Sunday, April 13, 2014

Stretch Cotton Pants


I am proud to present my last work: the hipster trousers! This is my own pattern, I drew the pattern from Aldrich's book and this is the second rendition, the first being my last summer shorts. I am quite happy with the result, the pants are comfortable to wear and the pattern is really good. The only "but" would be the wrinkling quality of the fabric (but of course I hate artificial fabric, and cotton wrinkles). Nothing that can't be solved by some hours of just hanging them. I will make them in black, that's for sure.

Here I am wearing them with an embroidered cotton wrap blouse I made a couple of years back (from Burda if I don't remember wrong), and by beautiful Pretty Ballerinas, which are so confortable I could wear them to the end of the world. 

Monday, April 7, 2014

Mauve Jersey Top







This is another version of my "Universal T-shirt" pattern, which I find so useful because of its raglan sleeves, as I've said in numerous occasions. In this case, I just added lots of ease, specially in the sides, and made a big neck cut.
 I sewed a bias stripe in the neck as facing, and in turning it inside, I decides it looked better if I left some visible part as a trim to the neck. The sleeves and hem are folded in themselves and machine zig-zagged. Very comfortable and nice design.
 

 I sewed a bias stripe in the neck as facing, and in turning it inside, I decides it looked better if I left some visible part as a trim to the neck. The sleeves and hem are folded in themselves and machine zig-zagged. Very comfortable and nice design.