Test T-shirt

I made a test long sleeved T-shirt for my favorite human.
The fabric is a viscose jersey I had in my stash and was happy to put to good use, even for a muslin.
The pattern needs some adjustments but he wants to wear this one anyway! :D
Not bad for the first time.

Two muslins - blouses

Both blouses are from Burda. I will post the details as soon as I have something more concrete to show.

This is the third fitting for this one. The first muslin was a disaster, but I kept going. now it looks pretty good. The blouse is long sleeved with a scarf tied around the neck and I have a dark blue viscose with small white flowers to use. It probably will not show the front gathers well. We shall see.

The next one is, ahem , to be recut one size bigger. I'm surprised. It's a size 40 and not fitting? Hmmm... Perhaps I should only redraft the front. This is a great basic pattern and I want to make it perfect because there are two nice floral satins waiting to be sewn up.

More to come.
Stay tuned!

Good night!

Two more dress muslins

And now there are no more dress muslins on the UFO pile! I'm almost done with it,haha!!!

This is a dress that ended up being a line matching exercise. Not too bad, but I'm absolutely not that thrilled with it to make all the alterations needed to make it perfect. The pattern is Burda 6/1995-114. I'm going to reuse the skirt piece to make a bag. Or let it remain a skirt?

To make this one I combined a top and a skirt pattern that are a good fit. And it is visible on this muslin. The thing I don't like is the dark color on top and white on the bottom. Somehow I'm not comfortable with this combination.
This one also proves (once again) that soft and flared skirts are a much better choice for my shape. With fitted tops. No questions about that.
So this dress is not going to be finished either, but I have plans for the skirt... :-)))

Have a nice Saturday!

Still working on it

So, what do you think?

The sleeves were too flapflap wingy. This is better!

And as the dress was too plain I just had to embellish it. I used some of the crocheted circles from recycled embroidery yarn I have a full box of. In complementary colors. I made so many of those circles there will be many more garments embellished with them! :-)

The dress is not finished yet but I love it already! Even though it was not planned to be worn out. You know I love bright colors, but this dress looks so...I don't know...fairytail-ish historical, doesn't it?

And here I spot yet another issue to be addressed!

It looks like the slight swayback adjustment isn't enough. Now I'm wondering... What if I unpick the zip and take the surplus fabric in? One more horizontal seam would not ruin the dress, right? It would look like a back midriff, right? Any thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

A Burda dress...muslin

Leafing through some of my sewing magazines I got totally inspired by a balloon dress. Then immediately dug up three patterns. One of them is this one from Burda. Another one, that totally thrills me, is from La mia Boutique. The third, also a Burda, is very cute but will wait a minute before I finish these two. :-) More details coming...

So..
The alterations made: lengthened top and slight swayback adjustment.
Fabric: two pieces of fabric from stash, gold and brown with some shine. Almost no remnants left. :-)

I cut a size 40 (hips 42) and it was too big, and somehow too high at the neck. Never encountered this problem before. And haate the sleeves!

After the first few alterations on the dress I still wasn't happy how it looked so I changed few more things: changed the sleeves for cape sleeves and inserted elastic in the hem where the pattern called for a string.

And the neckline will be round...

I'll show you the almost done dress in a minute! :-)

Dress Burda 6/2003-108 muslin

Rescue from the UFO pile! Poor one, sitting there for a whole year...

The pattern: Burda 6/2003-108
I only lengthened the pattern pieces.

The front shows some pulling on the sides, see? The side view shows pulling in the middle. That means that the back is too short, right?

Obvious sway back alteration needed in the back! Undergarment to conceal underwear needed also! :-)

The dress doesn't look good enough to be worn around town, but is passable as a very light comfy summer house dress. Sigh...I like the fabric so much! Sigh...

But the dress pattern is great, don't you think? Only two pieces, flattering for my body shape and I can think of a million refashions already! :-)

And now, let's alter that pattern.

Have s nice and creative Monday!