The Lowdown
- Pattern : Ginger by Colette
- Material: 1.2m Blue Floral £6.60 p/m, 0.75m Faux Silk £2.80 p/m, Blue Polyester scrap for piping
- Notions: White Zip £1.35, 2 Red Buttons £1.00, Interfacing from stash, Piping Cord from stash
- Total Cost £12.37
Showing posts with label Ginger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ginger. Show all posts
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Ginger the 2nd
Last week I finished my other Ginger, its the exact reverse of the first Ginger but I added a lining (Faux silk too, oooh the luxury!) and the pockets to this one. Now I don't know which one I like best...
The Lowdown
The Lowdown
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Ginger is done
Well I finished on Thursday but that's not the point now is it?
I 'm rather pleased with it but I'm still deciding if I should add pockets to it or not.
The lowdown
Pattern - Ginger by Colette Patterns
Fabric - Some crazy Royal Blue polyester stuff from the stash (£2.50 p/m??), The pretty floral cotton from the London Dress (probably about £1 for the amount used)
Notions - Piping cord (stash), Invisible Zip (£1.35)
Total cost - £1.35 actually spent to be able to make it but it probably actually cost me around £8
Time to make - including pattern adjustment and mock up skirt around 6 hours
I was a little dubious about how easy this skirt would be to put together at first since everybody has been raving about it, seriously they can't all be right! Well consider me proved wrong, it is easy. Aside from the pattern adjustment I had to make, which was made a gazillion times easier with Sunni's directions, it went together rather well. Although it took me 6 hours to make from start to finish, it won't actually take me half that time when I make it again since the fit was fine with the mock up I don't need to do any other adjustments to the pattern, yay!
Oh and Note to Self: if you want to use the crazy polyester stuff again remember that it doesn't like to iron during construction of garments!
I 'm rather pleased with it but I'm still deciding if I should add pockets to it or not.
The lowdown
Pattern - Ginger by Colette Patterns
Fabric - Some crazy Royal Blue polyester stuff from the stash (£2.50 p/m??), The pretty floral cotton from the London Dress (probably about £1 for the amount used)
Notions - Piping cord (stash), Invisible Zip (£1.35)
Total cost - £1.35 actually spent to be able to make it but it probably actually cost me around £8
Time to make - including pattern adjustment and mock up skirt around 6 hours
I was a little dubious about how easy this skirt would be to put together at first since everybody has been raving about it, seriously they can't all be right! Well consider me proved wrong, it is easy. Aside from the pattern adjustment I had to make, which was made a gazillion times easier with Sunni's directions, it went together rather well. Although it took me 6 hours to make from start to finish, it won't actually take me half that time when I make it again since the fit was fine with the mock up I don't need to do any other adjustments to the pattern, yay!
Oh and Note to Self: if you want to use the crazy polyester stuff again remember that it doesn't like to iron during construction of garments!
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
It Arrived!
What little beauty was in my letter box when I got home from a busy day at work? Oh yes you've guessed it a lovely jiffy bag addressed to me containing none other than my Colette patterns.
Well I ran through the door screaming
B then calmly said "is that your patterns?" to which I just replied with a manic grin and a "see ya later, I'm off upstairs"
So that was 6 o'clock and its now 10 o'clock, with a break for some food (Gotta love B :) ) what have I achieved?
Well I traced the pattern, and sized it appropriately. Cut out all of my blue fabric. Basted everything together. Checked the fit. Possibly sorted out a weird indent in the front. Took it all apart again. Stitched the waistband and skirt again. Then decided enough is enough. Dang no wonder I'm sleepy now writing it all out makes it look like a days work!
Here it is so far on Maybell
Tomorrow I finish so I can attend the Ginger Partay! (otherwise I'll just be fashionably late).
On another note, how weird is it when you find something you'd forgotten that you had but when you find it you wonder how you'd forgotten it was there? Well I was searching round the house for something to do yesterday and came across this box of buttons and things.
How in the hell did I forget I had them?!?
Well I ran through the door screaming
WOOOHOOO!!!!
B then calmly said "is that your patterns?" to which I just replied with a manic grin and a "see ya later, I'm off upstairs"
So that was 6 o'clock and its now 10 o'clock, with a break for some food (Gotta love B :) ) what have I achieved?
Well I traced the pattern, and sized it appropriately. Cut out all of my blue fabric. Basted everything together. Checked the fit. Possibly sorted out a weird indent in the front. Took it all apart again. Stitched the waistband and skirt again. Then decided enough is enough. Dang no wonder I'm sleepy now writing it all out makes it look like a days work!
Here it is so far on Maybell
Tomorrow I finish so I can attend the Ginger Partay! (otherwise I'll just be fashionably late).
On another note, how weird is it when you find something you'd forgotten that you had but when you find it you wonder how you'd forgotten it was there? Well I was searching round the house for something to do yesterday and came across this box of buttons and things.
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