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So!
I have some new-to-me clothes and some straight-up NEW clothes. And I also have some fabric.
I have turquoise cotton fabric to make a shift/sheath dress (same style as my pink one that I made a few years ago), turquoise corduroy-esque fabric to make a skirt - maybe one like this - and we'll see if I have extra left over for anything else.
I've also got 2m of heavy black suiting fabric with a tone-on-tone geometric glittery print, which I used to lengthen my GGLA gown, and I'd like to make a suit-like ensemble with it. A bit like if you crossed this with this and/or this.
Basically, I want a knee-length, possibly-asymmetrical, mermaid skirt with a matching cropped jacket with full-length sleeves.
I can figure out the skirt. I might even have a pattern I can tweak to get it to do what I want.
And I can probably make the body of the jacket, even if I have to do it in a fairly wasteful way where I make a boxy jacket and then tailor it so that it has a bit more shaping. But the sleeves are scaring me to death. I've only done sleeves once, and they wound up puffier than I'd like (it was for the black-net bolero/shrug I made to go with my wedding gown in 2012, so that extra poof was fine... it's just it was also not quite what I was going for and I'm not sure how to avoid that when working with heavier material).
So that's what's on my mind. >.>
I have some new-to-me clothes and some straight-up NEW clothes. And I also have some fabric.
I have turquoise cotton fabric to make a shift/sheath dress (same style as my pink one that I made a few years ago), turquoise corduroy-esque fabric to make a skirt - maybe one like this - and we'll see if I have extra left over for anything else.
I've also got 2m of heavy black suiting fabric with a tone-on-tone geometric glittery print, which I used to lengthen my GGLA gown, and I'd like to make a suit-like ensemble with it. A bit like if you crossed this with this and/or this.
Basically, I want a knee-length, possibly-asymmetrical, mermaid skirt with a matching cropped jacket with full-length sleeves.
I can figure out the skirt. I might even have a pattern I can tweak to get it to do what I want.
And I can probably make the body of the jacket, even if I have to do it in a fairly wasteful way where I make a boxy jacket and then tailor it so that it has a bit more shaping. But the sleeves are scaring me to death. I've only done sleeves once, and they wound up puffier than I'd like (it was for the black-net bolero/shrug I made to go with my wedding gown in 2012, so that extra poof was fine... it's just it was also not quite what I was going for and I'm not sure how to avoid that when working with heavier material).
So that's what's on my mind. >.>