Voltei ao primeiro molde japonês que cosi. Voltei (muito) lentamente, sem perceber bem como é que costura ultra lenta me levou a uma blusinha cheia de imperfeições de "fast fashion"... Voltei (tão) lentamente, que já é outono: tenho portanto que arranjar um casaco de malha decente, para que a O. ainda consiga vestir esta blusinha algumas vezes...


molde: vestido A (transformado em blusa) do livro Happy Homemade: Sew Chic Kids (Ruriko Yamada)
tamanho: 100 cm
tecido: um retalho 100% algodão, ainda do tempo em que a Oh que lindos era uma loja de tecidos...

Os botões foram reutilizados de umas calças de malha da O. que estraguei (com bolor....). A etiqueta é da Kylie and the machine.



Espero algum dia fazer um update com fotos da blusinha na Olívia ;)

Boas costuras para quem me lê.

A minha mãe fez anos há uns dias. Mas que boa desculpa para voltar a um molde japonês. Ao mesmo molde.


molde: túnica B do livro Stylish Dress Book - Wear With Freedom, de Yoshiko Tsukiori
tamanho: 8
tecido: "cotton gauze" Terrazzo Shell, Atelier Brunette, comprada na Maçãs d'Amor

O tecido foi comprado ainda no ano passado, já com este fim em mente: os tons do tecido lembraram-me imediatamente o vermelho escuro dos óculos da minha mãe :) Falei com a Paula antes de encomendar, só para ter a certeza que o tecido se adequava ao molde. E juntei um outro à encomenda, que não posso mostrar ainda (mas vontade não falta!!!!!), que é a cara da minha irmã (a boa notícia é que não faltam muitos meses para ela fazer anos) ♥



Parabéns mamã. É a primeira vez que costuro para ti. E estou contente.
Passou tanto de ti para mim, eu que cresci a ver-te com os teus projectos: o ponto-cruz, sempre; os bordados de Castelo Branco; a interminável colcha branca a duas agulhas, tantos quadrados que nunca mais acabavam, e que sentimento guardo de quando os colocávamos em cima da cama para ver quantos faltavam ainda. Passou tanto de ti para mim que, quando costuro, um bocadinho de ti está sempre comigo.

* Abril é mês de túnicas no Project Sew It. Pela primeira vez, consigo participar :)

One year ago, Yifarn from the Japanese Sewing Books blog hosted a great giveaway to celebrate her blog's 5th birthday. And, Whoohoo! [Blur's song 2 playing in my head], I won it!!!!!!

Yifarn sent me a beautiful nani IRO double gauze and pattern (the French Sleeve one piece, for kids). Perfect for Olívia :) However, I loved this nani IRO so much, that I ended up using it for some selfish sewing eheheh!!
[on a side note: Portuguese customs, I hate you so much!]

In a previous post, I showed you a dress from the Stylish Dress Book - Wear With Freedom, by Yoshiko Tsukiori. There are several patterns in this book I want to make. I chose the smock blouse with Garibaldi sleeves (pattern B) and I'm so happy with this choice for my beautiful nani IRO. Those sleeves are ♥




pattern: blouse B from the book Stylish Dress Book - Wear With Freedom, by Yoshiko Tsukiori
size: 8 (although I did not gather what the pattern asks for, in the front piece)
fabric: nani IRO Fuccra : rakuen by Naomi Ito for Kokka (double gauze)

Although this blouse is quite an easy pattern to make, you have to pay attention to the notes written in the pattern sheets! And I didn't :( :(

I traced the pattern, added seam allowance, cut the fabric and... noticed something was wrong when I was trying to gather the lower part of the sleeve to match notches in the upper sleeve, but there was nothing to gather... I checked again the instructions in the book, couldn't understand what was wrong... I checked the pattern sheets, just to be sure I traced the correct pattern piece and size, and then I saw it... I was suppose to add in 10 cm to the width of the piece... ARGH.... my beloved nani IRO!!! How could I mess up? As there was not enough fabric left, I ordered half meter more... And I'm glad I did it!



There was a second mistake when cutting the fabric... I don't know how I did it (or I know but it is just too stupid to write it... especially when you are cutting a nani IRO....), I cut the back piece some cm shorter than the pattern... I decided to keep the fabric selvedge visible in the back, without doing any bottom hem (you will notice I cut all the pieces perpendicular to the grain. This was not a mistake eheheh). Luckily it is not too short and I actually like the blouse with this length.

The third mistake with this garment was to choose a size 8. After my experience with the dress E (see the previous post - written in Portuguese, sorry!!), this was just silly... A size 8 is too tight in my shoulders!... To fix this issue, in the front piece, I gathered the fabric to 16 or 18 cm (can't remember) rather than 14 cm between notches, as the pattern asks for. It was not the perfect solution, but I am happy with my blouse... [I know, I know, I should have made a muslin]

The only negative thing I can say about this blouse is that it takes a lot of fabric. Before I actually start sewing clothes for me, I spend some time collecting fabric. My stash is full of one-meter fabric pieces (and one or two skeins of different yarns... But that's another story!), but none of them can accommodate a second blouse! I guess I have to buy more fabric ;)



Last but not the least: I miss Sew Japan with Mie blog series. I am so into Japanese sewing these days!
Happy (Japanese) sewing ✂ !

 

No último fim de semana, fiz um vestido para mim.
O molde é de um livro japonês que o R. me ofereceu, há quase um ano!


molde: molde E, do livro "Stylish Dress Book" (Yoshiko Tsukiori)
tamanho: 8
tecido: usei tecido de lençol, muito macio (que comprei na Feira de Estarreja)... 

Primeiro, só lhe via as imperfeições... Sou muito magra, mas tenho ombros largos... O vestido não me assenta bem nos ombros (ainda por cima, no meu corpo, a distância do pescoço ao ombro é maior num lado do que no outro...). Além disso, as minhas maminhas são mesmo "inhas" eheheh, e o molde inclui pinças... claro, pinças para um tamanho de maminhas "normal".

Mas a verdade é que, mal o acabei, não o tirei mais (isto num Domingo). Fui com a Olívia ao parque, depois fizemos uma sessão de fotos improvisada, no terraço lá de casa, e na segunda-feira ainda o trouxe para o trabalho.

Se dúvidas havia, mal cheguei ao trabalho, a A. elogiou-me o vestido, e quando lhe disse que tinha sido eu a cosê-lo, pediu-me imediatamente um para ela :) :)




Estou portanto, orgulhosa! E com vontade de cortar já outro, noutro tecido. Vai com calma, Carla Maria, que tens uma tese para acabar e não te podes entusiasmar demasiado com a costura... Isto até andava a correr bem...

Antes de passar ao próximo, queria perceber exactamente o que tenho que alterar no molde, para o próximo me assentar melhor (nestas duas fotos abaixo percebem-se melhor os problemas...). Não acho que me fique pequeno, e por isso quero manter o tamanho. Estou a pensar:

- adicionar um centímetro à largura (isto é, quando cortar o tecido, posicionar o centro do molde a mais ou menos meio centímetro da dobra do tecido, e fazer o respectivo ajuste à posição dos machos) -- espero que assim o próximo vestido me assente melhor nos ombros;

- reduzir um pouco o efeito das pinças na zona do busto (e talvez mudá-las de sítio?)... ainda não sei ao certo como, mas encontrei o que me parece ser um bom tutorial, que tenho que ler com atenção.



Que vos parece, prós da costura? Vou lá com estas alterações? Ou o que me sugerem antes? Deixem-me por favor comentários ♥

Prometo mostrar a próxima versão na próxima Primavera. Até lá, e enquanto o bom tempo o permitir, este vestido vai-me deixando muito orgulhosa pela rua eheheh :)

[a Olívia tem vestido este casaco e esta blusinha]

Boas costuras aí desse lado!

 

My good friend misslux spent two weeks in Japan and brought me amazing fabrics (and needles)! How nice is to receive such packages, from Japan with love! The beautiful double gauze from nani IRO, in blue with metallic dots, was the perfect fabric for a pattern I had in my sewing list from one of the books from enanna.

I know we are in the middle of fall, but I couldn't resist to sew this blouse for Olívia! One more reason for doing it now: the specific pattern I wanted to sew goes until size 90 cm and I am not sure how it will fit O. next summer... So, here am I, sewing thin and fresh summer clothes for my girl, when the winter is approaching :) Anyway, how can I regret it?


pattern: blouse D from the book 80~90センチサイズのかわいいお洋服 from enanna
size: 90
fabric: nani IRO Pocho basic by Naomi Ito for Kokka

As I wanted to use the selvage of the fabric as a bottom hem, I cut the pattern pieces with the grainline perpendicular to the selvage of the fabric. I am very happy with the result. I just whish I had cut the yoke a bit "upward" in the fabric so that I would end up with a larger distance between the dots of the yoke and the dots of the gathered bottom.



I had a bit of trouble to sew narrow hems in the ruffles... They are far from perfect... Later I found a tutorial which I will try next time! For now, I folded and pressed the seam allowance (1 cm), and then folded it again, pinning it in place. At this stage everything looked ok as you see in the picture, so the problem was not my method for preparing the hem, but the sewing itself... (so much to learn!!!)


It is already cold in Aveiro, but I managed to take some pictures of Olívia wearing her new blouse.







No need to say right after those pictures, she had to dress her winter coat eheheh. Japanese blouse, we will wait for the spring to use you again ;)



Do not forget to check here the latest post of the Sew Japan with Mie series, hosted by Petit a Petit and Family. I had so many plans to #sewjapan during this year and this is only my second entry... (yep, that's my sewing list running out of control!) Some months ago I started something for myself but I'm not sure if I will manage to finish it while the series is running... [it's a blouse and it looks good! But I run out of fabric :( I have already a plan, but... no will to finish it for now!]

 Happy (japanese) sewing ✂

This project started long before this season Kid's Clothes Week challenge was launched.
I fell in love with the fabric, bought it, went home very happy and grabbed all my pattern books, choosing what to do with it. It was the perfect fabric for a dress with frilled shoulders (dress A from the book Happy Homemade: Sew Chic Kids by Ruriko Yamada). Let me add an important detail: the smaller size featured in the book is still a way too large for my daughter... So, this project was kept untouched, until this KCW challenge was launched. Is there anything more future related, then a dress for future-Olívia?

Although I own several japanese pattern books, this was my first japanese pattern project. I enjoyed the way the pattern pieces are presented: several pattern pieces are common to different garments. I have the feeling that this helps to enlarge my "sewing mind", showing me possibilities to pattern hacking / modifications to use in the future...

I am also submitting this project to the Sew Japan with Mie series. It was not in my plans, I had planned to sew a different japanese dress for Olívia, but the Future theme of the KCW changed my plans :)

I have been through a tough week, with moments of pain and lots of fever, but I managed to finished the dress on time (the two buttons and the bottom hem were hand-stitched today while waiting for the doctor's appointement). Now, all we have to do is wait for the future to be present and the dress to fit my girl! I increased the length of the bottom hem, to shorten a bit the dress... I hope that she will be able to use it already during next year's summer.


pattern: dress A from the book Happy Homemade: Sew Chic Kids by Ruriko Yamada
size: 2 (which does not mean 2 year old. It corresponds to 100 cm height)
fabric: 100% cotton, from a local store here in Aveiro *

* While writing this post, I tried to find out more details about the fabric (designer / producer)... And I noticed that it is the same pattern from Susanna Tana Lawn from Liberty Art Fabrics!!!!



The good news for my japanese pattern books: the Sew Japan With Mie is a year long series. This means hopefully I will be using you a lot more and sewing other japanese patterns soon, since I am very happy with this first trial!
It is very easy to participate in the Sew Japan With Mie series, you just have to link up something you have sewed in the last month from a Japanese pattern (or Japanese fabric) in the end of each Sew Japan With Mie series post. Check here the last one.

I have other projects for the Kid's Clothes Week, but I don't think I will be able to finish any of them before sunday... But... The future will bring new babies <3 (but I am not the one pregnant yet)! Wait for the tiny clothes :)

Wish you a wonderful time dreaming with fabric and sewing :)