Finally, some of the promised pictures. It all started with this blue ruffled sweater, and just grew. This is both my Spring and Summer capsules, with a few extras. I ended up with two sweaters, a jacket, two dresses, three skirts, five tops, as well as a pair of pants, a pair of black capris, and a pair of black city. No pictures of the pants, yet.
All of it goes with what I already own, which is black. Some of it, like the sweaters, are more transitional than summer weight, but when you consider that I started this whole wardrobe in April, that makes sense.
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| The ever present Simplicity 2603 drape sweater, made from a ruffled sofa throw. I had about 9" square left. No center back seam, and all the edges were preruffled from the throw. |
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| Top: Ballet top, self drafted, cut as a double layered reversible top, edged with serger ruffling. Skirt is self drafted, and gathered using the ruffler foot on my new serger at a 2:1 ratio. |
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| Top: Simplicity 3566, cut with a 12 for shoulder and length, and a 16 through the body. Finished with a full back facing instead of the turn and topstitch suggested in the pattern. Skirt: self drafted 12 gore, exterior seaming detail. Fabric was a neat cotton print gauze remnant found at a second hand store. |
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| Dress: Self drafted Ballet dress, sleeveless. Fabric is printed rayon jersey; it doesn't have a lot of body, but it breathes. |
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| Dress: Self drafted Ballet dress, sleeveless, with full facing to finish edges. Fabric is a linen cotton blend that relaxes with wear. Comfortable, as long as it doesn't get stuffed into the dryer by hubbie, because then it shrinks until it has been worn for a couple of hours. |
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| Jacket: Loes Hinse Bolero, longer length. Cut XS shoulders and medium body (notice a pattern here); sleeves shortened about 4". This came out way way more formal than I expected, but it is definitely sharp. |
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| Top: Sleeveless tie neck blouse, cotton knit of unknown age. PMB draft, taken in about 4" total because of the stretch of the knit. Comfortable, but dressier than I expected. |
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| Top: yet another version of the Simplicity top. Lightweight white double knit. Great pattern. |
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| Top: yes, another Simplicity top. Black cotton single knit, of unknown age. |
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| Skirt: Self drafted 12 gore pull on skirt. I used all kinds of remnants of bits from the black clothes I have been making for the last 6 months including striped/sheer knit, cut in several directions, rayon poly-lycra crepe, rayon poly lycra stripes, black stretch baby corderoy, black single knit, black rpl double knit, and at least one mystery piece. |
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| Top: white scoop necked tank cut from the ballet dress pattern, double layer on front with cotton stretch lace. The edging didn't work as well. I may redo this edge again. |
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| Sweater: Another Simplicity 2603 drape sweater. This one is white cotton double knit for the front and the sleeves, and white stretch lace for the back. I finished it with the serger ruffle edging, but I may just take that off again, because it feels like too much on. |
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| Back of the sweater, shown over the white tank top. The back is sheer, just the lace. I thought it was a fun detail; the teenage fashion commentator was not convinced. |
5 comments:
Lovely example of how a great 6 pac (plus) can come together. You will get lots of use from this collection!
What a great collection! And I second what Janis said. Every piece is super on its own as well.
Thanks for sharing.
Very nice! What a clever idea to use a throw to make a cardigan. I love your creativity!
Love that ruffled throw cardigan, its worked out fabulously.
Wow. Having looked at all your wardrobes over the years, ladies, these are high complements! Thank you all.
I guess it says something that it was hard to have everything clean for pictures, lol. I wear these clothes, a lot. I'm definitely going to redo the white sweater though; there is just too much 'little ruffle' on it. It is too fussy for my style. I guess that is the nice thing about sewing--you can redo something when it isn't quite right.
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