Lucy LUVs RED

The grown-up children still delight in dressing up the dog!  Here is Lucy wearing a red boiled wool jacket,  to keep her warm on this cool winter day!

Electric Blue 6PAC

I am participating in the 6 PAC, a winter collection for me.  Just finished sewing on the buttons this morning and took the dog for a 6km walk down to Terrigal.  It is a bright sunny day about 17c.

  The shirt is The Liberty from The Sewing Workshop.  It is one of favourite patterns!
The pants are the Burda pattern and are a good basic.

                                              Thanks to my DD for taking the photos.

Electric Blue 6PAC

Jacket/cardigan.  (mistake with the stripe matching, purchased more but it was a smaller stripe)  

2x skinny pants

T-shirt and poly for a shirt (maybe use poly for lining in jacket?)

Felted blue wool for a jacket

Winter 6PAC

I am participating in the 6PAC sew along at the Stitchers Guild.    (winter for me)

To me, this is so much easier to get my head around then the SWAP.  I read the post, disappeared to the  sewing room and started arranging fabric in "6pacs".  After a few hours I had about 4 x 6PACs. This is one of the ideas.  There seemed so many new possibilities for fabric/garment selection using the 6PAC idea.

Not too sure what side to use for the jacket.

Pants.  1xskinny  and 1x dress pants

2x T-shirts

Summer 6PAC  thread started by Elizabeth

You are warmly invited to sew along with us for summer!

This thread is based on thinking that began on the Wardrobe and Capsule Planning References thread several years ago, and it has evolved since the first six-piece collection in autumn 2010 (six-piece Autumn Collection turned into 6PAC, hence the abbreviation).  Since that time some things have evolved, and some have stayed constant.  Particularly important in my thinking this year has been the writing of Nancy Nix-Rice on putting together a wardrobe.

The theory:
This sewalong is a guide to producing a BASIC wardrobe for the season you are in (summer in the northern hemisphere).  It starts one month before the season to give you time to plan ahead and have something to wear when it gets hot/cold where you are.  If you have different seasons (dry/rainy etc) you should plan for them.  

The practice:
If you sew steadily at two garments a month you'll have six ready.  The (relatively) slow place is intended to enable you to do other projects as well.  If you sew more slowly, aim for three garments.

For summer, the guidelines are:

1. jacket/cardigan/raincoat etc your best medium or light neutral colour (not too dark for summer, I think)
2.  bottom (trousers/skirt/shorts/skort/whatever) in the same colour
3. t-shirt or blouse in the same colour
[these pieces give you and INNER COLUMN and an OUTER COLUMN of a similar neutral colour - very easy to mix and match with the rest of the wardrobe, if boring to sew -- please see the spring thread for examples as this has been very successful for participants]
4. t-shirt or blouse (underlayer top) in a second neutral -- again, lighter for summer would be my advice
5. bottom in the same colour
[another INNER column]
6. a dress in a LINKING print (ie contains the neutrals together, ideally plus colour)

If you don't wear dresses (although they really are very useful for summer, and for functions, so consider it), you might find it helpful to do 1&2 outer column, medium neutral; 3&4 inner column, light neutral; 5&6 under and overlayer in colour.  



Thanks Elizabeth

 

Pinwale JACKET

Burda 4/2011

I made this double breasted jacket last year from pinwale. It was completed this year and I submitted it with my SWAP garments. I especially love boxy jacket and wore this to The Art Gallery of NSW today.  A lady wanted to know where I had purchased the jacket from, I told her  that it was 'made by me'.

When I make a jacket I cut out :  the traced pattern
                                                  :  the fabric
                                                  :  the interfacing and fuse it
                                                  :   and the lining

Jackets are so much work,  I wish I didn't love them as much.








 

SWAP winners

Collections

I hope that the above is a link to the SWAP2012 collection.

The winner was "Sharon loves her new blue collection"

1st   "ahearta's Mix and Match Minoru
2nd  "Robin's city seperates

Congratulations to the winners and to all SWAPers

SWAP2012 completed

SWAP2012, a set on Flickr.

This is the collection of garments that I submitted for the 2012 Swap.