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More Sleeve Details to experiment with

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  This is my basic sleeveless dress that is part of a lot of my outfits.  The fabric is sport lycra.  This is something I started doing to throw in my kayak when I go out in case I want to paddle to a restaurant or boardwalk and I can throw it on over a bathing suit and look presentable.   60 inch wide fabric.  You can quickly make the sleeveless base dress by folding as such, and just make the scoop on one a little lower so it is the front.  This is using a stretch fabric, suchas sport lycra, ponte knit, st matte jersey, scuba. The fabric print is one of my personal prints, made on Spoonflower.com.   No, it is not cheap, but I am many times unique.  Fold over to center on one side.... foldover to center on the other side... then fold in half so both folds are on the outside. This is a regular freeflowing jacket that I make, but the sleeve details changed.  I cut the sleeve elbow length and then cut two large squares of the same fab...

Rectangles and more Rectangles ....Collar Details make a difference

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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...

Little Details.... New Wardrobe pieces

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  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 ...