Sew Very Cheeky

 I bought a length of a lovely sunshine colored, ombré striped seersucker last summer, planning on making myself a sundress with it. I finally used it last week. I thought the Centaurée Dress by Deer and Doe would work perfectly (spoiler alert! I was right!). I really love the details - the double straps made from the bias tape along the neckline, the triangle point bodice. I also knew it would be less than straightforward to do a bust adjustment - which is probably why I waited on it. There is a sew-along which gives you really, really good direction on how to assemble the dress. The two that I found the most helpful were the advice in the muslin , and the SBA .  The muslin pointed out that if you're doing a bodice mockup you really should baste on the zipper so you can get accurate sizing. Normally I make a line and struggle ridiculously to pin my muslins/mockups to myself. Adding the zipper is both genius and a no brainer. Also more difficult than I thought as I did only...

In May, I dropped by Finch to pickup something I had ordered that had arrived, and found that they had new fabric in, which is always dangerous. Does it matter that I have a backlog of sewing projects to complete when there's shiny new fabric to be had? No it does not.  The fabric to catch my eye was this lovely nearly sheer white, pink and grey striped light weight woven fabric. It has a lovely hand feel, and drapes very nicely. Because of how sheer it was, I worried about what pattern to make, and the lovely finchettes recommended the Elodie Dress by Closet Core , with a slip underneath. I don't know of a slip pattern out there, so we decided to lengthen and modify the Ogden Cami by True/Bias and make a slip out of a lovely grey fabric that was also in stock.  Closet core has written a guide for adjustments for the pattern. Closet core patterns are based on a B-cup, and instead of doing a true SBA for this pattern, I used the alternate method for a small SBA - using the si...

 A very long time ago, I bought yardage of an adorable fox print in japanese cotton oxford from Stonemountain and Daughters. I had absolutely no idea what I would do with it, until I saw the Amelia Jacket on the cover of the Lisa Comfort Magazine from Sew Over It. It's now available as a stand alone pattern so you don't have to buy the now discontinued magazine.  The Amelia is a cloth bomber jacket with elasticized wrists and waist band. It sewed up very easily with no adjustments, and is now a staple in my wardrobe since I finished it in March. It doesn't have pockets, and normally I add them to my makes, but I feel it would really destroy the lines of the jacket. I just make sure to wear it with other items that do have pockets. I did have difficulty sourcing a metal separating zipper - but eventually found one I liked with a round decorative pull from the zipper lady . Forgive the clashing patterns - I had literally just finished it. The zipper the pattern required wou...