Fashion Friday

One of my fave silk skirts, I made this of my own design and added black bias tape to the hem.
This skirt gets a lot of wear and I do hand wash.


Sew you later!

from my dressing room......

Hi everyone - hope your day is going fabulous...... from my dressing room today I am wearing a capelet top & skirt that are both  made by me.  The skirt is my own design (an A line skirt) & I used some gorgeous chocolate dupioni silk for the front & charmeuse for the back.  Two different types of fabric for one skirt!

I started this skirt in March but only finished now because I made my first hand sewn zipper or also called a hand picked zipper.  This is where you hand sew in the zipper instead of using a machine.  It was a technique that I had been wanting to try & this fabric was perfect for it because of its delicacy.    I used Threads tutorial & it was very well written & easy to understand.  I like this way of inserting zippers & I will definitely use this technique again.

 I also tried to make a box pleat in the front. It turned out o.k. for my first try!  I serged the hems of the skirt in black thread.  The capelet top is also my own design which I wrote about in a previous post so I wont bore you again with the details!

I am wearing this to work today!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a wonderful celebration to welcome 2011!  I have had this week off from work so I have been happily designing & sewing!  I sewed this outfit to wear on our New Year's Eve dinner.  This Snow White Cape is a white wool and I cut it longer and I lined the hood in aqua blue crepe satin and hand sewed the neck part of the lining to the back part of the cape.

 I also lined the front & back inside but I did have some problems with the lining(I used my seam ripper many times)!

It is not right as you can see from pictures so I will have to take apart & sew properly.  I ran out of time & wore as is to dinner.  I know now that I should of sewed the hood & body part of lining together first!

 For my top I found this colourful fabric at a great fabric store near the beach!  I will share more on the future posts about meeting the owner and all her fabulous sewing notions & fabrics!  I thought because this fabric was so bold that I would keep my design simple and sew a cowl top.

It is called a torn fabric with black lining and I sewed the sparkly black chain for the shoulder ties.

I sewed a ruffle waist tie from the same material.

The skirt is my own design and is cut straight.  It is made of black dupioni silk that I sewed with 2 layers and waist darts and side zipper.

Here is a rare picture of my elusive husband in the background!

It snowed here last night so it was a cold night but we had a great night celebrating with the family and good friends!