"Fall's Sweet Sixteen" (was named for Project Runway's Season 16 that has now come and gone). My dream was to stitch up 16 garments that would yield countless wonderful outfit combinations for Fall and Winter. The plan was to see if I could pull of a simple, non-stressful wardrobe capsule.
This was the plan in a nutshell:
- 4 Outer Wear Garments (Coat/Jacket/Vest or Cardigan)
- 4 Tops/Tunics/Blouses or Tees
- 4 Pants
- 4 Dresses and/or Skirts Here are the results so far
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| Clockwise: Kwik Sew 4197 Jacket, OOP Vogue 8323 (top), Blackwood Cardigan by Helen's Closet, A Modified Rendition of Simplicity 1916, and McCall's 7249 (top) |
With 5 pieces of the capsule completed and 11 more to go I have felt like scraping this plan all together and never mentioning it again. However, I am such a stickler for completing what ever I start that I feel I have to see it through to the end. It's such an unstructured plan so I'll just keep right on sewing and hopefully I'll end up with 11 more pieces before the season's done.
WHAT ONLINE PHOTO EDITOR DO YOU USE???
Its coming together Ms. Faye!! I really like what you have so far! So sorry about your pants, but you have accomplished a lot already.
ReplyDeleteThose pants really through me for a loop after having put so much work into them. But on to another pattern.
DeleteI use Befunky.com for photo editing and collages. It is free and works well!
ReplyDeleteFree is what I need Vanessa!
DeletePiece by piece your collection is coming together. Looking good!
ReplyDeleteThank you Irene!
DeleteI love your goal of 16 pieces - it makes a lot of sense! I think as sewists we can fall into such random and rather "orphan" makes that look great but fail to go with anything in our closet :) I love your Blackwood cardigan! The photo edit program I used is paint.net but you have to be very careful you go to the RIGHT SITE to download it because there are so many sites that deceptively lead you to believe you are on the official site and they're just trolling for victims. This is my cpu instructor's web site in Kitchener Ontario Canada (very trustworthy fellow that teaches seniors cpu skills at the local community centre) where you can find links to programs that are useful such as paint.net http://bitsbytes.ca/links.htm Happy Holidays to you Faye and all the very best to you and your loved ones for 2018!
ReplyDeleteKathleen thank you so much for your input on my 16 piece collection. I did not plan out the fabrics or patterns in the beginning for this collection because I often get stuck in the process. So I am trying very hard not to let it be a hodge podge.
DeleteAnd thank you so very much for your professor's trusty link. I am going over there to see if I can figure out how to use that paint.net. Thanks a bunch.
Hi Linda Faye! I love your color pallet and looks like to beginnings of a very cohesive collection. Keep working on this! It's a great idea towards useful wardrobe pieces, which is usually hard for me to maintain while my inspiration is all over the place...like most of us, I'm sure. Keep it up girl!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your vote of confidence Cecil! I'm trying my best to keep it cohesive.
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