It began last summer when I wanted to have a batik dress, and thought how comfortable it will be in cotton fabric.....and a friend told me that I could join a sewing class which actually meant as additional to my french class to improve my french. So...there I went. I order some batik fabric which didn't reach me after 1.5 month. So I bought fabric here in Geneva. It is thick cotton in lilac colour. I choose the pattern which is available at course and simple (at least has 2 dots mark for difficulty). I adjusted the length of the dress longer, thinking so I could wear it during autumn and winter....and yes I did wear it.
By mistake, I bought too much of fabric, left about 1 meter. My teacher suggest to make a bolero (small jacket) to go with the dress. From available pattern that they have, we have chosen a jacket which the original design is using light fabric. At first we thought, can go without the ruffle, then I changed my mind, I use the ruffle and also lining. For the lining I chose synthetic fabric with similar colour. I have also made the sleeve full length instead of 3/4 sleeve. At the end, I'm short of the fabric again, took me 3 weeks to finally found exactly the same fabric.....thanks to my hubby. And voilà......I love this jacket. It looks gorgeous and I'm glad that I made those changes.
Last finished project is Batik dress that I want at the first place. I found free pattern at Bernina site. By the way, I'm using old Bernina. Even it is older than me hahaha, but it works just fine and some of the feature I haven't really use them, I also bought adaptor with some more feet (I needed foot to sew invisible zipper), tried with ironing method but it was not really neat. This Batik fabric is hand chopped, so it's not like you could buy in meters. I bought it 1 piece with size approx. 1.05 x 2 m. The original pattern actually has wider bottom, I had to slim it down to fit the fabric.... and I need to plan to cut it. Fabric already come in 2 colours, green and yellow. Now this spring and summer........I can wear this.....yippyyyy.
Working on a skirt now....will share once it is finished.....
