All posts tagged The Resource Exchange

Sewing Sunday: December Edition – New Year, New Pants

Fancy pants - front

Happy New Year, everyone!  It is with great joy that I share my final project of 2013, completed just in time to wear for the New Year’s Eve soiree chez Wittzler.  I was really dubious about finishing this project in December, but with the exception of a belt loop (more on that later), I did it!  As the culmination of all my learnings as a seamstress this past year, I decided to tackle the most complicated clothes project I’ve tackled yet–a pair of fitted pants.  I hoped to complete them in time to have something special to wear for New Year’s, but when it came to be December 22nd, and I was only just cutting out the material, I wasn’t so certain that I’d finish them in 2013.

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Sewing Sunday: September Edition – A New Frock Fit for a Wedding

black and white vine fabric

I have recently returned from a vacation in Northern California, which was motivated by my brother-in-law’s wedding.  The wedding was fantastic, and the trip was delightful, and there will be more about that in an upcoming blog post.  In the meantime, I wanted to tell you about the dress I made for the wedding.  I only have one brother-in-law (and his fiancée–now wife–is awesome), so I figured his wedding was a good occasion for some special attire.  It also motivated me to try out a pattern that I was a little intimidated by, partially because it was a Vogue pattern and partially because the bodice construction appeared to be somewhat confusing.

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Sewing Sunday: August Edition – Silky and Skirty

Zipper

I’ve had this lovely material from, you guessed it, The Resource Exchange (Have you noticed this is a theme with my sewing projects?) for a couple of  months.  It’s  a lovely silk that looks olive green in some lights and beige-y in others.  It has big flowers on it in brown, orange, gold and olive green, and it makes me think of fall.

Vogue pattern 8882I thought the big print might make it too much for a dress, so I decided to make a skirt from it. I had found this great Vogue pattern for a very full skirt with crinoline underneath (see picture at left), but when I measured the amount of material I had, I discovered that I really only had a little over 2 yards, which wasn’t enough to make a super full skirt.  Bummer, but I’m sure I’ll find another reason to make that skirt in the future!  With my yardage constraint, I went searching for a different option.

Butterick 3402From the stash of my grandmother’s patterns at my mom’s house, I had taken an old pattern that my grandmother had used to make me a skirt in high school (see picture at right).  I remembered really liking the skirt, but I didn’t have it anymore.  It was bias cut, lined, and it had a good twirl factor (meaning I could twirl around in it, and it would flow gracefully around me–this was very important as a kid).

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