Mini wardrobe update; jacket

This is a full picture of the jacket and the skirt I made the arms full lenght, but didn´t really measure so I had to add a strip for the hem. consider it a design feature!
and here´s the button I´m using
3 of them. I have to do buttonholes, sew the buttons and do some staystitching on the inside of the jacket. I omitted the bands on the arms, but used grosgrain in the back.

More snoopshopping

I don´t think I have to tell you where I found theese clothes...
Likes the way they mix fabrics. It looks easy but is not! A piece of antique lace or a very special piece of fabric left?
It´s so beautiful! This one I might consider to buy!
Cute yes! But not in public...
Yes! but not for fall!
I wish I could find some tatoo style embroidery files on the net somewhere...This kind of white style embroidery I have a lot of! I have a lot of lace too, really beautiful french cotton lace!

And I love those little bows!!!!!

Snoopshopping and shopping

I´ve been to Stof and Stil today and bought grosgrain ribbons for the green jacket. I´ve done some knitting but not any sewing. I found an embroidered fabric at the store that was so Odd Molly. I´t´s really fun to look at how this company has influenced so many other.
Snoopshopping at Antrophologie I found this one in red. This pic is from Odd Molly´s own site:
Pretty! I like this one to
and this one so vintage. When I see cardigans like this I have a tendancy to say I can do it and then I never find the cardigans in the store...but this year I´ve seen som simple straight cardigans in colors that´ll looks better on me...
I think this one is Anna Sui But the reason for showing it is that I think this is the right top to go with the Odd Molly lace skirt

Oh no! not you again!

Pattern for Odd Molly jacket

Sewingpattern.com are having a sale and I bought some pattern; one of them this Anne Klein that I´m going to use for the Odd Molly jacket with bleach spots

Mini wardrobe progress

Are we a big help or not?
I cut the full skirt on my bedroom floor. The pattern said that you should cut 2 pieces of the yoke in fashionfabric and one in lining. Sew the lining to one of the fashion fabric piece and treat them as one. I´m gonna go to the only shop in town that sells silk organza and use that instead. The skirt is hanging pinned to one of my livingroom curtains.

Books are good for a lot of things!

I also cut the jacket. I choosed one size smaller than normal since it´s Butterick´s and that was a good choise! I made an FBA and let the extras go into the two folds, made the bodice 1,5 cm longer ( 0,5 inch) I have a longer backlenght than most patterncompanies think is normal, and then I made the jacket 5 cm ( 2 inches) longer since I´m gonna wear it with the blouse. I also made the arms full lenght ( it´s fall, or it will be soon) The jacket is unlined and I have problems with that so I´m gonna add lining to the arms.
This pattern is really cute. The collar version will make a nice blouse ( in the future ). It´s easy to sew!

Storyboard, kind of anyway...

This is my jacket; view C in dark green corduroi Blouse in eyelet. I´m gonna make view A and use the border of the fabric for the hem of both the body and arms.
Might add some trim. This blouse will double as a light jacket. planning to button it and have a seperate tie belt.
This is the skirt for the flowery fabric. The fabric also has a stripe so I think this skirt will be interesting since it´s a bias skirt, nice hemline too!

and finally the plaid skirt. there´s a trim on the left "foldpiece"

I can do that!

It´s no secret for the readers of this blog that I adore the clothes of Odd Molly. They have a new collection out and these fingerless mittens I can easy duplicate. I think drops alpacka is a good choise! The problems with fingerless mittens are that your finger gets cold...has to be matched with gloves. I just love the way they show these with worn out nailpolish... A lace shawl. There´s plenty out there to be knitted!
I´m not sure about the fabrics here but I like the way they use tree different fabrics
This is a goodie! bleach spots. I think it might be a good thing to try the tecnique on a piece of fabric before sewing. I also think that this is a good idea for spicing up a vintage suit from the closet or the flea market
I´m not a lacy ( lazy? yes sometimes...) girl but I really like the hemline of this skirt, It has a vintage feel to it and I´m thinking of using it for a dress in an embroidered viscose I bought in Paris
Here´s the fabric! I think I can use the colors of the emroidery for the trim. I´m not sure what pattern I will be using yet!

The fabric is not here, look in the next posting

Odd Mollys website are oddmolly.com. There´s more goodies there!

Modular knit shrug

Using Drop´s alpacka very soft and using 7 colors and deciding square after square
Don´t you dare remove this!!
I´ve finished the back/front of it and are going to start on the arms that will have 2 stitches less/ a square every other row to shape the arms.
Alpacka is such a nice yarn!
The photos doesn´t really show off the colors!

WIP

Shawl for my SIL
closeup

I think the yarn is called Mora it´s two treaded and 900 meters/ 100 g

Mini wardrobe contest

I entered th PR review´s mini wardrobe contest and auditioned fabric i think this one´s the winner; upper fabric green corduroi for a jacket, plaid for a skirt, floralfor a wide skirt and eyelet for a wrap blouse
Here´s a variation with the plaid skirt replaced with a green top
and here´s the eyelet blouse replaced with a redish top, does not go so well with the plaid skirt though...
and here´s one variation with a beige knitted jacket and the green corduroi as a skirt.
Even if I can´t compete with more than 4 items I still allowed to make more!

Santa Claus is coming to town...

Santa was at his yearly congress in Copenhagen. I wonder what they discuss; the lack of faith...?

I was shopping yarn, fabric and goat´s butter. I was on a trip with two knitting guilds and knitting, drinking beer and having fun!

Dress again! and yes it´s red!

I bought the latest Burda and found this dress there. I like the yoke and the neckline and had some linen I thought would look nice and it did! I did the front yoke by staystitching the shape where the seam should be and turn tha fabric on the seam , place needles and sew one seam from the top

I´ve done this on skirts and other items when the shapes are a little bit special.

This is a very good pattern!!! BWF 07-2008-107. no 108 is a top that is only shorter.

Strik a la carte

This is from Strik a la carte by Marianne Isager, a very talented danish designer. There are a lot of really beautiful and wearable garment in this book I´m using an ecological cotton that i don´t know why doesn´t seem to be made into a finished garment. It started its knitting career as Aberlady wannabe but this is the best so far.

It´s a special way of doing the knitting, you start at the shoulders and knitt down ward the hemline that will be zig zaged. I´m shaping it a little. Fun project to knit and a good summer top since you can actually wear a bra under it. One of the knitters at my knittin café made 3 of it, one was from sockyarn. So far I like everything about this top

Spede update

The knitting is finished!!!

Sari dress

At PR weekend in Copenhagen Annika brought this sari to the ugly fabric swap and i recall stealing it from Åsa several times. I once started to cut out wrap pants from it but changed my mind. Now it´s a dress. Used a pattern from the same Patrones as the skirt and used the long border of the fabric for the hemline and the back yoke The front yoke is made from the endpart that should fall over your shoulder.
The dress was realy easy and fast and it´s important to use a very light fabric. It´s a dress that I think will work especially good as after beach.
This sari was made from cotton, I have a silk sari too that I bought at a little shop in Berlin a couple of years ago. I´m letting it age with dignity...

First Patrones

A couple of weeks ago I was in a shop that sells a lot of foreign magazines and snooplooking at Patrones. Patrones costs 130 crowns that´s 13 euro. In Spain it sells for 4.20. I´m glad they don´t add that much on tomatoes...
Anyway since two of my friends where going to Spain I asked if they could.....
And they did!
This is my first skirt, the drawings in the magazine are not always accurate so I had som difficulties before I figured it out, not much but it would have been better to know from the start.
I also doing some painting, so I painted my kitchen table white and decided to make a cloth for it. Tomorrow I´m going to check out what chairs the fleamarkets offer. I´m so tired of these...

Knitted skirt

I finished my knitted skirt today. I kind of like it, it´s a little see-trough due to the lacy pattern but I´m planning to wear black tights under.
The yarn is a Patons cotton, just ordinary stuff from the supermarket...

New Look 6775

Item number four in the PR stash competition.
The pattern is avery versantile one with 3 sleeve options and this sleeve less. I already have one more cut from one of my Paris fabrics. This dress is 4 inches longer than the longer dress in the pattern envelope

Fabric shopping in Paris

I´ve been to Paris for a couple of days and visited the fabric shops at Montmartre. The first two pictures are from Tissue Reine These dolls are so cute
I didn´t buy anyting there but below are my purchases. Pieces of about 3 m each bought at some shop called something like " gentlement of tissue"
The red pieces are from onother store on Rue DÓrsel. I can´t recall the name but they had another shop too, only for shops, professionals etc and he told me the other store bought fabrics from them.
The off white to the left is a stripe structured cotton, will be good for a jacket, 3m 18 euro.
The red- white flowery is rayon that I think will be good for s retro dress 3 m 12 euro
The teal white wíth embroidery, dress also, 3 m 18 euro, cotton
the plaid, viscose 4m 10 euro
the flowery, viscose 3 m 10 euro, they match!
Then its a silk with a border at one side willmake some kind of blouse or dress that are so popular now, silk/cotton, 3 m 23 euro
The last one is a kind of shirt fabric in cotton, has a stripe structure 1,5 m 8 euro

There are a lot of stores around Marche St Pierre and you can find simular and the same thing at the same prices in them. Shop around!!