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Making an outfit and more

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 Its no secret I Love Palazzo Pants I am making a pair of off white pants right now. I cut out 2 fronts 2 backs 4 pockets.. sew the pockets to the pants side seam...sew the side seam and sew the crotch Sew... quickly you have pants with nice pockets.... but no waistband......  fold over the sewn waistband piece leaving a hole in the front center seam for a tie.  So you have sewn your tie piece together and you have two pieces of circle elastic the size of your waist.   sew the elastic into the top row easily, then the tie row and then the bottom elastic row.  This can then be top stitched onto the waist top of your already made pants.   Put your new pants on and for this kind of fabric I just decide where I want them to hit and cut them off...no hemming... Old vintage pattern, can be found online, just put in McCalls 6930 sewing pattern in your search and this pattern is worth its weight in gold to me.... easy quick and can be fancy or just comfor...

Free Flowing Jackets In Kittys Couture Personal Designs

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This was Kitty as a baby and small child.  No not perfect.  Curled feet and tied tongue.  Apparently no crying from me until they figured out my tongue needed to be clipped.  My legs needed casts to turn my legs and curled feet so they would grow properly.  As you can see I wore handmedowns from any cousins, who had any clothes they grew out of.  So, I am obsessed with clothes.  As soon as I got big enough to ask for new clothes and was told they did not think it was something to spend money on, for me....... I said, I will make my own..and I did.  65 years of sewing whatever I wanted! This is my line of free flowing jackets, you may order, if you can be patient.  The fabrics are fabulous, and my own designs. This is actually wild flowers around the lake, when I was kayaking at Black Hills Regional Hummingbird feeders that I loved to observe the little ones around my personal wildflower gardens Lake Reflections When I was kayaking at Clopper ...

New Outfits from my designs and Accompanying fabrics GStreetfabrics.com

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 Wearing My Garden and Natures Best This Jacket is my personal garden of coneflowers, milkweed, snapdragons, various perennials that attract butterflies, hummingbirds, and yellow finches.  At the time I took this picture I made Beveled stained glass windchimes and various stained glass hangers for gardens.   I loved this garden and spent many hours relaxing and destressing watching nature. Kittys Cottage-My favorite place to destress.  The white wicker chairs were my nature thrones for observing.  Imagine the tiny humming birds circling my head as I watched the yellow finches in the garden and on their personal restaurant hangers, upside down. There is nothing like Nature. These are butterflies that I saw landing near my kayaking launch and I later found out that they were getting minerals from the rocks at the lake where I was.  They were tiny, but very colorful. This is a beautiful butterfly I took a picture of and made many designs, on many differen...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...