In this photo, our lovely model (ahem) is sporting original couture creations (again, ahem). Actually, this dress was made from fabric that my BFF's mom gave to me (Lisa's mom tends to by fabric by the bolt, as she's not quite sure what she's planning to do with it when she buys it. You know, she buys that much JUST IN CASE. This is one of the idiosyncrasies that makes me love the woman. Seriously, she's awesome.). I was following a tutorial for making a maxi dress with two rectangles of fabric and two lengths of elastic. I got the top done, but couldn't quite understand how the tutorial was explaining the waistband casing, so I just added a 'belt'. It's a scrap of fabric that I had laying around, and it will change. I'm making a belt that will match. The white cardigan is actually just a t-shirt that I cut up and sewed back in a different way. I discovered how to make t-shirt cardigans, and I'm in LOVE with them. So yeah.
Next up, we have wrap pants. I'm OBSESSED with wrap pants, seriously. They are SO easy to make, and so completely comfortable. Handsome Hubs calls them my Shogun pants, and then does the whole introduction to Sho Nuff from 'The Last Dragon'. Because that's how we roll. But anyhoo, I used this tutorial. It took me four yards of fabric (will take way less for smaller folks), and I ended up cutting/hemming about half a yard because it was too much. Total time was less than an hour. The red ties are the ribbon I used for ties on the pants. The blue tank was bought, and there's that white cardigan again. Here's a photo so that you can see leg width:
I also made a skirt with some of the BFF-mom-donated fabric. I have some left, too. I'm planning on a pair of brown wrap pants in addition to the black. Will keep on truckin'..... what a long, strange stitch it's been.
