Liberty Silk Outfit

 

Another of the fabrics I bought in London. In The New Craft House in Hackney, to be precise. 

I had clocked some not-very-expensive silks in the website, but when I arrived at the mortar shop, I saw that a bunch of Liberty silks was on sale at 34 quid (+VAT), so 50 €. It usually goes to 80 quid, so this was a bargain! I decided to buy 2 m to make some pillow cases! 

Of course, when I got home, the outline of an outfit had formed in my brain, and I decided to give it a go for the last day in school: a long shirt cut on the bias and a halter blouse I could barely scrape out off the corners left, if adding a triangle in the tucked in part. 

Big mistakes ahead! 

First, sewing silk on the bias is serius business. When you try to self-enclose the lateral seams and moreover, ading a lateral zip, your are probabbly going to get some nasty looking waves in the seams. I knew that! In this previous project of mine, I had simply left the seam allowances open, finished with an overlock stitch, to avoid precisely that. 

Second, and most important, the skirt hugs you and clings to you figure showing no mercy. 

I realized my big mistake before the first fitting, and I saw it was a gonner as soon as I put it on me. After blaming myself for my stupidity, I saw two possible solutions. First, I could make a silk lining (I had bought 6 m of glorius black crêpre de chine in the same shop). That would prevent the silk to hug my shape, and it improved quite a lot when I tested it. But the zip still looked uggly. The 2nd solution was expensive. I purchased 2 more metres of silk in England and got it on time to make a new skirt, this time cutting it on the grain. It was great, that one, but it cost me 105 €. Not cheap, this vice of mine. 

With the bias fiasco skirt, though, I made two gorgeous silk pillow cases, and still had some fabric left to make a sleeping mask for my dear husband. And it's become lovely and practical, too. 

Well, the skirt pattern is another version of my self drafted patten. I love this long, A shaped skirt pattern. 

As for the blouse, I used a pattern from an old Patrones magazine, with turned out to be perfect. 

I am sorry I lost all the pictures I made that day. I only saved one from the Instagram publication. I intend to wear the two pieces separatelly too. They are both great with denim. 

Black Interlock Jumpsuit

We were in London last May and this is my 1st project with the fabrics I bought there, in Ray Stitch to be exact. This is a soft and fluid black interlock. I've washed in the machine once with very good outcome. I love interlock and I am always imagining projects with it, specially in black. 

This was inspired, again, by Saint and Sophia website. They had the exact same thing. I decided to use an old Burda Style pattern for the trouser part, because it has an elasticated band at the waist, which the model had. I hackered the pockets, making them vertical instead of horizontal. 

For the bodice, I used antother Burda pattern, this one from a jumpsuit too, the Twill Mono 107, that I had used before. In this, I transported the bust dart to the underbust and made it gathering it in to the trousers elasticated waist, as I made the back vertical darts and the trousers back darts, everything gathered with the ellasticated band t the waist. I aslo drew a new neck closing and a new neck band. 

I installed a nice chunky zipper, taking good care to stitch it properly, specially at the bottom, and enclosing it inside the finished neck. 

It turned out perfect, comfortable, ellegant and cool. Eternal piece of clothing. 

Raincoat for My Love

My beloved husband never needs anything. But I know better, of course. Sometimes, an anrmy poncho or a plastic 1-use reincoat are not ideal.

So, I decided to make the perfect raincoat form him.

 

First, the perfect fabric: sustainable, comfortable, goodlooking and waterproof English oilcloth from Merchant&Mills: Black Organic Cotton Dry Oilskin. With 245 g/m is the perfect weight for a raincoat. 

Then, the perfect pattern. I used Burda Style's parca for women and removed the skirt A.shape, made the sleeves to fit him and placed the waist tie is his waist. 

I also changed the pockets, making diagonal flap covers with only one button. 

I encased carefully all the seams using thick poliester Gutermann thread and installed Prym snaps. 

I made it slowly and with most care, and it ended up perfect. 

I even made a small bag to put it inside, so that he can wear it as a small backpack. 

Very proud of this one, it's perfect.

Light Blue Wide-Legged Jeans

 

Jeans are the ultimate project for a seamstress, I think. It is difficult to get the perfect, authentic, comfortable pair, and honestly, I believe these are perfect. 

First, the denim fabric we can buy does not have the used, eroded feel of comercial jeans. The only shades that look fine are dark indigo or vey light blue like this. Then, the thickness, the hang, the softness to be perfect, specially if we are buying denim online, is almost impossible. Well, I found this fabric in MeterMeter by the name of Eta Washed Denim in september 2025, and although I was quite sceptic, it turned out just perfect in all those senses. 

For the pattern, I wanted my jeans to be high waisted and wide legged to copy the youngsters' preferences these days. So I decided to use the Ginger Jeans pattern and make some major hacks to it.

First, I drew a perpendicular line under the pockets, cut it and moved it 5 cm upwards, in both the front and back pattern pieces. 

Second, I drew a second perfendicular line from both crotch outward points and from there, I drew three perpendicular lines to the bottom of the jeans. Cutting these lines open, I pivoted the pieces so that I got the desired wideness. 

I followed the instructions for the Ginger Jeans for the pockets, the fly and the waist band. I finished all the seams self enclosing them and topstitching with golden Jeans Gutermann thread. 

And voilà, they are perfect!

Pinks Wool Shorts & Black Wool Short-Sleeved jacket

This pink wool (not sure if it's not a blend) was the last remnant my friend Ann'a mum gave to me. There was less than 1 metre, so shorts were the best option. I've become to love wool shorts in winter. I have the perfect pattern, and this the nth version of it. 

I thought they'd look good with this beautiful pattern from BurdaStyle. It's a double-chested blazer with sculptured short sleeves, which are a curved extension of the fron piece. I did not make the asimetrical version, though. I simply made the more classical lapel side twice and doubled also the same matching back side. 

I bought some cheap thin wool online and I was decieved that it was too thin, but then I interfaced it all with fusible and lined it with a pink satin cupro lining. The result is perfect! I can wear it in the summer, since it is short sleeved, and also in winter layered with a tight jersey top.

As I write this in June, I've worn the jacket in full summer with my slim smart pants and the outfit is impressive, formal, cool and comfortable, I really love it. 

I plan to make the jacket again in a thicker wool I bought in London with matching shorts and I know it is gonna be awesome. 

Maroon Cardigan

I wanted to make something else with this wonderful merino-alpaca from Wool and the Gang, after knitting my hat. 

And the pattern inspiration came from Sezane's winter 25 website. It was a 1x1 rib knitted cardigan with the buttonband and the cuffs knitted in a finer yarn, half thicker that the general one. I tought that I could split the two main threads that make up this yarn, untwisting them. Not an easy job, specially because it was really soft and week, when I used half of it, very prone to breaking. 

I used Ann Budd's book again, but in this project I my gauge between measures and I had to make a compromise, knitting a bigger size in everything horizontal, and a samller one in the vertical parts. As an unintended consequence, the raglan sleeves attachment is too long and the badice too wide. Not enough to undo it, but still, not perfect.

 

Other than that, it is quite nice and becoming. I like the cardigan option as an excuse for a deep neck cut. 

We'll see if it gets wear next winter, I finished in april and could only wear it twice, warm weather starting sooner and sooner. 

See it in Ravelry.

Pink Wool Jacket

 

I bought this fabric online, in Merchant & Mills' website, because I had to buy some oilskin ther and When I saw this gorgeous Suri alpaca hairy fabric and I had to buy it to make a jacket I did not need. I am an adict. 

Then I found this gorgeous pattern in BurdaStyle. It was just right for it. I made no modifications, although I made some mistakes with the undercollar strip, which at the end I could solve. 

It is simply gorgeous and I am going to wear it a lot, I hope.

 

Here I am wearing it with the tshirt a I made with the merino wool remnant left from my stripped dress project.