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Pictures from the skirts I have made. In the posts you find the sewalong to the projects, the tools and supplies and more pictures and styles.
Now autumn has arrived. The leaves are colorful, the meadows are intensively green and the weather is unstable. I love autumn: the beautiful colors in nature, the wind and of course, that I can wear skirts and boots again! Skirts of tights and boots are simply my favourite outfit combination for everyday life. That’s why I sewed an autumn wool skirt to get myself started in the new season.
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Yay! Finally I can share some cat-content on this blog again! In Germany, it’s the hottest time of the year right now. Temperature outside is high, the sun is burning and even at night it won’t cool down. This part of summer does not need many clothes and inspired me to make this cute, easy wrapskirt.
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Finally the „skirt season“ started – It’s warm enough outside to wear my skirts without boots and tights again. So I pulled my black circleskirt from last year out of my closed and „upcycled“ it a little.
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Are you bored at home today? How about sewing something quick and easy?!
Here is an easy tutorial for a simple circle skirt. This little sewing project is perfect for beginners – it doesn’t even need a pattern. There a so many varieties of circle skirts you can make – This tutorial enables you to make circle skirts in every kind of size and length. It can be a circleskirt for kids or for adults. The skirt is made out of jersey fabric, one of the most easiest fabric to sew with. (mehr …)
In my last post I wrote about the #SewYourWardrobeBasics challenge from sea of teal and that I’m super motivated to take part in that. In November 2019 I already planned to sew more basic pieces for my wardrobe in 2020. Then I stumpled accidentially on that challenge, that matched my project perfectly. I see so many pictures on pinterest on facebook of colorful, fancy clothing that is beautiful, but not ready for everyday. In the past years I made so many fancy dresses that I love, but I only wear them to special occasions like weddings, prom or concerts. That means, I wear them once or twice during the year. On the other hand, my closet is full with old T-Shirts, worn out jeans, bad fitting shirts and ugly pyjamas. While I sew a beautiful party dress I wear my old ragged sweattop and even older jeans that never fitted correctly. So for me it is time to make some everyday wearable pieces.
No Words, just a picture from my sewing room 🙂 This is one of my favourite summerskirts with a new petticoat. I made that skirt in 2007, more than ten years ago and I still love it very much.
Spring has begun here, the sun is shining (mostly), the birds are singing and soon our fig tree will be green again. I love this season, especially the first days when it is possible to leave the house without a coat. I’ve been sewing a lot the past few weeks. I made so many new clothes for the upcoming summer season and I’m even upcycling ten year old projects.
I want to show off these new projects so much, but I’m still pregnant, so I’m not fitting in any of my new clothes, not to mention my old ones. To avoid boring you out with no new content on my blog, I’d like to you some spring outfits and clothes from the past few years. This Outfit here I made in 2017. It is a plaid skirt out of a cute gingham fabric and a matching jersey shirt.
The original pattern of this shirt is a dress from the Fashionstyle 09/2017 magazine. I already made this dress and wrote about it here. The dress is made out of a very lightweight silky trikot fabric, that falls perfectly around the body. I loved the wraplook neckline of this dress so much, that I decided to make a shirt with this pattern too. I just left out the skirt pattern and replaced it with a hip length piece. Also I altered the sleeves from long to medium length. For the shirt I chose a fabric that is a little bit thicker than the one I used for the dress. The fitting is a little bit tighter than the dress, so the shirt has a slightly shaping effect.
I love this shirt very much and before my pregnancy I have worn it very often. I can be combined with a lot of different bottoms, from tight to wide skirts, jeans or wide flare pants.
This skirt is also made from a pattern I already used before, it is already ten years old. The pattern for this beautiful vintage skirt is from the Burda Easy Fashion Magazine F/S 2009. I made this skirt already in 2009 and I still wear it regularely in summer. I will write a post about that skirt another time, promise! I love the vintage inspired pattern and the wide, swinging skirt that is created with plaids on the front and back of the waistline. For this new skirt I chose a cotton fabric with a cute gingham pattern. To add some detail, I sewed some velvet trimming on the seam.
Sadly, I was quite in a hurry when I made this outfit, so I didn’t take any sew-along photos. The only pictures of these two garments are the ones you already see here, though I was wearing them many times last spring and summer. As soon as I can wear them again, I will take some new pictures that show more details of the patterns and the fabrics and I will post a few alternative outfit ideas. Here are a few inspirations already: