Enough said!
Well actually, I guess I can say a little more… so I bought this turquoise denim in New York City during my holiday in the United States with Yoshimi last year…. and who could have guessed how much the world would change during this short short time?? Crazy… I’m still reeling to be honest! Anyway, I did have such a wonderful time and am very happy to have made up my first thing from some of the fabric that I bought. Don’t worry, there’s lots more! I got this in a little shop whose name now escapes me, sadly; though I’m forgiving myself for forgetting since it was kind of an overwhelming day. Honestly I’ve never seen as much fabric in my entire life as I did on that day of fabric-shopping in NYC!
have a squizz at those pockets!!!
The fabric was cut wildly off-grain, which meant I had a bit less than I thought, but fortunately I had enough to make this skirt using mostly Burda 2/2015; 109. This is a pattern I’ve attempted once before; I made it up using yellow linen which was quickly deemed a giant fail and converted into a top, and I must say it’s been a great little top! Anyway, I still had faith the pattern had great skirt bones. And I’m glad I gave it another chance since this little skirt is fantastic and I love it!
I did make a few mods though… namely, the wrap nature of the skirt is gone, because I felt the denim would be too stiff to make a nice wrap and tie belt; also I didn’t have enough of the denim for something like that anyway. Instead I made the skirt to have a fixed waistband and a centre back zip closure; a pretty straightforward mod. I also stitched down some of the pleats to make it a little more fitted. I wondered if I’d have a matching zip in my stash, and you know what? I did! Miraculous!! It was from a large bag of colourful zips that Mum had tossed my way, once upon a time. I’ve used up quite a lot of them over the years! This one is really very “vintage”, so much so that I zip it up and down quite carefully.
I used white thread for all the topstitching; I really love how subtle this looks. And I cut the contrasting inside waistband and bias to finish the hemline from an old shirt of Craig’s. I’ve harvested from this very same shirt previously, to bind the quilt that his Mum made for Arthur, here.
That shirt still has quite a bit of fabric leftover still to use for other things, which is fabulous; because it’s beautiful quality stuff!
This is thing 6, from the collection of 12 I tasked for myself at the beginning of the year. Yay, I’m halfway through!!
Details:
Skirt; Burda 02/2015; 109, turquoise denim
Top; Burda 04/2014; 111, in a slightly stretchy bobbly stuff, details here
Tights, made by me to my own design
Boots; Roberto del Carlo, from Zomp boutique
(below)
Jumper; hand knit by me, my own design
Raincoat; made by me, new and not yet blogged! eeep! I’m so behind!
… nothing to do with sewing, but lately I feel like I have so few good hair days I reckon it’s worth documenting when I do have one, even if it’s courtesy of the salon and not my own doing at all! I’ve been trying to grow my hair out all natural, a whole year later and I think I almost like my hair again. Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel!
So, once upon a time I picked up a lovely remnant of fine-grade sunshine-yellow linen from a sale at Potters Textile … and then at some point decided I wanted to make a yellow skirt. I plucked this, my only piece of yellow fabric, from Le Stash; and selected Burda 2/2015;109, which I’ve been admiring and coveting for some time. I traced it out, noted very happily that the pieces fitted perfectly on my piece of yellow linen with practically nothing to spare whatsoever, cut it out and made it up without much further thought.
