers what i need to do is bribe myself to properly refit and redraft my trouser block but i just so fundamentally don t want to do it that the usual bribes ie fabric cookies nail varnish don t work to the point that i end up convincing myself i don t even like the bribe thing that much sigh but somehow some way there needs to be trousers and hopefully that will be my next post fingers crossed for next week posted by jen at 10 00 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels charm patterns completed society dress monday 13 march 2023 sewing plan spring 2023 hello life got away from me you could probably have predicted you probably couldn t have predicted that i would end up enjoying the improv course so much that i signed up for another one but that is what s happened it turns out i really like being able to say random shit in a scenario where everyone else just has to go with it anyway spring if you ve been here a while you re probably sick of me saying that spring is the hardest season for me sewing wise but it s still true spring is essentially meaningless here in terms of type of garment winter coats and tights are equally as likely as sleeveless dresses so historically where i ve got tripped up is thinking that i ought to have a spring palette in terms of colour and print even though i dislike the way spring colours and prints look on me what i m going to try this time is a small plan using fabric and patterns i already own as far as possible as you will see it s surprisingly purple i m not sure why this is practical things a maxi skirt i currently own three maxi skirts all of which are the same pattern the deer doe fumeterre one actual version and two of my modified versions and i d quite like to try something else i have the sew over it haxby pattern from when i signed up to their stitch school for a month and harvested all the patterns and some extremely busy purple viscose and we re going to see how it goes a pair of trousers i have been sitting on 2m of lavender wool crepe forever knowing it needs to be a pair of trousers but never finding the right pattern i have two patterns i want to try out the sew over it cigarette pants and vogue 9181 custom fit bootcut trousers i m going to make trial versions of both before i risk cutting into the lavender the trial fabric for the cigarette pants is also purple shorts to wear over tights i mentioned in this post that i was planning on making some chataigne shorts for colder weather and i m considering two different fabrics my mother in law sent me 3m of bright mustard suede for my birthday and i am thinking about using half of it for the shorts and half for an as yet unidentified skirt see below i also have 3m of this black check 100 wool that i got from walthamstow i bought it to make trousers but it was the end of the bolt so i have more than i need and i have to decide if i m making one wider leg pair of trousers or narrower leg trousers and a pair of these shorts a shorter skirt this is the one item on the list i don t have a pattern in mind for but it is something i ve recently found a need for partly because i now have a knee length winter coat and the maxi skirts look silly under it but also because i ve really been feeling the need to switch things up i ve been scratching the itch with one of my old mini length tulip skirts but i d like something a bit more tailored to my current preferences i m after something reasonably fitted that doesn t look like office wear preferably with some kind of interesting design detail and if i ve not found such a thing by next month i ll go with my backup option of a cashmerette ellis skirt impractical things a hooded velvet dress the january pattern on gertie s patreon was this insane velvet witch dress and i love it i m not going full witch for my first attempt though you know i will eventually if i like the result but it is still very silly to make a wine coloured velvet dress with a hood for spring and that will not stop me i m going to make the knee length version probably with short sleeves so i can get a sense of how the bodice and the hood will look a slip dress this isn t necessarily impractical but it s not quite practical either so i m putting it here about a month ago i made a trial run of a silk cami top the now unavailable free pauline alice bailen and while i don t like it very much because i think it sits weirdly on me it did get me to a place of feeling a bit more confident with the bias cut silk i started looking for a simple bias cut slip dress pattern with cup sizes and found almost nothing apparently pattern companies would rather just all offer the exact same things and not try to fill gaps in the market but when i asked for suggestions on my instagram stories someone told me that the ubiquitous m6696 shirtdress pattern also includes a slip with cup sizes so i have bought a shirtdress pattern much to my amazement and i will be trying out the slip not the shirtdress never the shirtdress a velvet bodysuit when i decided to make the murder dress i convinced myself it was okay to make something spectacular and very impractical because i would still have half the fabric left and i could make something a tiny bit more wearable with it i am not doing that instead i am making vogue 1923 which is another fancy off the shoulder garment i m now working on convincing myself that it totally is practical because i can wear it with trousers and that will somehow dress it down several notches because we re nearly halfway through march i m already almost done with this one of course i started with one of the impractical projects and i m really pleased with how it s looking this is as much as i m going to plan this time i have several other things in my head but either they don t have a fabric pattern match or they re quite involved and i don t want to commit to things like that when i ve been struggling for time and motivation it s a seven item list and with the need to make trial versions and a potential second pair of shorts it s almost a regular length of plan for me i ve also decided that i don t have enough to say about the rest of my unposted projects to give them their own posts so expect a random assortment of stuff in one scattergun post within the next couple of weeks posted by jen at 10 00 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels sewing plan spring 2023 monday 13 february 2023 the fabric found its pattern a circee maxi skirt so we have entered busy times it s usually busy times at this time of year anyway it s my birthday this week and and once we get through the various things we have planned we start doing things for patrick s birthday but now i m currently on two evening classes per week plus my singing lessons we ve booked a couple of city breaks and also a bunch of one off events happened to get scheduled between now and the end of march and i really need to find time to sew because it turns out you can t safely do improv classes in skirts which i hadn t anticipated so all the things i made this winter were absolutely not geared to my current needs case in point this is the deer doe circee maxi skirt version my original intention was to make the dress version as well before posting about it but i ran into a slight mishap where i cut out my trial version and then promptly lost half the pieces i don t seem to be able to get that fabric again either i will still have a go at it at some point but it s going to take me a bit longer in the meantime extremely dramatic maxi skirt i ve had this fabric for a while you may remember it and could never work out what to do with it it s a super large border print each panel is two feet long and there s barely a sliver of a gap between each one i really didn t want to chop up the print too much and my original thought was a wrap dress where the bodice is made of the plain black section and the skirt has the border print in retrospect i m glad i didn t i would only have had enough fabric to make a knee length dress and the print is so large scale that i would have had to cut it down to get a length i was happy to wear a maxi length wrap skirt with no back seam is the perfect thing construction was very simple and i didn t run into anything awkward or confusing the skirt is designed to close with two visible buttons at the wai...