Hey loves!
So it happened again. Blessed to make it into my third issue of Sewn Magazine!
I am grateful to Michelle Morris, the creator extraordinaire and editor-in-chief, for giving us sewists a platform. A good ole print magazine jammed with talented creators.
The month of February featured color and we were tasked with making monochromatic looks. You know your girl claimed pink. Hot, fuscia, azaela bright pink.
I made this suit using two Simplicity patterns from the Mimi G Style line, #9381 (Blazer) and #8655 (pants) The blazer fabric is this goreous Rubin Twill Suiting in the color way, Azalea, from Zelouf Fabrics. The pants are made from a suiting blend from a local fabric store that doesn’t have a website.
The jacket, though not difficult, was more of an intermediate pattern. Me and Mimi’s talented husband, Norris Ford, hung out for a few days. I had his sew-along video on deck constantly to help me through some sticky points.
The pants I can now sew in my sleep. You can see my first version here in this white denim I made a few summers ago. One of my favorite go-to patterns! This denim didn’t have much stretch, so I do highly recommend using fabric with some give/stretch to get the right fit.
As for the tulle overly, this was self-drafted. I’m meh on the results. I saw a fantastic inspiration piece of this full, fluffy tulle overlay with multiple layers. Not anticipating how many layers and how much tulle you truly needed, my overlay was a little underwhelming. But for the sake of livening up the pictures, it did the job. So let’s get into construction.
Construction/Alterations
Blazer
The pattern sizing for the blazer is unusually generous. I cut the smallest size 10 and then removed additional width through the back and side seams. I wanted to decrease some fullness through the sleeves, but ran out of time. A hook and eye closure was added at the bust-point to keep the blazer from popping open.
Pants
I’ve got my standard pieces on this pattern now. I previously made a full-bottom adjustment, narrowed the width through the hips, added length to the legs. I also added a lining by simply duplicating the front and back pant leg pattern pieces. My standard alteration hack is to extend the length of the waistband on the side of the zipper. This give you plenty of fabric to work with when finishing the zipper opening.
So grateful to have this opportunity to shine. Thanks as always to hubby for his photography voodoo…meshing the location and my suit color. On to the next project!
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