Me-Made-May, 2013. Week 2.

I am going well with Me-Made-May!%) Hope, Simeon is not very tired to make my pictures almost every day! The bigger photos you can see at Flickr.

 6 May. Green jumper.

 7 May. Very famous black skirt%)

 8 May. Again BS%)

 9 May. One more time!%) I know this is boring but I don't like to have a lot of stuff in my backpack.

10 May. We are back in Russia so I am very sad. Refashioned home skirt (from second-hand dress).

11 May. Skirt from KnipMode. I have finished it just in the end of April. I am not happy with pockets so should remove them but now the skirt is used as is%)

12 May. I spend the whole day at home so again - home skirt. Also you can see my sewing place%)

From trousers to a skirt!

I suppose that everybody one day does it! I mean making a skirt from trousers%))

These were my corduroy jeans!

I like these jeans, wore them a lot so the bottoms of legs became pretty threadbare. Then I put them in my recycle box going to leave them near garbage bins. This is Russian way for recycling. But they don't want to leave me!  I decided to make a skirt. I wanted to sew new orange corduroy skirt but I didn't  find a fabric of my dream!%)) So I decided that my favorite jeans could work a little bit more for me.

The hardest part was to unpick seams%) Then I just cut extra fabric from inseam, try it one and decided that it would work! I even bought the thick thread for topstitching. Now I know that this is not my favorite part, I need more experience.

The result

Of course, this is not a perfect skirt, you can see some wrinkles, but pretty the same behave my RTW narrow denim skirts. By the way, fabric had some stretch in it, so I don't fill narrowness of the skirt. This is very comfortable skirt and I like it!%))

I made the pictures myself so nobody said
me I should to set the leggings well%))

Rear view%)

Facts:

• Fabric:  old trousers
• Pattern: none
• Notions: thick thread
• Time to complete: about 2 hours plus walking to the shop for thread%)
• First worn: 13 April at home%)
• Wear again:  Yes!
• Total cost:  1.5 euro (but almost all thread stay for the next projects%)

Me-made-may, 2013. Week 1.

I am participating in Me-Made-May, 2013! Till now I wear at least one me-made item every day!%)) Let's see how it will go!

So, this is first week of May. The bigger photos you can see at Flickr.

1 May. Blue dress and turtleneck. This is this outfit how it was planned.

 2 May. Orange skirt.

3 May. Black skirt. Not blogged, but I should do this!

4 May. Black skirt again. I took only 2 bottoms for my trip, so a lot of outfits with the skirt.

5 May. B-day dress. Will be blogged soon. I am not happy with the waist so may be I change it a little bit, but I will write about it in any way%)

Back to sewing and blogging!

I was at short Bavarian trip, I have 3 new me-made garments waiting to be post in my blog, also I need to add Me-Made-May,13 photos here too.

I have finished only 4 from 5 items from my sewing list (I finished my b-day dress, hura!! May be it was not perfect but i enjoyed wearing it!), so I couldn't buy any fabrics but I bought some sewing presents for myself in Munich and Nuremberg, I couldn't resist!

My b-day's presents%)

I have here 3 fabrics - linen(!) boucle for a jacket, cotton denim for a skirt, a small piece of stretchable silk for lingerie set, also some notions and one(!) Patrones. I wanted more magazines because there was a huge assortment in the shop at Munich railway station, but they cost 10 euro, and I already have a lot of  magazines, so I took only one because I like them very much%))

Now I need to write down my new sewing list!! It will be soon!

Turtleneck for dress and quick hat

Print jumper

I bought this knit fabric specially to make a jumper for my blue dress. It was not cheap but I liked a print so much! Also it was wool so I took it.

I was thinking to use this pattern but as usually I hadn't enough fabric%) So I chose a turtleneck from Burda 09/2010.

I cut size 36 without seam allowances because my fabric was pretty stretchy and I wanted fitted garment. I didn't follow Burda instructions - I cut a ease from sleeve's caps and sewed sleeves flat (as I understood it was common for knits to put sleeves flat). For neck I found great post in pictures. I used only overstitching stitch at my machine (I haven't serger), so I will test how this stitch will behave in wearing.

Back view

I didn't manage very well with print matching on sleeves and a body because I didn't pay attention that the print had 3 different lines not two%)) But I am Ok with this! I should be more careful with prints in future%)

I like the long sleeves of this turtleneck and pretty loose neck.
Also I made fast hat from remnants%) I draw pattern myself. 

Close-up

Facts:

• Fabric:  1.15m (width 1.5m) of wool knit, very thin.
• Pattern: Burda magazine 09/2010 121
• Fabric was bought first, to companion to my blue dress
• Notions: thread, twin needle
• Time to complete: I started it in end of March, have finished 14 April. Sewing time - 5.05 hours. 1.40 for preparation, 3.25 - sewing.
• First worn: 20 April for walking and photoshoot
• Wear again:  Yes!
• Total cost:  16 euro for fabric (it was pretty expansive but I like print so much! And this is wool!!) + 1.5 euro for thread (magazine was present)  = 17.5 euro