Taika Dress, Named Clothing

My dear sewing friends,

such a long time I haven’t written any post about my makes. 

Every year, I would sew a new summer dress although my wardrobe is showing quite a lot of them. 

As soon as I had seen Marja’s Taika dress she had sewn as a tester for Named Clothing, I bought the dress pattern thinking of the same Atelier Brunette viscose crepe that Barbara later used for the pattern, have a look at her thorough post with beautiful pictures! However, I changed my mind using this flower print.

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Guthrie and Ghani have celebrated their 10 years anniversary with an ecovero viscose printed with an exclusive design by fabulous Lauren in cooperation with Rachel Parker. If interested, here you can see all the details about the design:

https://youtu.be/lH6wyIWY7mc?si=G1fDa3biB3JvXJKQ

I’ve always admired Lauren’s tasteful work and couldn’t resist buying #beehappyfabric for sewing a dress.

ByHandLondon had their 10 years anniversary, too, and were celebrated by Janene @ooobop and Suzy @sewing_in_spain with the IG-challenge #BHL10years. With a post of my old Elisalex dress, I was lucky winning a 50£ price @pigeonwishes! I loved browsing all the lovely buttons and found the perfect buttons for my fabric.

I made a toile some time ago because I suspected some fitting issues with the gathering. I cut the front bodice in size 36, back bodice and sleeves in 38, skirt in 40 (toile in hip length) which went together smoothly.

I decided in shortening the bodice in upper bust height by 0,5cm because I am only 1,62cm tall.

When cutting my fabric, I cut the pieces mostly in single layers because I didn’t want the flowers being doubled and I love the result.

Seam allowances are 1cm, I topstitched nearly all the seams fixing the overlocked seam allowances for easier garment maintenance.

When sewing the skirt pieces, I realised that I had forgotten to correct the back skirt pattern pieces which I had cut out in a wrong size height 1” too short. I decided shortening the skirt front pieces by the same amount. The print being so busy, it isn’t too obvious that the waist is shortened.

Some sewists remarked that the buttonbands were gaping between the buttons, so I shortened the button hole distance from 8cm to 6cm and sewed 12 buttons.

Thank you Emmanuelle @zoubizoubisou for inspiring me to finish the dress eventually!

Hopefully, I will be able to wear the maxi dress on some sunny autumn days despite the summery print.

Pattern: Taika Dress by Named Clothing 

Size:      Front bodice 36

              Back bodice and sleeves 38

              Skirt 40

Alterations: bodice shortened by 0,5cm

              Button distance 6cm, 12 buttons

Fabric:   Ecovero viscose “Bee Happy Blooms” @rachelparkerdesigns and        @guthrieghani

Buttons: Lucid Button Set @pigeonwishes won at #BHL10 @byhandlondon @ooobop and @sewing_in_spain

It’s MeMadeMittwoch when a lot of German sewists would meet showing their memade garments. Go have a look!

Have a fabulous sewing time,

SaSa

Lanvin inspired Christmas Dress 2017 "Vom Laufsteg in den Kleiderschrank"

My dear sewing friends,

did you have lovely Christmas days? I enjoyed some really relaxed days with our bigger family and good food.

My Christmas dress was only finished the day of Christmas Eve.

My dress is inspired by these two dresses of Lanvin's Resort Collection 2018. First, I wanted to sew the blue dress with the ruched collar but then I liked symmetrical collar stand of the white dress more.

I used Named Clothing's Helmi dress bodice pattern and the Flora dress skirt pattern. I cut a separate left button band to include the flounce.

After sewing the bodice with sleeves, I realized that the lovely fabric's stretch is lengthwise and had no more motivation to continue this project. After several days, I recut the whole bodice in cross grain and I sewed it for a second time.

I sewed two layers of frills which I made of spirals. The button band frills are of different widths with right sides out and the collar frills of the smaller width with left sides together. I made them rolled hems with the overlocker and rayon thread. In addition, I gathered the ruches to make them more dense.

 

I prolongated the skirt at the waist by three centimeters and I used this excess for sewing a tunnel at the inside with 1,5cm wide button hole openings. For my dress, I reduced the tie width to two centimeters, sewed the tie ends and added a two centimeter wide underbust elastic in the middle to make the waist elasticated.

I am quite pleased with the finished dress. It is very comfortable and the fabric is swishing.

inspiration: Lanvin Resort 2018
pattern: Helmi dress, Named Clothing (bodice), Flora dress, ByHandLondon (skirt)
size: 8 skirt
fabric: changeable stretch synthetic, René Lézard

Have a look at all the others' Christmas dresses at Me-Made-Mittwoch and at the other makes of "Vom Laufsteg in den Kleiderschrank" and "Designin'December"!
Have a lovely time,
SaSa

Victoria Blazer, BHL

Dear sewing friends,

While we had some very sticky and hot days last weak and yesterday, I could easily wear my beloved Belladone without cami underneath, today temperatures have declined.

When cutting out my Moana Dress, I could save some of the expensive linnen by using some remnant liberty lawn for the facings. It was just enough for sewing a little Victoria Blazer.

This cute pattern by ByHandLondon was waiting for years in my pattern stash waiting for the right fabric. I had intended to sew it up in a raspberry colour but hadn't found any adequate fabric.

So it stayed there, disregarded, and was just right for my fabric remnant. The pattern was already cut out in the right size, I could begin cutting out the fabric at once.

Everything went smoothly together. I made variation 2, the cropped jacket.

I didn't line it. Firstly, I wanted a little lightweight jacket for summer time and secondly, I didn't have any corresponding fabric in my stash.

So I made (false) flat felled seams overall: sewed the seam, graded the downside seam allowance, used the lap seam foot (Kapperfuß) to turn the other SA, moving my needle two positions to the left. I then pressed the seam and topstitched 1/4" at the right side with the help of the quilting foot.

I love the result very much. The colour is chiming well with quite a lot of my dresses.

pattern: Victoria Blazer, ByHandLondon
Size: US8/UK12
fabric: italian twocolourd Linnen, remnant of my Moana Dress

Do you want to have a look at German MeMadeMittwoch?

Have a nice sewing time,
SaSa

Me-Made-May'16 days 19-31

Dear sewing fellows,

nearly one other month has gone since Me-Made-May'16 and I missed to show the last twelve days.

May 19 Blouse Bruyère, Deer+Doe
I still love the lovely thin lawn of Annakabazaar and enjoy wearing this shirt which is veiling my hips quite well.

May 2o Colette Patterns' Peony Dress
I made this dress some years ago. The neckline is quite nice and the wool crepe makes it easy to wear when a black garment is needed.

May 21 Archer Shirt, Version B, Grainline and Ginger Jeans, Closet Case Files.
The lovely Liberty Tana lawn and the cute derrière ruffle add up to a comfortable shirt. The high cut jeans are made out of a thin dens linnen with elastan. The waist band sadly is too wide, but it is a very versatile piece of my wardrobe.

May 22 Alma blouse, Sewaholic
This little blouse was made out of a liberty remnant. The little cap sleeves are providing good protection against burning sun.

May 23 Camì Dress, Pauline Alice
The fit of this dress is rather bad, but I so love the fabric with it's little teapots, cups, saucers, spoons and sugar cubes.

May 24 I love to wear my BleuetRobe , Deer+Doe
You can see that I love Liberty Tana Lawn! The shirt dress pattern is cute and very well fitted. There is no waist line; so sitting at the couch in the evening is not uncomfortable.

May 25 At our trip to Etna, I protected myself against the wind with my old unlined coat McCall M5525. You cannot see my white linnen shirt B4985 I once had sewn inspirated by Carolyn's lovely versions. Repeat of the linnen Ginger jeans.

May 26 Malvarosa Dress, Pauline Alice.
This was my last year's favorite dress.

May 27 Moana Dress, Papercut Patterns.
My new summer dress. The italian linnen is quite stiff and combined with the pattern not so flattering, but I love it.

May 28 Flora Dress, ByHandLondon.
This liberty dress is calling summer to me.

May 29 This viskose knit dress is a staple of my wardrobe (Garçonne).

May 30 Anna Dress, ByHandLondon (old picture)

Why the Anna dress is not the first dress I would chose to wear I don't know. Maybe the mille fleurs print with this pattern is too granny-like? 

May 31 last day of Me-Made-May'16 and of our holidays. Travelling was so comfortable in my new Guise Pants, Papercut Patterns. I paired it with another little blouse, Datura by Deer+Doe.

I loved taking part at this great international group of sewers at Instagram. However, there was a huge quantity of participants and I missed the cozy group of flickr where I had participated last year and where I had found a lovely handful of international sewing friends. I hope finding them all next year maybe at Instagram?

I had no difficulty wearing selfmade clothes every day. My intention had been to improve my ability of taking pictures. Sadly I have to admit to have failed this. I think I will try next year again!

Thank you, Zoe, for organizing this lovely event and thank all of you who have been looking at my pictures, given kind comments or who are reading my posts!

This evening, I will have a look at weekly MeMadeMittwoch!

Euch allen Dank, die Ihr hier lest! Ich werde den deutschen Text erst mal weglassen, da das Zweisprachige sehr viel mehr Arbeit macht. Laut Statistik habe ich einen großen Anteil nichtdeutscher Leser und hoffe, dass Ihr deutschsprachigen mein holpriges Englisch versteht!

SaSa

Flora Dress the Second

Hello, dear selfmakers,

last summer, I liked to wear my airy Flora dress out of Liberty tana lawn Forget-me-nots so much that I made me another one. 
 
Letzten Sommer trug ich mein luftiges Flora Dress aus dem Forget-me-nots Liberty Tana Lawn so gerne, dass ich mir noch eines nähte. 

For my birthday dress 2014, I opted for the knielength hem and chose the lovely flowery Liberty Tana Lawn Edna C.

Für mein Geburtstagskleid 2014 wählte ich die Knielänge und entschied mich für Liberty Tana Lawn Edna C.

My first dress is fitting well, but the wraps which are going over the bosom trend to slide forming diagonal front pleats (at most other versions seen, too). I took some fabric out to obtain wraps that cross at a lower point.

Mein erstes Kleid passt gut, aber die (falschen) Wickelteile gehen über die Brust und haben beim Tragen die Tendenz, zwischen die Brüste zu rutschen und darunter diagonale Falten zu bilden. Deshalb nahm ich etwas von der Überkreuzung weg, dass die Kante etwas steiler verläuft.

  

Apart from that, I sewed everything like last time.

Sonst nähte ich alles wie zuvor.

To make a little outfit, I knitted the little cropped jacket Myrna by Andi Satterlund to go with it.

Um ein kleines neues Outfit zu haben, strickte ich das Kurzjäckchen Myrna von Andi Satterlund als Begleitung.

Fabric/Stoff: Liberty Tana Lawn Edna C.
Pattern/Schnitt: Flora Dress, ByHandLondon variation 1.
Size/Größe: 8
Length/Länge size 16

Deepened the front wrap-neckline. 
Vorderen Wickel-Ausschnitt vertieft.

Cropped jacket/Kurzarmjäckchen: Myrna, Andi Satterlund.






In retrospect, the the first version's fit is better, albeit forming that pleat. I have to take care of the neckline at this one, there are some pleats, too, and probably I will secure it with some stitches by hand.

Im Nachhinein sitzt das erste Kleid besser. Es formt zwar diese Falten, aber das ist nicht weiter schlimm. Dieses Kleid ist sehr offenherzig, ich muss hier auf den Ausschnitt  aufpassen und zeigt oben Falten. Ich werde ihn wohl mit ein paar Stichen sichern.

But I do love my last year's birthdaydress!
Dennoch liebe ich mein letztjähriges Geburtstagskleid und werde es in den Urlaub mitnehmen!

Today at MeMadeMittwoch, there is a theme for the last meeting before the holidays: "I am packing my suitcase."

Heute zum letzten MeMadeMittwoch vor der Sommerpause gibt es das Thema: "Ich packe meinen Koffer."

We have got to work another three weeks. So here you can see what I packed for a trip to Munich in May. You can have a look at the outfits at Me-Made-May.

Unser Urlaub ist erst in drei Wochen. Deshalb zeige ich Euch, was ich im Mai für ein paar Tage in München gepackt habe. Die Outfits könnt Ihr beim Me-Made-May sehen.

There are packing cubes and folders that keep the suitcase organised. When travelling by two with one suitcase, you can use different colours to find each one's easily. At IKEA, there are similar bags for little money.

Es gibt Kleider-/Hemden-Falt- und andere Packtaschen, die den den Koffer ordentlich halten. Für wenn man zu zweit einen Koffer nutzt, gibt es verschiedene Farben. Ich mag sowas. Bei IKEA gibt es inzwischen ähnliche Taschen für wenig Geld.

I will have a look at the other sewists' suitcases now.

Hier schaue ich jetzt, was die anderen Näherinnen in ihre Koffer gepackt haben. 

SaSa