Latest Make Your Own Style

 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 and to the sides of the front and back.

I measured my shoulder slope and cut the front and back pieces to slope like my shoulders and then took the sleeve rectangles and pinned them onto the fabric edge of the front and back sewn together, matching the shoulder seam to the center of the sleeve rectangles.   Sewing the seam that was pinned on there was left a seam going all the way from the end of the sleeve to the bottom of the front and back.  I then inserted the folded over chiffon so it was 4 layers of the sheer fabric to make it a solid dark green color and pinned the strip of dark green on both sides from the sleeve end to the botton of the front and back.  Ez Pz



I intertwined my left over strip of matching fabric and some dark green as scarves for accent.


Now to complete the outfit I used a dark green free flowing jacket.




In my pants blog, I talk about my favorite palazzo pants.  I will post the ones I am making right now for my upcoming 2 weeks or more vacation trip to the beach.  I have to have comfy clothes, and hats, which I will make, so You can see what I do.  Multiple bucket hats, easy packing just stack.  I will attempt wide brim hats.   and different caftans and kayaking outfits out of sport lycra and jackets, my designs on fabrics.  

This dress is my design print on Sport Lycra.(Bathing Suit Material) can walk the beach and into the water and will be fine.

The Free Flowing Jacket is Poly Chiffon with the same print of butterflies by the water and it also can be wet and dry off immediately.  I have tried and tested my kayaking and beach outfits and walked in and out of the water with them.

 


When I am not blogging, that does not mean I am not sewing.  I just have sew many projects going on all the time, I don't choose to blog them immediately while doing.

The fun part is you can make your hats to match or as with the blouse I just did make the hats two tone like the outfits.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Learning Your new Sewing Machine that has Embroidery Stitches

Image
  I have a number of old sewing machines that have embroidery stitches.  They were new in 1996. I learned everything by doing. Get out your manual and a look at what needle they tell you to use for embroidery stitching.  Get the kind of thread they tell you to use.  Thread your machine the way the manual tells you. Be sure to put on the right foot on your machine, because you don't want to hit the sides of your presser foot.  It needs to be the one you use for zigzag sewing, so that there is room for your needle to go back and forth, the hole is a slot not just a round hole.  Not a zipper foot.   Your manual will tell you which to put on. Get a piece of batting, and two pieces of fabric. Practice using all of your stitches. This is how I made these holiday hot pads, or centerpieces, or wall hangings, or door designs for in the center of wreaths, whatever you want to call them. They were really my practice pieces, to learn things to do. I just cut...
Read more

Baby Shower Gift Bags and Special Little Thingamajigs Reprint

Image
 I loved making little things for my kids so much that before I had babys I made sets and took them to work.... and then when I had children and they got bigger I made Gift baskets for Church Bazaars and School Fundraisers.... by then I had started doing other things besides sewing so I combined machine sewing with handsewing and embroidery plus craft projects like fabric photo albums that played music and Stained glass night lights and Suncatchers.  I didn't take a lot of pictures but here are some baskets I did for a fundraiser and really they were more about fun for me than anything else..... well maybe I loved thinking of the babies that would be using these items or the moms that would be smiling as the used these items with their little ones.....  In my usual fevered obsession I spent many nights up into the night making these items....   This Frog gift basket had a little of everything besides the booties hanging on top and the bib peeping through with th...
Read more

Hats...Theme Baseball Hats-Bucket Hats- Dramatic Hats

Image
  Bear Hunting Hat and Old Car Hat and Camo Personal Hat By the way, I have no idea what I am doing....I made a cover for the hats and then did whatever.   Combo Sewing and Gluing. I started to sew on the inside of the caps to finish them but I worried that the edge would feel uncomfortable, so I got some permanent fabric glue to glue the inside edges with some topstitching. I am adding a Moose to the camo Hunting Hat Not perfect but good enough for hunting or hanging on a display hatrack These were all a learning experience I put too thick a stabilizer in the bucket. Maybe a grandchild will get it.  I would need to make it bigger and less stabilizer as I wanted to make it reversible. I need to do the finishing touches so I can go back to finishing the tummy time sloths minky throw.
Read more