#closet core

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I did it. I made a swimsuit and I finished it before my trip. Closet Core Sophie pattern.

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These herringbone pants are done enough to be a wearable tomorrow. Want to take a pants tour?

The buttonholes are hand stitched, which I look forward to doing better in the future. I will redo the top one because I ran out of thread and all I had left was embroidery thread.

After expressing disappointment with my lack of ability to sew a straight line on my last pants, my friend made a crack about it being an optical illusion. I thought this was funny and put it on the back pocket of these pants which is even funnier because they are herringbone and do kind of bend the eye.

Good thing I laid out my letters with highlighter.

Good thing the highlighter didn’t wash out. 🙄

I do not install rivets very well right now. Was trying to retrofix this with some pliers and unknowingly made many little holes all over the pants by hardware. I’ll have to patch them all later. Also, are you wondering what that mini belt loop looking thing is by the front pocket? Me too. I dunno, I’ll think of something to hang there later.

And here is my beautiful pocket fabric. Closet Core bills this pattern as a “boyfriend jean” style but the pockets are suspiciously girl-clothes-shallow. I added three inches to get them this deep, and I’d still add more next time.

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Undergarments: the final (sewing) frontier. For me, anyway. I guess I’m learning about how to properly fit and modify a bra, but it feels like learning about gravity by falling down a bunch of boulder piles.

If you sew and have resources you like for fitting undergarments, please help a sibling out and pass them along!

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The jeans are going okay. The midterms are… not.

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In which we collectively wonder if I will ever learn from experiences past.

This is the Closet Core Elodie. (I do know how to make things from patterns besides Closet Core- their block is a really good starting place for my body tho).

I made it with two hidden pockets in addition to the patch pockets because this is a travel garment I will be wearing for an upcoming tripe. I enjoyed trying knife pleat trim for the first time.

BUT. I had no left over fabric for self bias tape. And the tape I used is lovely but a bit too thick for the bottom hem. The knife pleat doesn’t read, it comes off looking like just a really bulky turned hem.

So the dress and I are on a break, I’ll come back to it with a better attitude later.

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Closet Core Kalle Tunic

Closet Core Kalle Tunic

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It’s too hot for pants. These shorts are made from hot pink denim I got for another pair of pants. The wrong side is this light pink color. The back has elastic, the front zipper was a retrofit to take out an inch and a half. I could wear these inside out.

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These pants sewed up really fast but fitting wise they were kind of a mess because I insisted on cutting out a pattern without taking my measurements because of ye olde I hate my body feeling. Also didn’t make any kind of test garment. Wound up with pants that are too big even after I took six literal inches out of the crotch. I’m not disassembling them to take the sides in, they can just exist like this. They are made out of shirting so they wear like jammies anyways (kind of).

Closet Core Pietra pants in the widest of wide leg views: