What Jane Made http://whatjanemade.com/blog Sat, 04 Aug 2012 03:55:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 WhatJaneMadehttp://feedburner.google.com One Week One Pattern: Day 2 (and 1) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WhatJaneMade/~3/egF7zMT8dGM/ http://whatjanemade.com/blog/blog_mod/one-week-one-pattern-day-2-and-1/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:56:40 +0000 Jane http://whatjanemade.com/?post_type=blog_mod&p=448 This week I am participating in Tilly’s One Week One Pattern blog event… or OWOP (which I like to affectionately pronounce ’oh-woop’).
Since I suck at following directions I thought it was starting a day later then it actually did. It wasn’t until I saw posts by other bloggers like Pincushion Treats and Oonaballoona that I even realized that it started on Saturday and not Sunday. But that’s cool. I’ll just be a day behind everyone else participating.

Now on to my pattern of choice. I used the top from McCall’s 6519.

I chose the top because it was something I could wear to the office Monday through Friday. Also I needed something fairly easy so that I could make 7 of them and not give up half way through. And it was definitely easy! Only 3 pattern pieces if you wanted the pocket so they were really quick to make.

For Sunday’s top I made a casual heather gray knit top w/ a lace pocket. The pattern calls for bias tape around the arm neckholes but I opted to leave the edges raw. Don’t know how good of an idea that was but I like how it turned out.

For Monday’s top I used this animal print jersey (I think it’s jersey) that I found at my local fabric mecca Mary Jo’s Cloth. With this one I switched the pocket to the other side (I totally didn’t even notice this until I looked at the pictures) and instead of a square pocket I made a little pointed one to go on my top in a contrasting black. I left the edges raw on this one too… mostly because I’m lazy.

Looks like I’m rocking a uniboob in this pic but I totally love this one!

Stay tuned for more of this weeks OWOP!

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I started with all of this. It actually looks better in pics, but in person it was a mess and I couldn’t find anything.


I looked around the internet for some storage jars but the cost with shipping was getting up there around $30-$50. Then I decided baby food jars! A look around the internet showed me that other people had the same thing in mind as well. So off I went to walmart to get a crapload of baby food, some spray paint and a silver leaf pen.


After an episode of 90210 and dumping spices in jars and on my floor I was finished and had my new storage!


And ta-da! Now I can just look down and find what spice I need instead of rummaging around through everything.

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THIS dress! Vogue 1280 from Vogue’s recent spring collection has been the bane of my existence for the past few weeks. It has 12 odd shape pieces that seem to go together like a puzzle.
So I’m like cool, this should be easy all I have to do is connect the pieces…. WRONG. I cut all the pieces and then marked each one of them exactly how they were on the instruction pages which took forever. So then I had a big pile of white pieces (my intent was to dye it grey once I finished)
So now it was time to start putting the pieces together which is extremely confusing and after doing about 2 pieces I noticed that if I kept following the directions this dress would have raw edges showing it seemed. The dress as pictured definitely doesn’t have raw edges.
I searched around the internet and no one has posted anything about this dress! I was so frustrated that I couldn’t figure it out that I just threw the pieces in the corner. It just so happened that the new Vogue Magazine has the dress on the cover. Sparking my rage all over again. But alas I’m going to go to Joann’s and flip through it to see if there’s any info on making the dress. I wish there was a 1-800 number that you could call and get help with like Ikea!

Until then I guess I’ll just stalk the internet hoping that someone has made the dress and offered up tips.

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I’m not sure I’ve mentioned on this blog how rediculously extensive my pattern collection is especially seeing as how I only started jumping into sewing in November and have probably complete maybe 4 patterns. But I’m absolutely addicted to patterns and I can’t help it! Joann’s is always having a 99¢ sale and the vintage patterns at the Antique store are only $1-$2 it’s like a must. My friend came over last weekend and called me a hoarder. I said “well they were on sale” and apparently that’s exactly what hoarders say -__-

So do you want to see all my patterns? Of course you do. Please don’t judge me.
Click here to see my 135 patterns.

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Last updated Feb 5 2011!


Vogue 1280

Vogue 1218

Vogue 8787


Vogue 1224

Vogue 1287

Burda 7233


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McCall’s 5534


Butterick 6549

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Sew Liberated Bohemian Carpet Bag

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McCall’s 2017
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I went ahead and took advantage of the Couture Dress workshop sale that was going on on Craftsy. I’m always a sucker for a sale so getting the class at a 50% discount means I’m all in. A cool thing is that it comes with the Vogue 8648 pattern with the course. I’m wavering back and forth between 2 dresses that I’d like to follow along with.

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Now it’s off to go find the perfect fabric. I can’t wait to take this class!

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At least I think this pattern is from the 80′s. It’s Butterick 6549 and I got it off of ebay a couple of weeks ago.

It was really simple and I did buttons for the first time! Like I do with all things that are a first time I put off finishing it for a few days thinking it would be harder than I thought but it really wasn’t at all. The buttons were some gold buttons that I got at The Sleepy Poet Antique Store. I love the buttons! Even thought I put them on side ways -__- (Gives it character)

I really like the dress and I’ll probably wear it to dinner or something. I actually bought some more ponte knit fabric to dye and make another one but the dying didn’t turn out in the color I wanted all. I shortened the dress a lot because it was already potato sackish. But I tend to like a little potato sack mini. I can’t wait to wear this!

Details:
Pattern: Butterick 6529 – $2.99
Fabric: Royal Ponte Knit – $6.29
Notions: Gold Antique Buttons – 25¢

Total Cost – $9.53

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Take a guess at what my favorite libation is? Go ahead guess!
So of course the first kooky cupcake recipe I went looking for was a White Russian Cupcake.
I found the recipe at Baked Perfection. In the spirit of firsts, this was my first time making a cupcake from scratch (not sure why I thought it would be so difficult) and my first time making buttercream icing. The buttercream was soooo sweet, but the Kaluah totally made up for it. All in all I’ll definitely be making these bad boys again, they were really really good!

Check out my Pinterest for a crap load of cupcake recipes. I want to try ALL OF THEM!

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