Hey y’all hey! I’ve been in my sewing space tinkering around kinda on a daily basis nowadays. I am making sure I keep that UFO basket somewhat clear. (I may be weird but I love mending clothes) Currently thinking about pulling an all-nighter because I have this idea for a mini dress for the cooler weather in my mind that will not let me rest. I also pulled out my Marfy book and my Merchant & Mills Workbook too! I have so many ideas I’m having a huge creative block right now. So I decided I should blog then sew.
Now this rant is about a top and shorts combo I whipped up last month. I really do try and choose fabrics for projects but my fabrics have always chosen for themselves. I’ll pull out a piece of fabric and a pattern then end up sewing with a completely different piece of fabric and pattern. I’ve even made a jumpsuit out of tablecloth fabric! Earlier I was all set to take photos and blog earlier but when I pulled out the heels I wanted to wear in the photos I was surprisingly reminded that the last time I wore those heels I had fun! LOL! They were damaged and scraped along with a little dirt. I’m going to keep and refashion them somehow; I still like ’em a lot. I did a video blog of the outfit on my Tiktok and Facebook accounts if you guys are interested in seeing the outfit in action! (Come say Hi on Tiktok using: @lolastitches15 and on Facebook using “Lola Bunnee”)
Now where I live it’s still going to be over 100 degrees or the next couple weeks. I quickly decided that I wouldn’t start sewing for the cooler weather just yet and show this outfit since it made more sense. For the top the pattern I used is Simplicity S0399 Summer Fashion Super Jiffy. It was just one huge pattern piece; the shorts had about five pattern pieces. I made the shorter version of the top because I wanted to show my shorts off too! I used a fabric from my stash that I snagged from Fabric Mart a while ago. The fabric is just so pretty; it’s described as a “Sky Blue 100% Polyester Corded Stripe Netting”; I had three yards. For the shorts I used another fabric from my stash but I have no idea where I bought it from; I had about two yards. Usually when I can’t remember where I got the fabric from I found it on one of my thrifting trips. The pattern I used for my shorts is Simplicity 1165 View B. Both pieces can be worn separately but they do match as I used the mesh I sewed the top with for the shorts pockets. (One of the pictures I added shows the matchy-matchy thing these two pieces have going on)
I’m starving so bad right now and I wanna have frozen yogurt for dinner so I don’t get lazy for this evening’s sewing sesh. But I have chili fries and a cheeseburger on the brain too. I’m going to try and wrangle some of these ideas down to one or two and find some fabrics that wanna help me! I’ll stop rambling now because I can go on and on about anything sewing. Of course I’ll add a few photos following this chat and until next time y’all!
Love,
LOLA
