#make nine

[craftycoola]

make 9: 2024

This year, my Make 9 includes some failures from last year's Make 9, some WIPs, and some projects that need alterations -- alongside the traditional new projects. I love all these works that have been abandoned or forgotten or neglected, and so part of my goal for this year is to give them new life.

I don't know that I'll get to everything, but these are the projects I'd love to get done in 2024.

Tough Love Sock in Sunset Spice (Sweetgeorgia): intended for a knit sweater design

Throttle Moto Jacket in handspun (p: we pull apart the dark): finish spinning yarn and knitting the jacket

Handspun (p: swirling solar winds): intended for a crochet shawl design

Hand-dyed color samples (p: do you love the color of the sky): working on color-matching and then spinning and knitting

Dyed in the Wool in Dear Diary (Spincycle): intended for a crochet headband design

Tough Love Sock in Magician (Sweetgeorgia): intended for a knit pullover design

Pelagia (Borgo de' Pazzi): intended for a knit tee design

Varjo by Anna Johanna (p: we have cookies): sleeves need to be frogged and reknit for a looser fit

Falkland braids (House of Wool): spin separately into gradient yarns and use in some sort of striped shawl (probably knit)

[tiredbiostudent]

posting this late in february and I also have zero expectations of making any/all of these but some 2022 dream knits <3 curating my ravelry has really helped me figure out what kind of clothing I love and what clothing I want to knit !

[orangespicecake]

time to fuck around in powerpoint again

[missanniewhimsy]

Apparently my brain decided it's #MakeNine time, which is awesome because I seriously love planning next years projects, even though I don't really have the time or energy to work on stuff I want atm

If I can narrow it down enough, I'll post here too and everyone can help me pick what to work on as soon as I'm finished with holiday gifts

[orangespicecake]

time for the yearly retrospective and make nine that i spent hours on and will ignore until next year when i want to duplicate the powerpoint

[madduhhline]

Quarantine Life: Houndstooth and Red

This dress was part of my Make Nine project for this year. I love how it turned out and looking at in almost 6 months later makes me wonder why I never wore it to work since we had to return. 

This is another one of those project that you can tell was from the beginning of the year because my hair isn’t pink yet. Whoops, it’s be a strange year but this dress is still fabulous. This was another project I did with Minerva Crafts too!

I dreamt up this dress. The red pops in the waist and matching covered buttons are my favorite part of this dress. It has pockets too! What more can you ask for in a dress?

Gosh, looking at this dress makes me wonder why I haven’t made another one. It fit so nicely right off the back with minimal modifications to the pattern. It has my favorite petticoat on under it too. 

Houndstooth Fabric // Pattern

Happy Sewing!

[madduhhline]

Quarantine Life: Gingham Myosotis

Talk about a dress that doesn’t fit my usual “fit and flare” makes. The Myosotis dress from Deer and Doe is designed to be oversized which feels perfect for all of this staying at home we are doing now days.

I picked up this gingham fabric from my local Joann’s to make this dress and had to order a slip to go under it to be able to wear it out of the house. As you can tell it is a little sheer. I opted for the short sleeved, teared skirt options on this pattern.

I cut based on the size suggested for my measurements which was a size 40. It has about 4 inches worth of ease. The pattern is very straight forward and was pretty easy to put together. I made some bust dart adjustments because of where the darts hit but besides that everything is as written in the pattern.

Added a cheeky tag from Pink Coat Club because this dress totally has room for cake! I started adding tags to my clothes in quarantine because why not?

These earrings are my newest obsession! They are from Human’s Before Handles! Ash Sims is an amazing Black designer that you all need to check out! Her earrings are gorgeous and as she says in her Insta bio, they are Beyonce approved!   

[madduhhline]

Lemony Goodness

This little lemon playsuit may be my most worn look on the cruise we went on in June! 

I actually rescued the lemon fabric from a dress I never wore.I figured the best way would be to turn it into something I would wear more often. This retro playsuit is on Make Nine list for this year! This makes 2 of 9 projects I hoped to complete are finished!

For this pattern I used Vouge v9255 but left out the little middle tie because I didn’t have enough fabric. 

I do wish that I would have made the band for the top a little more snug. While it sat comfortably, I can tell I just need to adjust the button

The shorts and bodice are lined with a simple muslin fabric I had in my stash and the waist and legs both had facings to add to it.

The yellow jacket shown here will also have it’s own post soon!