What a productive day!

I did laundry, played with my hoops, and made a swimsuit cover up!

I bought this fabric quite a while ago but I procrastinated for a while since I wasn't quite sure exactly what I wanted to do with it.

 While I was in Colorado my sister wore a cover-up that had elastic on the waist and I loved it so I decided to incorporate that along with the extra fabric on the outside which I have seen before and I loved.

I am not sure I will leave the cut of the sleeves this way but I kind of like the sharp curve. I was going for a butterfly like shape along the outsides of the dress. I did not finish the edges and I am not sure I will. I tend to like the unfinished look on casual wear.

I also took apart a dress that I have had for quite sometime because it was way to short but I adored the skirt I could not get rid of the dress.

Now I can wear the skirt with any shirt and it is long enough to be appropriate for work (left picture.) Or I can wear it as a high waist skirt with the original top that was on it (like in the right picture.)

I also must share some recent purchases that I am adoring :) My mother was in town and we did us some shopping! 

I know this one is not everybody's cup of tea but I love the fabric with the simple pattern of the dress. 

And the zipper in back!

I took my mom to Pike Place Market and neither of us could resist the glass earrings. It was so hard to choose they were all so beautiful I wanted them all but these were the first that caught my eye so I went with it!

 

Palazzo pants

Palazzo pants are all the rage these days...

So I made some! 

I found this fabulous cotton print at a local fabric store and I knew it needed to be pants.

I have some pants that I thought I would use for the pattern so I had a plan but when it came time to cut I wanted to make sure it was right so here is the tutorial I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKHiW8z7CXs

I skipped around to see what she was using for the pant legs and I am quite glad I did! I used her pattern for the pant legs in combination with the pants I already had to get the right proportions.

I used a zipper in the back since this is not super stretchy material.

And now I pretty much want to live in them! the fabric was only $7/ yard and I used less than 2 yards! 

And that's not all I made..

The weekend before last, I was a hooping robot in the Fremont Solstice Parade so I whipped this up:

The front and back are symetric

I added this chain to be able to get in and out of it

Unfortunately there are only cell phone pictures of the whole costume with body paint.

Welp that's all I got for now, Thanks for reading :)

Dresses!

I had a sewing marathon today

Here's the latest:

First I did a remake:

I used a dress I already have for the pattern which is very simple

I also made this a few weeks ago:

And then my sister tried it on and wanted one in red so here it is! 

Forgive the weirdness of the jeans underneath!

This dress is made of jersey knit and it is SOOOOOO comfy! I did not want to take it off. 


That's it for now. Short and sweet. If you are interested in how I specifically made any of these let me know and I can post a tutorial!...

PS

Check out my latest hoop video! I had major editing issues but my fellow hooper friend Sara and I had a lot of fun hooping for it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhiBYVja-_U

I made a few things...

Despite the infrequency of my blogging about them I have still been creating things,

Come take a look!

My cousin recently had a baby girl so I made her a cute little hat and gloves set

I used a tutorial for both but kind of used the same principle as the gloves to do the hat so that it has a lining. Here are the links:

http://www.zaaberry.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/baby-hats-tutorial-and-pattern.html\

and

http://treasuresunderthewillowtree.blogspot.com/2012/04/tutorial-newborn-mittens.html?m=1

When I finished those I decided to make a skirt:

Unfortunately I did not take pictures of the final product before I sent it to my sister. Perhaps later I will ask her to model it. I did a full panel of lace over the back side of the skirt. I loved it so much I decided to disregard all other projects and make yet another skirt today :)

I love this fabric and I thought a high wasted circle skirt was necessary to prepare for spring.

As you can see above, I made a rookie mistake when I forgot to turn the sides of the waistband toward each other but I am in no mood for taking out stitches so I called it a happy accident :)  

 I think the inside-out panel adds character! What do you think? I really like it better with a short top so that my torso doesn't just completely disappear.

I have also been hooping a lot. Here is my latest video:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MsNicsanchez

I am about to do two very big video projects with my hooping. One is for a sponsorship and the other is a surprise :)\

That's all for now

Thanks for reading!

Latest projects

Here is what I have been working on recently

I have been quite distracted by work and other things to blog but...

I did actually refashion the shirt I showed at the end of my last post!

I cut the shoulders off and took in the darts on the back which was super easy

I love that the shirt was so long and I didn't take any length off it looks super cute with leggings.

I also had this crazy material: 

 So I made some high waist shorts out of it. I will post in more detail about that later.

 At the moment I am working on a dress for a friend and one for my sister so I am very busy and I will be done as soon as my sewing machine apologizes for her misbehavior and agrees to do as I ask! In the mean time, look how cute our apartment is:   

The room mates, husband, and I spent an afternoon playing with paper and making snowflakes sometime around thanksgiving.

 They have been hanging around ever since :)

Until next time... Happy Monday and thanks for reading!