Couture project - my tweed jacket

I have my heart set on a new project. I want to try to make a tweed blazer using couture techniques. So, today I bought Vogue 8333 which I will use in size 10.
I also bought a great tweed fabric with 95% wool and 5%silk and hair canvas (real horsehair - so weird!).

Today I just cut out the paper pattern pieces, tomorrow I will start. I´m very excited as I never made anything using couture techniques. There will be a lot of hand sewing, I hope I´ll be patient:)

Hat´n´roll

I have so many scraps of fabric that I don´t want to throw out but are too small to make anything for me. So, I´m making hats for kids. It´s a great way to use all of the leftover fabric pieces. I´ll take them to work as spare hats for the kids.

Katwise coats

I just found this awesome textile artist Katwise! 
Her coats are all made out of sweaters and I just LOVE it!

I´m thinking about buying her tutorial and making one of these...

I just have to collect 20 sweaters now=)

Oh, I´m absolutley hooked!

Photoshootingcrazy

I love the photoshootings with my cousin. It´s always fun and the end result is never what we intended it to be. It´s even better!

I made the green dress myself, it´s Simplicity 2043. I shortend it and took a lot of tulle out. I think I used only half of the amount of fabric than I was supposed to. 

Well, here are the pictures:

Summer is ending - I need new clothes!

The end of summer is here - wheaterwise.

So, I need new everyday clothes=)

I made two short-sleeved shirts out of cotton jersey. I used the pattern "Shelley" from Farbenmix.

And I made a long sleeved shirt out of cotton jersey, too. This pattern is "Albi" from Schnittquelle.

I love the little deers on the fabric, although my husand says they look more like Chiwawa dogs.
The overlenght sleeves are very cozy and warm, very good for  chronical cold me=)

Dirndl - finish line

I finished my Dirndl! Only the blouse is missing, but I can´t decide on the design yet...

Dirndl - almost the end

I´m almost finished. Almost!
I sewed on the hooks by hand - and in the end I saw that they´re uneven. So, I´m going to take them out and try to get them in the right place this time...
After the hooks are in the right place I´ll make an apron green lacing cord.

I made a decorative stripe of jaquard on the apron, so there´s more of the dark green. So far I just love the dress. Both the fabrics have a nice volume due to the fork pleats so it has a nice twirl=)

Dirndl - Hardcore "Froschgoscherling"

Yesterday I attached the skirt which I made with fork pleats. I love the green shade of the jaquard!

For the neckline I made a "Froschgoscherl"-Ribbon. Froschgoscherl is the name for the mouth of a frog in austrian german dialect. I had to cut a 4,5m long cross grain ribbon to make this. It didn´t turn out perfect, it´s crooked in some places (as in the picture), but that´s fine by me. All in all the neckline has now 64 Froschgoscherl all around and now my eyes are spinning=)

Tomorrow I´ll make the apron, then I´ll have to think about how to make the blouse. I´m not sure if I want off shoulder sleeves or more the traditional style with the puffed sleeves...

My Dirndl - fighting with the bodice

Yesterady I started on the bodice. I ironed bias seam tape on the neckline and armhole edges, the linen is very stubborn...

I wanted to do the green contrast piping along the back and front seams. The linen and the taffeta were both very uncooperative and kept pulling in different directions. So, it´s not perfect but I like it:)

 I also did a neckline piping. I used the same brown linen for lining. I have to do a little alteration and take 1 cm in at the side seam, it´s a little loose at the waist.

That´s how far I got yesterday, maybe today or tomorrow I can continue, I´m excited about the skirt part!

My Dirndl, pattern making

I made the basic pattern for my friend, now I have to wait until I see her again to see if it fits.

Until then, I caught the Dirndl-fever, too. So I´m making a fancy one for me.
I made the pattern myself yesterday. I wanted to have many seams in the back, so I split it in 4 pieces. The front a seam, where the hooks will be attatched. The bodice has a very low neckline, but it will be worn with a blouse underneath.

I bought the fabrics also. I got a beautiful dark green jaquard silk with deers for the skirt, a dark brown linen for the bodice and a bright green taffeta for the apron.

I want to use the apron fabric to do decoration ("Froschgoscherl" more on that later) on the bodice if I have enough fabric.

I´m not making a traditional Dirndl, as I´m not gathering the skirt, I will make pleats. And the skirt will be shorter than usual.

So, to the sewing maschine!