Summer Outfit!

Beach Time

Hello dear friends, today with my last post for summer outfits, at least in my plans.  However, sewing summer outfits is something I do during the whole year because I am always waiting for cute patterns and wonderful inspirations to sew more beach outfits.  And yes! at the end that is what it matters to me, hot weather and beach;  It might has to do a lot because I am a tropical bird. I was born in a warm city with tropical weather in Colombia.

So for this last summer project I have made the pattern M7756 from McCall pattern company; it is portrayed as a not bra outfit, so it might not be convenient for  every body's taste. however in Colombia there is a saying that in English it does not rhyme: " the fashion trends are not uncomfortable" aka " la moda no incomoda".  anyways, it is not really true, walking the streets of Colombia you can find lots of people that could use fashion etiquette for certain body types.

here it is my outfit: 

 Outfit Details

Fabric: it is a white floral jersey knit

Store: fabric.com

Pattern: McCall  M7756

I always wonder why do I end up missing my feet during the picture alignment ?!

I hope you liked my post and find motivation or inspiration in it, as usual it is a pleasure for me to share my projects with all of you and the outfit detaisl.

God Bless you all xxxoooo 

The Jessica Dress

Pattern by Mimi G

Dear friends, here I am today with a cute dress and new favorite pattern from Mimi G Style.  A few months ago she gave this pattern for free and I jumped in and got mine, It was a downloadable file, you can print it at home or at a store.  It runs by letter sizes like S, M, L etc.  I cut the size M and even thou the pattern call for only 0.3 mm I had to sew a lot more than that to fit me. 

I love this pattern, I am ready to make it much more of what I thought at the beginning, it is easy, simple and elegant; you can make the skirt in many different lengths of  your preference and me personally, I feel the dress can be used all year, spring, summer and fall.  You can add a simple Torero or a long sleeve shirt under the dress and you will be warm if needed.  Here is the mine!

DETAILS

PATTERN: The Jessica Dress by Mimi G Style

FABRIC: It is a wonderful poplin ( I love it)

STORE: fabric.com

NOTES: I want you guys to know, just in case any of you love the fabric as much as I do.  I bought this fabric many years ago in the only store and I have been waiting to sew it into the perfect pattern.  So my point is, I am not sure if they still have this fabric.

So this is my dress! what do you guys think?  Please let me know. 

I love to hear from you guys and all of you are the main motivation for my blog.  You can find me in Instagram and Facebook, the links are all the way at the top left of my website in the menu where you find my profile. 

God Bless you all xxxooo

A Sexy Dress

Twist Front Dress

Hello my dear friends, today in my blog I am introducing another sexy dress that was totally handmade by me, fitted to contour my body and red that is my favorite color. 

The pattern is from the McCall company, I enjoyed and I would love to make another one;There was only one single fitting adjustment that I made at the waist area in the back pattern, so look in the notes below and I will give you more details. 

PATTERN:  McCall M7429

FABRIC: Red scuba knit

FABRIC STORE: Jo-Ann fabric store in Kennesaw.

FITTING ADJUSTMENT NOTE:
This dress have not darts to make fitting adjustments and I also knit fabrics with dart looks kind of awkward.  So what we can do since this pattern is not cut on fold is: right around the waist line in the center back you are going to make half a dart with bowed lines instead of straight lines, just because the curves makes the adjustment softer.
I adjust my pattern and dresses to my body, Instead of trying to adjust my body to ridiculous measurements.

This is my Result!

I hope you all enjoyed this post and can find it interesting and inspiring.

Have a nice week and God Bless you All!

xxxxooooo

Less Boring Tops

Me Made M6963

Hello my dear friends, today in my blog the example of less boring shirts and more casual outfits.

Today I bring to you the pattern made by Palmer Pletsch M6963 in McCall's Pattern Company, I must say that it is not a very tight fit, it is quite loose the main reason why I chose to make this pattern but also the necklace make it very casual and sophisticated. 

I love making tops and the main reason is because usually I wear lot of pants, so I need something that brings out my creativity and reminds me of what I am capable of with my talent. I would love to make more skirts and that is a future goal but by now that I expend 90% of my day running after my son, biking and flipping ourselves around, I think it is best if I can keep my butt covered ☺☺☺.

Fabric : knit floral bouquet 

Fabric Store: fabric.com

Pattern: M6963 

I have years buying from this store, this is not sponsored commercial but I wanted you to know that it is a place you can trust.

I would love to make this pattern again, however it is not the best for my wide shoulders, but it is a need to have such a top for the date night with my husband or for those moments that I don't  to look so dull.  I am looking forward to make more tops and bring my reviews to you guys.

Thank you for coming back to my blog and enjoy my posts, I will be back soon. 

God Bless You All!

A Pink Tunic

For shirt/tunic lovers

Hello my dear friends, today for you is the review of this beautiful tunic or shirt that many women are loving for the comfort that it bring to us; I must say that it provides plenty of space to move our bodies around while still it has a good fit, so I would not call it an over sized shirt.

Before starting to sew this shirt, I washed the fabric to prevent any shrinking of the fabric after the garment is done, because when it happens, it is so terrible.  So while the fabric did not shrink, I did saw some whitish spots in the fabric when I was taking out of the washer  machine and I thought that was ruined, well it was spots of fabric that have been drying already, so guess what???  this fabric is just perfect material for those hot summers.    Good to know! 

Fabric: shirting fabric 

fabric store: local fabric store in Cartagena, Colombia.

Pattern: Vogue 1509 from McCalls

Embroidery: It is an Elephant built in the emboridery memory of my brother sewing machine 

Review

About this pattern, I love it and I can not wait to finish the valances of my son's room to make another one. 

•  I make a change to the pattern. Instead of rolling my sleeves up, I rather make the sleeve 3/4 and avoid myself  having the issue of one sleeve shorter than the other. I cut it at 17" long.
• The fit is perfect and I have plenty of space to move around in it  and the best yet, it covers my butt so you can perfectly wear this tunic with leggings and not to worry so much about revealing so much. 

This is all for now, I hope you enjoy the review and notes about this wonderful pattern that I can not wait to make again and my neighbors love so much. 

Have a wonderful week, God Bless you all!

Little Black Dress

 Outfit for any occasion!

Hello my dear friends, today I have the pleasure to bring my new black dress that finally I could incorporate into my wardrobe.   It is such a need to have a black casual attire; And during the month November of 2017 I had to get in my closet, give away garments that didn't fit me any more and those that I really don't wear.  So after such a hard task, I made a list of things that I need and the black dress was top #1.  

Information  about the dress

Pattern: 

from McCall M6920, which I love and I plan on sewing it again. I made the version D without sleeves.

the fabric: 

is a beautiful black scuba knit, also it is a medium weight. 

Store:

 from Jo Ann stores. 

I hope you all like my post, you will find the links of the pattern and fabric above in information. 

I will be back soon with new projects, Until then

 God Bless you!  xxoo

Bedding Set For my Son

The Quilt

Hello my dear friends and readers, finally I am back at my Blog after some months of only appearing in the Julie Harris Creations Facebook and in the Instagram account; The reason behind all that is because finally we got to moved to our new house and organizing and putting everything in place, just me and a 4 years old toddler is a lot. So here we are! making the new bed decor for my son, which I have managed to make it myself ever since he was born and now that he is a toddler was time for a new face and bigger bed.  

I have to tell you this is my first Quilt ever so in the pictures below, I hope you enjoy my experience, the result of my hard work and also some tips and sources that made all this possible.

As usual the information:

size of the quilt: full

Dr Seuss fabric: JoAnn Stores

blue and red fabric: JoAnn Stores 

batting for a quilt: warm and white full size

spray adhesive brand :  spray and bond

My mitered corners I learned it from a class I took with Eileen Roche in Craftsy: the machine embroidery quilt. I can say it was an amazing class and another option for quilts.

And Yes, I did all my quilt binding by hand, I fully enjoyed and you can not see the stitches in the other side of the quilt, which makes it very clean.

Information for a continuous bias binding, I learned from this girl Whitney sews in YouTube.

The serpentine stitch is the one that I used for the quilt, I only had to feed the fabric as if I would be sewing in straight line and the machine did all the job for me.  I am going to try to upload my short video about it. however that stitch I made it as wide and long as possible to cover that big quilt in a home sewing machine and the experience was great.  I loved it and I am happy with the result.

Now all I need is to work in the window treatment of his room and get his bedroom finished!  I hope this post come in handy to many of you.

May God Bless you and have a nice day!

Me Made Bermuda Pants

Today's fit pant  

Hello my dear friends, I have been working for months in a hard technique: Fitting Pants;  And although I have plenty of material and books to work on it, most of my books are in a storage unit until probably the end of January when we will be moving into our new house, however, I am not a person that like waiting to much for my projects so I took a class or two in my favorite platform Craftsy ( this is not a paid propaganda at all, I truly recommend it) and here is my result, I am very pleased with it and I will explain why!

TIPS!

• I took the class Pant fitting Techniques with Sandra Betzina which includes the pattern V2948 
• Easy fitting the Palmer/pletch way with Patty Palmer and Mellissa Watson, also includes the pattern M6901
• fabric for this bermuda pants is 6oz Denim (non stretch)  from Jo Ann fabric store

My twin sister asked me why the pants are not tight? well, the result I wanted is to fix the pattern to make elegant, dressy and comfortable pants.  A woman not necessarily needs to be tight all the time and it is also a matter of taste; I like to have a variety of pants and shorts. 

This is picture above is my pants before, I enjoyed everything except those cat whiskers at the crotch area.  I am not trying to insult anyone but I will leave those mistakes for people with not knowledge about pant fittings or how every pattern doesn't fit the same way every body. Some people don't care about it but if  I am making something, that something needs to be good.  Mediocrity is not part of me. 

 Here you guys can see that I took me more than 3 muslin to make the right pants and also at least 3 months because I don't have the time to work in projects for long time during the day, I have a 4 year old boy that stays home and I can only work when he take a 1 hour nap.

This white designer pants that you guys see in the picture above is what drove my desire to work in a pattern to recreate the look in the future (you don't see the ugly cat whiskers) and my Bermuda pant in this post was my first result to feel it and wear it to see if it needs some other fixings.  Obviously I still can make my pants leg wider of slimmer to make more looks and outfits thanks to the front and back lines that allows me to make changes in the pattern.

I hope you guys enjoyed this  post about pant fitting, I recommend those Craftsy classes if you feel lost in the subject plus have the pattern included.  Don't forget to subscribe to my blog and follow me in the social media.

God Bless You All!

My Cowl Neck and Open Back Dress

My Vogue 1531

Hello my dear readers, this time I am bringing a review of the vogue pattern V1531 by the designer Julia Alarcon from the McCall pattern company.   Let's first start by saying that this dress is an eye catcher and I am not kidding.  I felt like the bright star of the night in every hall that I walked in my last trip with my family, if you are trying to get somebody's attention, I highly recommend this pattern.

To make this dress I didn't make any changes to the dress at all, I really love the fact that it snuggles my body and I still don't feel embarrass about it (  I have to much time needing to exercise but I don't have time, I don't have space and let me say I just miss Florida where I could do it at any time and anywhere).

I love the cowl neck, it is like a dress with an accessory included and that is a plus for me.

Fabric: navy crepe suiting

Fabric store: Jo Ann fabric Store

pattern: Vogue 1531

 I love the back opening and besides it doesn't gap; I feel the dress is elegant, lovely and sexy but it still keeps the image of a married woman with a 3 years old boy. I did have lots of fun with the dress and it didn't keep me from holding and playing with my son.

Let me know what do you think of my dress, I wish all of you a happy new Year in 2018 and don't forget to subscribe to my blog and follow me in the social media.

God Bless You!