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  Colors are nice, but the details make it better Sad until I pulled the collar out and over...and always the scarves. This was a piece of fabric no quite big enough to make a whole jacket..... I folded it over so that I could see on the fold a big enough cut for the back of a jacket, but not necessarily long enough for my liking.   The second piece was too narrow to be the two fronts, so I added a long rectangle of a fabric from my stash to give the width I wanted across the front.  The next piece left was two rectangles I could use for sleeves.  Again, they needed length to make me happy to the banding piece added width to the front rectangles, and length to the bottom and then length to the two sleeves.   I did no curvature to the armholes, I just centered the sleeve rectangles to the shoulder seams and sewn on , just folded tthem in half and made a seam down the middle and all the way down to the side and bottom. Detail in the banding and the colla...

  Just got back from 3 Wonderful calm weeks at the Beach....Love the Beach I have been wanting to do this outfit.   If you were not there when I wore it at work... well It is Flourescent Coral!!!  I love colorful finds. You can see I made a pair of earrings to go with the pants color, the crop top color and the floral jacket color fabric. All fabrics, except for the jackets come from Gstreetfabrics , where I work. As you can see I have many scarves.  I make a scarf and earrings first for every piece of an outfit.  Then I am forced to finish the outfit so I can wear them all together.   I found a scrap of dark green chiffon that hung beautifully, so I made a couple of scarves out of it, because I wear many floral designs that have dark green leaves and thought it would be a nice add to any other color scarves to give a classy feminine accent. The jacket is one of my free flowing jackets...I have many designs, they are my designs...the print on the ...

Rainy Day Beach Save   Grandchildren couldn't come....Last minute throw in a Machine Things I hadn't gotten around to in My Stash The center part of the Jackets front and back were originally displayed on the wall at GStreet Fabrics   I looked at them Everyday from the cashier spot for months.  When they finally  Took them down from the Wall and no one had bought them, I did at the sale discount...I just knew I could figure out a way to make All cotton Jackets that would be unique, and save most of the artists picture on the fabric...They had to be a square designed Jacket. I used the panel Pictures for the Back and fronts and added  square pieces of cotton eyelet and then banded with our solid cottons that matched...adding wide Bias tape for lengthening the sleeves and adding color to pull them together.  As you can see I laid them out first and decided how I wanted the colors to look, and the same with the eyelet, I only had so much eyelet trim  from...

  I found this piece of black double gauze in G Streets 'Treasure Hunt Room'   I do love that room.  So I folded it over cut a hole in the center of the fold and made a baggy top, there was enough scrap left to add a littl piece on the end of the make shift sleeves that were wide from the fabric width and I added some scrap white to the top and sleeves and bottom.  I decided to add some Eyelet to the edges for a little fancier beach comfy top. The pants are just thick cotton that are baggy with a drawstring and elastic at the waist, pockets and the bottom folded up and over and then top stitched like a cuff. Fast fun and ready for vacation.

  Make Your Own Style by Necessity- No pattern This is my style.  Roomy and comfortable.   I have written about my auto-immune disease, which needs large sleeves and comfortable clothes.  No exposure to sun, but cool and comfortable. This outfit was a large shawl that someone at work gave to me when they came back from traveling.  I loved the colors, but I would never wear a shawl, so I made a top out of it.  Of course, because it was a shawl, there was not enough fabric to make a traditional blouse, but I could with a little extra fabric inserted.  This is how I made it.  Folded over part that was enough for almost a front and back and cut a boat neck on the top fold.  I needed to add to the sides and the left over rectangles to make baggy arms and wide enough for my hips.   I found some hunter green chiffon or georgette and just doubled over a strip big enough to add a couple of inches to both the rectangles for the sleeves a...

 ..Leggings - One Piece-cut 2- Tubins- Topstitch Pockets etc.. Regular pants-4 pieces 2 fronts and 2 backs and 4 piece pockets So many choices...plain pants.... leggings/tubins 1.  quick and easy 1 piece to lay on fabric folded over This is the type of pattern for the pants I wear in my total outfits with the free flowing jackets at work most days.  They look like leggings, but they are what I call tubins...I make the top of the pants like leggins, comfortable and fitted with the elastic waists. The curve in the front is smaller than the curve in the back. One piece is your right leg and one piece is your left leg. Make that curve the same as your curve.   Measure your curve with a string or your measuring tape, from crotch to waist and then lay it on your pattern piece so they are the same. This is how they are shaped... one pattern piece... using 1 + yard of fabric 54-60 wide folded over... stretchy like scuba No, I don't have a cutting table.  I use...