June Accessory Month ( I challenge you)

This month of June will be the challenge month for making accessories for the clothes you already have in your closet or the clothes you have already created. Go to http://facebook.com/pattycasandra  I challenge you. There will be an  surprise accessory sent to a lucky winner at the end of the month. Go join in and make your self something nice

These are what I made so far. I think I will make a belt next.

Peplum Style Apparel

I love peplum style apparel.. The history of the peplum dates back to Ancient Greek Fashion. The last 2 years people have been adding more of this style to their wardrobe. The style has been circulating a little more this year 2013. Here i have found pictures of some peplum apparel.

Clutch Purse (placemat)

 2 pace mats

inside lining placemate (cut)

smaller placemat made for inside pockets

sewn onto outside placemat

folded over and sewn like and envelope

Ribbon and button added

The Making of the Sweater Handbag

Hi fellow bloggers.  I finally have gotten around to making a video.  I decided to do one on handbags. I hope you enjoy.
Making a Sweater Handbag

Fall 2012 Fashion Style

From Marie Claire

Calvin Klein

For day, wear with camisole, and for night, let the cleavage out to play (safely encased in chiffon, of course)

I have noticed a lot of block styles and retro in the last 2 years.  This is classy, modest to edgy and a little retro. 

I like it.

Ralph Lauren

If The Legend of Bagger Vance, Downton Abbey, and Boardwalk Empire had a baby, it would dress like this and it would be AWESOME

This retro style 70's is what is in but it is gonna take a little more time to get some people on board. Me i will never be on board like the picture to the left. But i do like the retro 70's

Peter Som

According to Peter Som, we'll be wearing white well past labor day — and we can't wait!

I love white One of my favorite colors.  I love everything about this outfit

For Your Fashion Information

This is the forecast  for the future. I actually see some of these fashions now.  

                     

Dezire Collection 2012

This is part of my 2012 Dizire Collection

Winter

2010 Swice Collection

The 2010 Swice Collection

Vintage on board

I was always found of vintage type clothes. I love watching the old black and white movies. Those dresses that they wore was to die for dresses. I just love love them. I still will catch a movie on Saturaday just to see the clothes. I go to resale stores to find pattern. So here are some i have found over the years

Look-A-Likes

Of course every time i go to the store to buy me something i look at it and say " I'm not gonna buy that cause i can make it" I am sure all of us Sewing Divas say that. But the thing with me is i never do unless i really realy like it. Well this time i said i will start taking pictures of the stuff i want to make. What do you know it worked. I went home and made this top

This is the top i copied. I did a great job. :)

I Don't Know? HELP

I really have no idea what these are. If someone could be so kind and tell me. Please. The ideas i know probaly came from the turkish pants/mc hammer pants. I call myself trying yo make them by memory but my memory fall me cause i was way off. I just had to go back to that store and take pic, If i had more time i would have tried them on just to see the fit of them. These dang on pants, skirt or dress got me so curious its crazy, i gotta go back to that store and try them on. But anywho here ther are.

Nighties for Lauren

This is Lauren in some nighties that i quickly stitched before here journey home to Virgina. She had be asking for some nighties since she's been here. Not realizing that my time had run out i quickly whipped up her a little nighty dreess with the little matching slippers. I think i did a ok job to be rushing.

My harlem pants

I saw this romper that I adored in a clothes store I think it was Citi Trends. You would have thought that it was a dress at first. Anybody that knows me know that i have to eye disect the whole outfit.
I am always courious as to how certain clothes are contructed. Even though i know i like to see how the particular brand made it.
Then I look up under what i thought was the skirt part of the dress. I was in shock. I said in a low voice what the hell is this.
After looking, touching and feeling and disecting it with my eyes, I said mmmm..... this is kinda cute. It was a light blue jean material and it had a poof skirt section which was sewed together so that it look like a big pant. the leg part had elastic in it. It was also a tube top style dress. After looking at it I said to myself I can make that. But i always say that never make nothing maybe something close.

I look all over the net for 2 days for the name of this attire. I think I want to go back and get that outfit and post it here although I am sure people have seen this outfit before.

Finally that second day I said to myself well they almost look like those pants that the tukish people wear. I statred looking up turkish pants. Guess what popped up? MC Hammer pants. I said to myself DAH.

So now that i am on the right track maybe i will find them. Nope I did not find the exact outfit. But what i did find was an idea for somthing else. I came up with this bright idea of mine. I have a stash of clothes that I have made years ago and a ton of stuff that I want to refashion and this is what I came up with. A pair of Harlem/Turkish pants or whatever you want to call them. I don't like how the fit me though. I will eventually make a pair that i like because they are so easy.

My Verson

I love looking at fashions. I used to a lot of window shopping. Just to see what the current fashions were. I also love seeing what people like to wear, Everybody have their own style of fashion and i love watching. Now i don't have to go out and window shop any longer. I just turn on my computer and whala. All the fashion i want to look at are everywhere. When i see something i like i save the picture to my computer and i will visualize it to what i would like to see different about the garment. Then at some time and point I will then go to my sewing machine and produce what i visualize. I guess you can say they are my inspirational photos. So this was a top that i made but i did not realize that it was one of my inspiration picture

Sweet Sensation

This is my first sample gown that I made from draping that fabric. I think i did a pretty good job considering I learned by watching the videos and reading on how to drape fabric. The thing is is that i have been doing this through out the time i have been sewing.

My Footsies

So as I sat at work one day bored as heck my mind started wondering. When i get home what can i sew that is very easy? I have no idea why my brain said ballet slippers. So...... I decided to make my own little pattern to make the ballet shoes.
After the first pair i decided to do 4 more different type of house slippers. I love to adorn my feet.
I would love it if i could learn how to make shoes. I mean you can never have to many pairs of shoes. BUT for some reason i don't have house slippers. how weird is that. My closet is full of shoes of all kinds dress shoes, casual shoes, flip flops, nurse shoes,gym shoes but where the heck are my house slippers? I would just throw on a pair of flip flop to walk around the house and call it a day. Now I have my footsies to wear and they cute

Princess Lauren

Princess Lauren

What a wonderful word for a little girl named Lauren. All little girls want to be a princess. They want the wand the tiara and of course the princess dress. My granddaughter favorite color right now is purple. I think next year I will make her a purple princess dress. So I thought. My son called me and told me that she is having a princess birthday party. And of course he wanted to know if i could make her dress. I was very hesitant because I never made a little girls glamour dress. I said to him ok let me think about it. Then he drop the bomb. He said "can you let me know soon so I will know If I have to order it." I said "ok I will." I thought and thought and I thought about every bit of 2 minutes thy thought were

"What the heck. I can't let nobody else make my grand baby princess dress and this is her first one too. How hard could it be? Surely not that hard. I have done glamour before this will be just a scaled down version. I can do this yes I can."

And it was done
I decided to make a hot pink instead of her favorite color purple. Who knows that may be here favorite color after she see it.

It was make out of the tulle and a satin material. I decided to put beads on the bodice I think she will like that. I wanted to make it sparkle so I added the long sequin hanging down from the seams of the bodice and the skirt. That put a little sparkle there. But my grand baby and I love bling bling. She must have got that from me ;). So since that was not enough bling for me I decide to make the dress a 2 pc. I made a apron out of sheer organza with sparkles on it. I could be wrong about the material. But it has a lot of sparkles on it. It was just right. (It sounds like I am telling the story of the three bears.) but anyways I know that she is gonna love that dress because she thinks that she is Princess Lauren