18th May #MMM22 - metallic sports top/ bikini top

 

Good Morning, Its a lovely warm and sunny day again so I wore my skull leggings and my rather loud bikini top/ sports bra.

The top is metallic swim fabric and is not actually on the blog at all - at least until today anyway. It was an experiment I did using the Ralph Pink block I was given for testing years ago.

I cut the original block in half to make a bikini.

Its actually not quite right. I think adding the elastic under the arms makes the arm holes ( arm scy? or something like that?) smaller so if I do it again I will have to do it differently. Most of these were constructed witht he elastic on the iside. As I said this was an experiement. I think softer elastic might have worked but this is the tough strong sort you use for waistbands. Its feels a bit tight under the armsbut I have never actually worn this before. I made matching knickers too but am not wearing them. I just found the top this morning and thought why not?

Over it my new version of the grey glitter hoody - this version has mitts.

Ah and my hair is tied up with a hairband I made. Its not actually meant to be worn as a scrunchie but was the easiest  hair tie to find when I took my shower. Perhaps its time I made a few more scrunchies?

 Hope its sunny where you are today, 

Have a lovely day and thanks for popping over

Bracken

Red and navy hoody = a slight disaster!

 Just a quick make uisng McCalls M6614 because I am busy playing with pattern making for my The Vampires Wife DIY dress

I have to make this pattern longer next time though because I ended up putting an extra band on the bottom to make this long enough so its not really a very good make. Mick seems to like it and wore it as a top layer over the last few days when it has been warm so he has not needed a jacket. Its made from football shirt type fabric witth a solid red that is very stable and the sides are navy mesh. 

I made this dress from the same navy fabric and the tulip skirt from the red. 

This pattern has a curved hem so having to add the extra strip is not the best thing to have to do. 

I need to add an extra bit into the next version of this though and make the pattern longer.

One of the good things about my current pattern making endeavours is I am starting to feel confident about actually altering my commercial patterns to fit us. 

This needs it since it was clearly far too short without the bottom band which is a shame because the fabric is good quality so realy I have messed this one up. 

Still it will be ok next time - I hope. And as they say you can't win em all!

I still have some light blue in the football shirt fabric so will lengthen the pattern and then make a second one of these and with a bit of luck it will turn out better

Thanks for visiting 

Bracken

#MMM18 Day 18 and 19 - Chiffon top with skulls and flowers

Friday I wore a new top I made from chiffon with my long suffering wide leg trousers ( again!).

It exactly the same pattern as this skull top:

http://brackencrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/new-fashion-top-from-costume-pattern.html

I made a bit of a cock-up with this top because it frays loads so I had the idea to sew up just with the overlocker. Well a few hours in on the first day I wore it and I realised it was fraying apart at the under arms.

Its not even tight so when they say you need to sew woven fabric with a normal machine this is why. I have got away with just overlocking on tighly woven cotton fabrics but not on chiffon apparently. I ended up repairing it using a normal sewing machine and its a total bodge really. I suspect I will end up having to totally remake at some point and luckily because of the style this is actually possible due to the style and fit so I can afford to lose a small bit of fabric along the seams. Obviously being lazy I am only going to do this when I must so for now its an imperfect top but no one would know so thats fine.

I love this fabric and bought it about a year ago. I only had 1 meter so decided to make something summery. I used the same costume pattern as for my other skulls top.

 Please ignore the background mess. I was about to start planting out plants in the garden

Saturday 19th May - to be perfectly honest I started the day in old clothes cleaning out my chicken house. I do not wear anything I care about when cleaning out chickens because I get absolutely filthy and the edges of chicken wire rip clothes.

So I only wore me made for half of Saturday. Still it kind of works with the pledge because I did not say all day everyday, just every day. Or so I am going to justify to myself.
 So here is my spider top


http://brackencrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/productive-weekend-1-shirt-3-pairs-of.html

with my brown faux leather trousers.


http://brackencrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/burda-easy-cropped-trousers.html

 And as it happens here is my partner wearing Me-Made as well.

http://brackencrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/butterick-b5562-t-shirt-number-4.html

Thanks for visiting

Bracken