MMJ

Hey all!
I'm all busy busy busy starting all the home stuff but I did manage to finish a top (apart from the hem)
I've decided to call it sunny funny girl. I love the colours! Its Amy Butler fabric I bought at Sewing for Pleasure.
Photos will come soon.
for now here is MMJ Day 9-11-12-13.
I did wear handmade on the 10th but I was so busy I forgot the photo! It was a repeat of day 4 though.

Day 9

Sunny Funny Girl top and Etta Cardigan

Day 11

Etta Cardi and Jersey top (still without a name)

Day 12

Pippa Top and Skirt

Day 13

What used to be my Elie Dress. I cut it into a top and it is much more wearable and comfy now!

I have wrecked my room packing up. I am trying to psyche myself up to do some sewing today but I really should be focusing on the packing... Hmm we shall see!

Contemplation: Re-evaluating the sewing queue...

I have been thinking... (whats new?) About where I am in my list of garments.

I have also been trying to find a way to collate all my images and stuff and have been trying out ways of creating a theme that fits with the rest of the blog. So here is a few of the garments I've made recently including the Macaron, Lyra, Pearl and Elie dresses, my Mona skirt and Market top!

I thought it would be nice to put together the line drawings of my most recent plan! I have finished 3 of the five.

Here is the group of patterns I intend to make in the next few weeks. But of course most of them are multi view so you lot can't see exactly which garments I want. So I decided to put some together with the fabric and any inspiration I have so here goes...

This is the Lisette dress that I intend to make for the blogger meetup after my disaster with the patterned fabric. I'm making version A with the floral red as the bodice and the royal blue as the skirt.

Next I have Simplicity 2936 Which I have already cut in a lavender poplin as a wearable muslin but it is in preparation for this yummy cotton and silk mix that I bought on the Brighton meetup. All I could say when I bought it was, "I can see full/bell sleeves, I don't know why..." Turns out I had this in my head!

One of my goals I've decided on for pushing myself is making myself a pair of straight legged jeans that fit! Tall order as most ready to wear jeans don't fit! I'm trying McCalls 5142 because they sit above the waist. I'm using this pink ish twill but this is definitely a wearable muslin!

I'm trying so hard to stay on the seperates wagon here. So I also got some purple needlecord in Brighton and thought of the Colette Beignet skirt... The problem? I haven't got the pattern yet because of my aversion to buttonholes! But in the words of Zoe "You just got to get over it" She is right. Once I've practised I'm sure I'll wonder why the hell I worried.

Finally this is one of my little treat dresses! I have loved this hot pink dress and of course everything from the costume dept of Pushing Daisies, and I saw this Lisette Traveller dress in my stash and thought it would really suit the style and colour. I haven't yet got the fabric but this is one I will be on the lookout for in the next blogger meetup in london.

So what do we think? Are the mood boards helping you visualise like me?

I still have my Art Deco skirt to do as well as my Lavender Simplicity 2936, I also have to put the loops and buttons onto Simplicity 2601, (Viola Shirt) But then who doesn't have UFO's?

Elie Finished

I'm not wild on this dress at all. Although it wasn't too short in the end. But it did start off too low! This was before I decided to sew the bust together...

This was after... Which feels much better. I'll have to be a bit careful how I sit though!

Jersey is not my favourite material to make with as I stretch it too much and I now have a wavy hem, and some wobbly seams but I've messed about with this dress so much I've kind of lost patience. Never mind. I'm tempted to make it into a top.

Its all practice in the end!

Progress on Elie.

I am most definitely making this in a crepe next time and lengthening it considerably! As well as fully lining it! It also needs structure and interfacing. Dita Von Teese looks like a trussed up chick in her dress. Mine does no such thing! Heres her again

I kind of got the basic shape but i needed to extend the bottom of the bust again to gather much much more and be more severe at the corner.

See the wobbly bust? I've pinned it over again but i'm going to be showing far too much I fear.
Sorry for the bulk at the side. My dress form is a size 10 and I am not. So she needed a bit of tucking in but as i'm at my parents house it made sense to use her.

What do you guys think? Worth finishing? I'm tempted to because I have no more projects at home that need doing except some Burda tracing (Boo)

Pattern Sale Woop!

Sorry its a super late one guys I can't seem to sleep tonight but I thought I'd give you a quick update on my wine jersey Elie dress.
Jersey is a nightmare. Fab to wear but i'm really struggling with how easily it bulks and how obvious it is. Granted this was half self drafted pattern but it isn't as close to the Elie Saab dress as i'd hoped and I'm getting wavy fabric in the bust piece!
It may be one of those started and left projects I feel. Theres so many adjustments and it is a little bit short on me which is annoying.
in other news an Unmissable offer from an un named company dropped into my inbox yesterday and I couldn't resist. Buy one pattern get 2 free... 2?!
I clearly bought 12. Plus a free one...

There is a mixture of Vogue, Butterick and McCalls there and I think i saved about £60! and got things I had been swooning over since I saw them. I have to admit i'm tempted to go back again!

More photos of the troublesome Elie dress tomorrow. I took some but can't find my lead to move them over Doh!
Tell me what you think!