Me Made March - Week 3

Bonjour everyone!

Progress of week 3- 3 outfits which I wore to work.

14th March 2011

This is a dress from Michiko Kayaki's "Simple Chic" sewing book. Pardon the creases haha.

15th March 2011

This is another "Chanel" jacket I made. I used the pattern "Origa" from Tamanegikobo. Fabric is from Gorgeous Fabrics. Skirt is made-me as well. This is a "Jenny" skirt from Burdastyle. I made like 6 versions of Jennys in various shades of grey, black, yellow and in tweed as well.

18th March 2011

This is a Butterick 5211, made with silk twill. This is a really fast and easy dress to sew! I was at the Marina Barrage. Beautiful place!

(Starting from left: Bee Cheng, Mabel and Me) at the Marina Barrage





Trench Coat - Progress Report

Trench coat is making progress! Fabric has been cut and I have chosen the lining of my trench!

Work in Progress

Lining + Trench Fabric

The most challenging part of sewing a trench is adding all the tiny details - epulets, tabs etc.. those tiny things take a considerable amount of time to sew but add lots of character. haha and of course, makes the trench look more store bought than home made. :P

Me Made March - Week 2

Hi Folks!

Week 2! Not extremely good progress on wearing every item "made-me". Only managed 3 days out of 5 working days. Forgive the pics as they were taken in a hurry in the morning before I rush off to work!

8th March 2011

This is a Butterick 5455 and I used ikat print silk twill from EmmaOneSock. It was tough matching the prints! This is my 2nd B5455, I made lilac version in Thai silk.

9th March 2011

Both the jacket and skirt are "Made-Me"! Jacket is a simple cotton tweed material I bought from Nippori Fabric town in Tokyo. It was really cheap! 1000Yen for the piece of cloth for this jacket! Was "Coco Chanel" inspired hence the black trimmings. Skirt is a "mermaid" skirt, something similar to what Yoshimi had posted.

10th March 2011

DVF inspired wrapped dress. I used Butterick's 5546. More versions of this dress to come as I have a stash of jersey fabric from Gorgeous Fabrics just waiting to be sewn! :) Fabric for this dress is Gorgeous Fabric's rayon challis.

Me Made March - Week 1

Pics from Me Made March week1.

1st March 2011

I made this dress from a vintage 1960's Simplicity pattern with bateau neckline. Skirt has soft pleats in front instead of the usual darts.

2nd March 2011

Me-Made-Skirt. Cotton twill from Gorgeous Fabrics, with front pockets. I copied this A line skirt from December 2010 edition of Classy (Japanese magazine) This is the snapshot of the skirt featured in the magazine



I was not wearing any Made-Me items over the weekend as I was here!

Marina Bay Golf Course! Beautiful isnt it?

Me Made March 2011

I am participating in So, Zo's Me Made March 2011 campaign. The pledge as follows:
'I, Brenda from http://brendasewingadv.blogspot.com, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-March '11. I endeavour to wear at least one item of handmade clothing each day for the duration of March 2011'

Wish me luck!

3 Tuck Pants

I've seen so many pants with tucks or pleats for ladies for the past few seasons that I had to have one. Unfortunately, I am one the few girls who look really "weird" in pants ( I highly suspect that my legs are not in proportion to the length of my upper body), hence I could not find any available off-the-racks.

Hence my first attempt at sewing pants. This project gave me a few "first"s. First attempt at sewing a pant style zipper. I have no problems with invisible zippers but lapped zippers and pant style zippers scares me. First attempt at sewing a waist band. First attempt at sewing pants(I did not make a muslin, which could turn out disasterious).

Anyways, decided to make a pair of camel coloured pants using Evans pattern from Miho of Tamanegi-Kobo. I have seen a few really beautiful creations from this pattern by Yoshimi and Satomi. Miho's patterns are easy to follow and the finished projects are really beautiful.

I wore this to the office today. To all the Chinese readers out there, Happy Lunar New Year!

My new up-coming projects....

Project A
Trench Coat ala "Burberry"

Ever since I saw the original Burberry's trenchcoat at Galleries Lafayette in Paris (retailing at EUR 950), I have been wanting to own a proper trench coat which would take me to countries in Spring and Autumn. Navy blue being my favourite colour, my trench coat shall be navy blue!

I'll be using McCall's M5525 view D but with sleeves from view E to achieve the Burberry's look.

My fabric choice is from my regular online fabric website - Gorgeous Fabrics and this is the fabric I chose!

Project B
True blood's Queen of Louisiana dress

This is a screenshot of the Vampire Queen of Louisiana in True Blood. I just love this 1950's wrap dress. The underside is actually lined red! The three quarter sleeves and the gloves are just amazing!

In order to have an accurate replica of the above 1950's wrap dress, below is my latest Etsy purchase.

I might have to do some minor adjustments as this is definitely not in my size. Hopefully the project will be successful. Now I have to think of where to wear my Queen dress to.... lol...

Project C
Swing Dress Sewalong

Casey from Casey's Elegant Musing has launched her swing dress sew along. I love dresses from the 1940's hence I'll be embarking on this sew along as well. I'll be behind time but pics will be up once it is done.

Cheers!