I have actually done quite a bit of sewing over the last six months, but have been very bad at photographing the end results - no excuse, just got very lapsidaisicle about it all!
My first make after Enrolment was this gathered, buttoned skirt - Delores skirt from La Maison Victor magazine. The most complicated thing about this was working out how the pattern pieces fit together (ha! it confirmed I'd be useless at pdf patterns!!). Was a breeze to sew up, even making 10 button holes on my cranky old machine wasn't too bad (they got better the more I did!)
A nice and comfortable work skirt ... only down side is that the gathers seem to show just how 'wide' I've gotten this summer!!!
For my next couple of makes, I chose to go back to the tried and tested pattern ... New Look K6411...with long sleeves, to make it warmer for the oncoming Autumn! Used a lovely floral crepe and a 'wool' type fabric (from Minerva Crafts - my go to fabric co!!). Once again, a simple to sew dress, I really love this pattern, so quick n easy to run up! The only 'problem' was the fabric for the first make...which I hadn't considered properly. A lovely print, but more suitable for a blouse or top...a little bit too flimsy for a dress.
My 'Flimsy Floral' ... love the print and do actually love the dress, but its not a 'work' dress, more a weekend/casual evening out dress...(its a bit short for work and needs to be worn with a belt)
The 2nd make - my 'Blanket Dress' ... a little bit itchy but has been a sturdy work dress this Winter!...Super pleased with the awesome pattern matching down the centre back seam ...took be quite a while to work out where to place the pattern on the fabric BEFORE cutting it!!! - I'm getting better....
The final 'dressmaking' of 2017 was my Christmas Day dress - bit fancier than last years! and used another of my favourite dress patterns: New Look K6447. Using some AWESOME mermaid sequin fabric in silver/black, I had to redraft the bodice pattern piece so that I didn't have to place on 'the fold'!!! which was impossible to do with the fabric I had! At one point it looks like an explosion in a sequin factory!!! but I'm sooooooo pleased I stuck with it! I LOVE this dress...just need more reasons to wear it!!!
Little bit of pattern re-drafting...
worked a treat, was a bugger to sew when the sun shone though :-)
so versatile too...
I LOVE this dress!!!
and, my best ever inserted concealed zip!!!!
My 5 year old godson love the sequinned fabric soooo much that I made him a cushion cover with it (and a work colleague's birthday pressie!!). I enjoyed making and giving cushions so much that I made 3 more - two for work colleagues birthdays - using blue printed silk fabric, and one for me, using purple printed silk fabric, both of which I'd got from a trip to India years ago!!
One for Noah, one for Ellie
One for me!
one each for Lou-Lou and Amy
and once the soft furnishings had been done...we have a glut of birthdays a work during December/January/February ... it was back to the 'me made wardrobe'.
My parents bought me my first ever overlocker this Christmas, so I while I had a little of the mermaid sequin fabric, a small stash of jersey and a small amount of spare time to play, I ran up a t-shirt!! OMG I love my overlocker!!! and thank god it was pre-threaded as I've no real idea how to re-thread it!!!! Which I need to do, so I'm rather looking forward to my 'Beginners Overlocker Class' next weekend!
Then, as luck would have it, we've had a bit of 'weather' this week - lots of snow - and work actually shut for 4 days so people wouldn't have to try and travel in (which is just as well as didn't fancy driving in it, and the trains were all cancelled!!). So I was able to concentrate on my first ever jacket!!! Burda 6736 View B.
Couple of tiny tweaks - added a lining (never done before and used it as my toile) and it definitely wasn't attached using any kind of traditional method!!! more, put it in, pin it and sew it!!! and I also added two buttonholes/buttons where the pattern suggested 1 presser button.
VERY happy with how it turned out ...and, now that the snow has all melted away in one day, its now warm enough (at 7 degrees, rather than the -7 we had last week!!!) to wear next week to work :-)
And that's just about bought me up to date :-) hopefully I won't leave it so long next time, I've got a little fabric bundle on order - 3 different types of jersey - ready for when I've had my overlocker lesson next weekend..... :-)
Couple of tiny tweaks - added a lining (never done before and used it as my toile) and it definitely wasn't attached using any kind of traditional method!!! more, put it in, pin it and sew it!!! and I also added two buttonholes/buttons where the pattern suggested 1 presser button.
VERY happy with how it turned out ...and, now that the snow has all melted away in one day, its now warm enough (at 7 degrees, rather than the -7 we had last week!!!) to wear next week to work :-)
And that's just about bought me up to date :-) hopefully I won't leave it so long next time, I've got a little fabric bundle on order - 3 different types of jersey - ready for when I've had my overlocker lesson next weekend..... :-)
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