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Free Flowing Jackets with More Sleeve Detail

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  Sleeve details in next pictures Lovely fabrics All from  G Street Fabrics Store   I am there Sun Mon Tues Wednes and most Sat Sun 11-6 All other days the store is open 9:30 to 7:30 On Sat I am usually there 12-7:30 I make all of my clothes, mostly from Gstreet some are my fabric designs, which I use mostly on my free flowing jackets, sometimes I have an ocasional dress out of my design on sport lycra. The places at the store that I use for these free flowing jackets are the poly special table and digging in the Treasure Hunt Room where we sell bits and pieces from Garment Districts in California and New York.  Some great finds in the 'Treasure Hunt Room' at only 3.97 a yard.  These jackets take 2.5 to 3 yards depending on sleeves and direction of print.  The pants about the same, 60 inch fabric for jackets, Pants can be 45 inch, but need at least 2 7/8 for the narrow fabric, and 3 if tall. Crop tops Just however long you want the crop top. Scarves are si...
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More Sleeve Details to experiment with

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  This is my basic sleeveless dress that is part of a lot of my outfits.  The fabric is sport lycra.  This is something I started doing to throw in my kayak when I go out in case I want to paddle to a restaurant or boardwalk and I can throw it on over a bathing suit and look presentable.   60 inch wide fabric.  You can quickly make the sleeveless base dress by folding as such, and just make the scoop on one a little lower so it is the front.  This is using a stretch fabric, suchas sport lycra, ponte knit, st matte jersey, scuba. The fabric print is one of my personal prints, made on Spoonflower.com.   No, it is not cheap, but I am many times unique.  Fold over to center on one side.... foldover to center on the other side... then fold in half so both folds are on the outside. This is a regular freeflowing jacket that I make, but the sleeve details changed.  I cut the sleeve elbow length and then cut two large squares of the same fab...
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Rectangles and more Rectangles ....Collar Details make a difference

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  Colors are nice, but the details make it better Sad until I pulled the collar out and over...and always the scarves. This was a piece of fabric no quite big enough to make a whole jacket..... I folded it over so that I could see on the fold a big enough cut for the back of a jacket, but not necessarily long enough for my liking.   The second piece was too narrow to be the two fronts, so I added a long rectangle of a fabric from my stash to give the width I wanted across the front.  The next piece left was two rectangles I could use for sleeves.  Again, they needed length to make me happy to the banding piece added width to the front rectangles, and length to the bottom and then length to the two sleeves.   I did no curvature to the armholes, I just centered the sleeve rectangles to the shoulder seams and sewn on , just folded tthem in half and made a seam down the middle and all the way down to the side and bottom. Detail in the banding and the colla...
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Little Details.... New Wardrobe pieces

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  Just got back from 3 Wonderful calm weeks at the Beach....Love the Beach I have been wanting to do this outfit.   If you were not there when I wore it at work... well It is Flourescent Coral!!!  I love colorful finds. You can see I made a pair of earrings to go with the pants color, the crop top color and the floral jacket color fabric. All fabrics, except for the jackets come from Gstreetfabrics , where I work. As you can see I have many scarves.  I make a scarf and earrings first for every piece of an outfit.  Then I am forced to finish the outfit so I can wear them all together.   I found a scrap of dark green chiffon that hung beautifully, so I made a couple of scarves out of it, because I wear many floral designs that have dark green leaves and thought it would be a nice add to any other color scarves to give a classy feminine accent. The jacket is one of my free flowing jackets...I have many designs, they are my designs...the print on the ...
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Beachwear -Unique Long Cotton Jackets with Eyelet Sleeves and Side Pockets

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Rainy Day Beach Save   Grandchildren couldn't come....Last minute throw in a Machine Things I hadn't gotten around to in My Stash The center part of the Jackets front and back were originally displayed on the wall at GStreet Fabrics   I looked at them Everyday from the cashier spot for months.  When they finally  Took them down from the Wall and no one had bought them, I did at the sale discount...I just knew I could figure out a way to make All cotton Jackets that would be unique, and save most of the artists picture on the fabric...They had to be a square designed Jacket. I used the panel Pictures for the Back and fronts and added  square pieces of cotton eyelet and then banded with our solid cottons that matched...adding wide Bias tape for lengthening the sleeves and adding color to pull them together.  As you can see I laid them out first and decided how I wanted the colors to look, and the same with the eyelet, I only had so much eyelet trim  from...
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Light Airy and Comfortable with Scraps

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  I found this piece of black double gauze in G Streets 'Treasure Hunt Room'   I do love that room.  So I folded it over cut a hole in the center of the fold and made a baggy top, there was enough scrap left to add a littl piece on the end of the make shift sleeves that were wide from the fabric width and I added some scrap white to the top and sleeves and bottom.  I decided to add some Eyelet to the edges for a little fancier beach comfy top. The pants are just thick cotton that are baggy with a drawstring and elastic at the waist, pockets and the bottom folded up and over and then top stitched like a cuff. Fast fun and ready for vacation.
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Latest Make Your Own Style

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  Make Your Own Style by Necessity- No pattern This is my style.  Roomy and comfortable.   I have written about my auto-immune disease, which needs large sleeves and comfortable clothes.  No exposure to sun, but cool and comfortable. This outfit was a large shawl that someone at work gave to me when they came back from traveling.  I loved the colors, but I would never wear a shawl, so I made a top out of it.  Of course, because it was a shawl, there was not enough fabric to make a traditional blouse, but I could with a little extra fabric inserted.  This is how I made it.  Folded over part that was enough for almost a front and back and cut a boat neck on the top fold.  I needed to add to the sides and the left over rectangles to make baggy arms and wide enough for my hips.   I found some hunter green chiffon or georgette and just doubled over a strip big enough to add a couple of inches to both the rectangles for the sleeves a...
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