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an assortment of sewn things

11/12/2023 4:50 pm \ 6 Comments \

hello!  Once again I am presenting an odd assortment of disparate things made recently…

Items 1 and 2; two completely identical new Booragoon tops.  Both from a pink cotton jersey from stash, originally Spotlight from ages ago.  I’m wearing one above with my newly dyed Closet Clore patterns Mitchell trousers… the trousers used to be a paler pink and I felt like a colour change though I fear I overdid it a bit!  never mind…  the other pink Booragoon has gone to my niece T.  It really suits her!

Love this cute and yet chic little pattern!  I know it’s mine and I shouldn’t be too self-congratulatory, but I really really love it so I just have to gush occasionally.  I’ll stop now.

Items 3, 4 and 5, or should I just call this item 3?  I’m never quite sure…

anyway, I made a new set of one Watson bra plus two pairs of matching undies.  I used some of the leftover pink cotton jersey, from those aforementioned pink tops, and some striped jersey, that I’ve had for a long long time (actually made this striped shirt from it). And whipped up a mixed fabrics set… actually I want to make more things like this at the moment, mixing up different fabrics.

Fronts and back of the knickers are contrasting, the strap elastic, rings and sliders, and hook and eye closure are all recycled from an old bra.  The other elastics are all from the stash, by which I mean they’ve not been used before even if they’re not actually new.  A free set!  Yay!

Items 6 and 7 (or 4 and 5?). some matching clothes for Cassie’s two; T and G…  Oh, I’ve just realised I haven’t introduced my newest grandson here yet… I did over on instagram but this is his first appearance here…Cassie had baby Gilbert a few weeks ago, and here he is!

Isn’t he sweet!  This is the first thing I’ve made for him and I made a matching T-shirt for his older brother too.

I’m quite sad that this next one has zero hanger appeal, or should I say floor appeal, and even on the body it doesn’t look particularly chic; which is pity because the fabric is absolutely beautiful.

Mum wove this length of beautiful lilac/blue fabric with her own two hands many years ago, and had partially made a dress or tunic or something out of it.

I cut off the bottom, hemmed, and reattached the cut off portion as sleeves.  I’m wearing it as a summer dressing gown.  So that was item 8, for those keeping count, and now for number 9….

my new summer nightie!  So I really really love this and it feels so lovely to wear!  I used a short length of silk from Le Stash, originally from (I think) Tessuti fabrics of Melbourne, from years ago.  With some clever pattern placement I managed to cut a Closet Core Simone slip.  I French seamed the side seams, and was very careful to match stripes all around.  It feels incredibly luxe!  Why have I never made silk sleepwear before?!

 

 

Ok, I think that’s all for now!  See you later!

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our newest pattern, the Meelup skirt!

25/11/2023 3:43 pm \ 7 Comments \

above; I’m wearing Meelup view A, made in a lightweight cotton canvas originally from Spotlight stores.

Hello!  Cassie and I are very happy to announce the release of the latest addition to our Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co family; please give a warm welcome to the Meelup skirt!

above; a Meelup view B that I made last year; in a truly stunning cotton drill bought from Ikuntji Artists… this is a skirt that never fails to attract admiring comments, which is very nice!

The Meelup is a design I refined from my own skirt block quite a while ago now, and one I’ve subsequently made over and over again; twiddling the details… yes like our Pinjarra twinset from earlier in the year, this is definitely a tried and true style that both of us wear all year long, for any and all occasions.  I suppose you could say that this year has been the Carolyn & Cassie Year of Reliable Basics 🙂

below; Cassie wears Meelup view B; made in a mint green raw silk inherited from my Mum’s stash…

The Meelup pattern is for a straight fitted skirt in two lengths, with a waistband and satisfactorily deep, slanted hip pockets.

The skirt requires no zip! instead ingeniously buttons closed over the left hip pocket.  This is fair dinkum my absolutely favourite feature of the pattern.  Well, maybe a close second to the pockets, maybe, which are seriously decent pockets if I say so myself.  The silhouette is slim, but you will find you still have plenty of room to shove your hands comfortably in the pockets, no problem.

below; Lainey wears Meelup view A, in a very denim-like cotton duck in a lovely lush floral print.  She is also wearing our Booragoon top in blue cotton jersey, and my Pinjarra cardigan in pink merino knit…

styled a bit more summer like

You can line the skirt if you like; we have provided separate pattern pieces for the lining, and instructions cover both making the lined skirt and the unlined skirt as well.  I’ve made both lined and unlined versions for myself, but mostly lined for the versatility of them.

below; one of my own Meelups, view A, made in deep raspberry red cotton corduroy… 

You can line the skirt if you like; we have provided separate pattern pieces for the lining, and instructions cover both making the lined skirt and the unlined skirt as well.  I’ve made both lined and unlined versions for myself, but mostly lined for the versatility of them.

below; a recently made Meelup in quite heavy white linen.  The length of this was was dictated by my length of fabric and falls about midway between views A and B

The new Meelup is now listed in our Etsy store here.  To celebrate the release of our new pattern we ore offering a special, celebratory offer of 20% off for one week only.  In fact, we are currently running a 20% off sale on ALL of our patterns, because why not…  I guess we’re just feeling it this weekend!  Please do enjoy and take advantage of this special price!

And we hope the Meelup becomes as much a loved and very well-used item in your sewing repertoire, just it has become one for us!

below; the Meelup view B features splits in the side seams to facilitate striding

below: another recently made Meelup, this one is a sort of mid length between size A and size B… made in a lightweight cotton canvas in a fun Batman print

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pretty blouse, handbag, wallet, underthings, baby things and pink books

19/11/2023 2:31 pm \ 8 Comments \

I’ve been checking out all my as-yet unblogged things, and there are so many!  I guess I’ve been in a real blogging slump this year.  Anyway, apologies for the overloaded, as well as overdue! blog post, and here we go…!

Item 1: a pretty lingerie set.  This is of course the Watson pattern by cloth habit, one I’ll be making for the rest of my life, I’m sure… just such a goodie.  Same modifications I’ve always made. (see here)…

I had all the elastics and bits and pieces already, and a quite short length of bright neon yellow elastic, leftover from this set… it was fun incorporating a length of it in each piece!

Item 2; a pretty blouse.  This is actually my most recently made thing… well, apart from a few samples for our new pattern, to be announced very soon, I hope!

This design is the new Nova pattern by Fibremood. It has a very interesting fluted neckline, that attracted me to it in the first place.  I dunno, but I can’t resist a unique twist to a thing! and simply must try it out.

I used a length of pretty slightly brushed cotton, given to me by Mum when she cleaned out her stash.  It’s lovely, isn’t it?!  I added one pocket, just for fun, and threaded a length of elastic through each sleeve hem, a look that I really like lately.

The back has a centre-back seam with an invisible zip.  Quite unnecessary, since I found you can pull it over your head quite easily.  Something I like to do with the end of an invisible zip is to wrap the end with a little piece of fabric, since a lot of invisible zips seem to have almost imperceptible sharp bits at the end, that will torment you without pity if you don’t do something about it first.

The back has a centre-back seam with an invisible zip.  Quite unnecessary, since I found you can pull it over your head quite easily.  Something I like to do with the end of an invisible zip is to wrap the end with a little piece of fabric, since a lot of invisible zips seem to have almost imperceptible sharp bits at the end, that will torment you without pity if you don’t do something about it first.

Item 3; this cute little bag… I made this earlier this winter, using a kit from JT Tanner bought during lockdown actually!

It was an exceptionally beautiful kit and I really enjoyed putting it together, in spite of breaking all three of the provided needles!  however I finally figured how to stitch through that tough tough leather without putting too much strain on the needles… :D. and am super happy with the quite profesh look of the final product!

I wore it a few times, but it had one small problem which ultimate led me to my next project…

Item 4; a little wallet.  My new bag is awesome, but my current purse doesn’t fit into it at all, and since the bag is such that a loose credit card or cash would easily fall out of the gaps,  I decided that I needed a customised purse! Yes, I’m admittedly weird about not immediately shopping for things at the moment and I also I do like to challenge myself, ergo; I decided to have a go at making one.

There was one failed version before this final one, failed only because I cut the zip too short and it couldn’t flip out open completely; but this one is nearly perfect, I’m happy to report.

 

I didn’t want to use any of my precious leather just yet! although I might be ready to go there soon; instead I used charcoal felt, that I bought to make a stuffed toy at some point (still unblogged, whoops!). Fortunately I still have a huge number of oddly coloured zips that Mum gave me at some point, and found two matching ones.  The wallet took a bit of very careful measuring and lining up, and I am pretty proud of the final precision.

It has a whole lot of card slots, a zipped coin compartment, one separate car slot that I was initially intending to have a clear plastic window in it, but couldn’t found the right plastic on hand and didn’t want to go out and source any either.  C’est la vie!  Oh, and also a bellowed pocket for bills/notes.  This time I carefully made sure the wallet could flip open fully and lie flat.

 I agonised on how to put in the zip, finish the raw edges, and eventually bound the edges with matching charcoal linen – the same stuff I used to line the card slots and coin pocket. I hand stitched the linen binding down inside, and then finally glued the outer layer over the top.  I wasn’t sure how the glueing would work out, but it has nicely stiffened up the final product in a very satisfactory way.

And it fits into the bag perfectly!

Item 5; I’m not sure if I’ve posted this before? if not here tis… a baby onesie for our friend’s baby.  Design is my own, and yes, I used the leftovers for my Watson set, above!

Item 6, 7, 8, 9

some new little books.  I always save and cut up the leftover paper from paper patterns and make little books from them.  It’s fun to do this and makes me feel virtuously zero waste.  All materials are waste scraps and leftovers from other projects.  I have one in my handbag all the time and use it all the time, and they make nice gifts too, I think!

I think that’s enough for now?  Anyway, I’ll be back with more soon!

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a patchwork dress

13/11/2023 6:18 pm \ 12 Comments \

Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I haven’t blogged this dress yet… this post (sans any text at all, ahem) has been in my drafts for over a year now!  I feel so neglectful of this thing… it spite of the fact that it’s something I’m very proud of!

Quite a few years ago now, I bought a whole lot of lovely linens from Tessuti Fabrics in Melbourne, while over there on a visit with Mum and Cassie.  Aren’t the colours gorgeous?!

I always planned a patchwork thing pretty much exactly like it finally turned out… !  So lucky!

 

I cut a whole bunch of squares; the ones closest to the top of the dress are quarter the size of the squares in the middle, which themselves are a quarter the size of the biggest squares around the hemline.  Piecing them so as to have the colours arranged randomly was a minor but very enjoyable challenge.

Early on I posted the above picture to instagram, to which someone (kindly and without ill-intent) commented that the shaping could all be done in the seams keeping up the appearance of perfect squares everywhere.  And I knew straight away that that was a borderline impossible task.  I’m perfectly aware that this commenter meant really well but the comment still somehow left me totally paralysed with the weight of expectation.  I know, it’s silly; but I guess it’s my fault for sharing progress shots of things I’m making.  Somehow doing so seems to frequently lead to a similar outcome.

Anyway, as a result; the project spent the next few months in limbo.  I did finally pick it up, left it again, picked it up again, and finally managed to limp through to the finish line, all the time painfully aware that I had failed to achieve aforementioned shaping while keeping the squares perfectly square.  I shouldn’t have felt like a failure, but you know.  Such a feeling can’t be helped sometimes…

 

But I am very happy in the end, and even I wore it to Frocktails one year too.  It was actually a freezing cold night and it had to be covered up with a warm woolly cardigan most of the night, more’s the pity!

The halter neck design with rather complex, uber swishy skirt is my own, of course; custom fit to my dummy Bessie.  It even has pockets, which were actually kind of a nightmare in the patchworked side seams.  It also has a side zip, so as to disturb the patchwork as little as possible.  The above picture is the initial, unhemmed version, which looks kind of cool but was unfortunately impossible to walk in from being too too long.   The final look is a good compromise between a good length, and being able to walk without tripping.  A nice balance!

Final take; I am so so proud of this dress, so am kinda bewildered at my complete failure to blog it before now.  Well, at least I finally got this, final step finished too.  It’s been a fun dress to wear , so beautifully swishy and comfy, and it never fails to garner lots of attention and compliments.  So in conclusion; I cannot be happier with it!

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the Pinjarra twinset

31/07/2023 8:00 pm \ 4 Comments \

At last!  Cassie and I are thrilled to release our latest pattern in the Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co oeuvre… please welcome the Pinjarra twinset!

 

A twinset?  What on earth…?! you may be thinking/asking!  Well, the Pinjarra twinset is specifically, a cardigan with a long necktie/collarline, and a long sleeved T-shirt/tee/skivvy with two collar options, one a higher loose turtleneck and the other a more scooped neckline with a skinny band to finish.  A little wardrobe concept that once upon a time was called a twinset!  This particular set of designs is a pattern I’ve used for myself over and over and over again and wear it very frequently; so I can confidently attest to its usefulness and versatility as a really good basic.

And as a special introductory offer we are offering the new pdf pattern with a 20% discount for the first week of its debut; that is until Monday 7th August!  It is currently available in our Carolyn and Cassie Pattern Co Etsy store, here.

Although I have quite a few already I made a new Pinjarra cardigan to celebrate the pattern being finished and ready to release… I bought this very beautiful pink double merino jersey from the Fabric Store in Melbourne when we went there for Harry Potter.  It’s so beautiful!  Incidentally I’m wearing a new skirt with it too; this is once of my favourite patterns the Paprika Patterns Jade mini skirt.  I’ve made this stacks of times too.  This is a cotton jersey from Le Stash, of course…  🙂  The ivory tee underneath is another early Pinjarra, made a couple of years ago.

This turtleneck neckline is one I have been making the longest and I absolutely love it for winter.

I made a set for Mum too!  using a black cotton jersey and some of the blue/grey cotton jersey for the neck tie… I think the contrasting necktie is very chic!  A variation that gives it a slightly different look, even a little more formal looking, perhaps?

Cassie made a striped Pinjarra cardigan, with shorter sleeves, thanks to not quite enough fabric!  This looks so cool, in my opinion!  She is wearing it with the grey maternity skirt I made for her recently, using Burda 7023…

And here she is wearing my yellow Pinjarra cardigan, the pink Pinjarra tee I made for her last year, and the navy blue Burda 7023 maternity skirt that I made recently too.  How lovely is this combination for work?  I think she looks elegant and professional  🙂

The following is a little history of the Pinjarra evolution, which may or may not be interesting at all.  But this is my blog which I think has all this documented over the years anyway, so why not summarise?

As I’ve long documented here; my original go-to T-shirt pattern was a Burda pattern that didn’t fit so I fine-tuned it to better fit me (blogged about here).  Then I switched to the Closet Core Nettie pattern, that was pretty good but I eventually started improving the fit of that one too, until it ended up completely different from the pattern, with absolutely zero of the original seamlines left.  At some point I rediscovered my modified Burda pattern and overlaid it with my modified Nettie and it was pretty interesting to me that my modifications were nearly identical!  Anyway, long and short was that I now started to think of and use this as my personal custom fit T-shirt block and it became my basis for all stretch fit bodices.

the earliest iteration of the cardigan design, 2015

My first cardigan prototype appeared back here in 2015, although that one is of course quite different from this final, far more polished design.  Every time I’ve made it I’ve twiddled with the design and I now feel like it’s a really nice robust cardigan with a good construction procedure.

I got the idea to make the two of them a twinset pattern back when I made the above marigold yellow, matching two piece set, blogged here.  The tee’s final neckline is a little lower that this one as I thought this one a little high.  Yes; I have thought long and hard about these little things!  At this point I started working on the two necklines, grading the pattern, and writing instructions.  And Cassie of course did her essential digital part.  Et voila!  the Pinjarra twinset is now here!

The name?  Well, “twinset” has always sort of suggested to me, rightly or wrongly, the kind of thing a grandmother would have worn regularly once upon a time; since actually both of my own grandmothers did. And Cassie’s grandmother lives in Pinjarra.  So it felt like a good fit.  And having a pattern named Pinjarra seems fair since my mother, Cassie’s other grandmother, lives in Bridgetown and we’ve already used the name Bridgetown in our Fridgetown handwarmers pattern.

But I honestly think the Pinjarra is a pretty cool design and not particularly grandmother-ly one way or the other either.  More like a really a good basic that absolutely anyone could wear!

another early iteration of the cardigan….

The pattern is currently available in our etsy  shop, here.  Remember that 20% discount for the next week!  We hope you enjoy making and wearing either or all parts of the Pinjarra twinset as much as we have!

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some blue things because why not

21/07/2023 9:09 pm \ 1 Comment \

First up; some navy blue suedette shorts!

I actually like wearing shorts in winter; it’s kinda the same as wearing a mini, in my opinion, and personally I think minis are absolutely great in winter.  So why not shorts in winter too?

Suedette is quite a wintery-feeling fabric too I think; this piece is actually leftover from when I made my Megan Nielsen Dove blouse, way back here.  I KNOW!  I surprise myself sometimes with my stashing capabilities.  Too silly for words.

I had just enough fabric to squeeze out the pieces for these shorts, which is awesome sauce.  The pattern is the FibreMood Dahlia shorts pattern, which is a beautifully feminine, roomy design, with a deep deep pleat at the top resulting in chic wide legs, also very deep and lovely cuffs.  These are my favourite part of the shorts actually.  It has pockets too, of course!  Oh, and lastly the waist was a little baggy on me, so I also added belt loops and made a short tie belt.  I really like how this looks on the shorts too!  You can probably see that I used a silver press stud for the shorts closure, it stands out ike a sore thumb in these pictures unfortunately; after I noticed this I went back and added another belt look over the press stud, hiding it.  Thus fixing the problem, yay.

I’m wearing them here with my ivory tee top, my handknitted hand warmers, and my black tights…

What else have I made… hmmm?  Well another maternity skirt for Cassie.  This is another Burda 7023, using navy blue cotton jersey.  I was asked in the comments where this can be bought, I’m afraid if it’s not in your local pattern store then I don’t know, sorry.  It’s kinda hard to get hold of older paper patterns nowadays, very sadly.  I think this particular pattern was from about three or four years ago.  I just gave it to her without taking a photo sorry; maybe I’ll get a photo and update here then  🙂   (later edit: Here ’tis!!)

And I finished another project, this beanie has been a veeeery long term one!  In 2018 we went to Canada and Alaska, blogged about here; and here; and I bought some yarn while there; including this ball of locally handspun and hand-dyed wool in Talkeetna, Alaska.  The label has Wild n’ Woolly on it, but they don’t seem to have an internet presence so I can’t link to them.  The colour is Berry Picking, and the design is my own, but pretty plain.  I started and unravelled it a few times, trying to get the perfect amount of head-hugging, which I think I got in the end.  It’s beautifully cosy!

I’m wearing  it here with my raspberry tee top, my raspberry Paprika Patterns Jade mini skirt, hand knit navy cardigan, navy corduroy jacket (originally made for Sam but he’s given it back to me) my yellow raincoat, black tights…

And that’s all for now!  Our new pattern is going to be ready very very soon, we’ve been working so hard on it, so please look forward to that coming soon!

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white top… ghost horses jumper… patchwork underthingies

30/06/2023 6:11 pm \ Leave a Comment \

Perth dress/blouse

Hello!  I have been so remiss in not posting this top, made months ago now… I wanted a new white shirt and if you’re feeling like a quick and easy shirt project then what better pattern to get out other than my own Perth pattern?!  #shamelessplug

The back pleat goes “out”; I really prefer pleats to go “in, the fact that this one does not was not intentional but a boo boo.  It’s, ok, I can live with it!  I used some white linen/cotton from my stash; leftover from my Charlie caftan that I made *checks blog stats* goodness me, about six years ago now!  And obviously made a few minor mods.

The length is about halfway between the top and the skirt cutting lines, and I lengthened the sleeves as much as I could to about three quarter length.  I really love this sleeve length on a shirt! and for visual interest I added buttoned cuffs.  I also added a little pointy-bottomed breast pocket, for almost the sole purpose of sporting a “circa 2023” label.

I also made the little black flecked white skirt.

Item 2; this (to my mind) absolutely beautiful jumper is also something I finished months ago, and have only just got around to wearing and photographing it for my blog here.

The pattern is Ghost Horses by Boyland knit works… I bought it through her blog site here but you can also get it through Ravelry…

The yarns are:

dark blue: Rowan felted tweed, col 170 Seafarer

variegated pink: Manos del Uruguay silk blend, col SB3317 Kilim

plain pink: Manos del Uruguay silk blend, col SB3236 Clafoutis

Le inside/backside

I bought the yarn from Morris and Sons in Melbourne, during our Harry Potter excursion over there, last March.  Actually, March 2022, hehe; so embarrassed to admit that.  I actually started knitting it straight away and got it to final ribbing stage within a few months.  Then took like forever to decide on the finishing bands.  I didn’t really like the slightly tight look of the finishing bands on the pattern envelope sample and tried multiple variations ie various k/P ribbing combos, stocking stitch, double yarn etc before finally settling on … well, these ones.  Mine is same needle size as body, single yarn, 2K 2P rib, very loosely finished.

And at least it finally is finished!

yea haw!  btw, I made my shirt, skirt and tights too…

Item 3:

I made a new underwear set… all from scraps and leftovers!  this kind of project is super fun for me, mostly because it is so crazy and silly.

The pattern is my favourite, the Cloth Habit Watson, and the fabric is all from projects in my previous post; the T-shirt for Arthur, itself an old T-shirt of Tim’s; and the red and navy stripe from the skirt I made for Cassie.  I had only small pieces, so it was fun to cut and join bits together to get enough for my set!  I know I know, silly and crazy.  But fun!

  

I’m belatedly a little annoyed that the white-fronted knickers are asymmetrically pieced so it looks a little lopsided, but at the time I was just happy to have enough to even cut a front! so I guess I can’t complain…

 

The strap elastic was also salvaged from an old, also me-made bra, the straps though were still in really good nick …  the knicker elastic I had in the stash already too.  In the last couple of years since we moved and I vowed to use entirely from the stash, I’m constantly amazed at HOW MUCH is in there…!

So that’s all for now.. until next time!

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💜 borahae! *

13/06/2023 9:02 pm \ 7 Comments \

Hello!  So, in the never-ending saga that is my making journey, blah blah blah; I want to try and make at least one thing per month for no reason other than it satisfies my creative desires.   This is kinda important since lately I actually seem to make a lot of things that don’t satisfy me creatively at all …   strange, huh?  anyway, it’s just something I want to make time for, for my own personal happiness.

It doesn’t have to necessarily be “useful” or practical either…  just something that I want to make, just because.  While also being entirely from the stash, the other important proviso of course!

Something that’s bothered me for a while is that I have practically zero purple clothing… and nothing purple in the stash either.  Also, today is the 10th anniversary of BTS debut, and being a reasonably recent fan (more on that later) I thought I could observe this milestone and fill the gaping purple hole in my wardrobe at the same time.

I had some cherry red cotton corduroy, originally from Mum’s stash… and I also have plenty of old jeans.  I think these ones were also Mum’s actually!  Thanks, Mum!

Plans were made, patterns were perused, discarded, dyes checked out.  I worked out I could cut out the Named Maisa jean jacket from my corduroy, and also get a little matching skirt out if I cut some of the pieces from the old jeans.  To make everything purple, I would dye the cherry red corduroy with navy blue dye, and the blue jeans would get a red dye bath,  This may or may not have been a disastrous adventure, but you know me, nothing ventured, nothing gained.  I was so excited to see how it was going to go!

Stuff cut out.  Here are the bits and bobs.  The leftovers (middle right) are, I’m proud to boast; practically nothing.  I did save some of them for another little project, yet to be realised…

I made up the body part of the Maisa jean jacket first, and overlocked the edges of the other red jacket bits, for dyeing.

I cut out a few extra pockets… I wasn’t sure where these would go exactly but I just cut and dyed them anyway, thinking I’d find the right spot for them eventually.

The second stage was to make the skirt.  The design is my own, that I’m planning to make into a pattern for mine and Cassie’s tiny little company this year, if possible!  It has deep pockets, and no zip, instead closing over a hip pocket.  I made this completely including lining, before dyeing it as a whole in the same dye bath as the jean jacket body, just with a little bit of extra blue added.  I used a green lining fabric  (why not, ’twas in the stash) and some leftover pink linen from my Lennox dress to line the waistband.  This is how they turned out after the dye job.  I’m really happy with how (to my mind) gorgeous the colours look together!

Last step was to construct the jacket sleeves and collar, and dye these and the rescued jeans pockets in a red dye bath.  I’d added a tiny bit of blue to this bath too, on a hunch; and am quite happy with the level of purple achieved.  Then I finished the jacket construction.   The two extra corduroy pockets got stitched onto the denim sleeves of the jacket, and the rescued denim jeans pockets got stitched to the body of the jacket.  Of course I’m thrilled to have some useful pockets on the jacket!

Some details:  I used copper jeans buttons, these were the only things bought new for the project.  For the most part, I used black thread or a dark khaki thread for the skirt lining and some other parts; and navy blue overlocking thread throughout.  For the skirt; I had two purple buttons already in my stash, which was handy.

Final verdict; well of course all that strong red turned out more raspberry than purple; though the jacket sleeves are decidedly purple.  I still love it though! and am very excited to wear it a lot during winter.  Although I “wanted” purple; raspberry is of course one of my favourite colours; so how could I not be happy?!

* “borahae” actually kinda translates to “I purple you”, and is a BTS thing…  So I’ve been a low-key fan for a few years, but it wasn’t until I started making wedding dresses and spending a lot of time listening to youtube videos and bingeing on BTS Run while I hand stitched tiny lace motifs onto silk and tulle bodices that I really got into them a lot more.  Then during the making of Lainey’s wedding dress, I finally finished viewing the entirety of BTS Run and of course anyone who has watched the show knows you cannot help but eventually became hopelessly addicted!  Aaah!  I’m not going to say any more, because it’s a little bit embarrassing, at my age!  but anyway there it is.  I’ve said it now!   💜

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