Easy breezy jersey dress

This dress was something I made completely out of a whim. One day I just decided to get some thick interlock jersey fabric from the store and made out a pattern. This dress is so comfortable and the best part is I can even wear it for dancing! The fabric is soft and stretchy and I can just pull the dress on.

I used a basic pattern for jersey shirt and added bust darts. This is recommended if you are busty or your fabric doesn’t give much lengthwise. I made the neckline bateau style on the front a V at the back. The skirt pattern I took from an old pattern. I have used this skirt style several times and I love it!

What do you think: should I make these kind of dresses for the shop as well?

Planning my sewing projects

I admit. I'm a terrible fabric hoarder. My pile has grown so tall it might collapse any minute. So I took out my vintage sewing patterns and made some decisions. 

Since it's the winter season I decided to stick to more wintry fabrics and leave all the lovely cottons for later. 

I've had this thin wool flannel fro at least 2 years now. I found it at a flea market. I was thinking about making a combination of these two styles: with buttoning, but with a 3/4 length sleeves.

This fabric I bought at the local fabric store. It is a soft wool blend in chocolate brown and light pink. I think it would be great for this 40's dress with the longer sleeves and pockets.

I also bought some green rayon blend that would be suitable for this 40's dress. I'm not entirely sure about the neckline though. It's perhaps a little too closed for my tastes. I could also just make the skirt part though. What do you think?

What I've been up to

You may have noticed my posts have been quite few lately. I've been quite busy with work and I've also filled my evenings with hobbies. Instead of just babbling I thought it would be more fun to make a photo collage of what I've been up to :)

1. I did a design market last weekend. It went great. I shared the spot with Geneva from Rusetti Rosett. Those are her earrings in the picture.

2. I just finished a small wholesale order. These dresses will be sold in a travelling Pop Up shop in Denmark in the near future. How exciting!
3. I finally finished a knitting project I started last winter, but I'll tell you more about it in a separate post.
5. I've bee going to ballet lessons again. I did it for a few years when I was a kid and a few lessons here and there in my teens, but now I've picked it up again. I'm so excited to get back on pointés after so many years. (Sticking ribbons - such a rookie mistake :D)
6. Just a quick dress I made to wear at the Design market. I wanted to make it so that it could also be worn when dancing, but perhaps I'll dedicate a proper post for that too.

So yeah, as you can see I've been keeping myself pretty bus.

Finished knit #5: Spring Magic

Here's an other knit I finished a while ago. I "needed" a yellow sweater, like I "need" a lot of things or at least tell myself I do,  and decided to make one myself. I got the pattern from Subversive Femme. It is a lacy cardigan with instruction for both short and long sleeves.

I chose a 100% alpaca yarn because of its wonderfully soft quality. I made my swatch and measured my gauge, but it still turned out a little too lose for me, when I wanted it to fit snug like in the photo. When I talked about this with other knitters they agreed the yarn must have been to blame. It is really very soft and supple.

 This one took me quite a long time, almost 2 months to finish, with such small needles and a lot of loops. But I did it, I sure did!

Even though it's a little lose it's still very wearable and I'm overall happy with the result. Isn't that colour just delicious?

I had some wooden buttons left over from one of my previous knitting projects so I decided to use them for this sweater also. I got the buttons from Etsy.

We're not shy. We're contagious.

So last week was Halloween. I hope you had a good one. In Finland, before the arrival of Christianity, it was originally Kekri, a celebration of the end of harvest. Later it mixed up with the Christian day of the Saints, but the American way of celebrating Halloween has become increasingly popular. This year, like the couple last years, we went to a Horror and Tease burlesque Halloween show. I didn't bring my camera so I only have pictures of my own outfit. A camera would have been useless where we sat anyway, because the place was packed and we could only see the upper half of the performers.

I didn't have time to prepare any fancy outfits so I just used what I could find in my closet. I only needed to buy the wig. Can you guess who I was?

Outift:

Dress: 40's from a vintage fair

White collar shirt: 60's from a flee market

Shoes: 80's pixie shoes from a flee market

Why I was Wednesday Friday Addams from the Addams Family ofcourse, which is one of my favourite TV shows. Even more than The Addams Family, though, I love The Munsters. It's hilarious! If you haven't watched it, I heartily recommend you do.