Tag: Free

Well Hello There Finished Project!

So I tried it yesterday, making something little. But I couldn’t even copy the pattern right, thus gave up and went to bed. With a “try again tomorrow” sort of idea.

And I did, I started something when I came home, and it’s finished now. So I’m pretty happy. It came about like this: I’ve been reading about Colette patterns for ages now. Some of my favourite blogs mention them quite often. However, I’ve always found them really expensive and not very interesting really. So I never purchased any. But there’s a new pattern out. The Sorbetto top (here), which is free. And us Dutchies sure like our free stuff. Today I got another reminder that it existed from one of the bloggers over at the sew weekly. So I thought, it’s supposed to take little to no time, it’s free, and it absorbed basically very little fabric (I’m quite tiny so I only needed the length of the top in fabric).

And they’ve been right, it is really easy. It’s free, and it looks quite ok. I just followed the instructions. I would actually make it longer next time, since it barely covers my waistband. And I might make the arm holes a little bigger. I made it in the same fabric as my UFO dress from the vintage Simplicity 1236.  But this one is finished! Unless I decide to add some buttons or something, but that’s not necessary yet.

And this is the result:

Sorbetto Top

I’m so happy I found my craft gene again!

Formal Office Dress

I was looking around Etsy for dresses and I found this one:

Inspiration front Inspiration bust Inspiration back

And I thought: “that’s nice, but I’m not willing to pay that amount of money for something which will not fit me”. So I figured I’d make it myself. I’d just gotten my serger and found a free sheath dress type pattern on the internet and started fiddling around. The bottom bit got together without a hitch, but the top bit, well the top bit just.. didn’t. It didn’t fit, it wouldn’t sit right, and eventually I gave up.. Until.. yesterday morning. I’d just finished the champagne skirt and wanted another project, saw this hanging and thought: yes, that’s it. However, since the top bit didn’t fit and I’d make the black top only days ago and that did fit.. I decided to adapt the black top to fit on the grey skirt piece. That did fit, and eventually went on fine. It’s taken me until today to finish it, but it’s done now. And I’m happy with it. I used the vintage dress as inspiration, not as the thing I wanted to carbon copy. So the back is different and so are the straps, but the idea is there. I’m actually pretty happy with it and think it could work really well for anything formal. Or less formal, depending on the sleeve bit you put over it. I’m really happy with the result and here it is:

Finished front Finished back  Finished bust

Hope you like it as much as I do!

Just for fun

So 8 days ago I handed in my exam for the course I was taking at home, next to my internship. Having finished the exam meant I had no more homework to do, and lost of spare time. Thus, I had to start doing something else. After reading a lot I felt like a project, preferably a new project. Since I’m sort of not interested in all my UFPs (which is why they are UnFinished Projects), I wanted a new one. This time I wanted to do something different. I’m used to being cold, and covered up. I feel naked very, very quickly. Knee high skirts are short for me (although, those are the only length I have since I rarely wear any skirts). But since I’m changing my life around a little, I figured I could change my wardrobe a little. So I made a top, based on a wedding dress in one of the sewing magazines I have. It looked quite low-cut, but I liked the shape so I tried it with a bit of (I think) black linen. And I personally think it worked out great. Here it is:

Top

It’s quite dark, since I always finish my projects at night for some reason and then want to take a picture as to not forget to do so. I quite like the top, I just took the pattern pieces from the bust part and added 35 (I think) cm of the skirt pieces to it, and it fits fine. It’s wonderful that you cannot see the thread at all since I’ve had some problems with the machine and if you look really, really closely it shows. I showed it to a friend and he thought it was fine, but it’s really strange to be able to see your bra when you look down, I’m very not used to that. Still I wore it today and it was fine, might shorten the straps for a new attempt. Anyways, I finished this one somewhere in the middle of the week I think, just didn’t find time and energy to write this, too busy reading. But today I’ve also worked on some projects, I’ll share later. So until the next.. craft away.