Denim Gored Skirt

introducing my sewing assistant: Phoebe

Pattern Description: Self Drafted 8 Gored Skirt

What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? Since I’ve made this pattern once before I used the same pattern. What I didn’t like was that I forgot to account for the thickness and heaviness of the fabric for the second skirt so the skirt is really tight in the hips.
Fabric Used: Medium-Heavy weight blue denim
Pattern Alterations or any design changes you made: It was actually DH’s idea to make the skirt wrong side out. I sewed the wrong sides together so that it would unravel on the right side of the skirt. All seams including the hem were topstitched to control were the unraveling would stop. I also sewed the waistband on the wrong side together so that selvedge edge is actually on the outside of the skirt instead of the inside. The end resulted in a reversible skirt that will be worn again in a couple of weeks as if it were new. I will just sew a piece of fabric hiding the zipper.
Would you sew it again? After I make draw another pattern accounting for ease in a heavier fabric, yes.
Would you recommend it to others? Yes
Conclusion: The total time it took to make this skirt including washing, drying, ironing, cutting & sewing was 7 hours to make this skirt last Saturday to wear to a family function that night. (9am - 4pm, function started at 6pm) This was only because of the extra things that was done like the topstitching and putting the seams on the outside of the skirt. My recommendations is to pin a few pieces together to get yourself used to the idea of sewing wrong sides together. Drafting the skirt takes around 45 minutes, that’s the skirt piece, waistband, godet and adding hem and seam allowances. To determine the length of the godet, decide where on your body you would like for your skirt to begin to flare. In my case I choose at the knee. Use a yard skirt and measure from your knee to the floor you have y measurement. You’ll need to add the hem allowance on the bottom of this piece.

The Wrap Runway

Finally I get some photos of one of the wrap dresses that I made last year.
Were at a baby dedication yesterday evening and Hubby was snapping away.
We didn't get any photos together. Maybe next time.

Pullover and a Skirt

Here is one of the pullovers that I made last year with this one.

The skirt I made a couple of weeks ago. This is an 8 gored skirt that I drafted with godets. I drafted the skirt for floor length and designed the godets to start knee length (20 ins).

The pullover is made of a charcoal knit & the skirt is made with a black denim, very lightweight. So I can get away with wearing denim and it's not even Friday.

A huge shout out to my co-worker for taking the second pic of me in the ladies restroom.

Pullover Mania!

So I got carried away with the pullovers that I made last year. It's Butterick 5100.
Originally I made the blue sweatshirt version linked above along with a dark grey & a navy blue. I never got around to taking pictures of the other. Just kept forgetting whenever I'd wear them. Well needless to say I've made four more all the tunic length. I really wish I could have taken pics of them on the days that I wore them but the camera and the tripod weren't home at the time. So I took them all this morning wearing a pair of jeans. But I'll describe what I wore with them to give you an idea. I sewed them all this week one for the next day to wear to work.

I made this fleece backed knit on Sunday night for Monday morning.
With this I wore a brown turtleneck & brown pants that I made in PMB3.


Then Monday night I made this beautiful Ivory knit. I bought this later at a discount fabric store and it was on sale. It's from the Liz Claiborne collection. I wore this with a black long sleeved v-neck t-shirt and a pair of black pants that I made from PMB3.


On Tuesday night I made a brown knit pullover and wore it with a olive boatneck long sleeve t-shirt and a a-line skirt that I made in PMB4.


Then on Wednesday night I made a black pullover in knit but this time I left off the collar and finished the neckline with facing. I wore this with a grey long sleeve v-neck t-shirt and some grey w/black pinstripe pants from Express.

I got lots of compliments on tunics but I received more compliments from the ivory & the black pullovers. More so from the black because it didn't look like the rest of them. Anyway I think that I'm done for now unless I can find another color I may want. Moving on to something else right now just not sure what yet.

I have been nominated

Thanks to Bonnie D & Aminat for nominating me. I truly don't know what to say but THANKS. I don't get very many viewers and this is much appreciated from the few.

Now to nominate other wonderful Kreativ women is going to be hard since there are tons already that have been nominated. So forgive me if I've chosen you and you have already been chosen.

Here are the rules for this award:
Copy the award to your site.
Link to the person who nominated you.
Nominate 7 other bloggers and link to them on your blog.
Then leave a message on their blog notifying them you have nominated them for this award.It would be easy to list more than 7!! I tried not to nominate people who had already been nominated.

Jackie http://sewingbyjackie.blogspot.com/

Debbie Cook http://stitchesandseams.blogspot.com/

http://sewhooked.blogspot.com/

http://sewshy.blogspot.com/

http://sewable.blogspot.com/

These are ladies that I could find that weren't already nominated.