Reversible dress

Basically it's in the title. I was cruising through instagram and saw a sponsored post of a floral 3/4 sleeve knit dress and decided to make one for myself. The floral knits were a bit limited and the fabric I got was slightly too thin to be made without a lining so...reversible dress, it is! 

 

Details: long sleeves, boat neck, a-line dress. As usual, no pattern. The only thing I wished I could alter is the armpit size. Maybe my shoulders/arms are bigger than I expect? There's also a bit of excess fabric in the back but I wouldn't be able to take it in unless I had a long zipper and it looked decent with a belt. Without, it seems a bit too matronly in my opinion. 

Yay for more work-appropriate clothes!

Cat Lady Polka Dot

I saw a pair of pom pom shorts a few months ago and knew I wanted to make a pair. I'd been mulling on how to make them and drew out a design when I found other people had done the same thing AND made sweet tutorials!

Fabric: COTTON + STEEL: Cat Lady by Sarah Watts

The yarn ball fabric will be made into something else...haven't drawn out my pattern yet, though. 

The typical pom pom short is kind of like gym/beach board shorts in my opinion, but my fabric wasn't really pulling off that vibe and I like to have more functional clothing so I added pockets!

I was told by my friend D that these look like PJ shorts. Even so, I wore them out in public. My daily work clothes are practically PJs so might as well continue that trend, right?

Weekend exploring Houston with a visiting friend :)

Happy Easter!

So, I decided to make a dress for Easter. Generally, all the items I make are self-drafted/taken from items I already own but this time, I decided to try out a pattern. I don't really recall how I found this one, but *shrugs*

Alteration: Neckline increased by 2 inches because I thought it was too deep of a cut. In retrospect, I think I should have let it be because now it limits the necklaces I can wear and caused some bunching in the midline. Also, I totally measured myself wrong/cut out a larger pattern size than I actually fit so there was a lot of seam ripping and alterations before I was mostly satisfied with the result. 

I'm usually not one for frills, but the sleeve detail seemed interesting so I kept it. 

It was a beautiful day! Lots of sunshine and a cool sea breeze.

 Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't in the most favorable position outdoors, so we opted for an indoor photo-op with B's awesome spring decor :)

Spring!

Finally used my flower + cat kimono fabric I purchased last year. Took me a while to figure out how I wanted to use it when I took a look at my closet and saw a need for more work appropriate tops. And thus was born...a color block blouse! 

This just may be my new favorite hand-made clothing item and it's perfect for spring :)

Difficult to tell in this pic, but it's a boatneck tee with short "sleeves"

Custom clothing label from M! I also used it for my cat PJs. How appropriate =^.^=

Jumping for joy...at work?! 

Forgot to ask someone to take a normal picture of the shirt, so have a selfie with poor lighting >.<

Striped Jersey Tank Dress

My friend D is starting a blog as a creative outlet, which inspired me to do some sewing. I have a lot of projects that I start and then don't finish for one reason or another. I started this jersey dress in September 2014 and I stopped because:

1) I realized I was making a summer dress when it was fall and that I should totally make other things appropriate for the weather and
2) I had started to sew the trim (?? pardon my lack of knowing any sewing terminology) for the neck and arm holes, which was frustrating me since the fabric I was using was stretchy jersey and
3) I thought I had utterly messed up the fit by making a button placket in the front/trying to be fancy. 

Anywho, fast forward to now...it's January 2016. That's totally summertime, right?

       

Different apartments so different lighting (yes, I've moved since I started this project. It's been that long.) I finished the neck line and felt too exhausted to finish the arm holes so...I quit reason #2.

Placket didn't quite line up properly and the top seemed too low cut so...I quit reason #3. I wanted functional buttons, but the front flap kept flipping down. In order to make the top of the dress modest, I ended up just sewing the buttons in place. That seemed to semi-fix the misaligned placket. 

I like how it's flowing but I was told it was too shapeless so I cut a strip of fabric for a belt. Since the theme of this post was delaying a project out of sheer laziness, I wanted to note that true to form I did not finish the bottom hem. Not even a zigzag stitch because -let's be real- it's jersey and I couldn't be bothered.