Poly Poplin Suit

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Poly Poplin Suit and Matte Jersey Lycra drapey neck blouse and scarf

This is the blouse pattern  Butterick 3131

I always add into the cowl neck extra fabric so it will drape more.  I have cut my pattern down the center and formed a V of extra fabric so it drapes more, cut on the bias.

Fabric required 45" 1 7/8 to 2 3/8 yds long sleeved view
60" fabric 1 3/8 to 1 5/8 yds

Scarf is just a strip to go under the lapel as wide as you want the accent folded over and sew in a tube and flipped out/ ends can be slanted if you want a little different accent scarf.

 

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This is the jacket style-quick and easy pattern.

Poly poplin is 5.98 a yard and 25% off during Summer sale.

I like this jacket a little longer than pattern, because I wear my shirts out and over my pants to hips.  Sometimes I wear tunic style tops, so extending the pattern length is important to me.

Yardage for this jacket is 2.5 if 45" 2 yds of the 60" poly poplin

If doing Belted view 2 3/4 to 3 1/8 if 45"

Your skirt length ( 1 yard is safe for most) pencil style skirt.
Elastic waist... Back kickpleat easy do....

 

Wrap around your body... Taper slightly from waist sew a side seam on each side to center the skirt and a seam down the back over lapped an inch so your kick pleat has a professional look.

SUIT  60 " 3 YDS  Blouse 1 5/8 YDS

So 3 yards of poly poplin at 5.98 and 25% off ... $14.27 for this suit including tax.  Skirt and Jacket

Pants and stitches to use 20 minutes pants quick and easy

No, I am way too old to wear leggins... If I wanted people to see my fat and cellulite I would go naked... I love the fabric

So.. quick pants... no side seams 1 piece pattern... use a leggin pattern and make the legs bigger... wear a tunic top to top of leg and have the comfort of leggins without the unsightly skin tight look.

A typical leggin pattern

 

Remember, I don't do leggins I do Tubins'

Just widen the legs straight down from the notch, using 4 way stretch is the most comfortable- Scuba type fabric.

Stitches I use- I don't have a serger.  I am always in a hurry.  I cut out many pants and shirts at a time, so I can just sew one up before work.  It motivates me to go to work when I have a new outfit to wear everyday.  Pants in twenty minutes that take less than a yard and quarter ---- 3.00 for a pair of pants why not.   Less than a fancy cup of coffee and I can wear them more than once.

 I wash the fabric when I get home from the fabric store.

Right now I have 5 pairs laying across the chair to sew on my day off.  

 One pair for my mom on the sewing chair cut out to sew immediately when I get up and give to her.  Hers are the baggy pants pattern, and are made out of matte jersey.  Soft and comfortable baggy pants, with an elastic waist, in a jiffy.  

  

These pants in the above ankle length reach my moms ankles.  Elastic waist quick and easy.

Bag of elastic right next to the sewing machine.... I buy 10 yards at a time so I can always make a pair of pants when I want to.

Made these baggy pants for my mom and this is how I do them quick.

1. sew the front pieces together at the front seam, sew the back pieces together at the back seam.

2. sew down the side seams on both sides and

3. sew the inner leg seam

4. hem the pants in the usual manner turn up twice and top stitch about 3/8 inch in.

5. waistband..... sew your elastic in a circle like you want it on you.   Use the zipper stitch and make sure it is a flat circle all around to be comfortable.

6. Lay it on top of the wrong side of the pants top and fold over the amount you want.  I fold over about 2 inches and under 1/4 inch and topstitch it over the elastic and you leave an opening where it starts and end in the front so if you need to adjust the elastic you just pull it out of the opening and sew it tighter.  This also helps you tell the front from the back. 

Moms baggy matte jersey pants are done.

This morning I made Orange Tubins and wore them to work.

 These were made in less than 20 minutes.. and pressed hem and then worn to work...

I sew the legs first.

match notches and use your favorite finishing stitch...

This is mine

I don't have a serger, it looks like this on my machine screen

It finishes the edge of the seem but is a zigzag so it gives with the stretch of the fabric.

If your fabric is too light for this stitch I use a zipper type stitch for the lighter weight stretch fabrics finishing.

When I am doing a not stretchy fabric I use the small satin type zigzag next to it.... finish it by doing a straight stitch like on silks and then the zigzag right next to the edge... I do quarter inch seams so I don't have to cut fabrics off.  

The bottom of the legs hem is just turn up twice and top stitch...

Quick and easy.!

Press hem and seam if needed... DONE!

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Yardage and Instructions

Amount of fabric and lining the same-pocket depends on what you are using it for.

If you are using fabric from the flat folds, they are usually 54 inches wide in Home deck.  1/2 yard would make your bag around 18 x 27 if you just fold it.  Sew it up the sides and then fold the bottom end in a triangle so you have a square end on each side of the bottom of the bag...  Do the same thing to the lining as the outside of the bag...  3 yards of Strapping and pin it to the outside piece of the bag , starting at the bottom.   Come up and over to form a handle on oneside come back down and cross under the bag for support go up the other side of the bag to form the other handle and back down to meet where you started.  Top Stitch on both sides of the strapping through the right side of the bag.  Insert the lining into the bag so the right side of the lining is showing when you look in the bag.  Turn the top edge under 1/4 inch on both pieces of bag around the rim.  Top stitch through both layers and across the strapping.

If doing a pocket for jewelry or water bottle, turn the edges under on the pre-sewn pocket piece and put it in the corner of the bag before doing the topstitching.  Do it first then do the topstitching around the edge of the Tote.  DONE

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TUBINS' and Pencil Skirt with Leopard Drapeneck Blouse and Scarf

A little over a yard of 4-way stretch for Tubins and the skirt was poly poplin and around a yard of fabric.  The shirt and scarf squeezed out of a 1 and quarter 60 inch wide.

 

for Drapeneck blouse - Yardage 1 3/8 to 1 5/8 yds 60" wide fabric

1 7/8 to 2 3/8 for 45" wide fabric

Sewing Blouses on the Day off! Multiples

I am going to use my favorite Drape neck for a few Blouses that match tubins' I made this week..

I have a new blouse pattern to use for some silks and I am going to see if I can find a little bed jacket pattern or create something to be made out of some silk I have here.

All the fabrics came from the 'Treasure Hunt Room' at GSTREETFABRICS or the silks came from the 'Silk Novelty Bin'  at 7.97.

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This is from the 7.97 silk bin... it is a little different... The back of the shirt is a cotton stretch that was in the same print... The scarf for an accessory I made out of the silk so it was light and flowy.   There was not enough of the silk so it was great to find the same print on a cotton.  Both were pre-washed as I do all my material when I get home from the store and before I cut out the pattern.  This was Butterick 3131 with added fabric on the bottom of the blouse and a little slit on each side to wear over tubins', or skirt.

T shirts and Spaghetti Strap Chemise

Well, 

I rode my exercise bike while I dried my hair with the hair dryer and drank 1 33.8 fl oz bottle of water.  

Match that!

 

So yesterday I made a T - shirt to wear under the Pink Silk blouse.  The material was some heather pink ribbing.

 

There is a pattern for a Tank in a number of the patterns I have previously posted.  The tank I used was from KWIK SEW  K3701  Calls for 7/8 of a yard of fabric

  I had bought the pattern for my daughter and she made drop crotch pants out of the pattern.

In this pattern you just cut out front and back sew the top straps together and then turn under the edge a quarter inch and I used a blanket stitch to sew it.   [\   The stitch kinda looks like that.  I thought it
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worked well with keeping the edge flat and not stretching out the ribbing knit.  The bottom I turned under quarter to 3/8 twice and did a straight stitch and then a blanket stitch over it.

This is the bottom hem regular stitch and then blanket stitch to flatten.

The side seam done with a zipper zigzag stitch at 1/4 as I do not have a serger and find this to work in my garments.  When I use the other stitch that I use on seams I will do a closeup.   This T-shirt material worked for this.

I have worn this once.  I am a 38 Triple D, so my clothes are never small.

Just the blanket stitch was used on the neckline and the arm sleeves and turned under 1/4 inch stitched on top...

For me I wanted to tuck in the T shirt and then feel comfortable in my tubins if I reached up at the store while working.  Worked for me.

Tonight I will do a spaghetti strap Chemise from some extra slippery silk I have to wear under my silk blouses.  I don't particularly need one now, but it is more for a demo and then backup.

Today I cleaned out my closet and pulled out all the hateful metal hangers and plastic hangers and put in mostly the black velvet huggables.  This way I could stack all the outfits together on each hanger and not have 3 hangers for a blouse pants and Jacket or a blouse skirt and jacket.  It was supposed to look better and give me more room, but I have made so many clothes the last two months I am going to have to go back to just sewing for the baby.