Hello! I’ve made some new things… actually I’m always making new things but am seriously behind on blogging them. Bad me!
First up; a new little top for myself… this is the new Fibremood Quilla pattern, I and I love it! It’s super cute in my opinion, very easy to make and uses a very small amount of fabric. Is that a good thing? well pretty wonderful when you have lots of small leftover cuts that you wish to “gainfully” use up, like I am.
something I should mention: several times I have had to go back and lowered the necklines on a few of my fibremood makes, retroactively; because I’ve found them to sit quite high in general. So this time I proactively lowered the neckline by 5cm on this and I’m glad I did! it doesn’t feel too low at all and is in fact very comfortable. Something to bear in mind!
I used a raw silk hessian from Le Stash… this is leftover from when I made this green dress.
I stitched with green thread of course, but didn’t have any matching cotton for the bias binding nor green overlocking thread, so used white for both of these so there’s kind of a match-matchy situation going on with the inner seam finishes. This is quite a pleasurable sight to my eyes.
This top has a reverse pleat going on with the front/back panels and side panels; so I thought I’d share how I do the hem in this circumstance; the pattern just has you hemming as usual, but I’ve always found you get a sharper pleat if you doit like above. You need to snip the seam allowances at the hemline point so the hem seam allowances can wrap out the other way around the side seam allowances. Yes, sounds like it makes no sense but it does if you’re doing this sort of hem, trust me. Because I didn’t have matching overlocking thread, I just did a zigzag stitch to finish the raw edges in the hem allowance.
This gives you a nice, permanent fold at that point and enables the pleats to sit the way you want them too.
oh, see that cute little T-shirt Theo is wearing in the above pic? that’s the one I blogged about in my previous post. I’m happy to say he loves wearing it as a regular T-shirt and not just for pj’s!
Also, since Arthur’s T-shirts were a tad on the small side I made him a few more… These are made from out of two of Tim’s old T-shirts and also some more of that tomato red cotton jersey that Theo’s top is made from; that I’ve been using up lately. There will be some more things from this stuff appearing very soon, once I get around to modelling and photographing it. It’s actually finally all gone now, hurrah! and I have moved onto other fabrics!
Extras: yes, I made those jeans, using old jeans and the Closet Core Jenny pattern, previously blogged here
