I'll sew you

Et voilá:  the blouse-jacket, nr. 10 from KnipMode June/2010  Between the heavy rainshowers I was able to take a picture outside. The light indoors is really bad at the moment and my camera has a lot of trouble with it. So I'm glad there was a dry moment because the outside pictures are much clearer. The hem looks uneven but that's the effect of the wind blowing up one side. I kind of like it. I'm not over the moon about it. It's less fitted than I expected it to be. It needs a belt I think. Or not. What do you think? I'm strongly leaning toward a tie-belt in the same fabric. In that way you can make the jacket more fitted without emphasizing the waist too much. There is not much waist at the moment. 3 more days and the 'normal' weekroutine returns. Usually I loose the extra vacationpounds in a couple of weeks.  Anyway, back to the jacket. I believe it could also do with a pair of shoulderpads. Just small ones. I chose in the e...

Plan was to show you the finished result by now, but I somehow lost a bit of my sewingmojo in the last few days, so there has not been a lot of sewing going on. But before that happened I managed to do a great part of it. All that's left to do is topstitch all the way around, place the pockets (incl. topstitching), sew on the sleeves, make buttonholes and sew on the buttons, and of course hemming. Oh dear, that does sound like there's still a lot of work to do before I'm done! Didn't want to let the weekend go by un-blogged though, so here's an update on the blouse-jacket so far:  I'm proud (again) about how the collar turned out. I have avoided this kind of collar for years and years. About 5 years ago I tried it for the first time and it was a succesfull attempt. I was sold. But it's really not a sewing-technique I would recommend to a 'beginner'. Here are more details of the parts I prepared in advance. The collar has some kind of stand. ...

This dress was finished last week. It turned out just great. It's a pity though that the details just don't show in the picture, because with this dress it is all about the details. So again, here's the linedrawing: And just as I expected: the fabric was very nice to handle. I think it has lycra in it. If you stretch it you can see some white appearing. Only one thing really challenged my patience, the ruffling in the neck and at the bottom of the collar, where it's attached to the skirt. At the neck you have to sew a piece of elastic. I think I tried four times before it was acceptable enough. And then the ruffling at the collar. I thought I could get away with the normal way: stitching two rows in a loose stitch, in the longest stitchlength. Yeah..right! No way this was gonna work. The fabric just 'ate' the stitches and there was no way I could ruffle this fabric. So after trying a few times (taking the wrong stitches out was a complete nightmare!) I de...

My quick-project blouse is finished. And quick it was. Considering this is the fourth time I'm using this pattern, it's not very surprising.  Two times this pattern was used for a blouse with long sleeves and two times with short sleeves. (Click here for the version with long sleeves). I love the way the little sleeves have a few details. The rest of the blouse is rather simple. When I had sewed on the buttons there were 2 spare ones. I got a great idea and decided to use them on the sleeves. Now it looks like the fold is held in place by the button. It's not, but it somehow uplifts the effect of the fold. It's a nice finishing touch and I love it. I love the whole blouse as a matter of fact. (I also want to say that it's cute and girlish and.....ok, that's enough..) Now let's hope there will still be more sunny, warm days to wear it. In the meantime I started on the dress I wrote about in the previous po...

Yes, it's finally here! 3 weeks long, time to relax and do whatever I feel like doing. Ain't that just wonderful! But first I wanna thank everyone for wishing me well with my sprained ankle. On sunday I was already doing a lot better and on monday I could walk normally again so I guess I have been lucky this time. Now, back to the vacation. I definitely want to do some sewing and I have a few plans already. I bought the fabric a week ago but forgot to prewash it so I had that done today. But as I just couldn't wait for the fabric to be dry again (I´m not using a machine to dry my fabric), I thought I could just as well pop in a little sewingproject I have been thinking about a lot lately: I want to make just one more summerblouse. Just for the fun of it. I cut out the fabric today and if I put my mind to it I should be able to show you the finished result in a few days time. I´m gonna let that one be a surprise, ok? Let's talk about New Plans KnipMode - Jun...