a yellow Perth top and some teal clogs (shoes)

Hello!  I’ve made a couple more items for my #use12 mini capsule wardrobe that I proposed for myself at the beginning of the year, in fact the last two items! So I’m essentially finished!  Apart from a big mix-y/match-y dress up session that I’m planning… quite excited about that, actually! I’ve purposely held off up until now!

So the second to last item is a mustard-yellow Perth blouse… this pattern was our first offering from our own little Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co.  My new blouse is actually kind of a blow-in, sort-of/not-really but yeah, sort of.  Let me explain.  See, I had a small piece of mustard yellow jersey in the original #use12 lineup, with which I thought I’d be able to make a simple little top.  However I just didn’t have enough of that fabric, no matter which way I looked at it.  So, if you remember I made a set of yellow underwear with the scrap instead.  Yes, it was a scrap, originally leftover from my yellow Jade skirt, which I’ve worn a tonne, btw.  Anyway, I used the scrap, yay! but I didn’t have my little top.  Fast forward to when I made myself a dress for my niece’s yellow themed 21st, and I actually had enough scraps leftover from that, that I thought I might be able to do a little top after all.  And I did!  I managed to cut out a Perth top, with shortened sleeves.  And I now have zero left of that yellow fabric too.  So; I kinda used up both the scraps, and got my yellow top for the capsule in the end too.  Clear as mud?  I thought so.  Never mind,  Just me rambling.

Not much else to say really!  I double topstitched all the seams throughout, which gives a sort of casual utilitarian look; and used a small, natural wooden button for closure.  I already had the yellow thread in my stash too, from when I made the dress!

The last item for my #use12 is my new pair of clogs!

I’m so so happy with these! although I have to confess that these were quite a departure from my original intentions too… see I’d originally proposed to use a piece of the precious fish leather that I’d bought in Iceland to make a pair of oxfords.  I still want to do that.  However, just at this stage I don’t think I’m quite ready enough for that project….  I had this bottle green leather in my stash though, that I’d bought in the Fabric Store in Melbourne during one of our girly trips over there.  I ordered a refill clog kit from leather needle thread, without leather, and bammo! bob’s your uncle.

Actually, I said I’m happy with these, and I am! but truth be told I think my leather was just a shade on the flimsy side? and the ankle strappy bit flops in when I’m not wearing them, whereas the ones I’ve made using leather supplied with the kit – obviously superior! – does not.  So I’m thinking of going in retrospectively and applying a lining to the straps to stiffen them up.  I think this will be quite easy actually, and I have some very thin pig leather that is supposed to be used to line shoes that I can use for the purpose.  I bought this from Skindhuset in Copenhagen during one of our trips there.

I might not though, because I’m not sure if my worries are just me being nit-picky… which is quite probable.  We’ll see ….

Anyway… next up! the capsule wardrobe in total!