Stashbust April-May

Lockdown week 10 - I´m getting tired of this to be honest. Most of the sewing I do is really just mending knees of pnats as my kids tend to kill these super fast.
The few pieces I made in a month or so -

3/4 leggings for young lady Ottobre pattern

Jersey dress with, Ottobre

Matching shorts, Ottobre

The only dress I made for myself was on my dressform for more than a month only waiting to be photographed. Burda pattern, 5/2019, neckline both at the front and back hacked. Finished as a V-neck.

Front

V-neck with bias binding

Back

Time for Long Sleeves

I got bored of the ones I had - and didn´t want to start spending money on these either. So I made 2 using a raglan sleeve pattern of Burda 2/2010.
The angel wings for the white one are originally iron-on patches but I always hand sew these patches to make sure they won´t come off after wash #3.

Front

Back - the angel wings are iron-on

The striped one is made of rib jersey. This is just a simple long-sleeve T-shirt pattern I have since ages and done gazillions of it.

 I didn´t literally mean the patch but it became the reality. I tried to bind the neckline with the rib fabric and failed miserably. I had to rip all of it out (didn´t want to just cut it off as the neckline would have been too deep then) and replace with fold-over elastic.

For the record

I keep sewing - here are my last makes.

Dress with leo print -

Pattern Burda 5/2019

Yes, this is the back

Red dress which I always wanted to have. Pattern Burda 10/2011. The embroidery on the bottom took longer than sewing the dress itself (17 minutes each+prep). This is stashbusting too!

And a pair of jogging pants for Junior. He kept telling me he didn´t want me to sew for him as it always looked like home-made. I bought some ribbing and a few patches. When it was ready I asked him how it looks - and these pants passed the test.

Weary Morning

Going one morning to the office (one of the offices I need to go regularly) a colleague of mine had a remark about my outfit (and my whole appearance) being too dark. I tried not to hear it. He was persistent and said again later in the day. Even asked why. He was not trying to flirt - I´m almost sure he´s gay - just likes to make these remarks - including calling me young lady even though I have a few years on him (he´s being sarcastic). 

This was the dress I was wearing - I made it back in 2013. That day I had  it on with light grey tights and red shoes. Not sure how much the fact that I had to hit the road before 6am and that we were just back from holiday added to the whole impression - I assume not as much as the dress. It was a beautiful morning.

The coincidence was that the same morning I was thinking the dress is getting a bit old (6ys of service) and I started to see some pilling on the fabric as well. 

So I went to my stash I hoarded lately and picked up the latest Burda. Made this to show off next time in the office.

Pattern is Burda 5/2019. I keep screwing the back, here´s how it looked at the beginning -

And here it is fixed (yes, I had to remove the zipper). Now the patter is also somewhat aligned.

I am sewing - but not blogging

lately. We´ve had a lot of ups and downs in November and way more paid work than I like. So sewing time was very limited.
I managed to do a few things though  -

Tulle with lace. Easy make of Burda 2/2006

Stash fabric and stash lace

Ruffled sleeves.

Self drafted with FOE - only had 1 m of fabric so I had to play around to make it a long sleeve.

This is what I did at the end. Zero fabric left.

Young Lady´s skirt - she asked for something yellow.

Vintage lace recycle.

Leftover Nicki fabric

Banana Sweet dress of fleece for Young Lady

Hoodie lined with cotton knit leftover

Transitional Sewing

I was sewing - not blogging. Now it´s time to start taking pictures. Here are the first ones from September. The T-shirt I made a bunch of times and still like it a lot. This one is done of leftovers.

Young Lady is growing and needs a full new wardrobe. I already started back in summer but there´s a lot more on the list. Dress made of leftovers with pockets and a snap closure at the back. I have no idea how the Ottobre designers thought this would work without a closure. I´ve noticed this a few times already that the neck openings are left a bit tight.

Burda 2/2013 Model 126

Ottobre 4/2017

Back opening with the snap - I had to cut about 10cm-s to make sure it gets over her head

Filling Wardrobe Holes

I love knits. They´re so easy to handle and fast to sew. My last makes are kindof seasonal transition, filling wardrobe holes and partially using deep stash. The white fabric I bought 3ys ago and never had any idea what to do with it - until now. It´s somewhat sheer but I´m wearing most of the times camisoles anyway.

The red one is a viscose-wool blend, very light fabric with a nice drape. Next time I might make a deeper waterfall neck and shorten the bottom.

Self drafted pattern

Last makes of July

Just for the record a few items to fill wardrobe gaps and use the deep stash.

For the times when I need a silver metallic look I used a very deep stash fabric. It wasn´t even recorded in my file but I remember buying it - when I moved over to Germany back in 2011.

I used the pattern a million times already - more details here. This time I opted out the waterfall neckline and just replaced it with a normal one.

Summer dress for the hot days. This was the one which I screwed. Tried to finish the neckline with FOE and ended up ripping the whole thing out. Yes, double zigzag, was a fun project for a few evenings. Finally I finished with normal bias binding. Fabric was not stash - so count it as preventive stashbusting? The pattern is the dress version of Burda 2/2013 model 126 (latest T-shirt makes here - and here. I had to add to darts tot he back though. The fabric they called was a jersey knit and I used a woven stretch. It wasn´t just as drapey so adding the dart was the right thing to do.

Burda 2/2013

Shorts to use the last piece of the fabric -

Burda 6/2011

Grey Linen

I had the fabric since a while and had in mind do make a set (Pattern Burda 4/2002 117b+127)

Everything went wrong what could go wrong.

• I should ´ve listened to my inner fairy saying the skirt pattern is crap. It was, same piece for back and front with darts of same size - WTF? Of course I had to hack it to fit.
• I didn´t set the iron properly for the lining (poly) and almost burnt a whole into it - was already assembled. Luckily it happened at the bottom and the hemming helped a lot.
• I had to rip the side seams to give some ease on both the cover and the lining. When ripping I cut into it twice. Yes, twice. Ironing some fusible interface on the wrong side got me covered.
• The collar is not supposed to look like this but I just don´t care.
• When doing the buttonholes my machine was not set properly so I had to rip the first hole twice. (Yes, I was kicking myself for not setting the automatic buttonhole properly the first time AND testing it at least once)
• When cutting the holes my ripper got out of control and cut into fabric. Luckily not through. My finger stopped it. Yes, I was bleeding but not onto the garment.

Regardless of sweat and blood I like the outcome. Here. 

From a distance everything looks perfect

Not sure if this is how it should look like

Ripper accident fixed