Saturday, September 03, 2011

Black and white

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Next project; a nice thick jersey and a new-to-me pattern magazine. I went and bought two fabrics yesterday and spotted the latest edition of the Ottobre in the store as well.

This is going to be a first for me, I usually stick with Burda and Knip but as of late I am not too happy with the fit of Knip; shoulders all of a sudden too narrow, I’m forever making adjustments for arms, hips and waist.

There are quite a few nice patterns in this magazine, I sort of like the bell bottomed coat (my sewing friend goes Eeeeek!) there’s a nice basic t-shirt, the dress on the first page is fun, and I wonder if I can pull it off to morph the high waisted winter bermuda  into regular pants. 
To start I am sewing one of the dresses although it’s not very fortifying to see they call this: “Old School Teacher….”. Mean ol’ School Marm anyone?

Yeah right. (Actually they say Old-School teacher as in retro/fifties style. Or so I make myself believe). Well I am not fazed, I will proceed because I like this shape a lot.

The patterned fabric proves to be equally difficult to cut as a stripe/checkered. First of all I have to take into account where the white parts will go because they will bring forward your , let’s call it your good and your bad?IMG_3733 Edit to say:
I cut into the fabric and the dress is almost finished! Yay! Not so yay is that I had to have the fabric open and position the paper pattern pieces so that I would have everything exactly as I wanted. That took quite some time. In the process of doing exactly that I forgot to pay attention to the fact that next to the pattern there’s also a stripe in there…. resulting in my side seams not matching. UGH!! Terribly out of practice I am!!

On a happier note; very satisfied with the fit and design of the pattern.

5 comments:

  1. You maybe think you're out of practice but I've never been able to once figure that all out. My mom was genius at it.

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  2. Wow, you're on a roll here!! Good for you. I haven't sewn in years (unless you count the curtain hemming I did on store bought curtains last summer). When do we get to see the picture of the finished dress? :o)

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  3. I agree: the dress is ``Old-school'', which need not be for old school-teachers at all! ;-) I am really curious how it turned out to be!

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  4. I love this fabric! (Did you really cut it so the "squares" lined up? You ARE good!!)

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  5. It's finished and I wore it first time out yesterday, on my Mom's birthday! Loved the feel and the thicker jersey made for extra comfy wearing.

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