The Shirt and the Pants

My how time flies, November already. I have been sewing but as usual it has taken me a while to take photos. The self timer is not working on my camera so I have to wait till someone is around. My lovely gentleman friend came to the rescue.

My shirt is Burda 7136. Not normally a shirt I would make but it was the pattern requirement for a course I did at the ASG's convention in September. I thought this would be a disaster but my teacher was amazing. I said this won't work for me and she said, "well we will make it work," and she did. Its funny but she gave me permision to change it, and with that a freedom to change a pattern to suit me and what I feel comfortable with. It was quite liberating.

For the shirt I bought this lovely turquiose linen but with a cross white grain from Tessuti's. I can't remember what its called but its lovely, very comfortable and cool.
I am really happy with the shirt, it fits hooray!... There were a few adjustments.
                                   1. I lowered the bust dart about an 1".
                                   2. I added a pleat at the back

                               3. I added to the sleeves, in I think, a bicep adjustment, so the sleeves fit, so excited.

                          4.  I changed the placket to the placket the teacher used. Very excited about this because I had never done a placket before.

All in all I'm happy with this shirt. I learnt so much and it fits.

The pants are another Style Arc Barb stretch pant. I made these out of a stretch cotton that I bought at Spotlight last year. Its quite a large patterned fabric that I wouldn't have used normally for pants but the colour was so lovely with the shirt I thought the abstract pattern would work. I feel it does. 

The adjustments to the pants were really just shortening them, even more than last time and this seems to have removed the folds I had with my animal print pants.

I am happy. I have a shirt that fits. I have an outfit, so a success. The shirt is far from perfect but the lessons learned were immeasurable.

Happy Sewing!

Animal Print Barb's

My how time flies. I actually finished these pants a few weeks ago but hadn't photographed them. These are style Arc's Barb's stretch pant. I am pretty happy with the fit, although with the photos I'm not so sure now. These went together well. The only adjustments I made was to shorten them by about 4 cm. The fabric was an internet buy from the US, Fabric.com, I think.

They are very comfortable. The fabric doesn't have a great deal of stretch so they are possibly a bit more snug around my middle than ideal. I do like this pattern, not quite as straight as the Elle pant, probably a better work pant. I tried to work out the placement so the dark was down the sides, it wasn't too bad.

I'm not sure what the fold around the bottom of my leg is. I have no idea why that is happening. My puppy wanted to be in on the action.

Maybe I need to shorten them a bit more. They are a bit of fun though. The fabric is quite thin so they will be good for between seasons. I will definitely be making these again.
                                                    Happy Sewing!