A few weeks ago I made the great trek across Melbourne to go the The Fabric Store's sale and walked out with the most stunning French terry in a magnificent, almost fluorescent, shade of orangey-red on the outside and yet another hard-to-describe shade of yellowy-orange on the inside. Not the sort of colours I usually go for, but I fell in love and had to have it.
I used it to make pattern Q from
Kids' Clothes Style Book: a loose-fitting raglan-sleeved top with three-quarter sleeves and a high-low hem. Of course I had to make the most of the beautiful inside of the fabric, so I used it to make flat piping for the raglan seams and rolled up the sleeves to make cuffs.
The skirt is BurdaStyle's
girls' metallic skirt, which I made in denim. Simple enough to sew, provided you don't mind making up your own instructions as the ones provided are exceptionally brief (directions for sewing the fly were particularly unhelpful). I followed 'instructions' religiously when cutting the waistband but I'm sure it's meant to be significantly wider as it turned out too narrow for a decent-sized button, and it looks different from that shown in the pattern photograph. I would have redone it, but didn't have enough fabric as I was already using leftover scraps from a previous project. I wound up using a bar fastener in lieu of a button and also adding buttonhole elastic to the back section of the waist to ensure a good fit (a wise move, as it turned out).
R snatched the skirt from me the moment it was finished, which surprised me a bit, given that it lacks colour, glitter, decoration and cat motifs. The whole outfit looks quite grown-up compared to some most of her other clothes, but happily she's still a bubble-blowing little girl whose favourite food is fairy bread and who teaches a class of Beanie Boos in her bedroom every day after school.
Oh, I love it!! What a lovely cool-weather outfit! The skirt looks perfect with tights and booties and that sweatshirt looks sooooo cozy. I don't blame her for being pleased! That skirt looks like a lot of work, without much help from the instructions, eh? It's a good thing you're such a pro. :-)
ReplyDeletePro? Ha ha! The skirt was actually very simple, apart from the fly instructions being confusing... It's getting her to model that's the tricky bit :)
DeleteMarisa, you are on fire lately! The colors of the terry are exactly my colors and I would actually wear this whole outfit myself! I love that you made use of there verse side of the fabric too. Well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks Masha :) The inside of the fabric was too good not to use!
DeleteI thought I had sewn this outfit for my daughter. :-D the style is so grown up, but she still manages to look so cute in it. Love love love.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jing :)
DeleteWhat a beautiful outfit. I would have left with that gorgeous red fabric also! I think you did a great job using the wrong side of fabric to add accents of colour to the top. The skirt looks fantastic on your girl. I hope R will enjoy wearing it for a long time (or at least until Spring arrive hehe)
ReplyDeleteThanks Jenya! Luckily (?) it's still nice and cold so the top can get a bit of wear before summer hits us :)
DeleteThat top is such a gorgeous color (and I love the style)! The skirt is so cool, too. I love the shape of it - a little grown up but still very sweet.
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