Mexican Dress

Hello,

My girl had a Multicultural Night at school and she was going to sing a "Mexican Song" and the teacher decided that the chosen song was going to be "La cucaracha". She wanted to go dressed with a traditional dress, but, as we no long live in Mexico it was hard for me to find one.

I decided to made her a little simple dress with a tablecloth fabric that I brought from Mexico in my last visit and never used. But because of the little time I had to sew it had to be very simple shape and pattern (which of course I have thousands of patterns just waiting in a drawer because I'm lazy to make them). She has a nice blue old dress from HM with a simple shape and very confortable.

I fold the dress in half and copy the pattern into the fabric to make the front bodice and the back bodice, then I add the bottom making each part the double of the bodice for the volume. After that I just put a pink bias for the neck hole and arms. I didn't even bothered with the hem as it had a white raw finish already

When I tried her on the dress her head didn't fit in... I had to cut the dress in the back, clean it with the same pink bias and put a clasp button before we head out to school... I think I will add a figure button or something just to hide the crazy hand sewing of the clasp button.

At the end she loved the dress and I did too!!! it is kind of a Desigual dress with all this crazy colors and patterns!!

xoxox

GYMNASTIC WEAR

Hello,

My girls have being doing gymnastics since September of the last year but after wearing some sports clothes they were told to wear a leotards (which, by the way, look very cute). So I went to the fabric store and bout some fabrics for the new project.

Even though I haven't documented it, I had make dozens of swimming suits for girls, so it was not a big deal, but the thing is that after gymnastics sometimes we go to have dinner or just for an ice cream, so I decided to make biketards as I learn these are called instead of leotards.

I made one size 4 and one size 7, I just draw 2 simple patterns for the front and for the back. The only difference is that the front pattern has a lower neckline than the back pattern. I should make the shorts with a different cut, but these Lycra is so elastic that after a few thoughts I follow my 2 patterns idea.

My only suggestion would be to always use an over lock after you sew it as it will give you more support and if the girls are a little older it has to have a lining.

By now, I have made 4 of these, 2 cheetah pink and orange print, one black with stars and one of pink stripes... but I have fabric for a couple more! In these pictures after a lot of wear the Lycra has stretched a little so they don't look as flattering as they are.

There are a lot of very cute patterns out there, but after making these biketards I have these patterns on mi mind: Jalie 3241 and Jalie 3354, please go and take a look and some inspiration!!!

Love
S

OTTOBRE SHIRT

Hello,

I wanted a regular fitted shirt for my 7 yo girl, and of course the fashion right now is really loose and also knit and comfortable fabrics, but I wanted something different.

I chose the pattern 27 of the Ottobre magazine Summer 3,2014 in the German edition, which my husband brought me from a business trip this year even if it was old (I'm always looking for magazines to have). It was kind of funny trying to read it as I always want to check if I'm doing it right or not.

 

The pattern was quite simple, 3 pieces as I made a sleeveless shirt.  I made a size 116 for my 7 yo girl, and the only modification I made was taking out  2cm or 0.8 inch from each side of the sleeves as it would fit better and more feminine.

 

 

First I copied the pattern and cut the fabric, with my pieces made I only put the interface to the neck instead of the buttons too, and just start sewing.

 

I had difficulties adding the neck to the shirt and in the first one I made it as I could but I decided to study what I made wrong and with the help of the book of Sandra Betzina named Power sewing (which by the way only cost me 2 usd at the Public Library sales) I realized that the shirt has to be inside the neck and not the other way around.

 

 

But the neck only in one side is not gathered to the shirt properly....  

And this is why I decided to repeat it and learn from it... doing it right this time... because I wasn't going to re-do it at this point.

 

This time the neck was perfectly done!!

 





And even though I love the white shirt she enjoyed more the Miami Dolphins shirt!!

I loved those shirts and I would do them again and again with different fabrics and maybe I could put sequins in the neck or made a shirt with this back )(. I don't know. What do you think???

At the end we went for dessert  to a Dolphins Game!!! Go Dolphins!!! 

Love S

OTTOBRE DESIGN 1-2015-17 GIRL LEGGINGS

Hello!!

I'm so happy with this little garment, it was so easy, so practical, fun to make, but the best of all was the time I put on it... I made it in less than an hour so it is super fast!!!! I'm proud to say that I could make it while my 3 kids were playing next to me... cut, sew, try and done!!

I had a beautiful denim satin fabric floating over my stash, it is stretchy but not as a regular cotton for leggings, and the print is lovely, bright little flowers in all these colors!! She loved the fabric and even with the print they look a little dressier than jeans or regular leggings...

Back to the easy part:
* 1 pattern 2 pieces
* Elastic belt
* Hem

I just made a size 98 with the length of a 104... My pretty girl has all her weight in her beautiful and messy hair...

And... DONE !!!

Have you ever made something as easy as this???

XOXO

 

This  is the pattern picture which we like from the magazine: the funny leggings

 

As easy as this

 

The model jumping around and showing me that they had the right size:

 

The lovely photo pose