DIY Tutorial - GOLD MAXI SKIRT!

Hi! This post was meant to be published yesterday but I feel asleep before I could do so. Anyways Gemma from fashionvent.wordpress.com has been very kind and has prepared a lovely DIY tutorial for DIY Tuesday (well now Wednesday). Thanks Gemma! (Be sure to give her blog a visit!)

DIY Gold Maxi Skirt

It only cost me €6.95 ($10.60) and took an hour to make and the finished result looks really 

professional.

Here's what you'll need:

Quest to make New Girl's Jess's clothing

I have joined Rosy on the quest to make Jess's clothes from New Girl over at http://sewingadicta.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/new-girl-strikes-again.html#comment-form. The adventure has begun by making the green dress (as shown above) first, there is no sign up or anything, you can join when you want and make what you like. 

I'm taking the Seamless Pledge!

I Sofia am taking the #seamlesspledge until there is something I find which I can’t resist and  it is begging me to buy it. Here is where you can join to http://seamlessblog.wordpress.com/the-pledge/.  Here are the things I must stay by during my commitment to the pledge:

THE RULES

1. No buying new clothes for the duration of your pledge. By new, I mean any new mass-manufactured clothes.
2. You can buy second-hand manufactured clothes – so be prepared to get to know your local charity shops awfully well.
3. Vintage clothing is a-ok!
4. Anything you’ve made by hand is definitely allowed. Get your sewing machines and your kntting needles out, because handmade is definitely in!

Lets begin!

DIY- Ruffle Throw Pillow Cover

You will need two different fabrics of your choice for this project – one for the case itself, and one for the ruffles. I chose grey chiffon and taffeta. I bought 1 yard of the chiffon (used for the case) and 1 yard of the taffeta (used for the ruffles). My pillow was approximately 12”x24” and there was plenty of fabric left over.

Finished Butterick 5607

Everything happens eventually happens in time. Patience is the key and unfortunately I do not have this, but how I sew without patience is unanswerable. My butterick 5607 dress took me a week to make and half an hour to hem and iron 2 months later. I couldn't believe I finished it. The point I am getting at is I finally finished my dress that I never thought I would finish, but I finally have. I am going to review the pattern the pattern, so keep reading below. My first official dress finished and wearable in public.

Here is the result: 

 

Pattern Review

A Bad Addiction (I can't help it)

Some of us obsessions/addictions to all sorts of things, I'm pretty sure everyone does. Just like my obsession with buying endless numbers of dresses and shoes at a consistent rate (that being every time we go shopping), my new addiction is buying sewing patterns. I recently found some really great stores at ArtFire; Sewinghappyplace (http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/sewinghappyplace) and TodaysTreasure (http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/TodaysTreasure), I couldn't limit myself to buying just one instead I bought 6 vintage patterns (and I don't think I'm finished). Here they are, I couldn't decide which one to buy, so I bought them all:

Vintage 60s Straight Flared Dress Pattern Size 12 Simplicity 5036

Dress Slip Overdress Pattern McCalls 8992 Size 12 Vintage 1960s

Misses Shirtwaist Dress Pattern Size 14.5 Mail Order 4627

Sewing Floral 60s: UPDATE Part #2

As promised I will show my creation of the space gown which is currently incomplete, the gown is to have futuristic features, although due to time I was unable to finish. But here are my sketches to show my ideas. Before I show you them, here are some dresses that inspired me:

My sketches of possible ideas (even though they aren't good)

 Idea 1:

Sewing Floral 60s: UPDATE! Part #1

So it has been almost a month since I have been on, I have very busy again. Although coming to the bright side I have found time to show my new dresses I have been working on. Recently I had a textiles assignment and I had to create  a futuristic gown for a ball in the year 2040, however I was unable to finish it. I only got the dress done but not the accessories. As previously stated I had bought the pattern Butterick 5607 and made my first dress to test the pattern out and later on I had to use the pattern for my school assignment but had to make adjustments. So here is the dress I first worked on, I didn't end up buying floral material for the dress because this satin material was meant for my assignment but I changed my mind. Although I did buy some vintage floral sateen recently at Spotlight for a great deal. Anyway here is my first one (I haven't done the hems yet):

Front

Back

Feature- Hold Your Horses

I’m sure every girl can agree that seeing someone else wearing the same outfit as you is a worst nightmare come true and with mass produced products and brands being sold in popular stores, it isn’t an uncommon situation to be stuck in. We all know that the awkward “Hey, nice dress…” comment is really just a cover up for the underlying feeling of frustration and the secret promise you make to yourself that you will never wear that dress again.

This is what sparked a small fire within 18 year old Australian student, Lima Rose, who felt that she and every other woman should be able to wear quality clothing that no one else in the world owned. With her newfound feeling that she had to make a difference, backed by years of knowledge about the clothing industry, came the arrival of her own fashion label Hold Your Horses.  Together with her mother, they share over 40 years’ experience designing, pattern-making and sewing exclusive garments for high end designers, manufacturers and private clientele. Their aim is simple: to create top quality, one-off or limited edition garments at affordable prices. 

Founded in mid-April 2012 as a Facebook store, their fan base has rapidly grown to around 1,200 likers from all around the world – and it is still growing. HYH then opened their online Storenvy store in June, creating a market largely in the U.S.A. and Europe. In the future, they hope to stock garments in local stores or in a small store of their own.

Their amazing creations range from dresses, to vintage recreated shorts, to onesies, with prices for their products being anywhere between $4AUD and

Sewing Floral 60s

I love the 60s and find it as a very inspirational fashion era, everything of the 60s was lovely. Have you wanted to go back in time just to wear the fashion of a particular decade? Well I have and do. I bought a sewing pattern, 'Butterick b5607', recently from spotlight and because I am still learning in sewing I bought an easy one, which specifically had easy labelled on the back, I read through the pattern instructions and when they said easy they really mean it. I collaged a source of inspiration for my self, I really want to create a bright and colourful dress which can be worn to any occasion. Well here is all the designs the pattern offer, it's really only two style of dresses but with extra features on each one:

Floral 60s by lovalafashion featuring clutch handbags

Lace up oxford
$29 - owntherunway.com

Clutch handbag
$39 - modcloth.com




I really like the bag, it is so pretty! I am going to make one, soon I hope and then it will be up on my etsy store.

 Well here is all the designs the pattern offer, it's really only two style of dresses but with extra features on each one:

I want to create dress B with feature G, the girl in the right top corner is the one wearing the design. The colour and use of this satin as

DIY bow shirt

Paige Cleary from instagram has made an amazing bow shirt, which looks really fashionable and fantastic. She has allowed me to featured her DIY on here to share with everyone. 

Materials :

Tshirt (anything but a v-neck)

Scissors

Needle

Thread

Optional:

Thick tipped Fabric markers

Bedazzler

Steps:

Basting stitch

Basting is a temporary stitching (a.k.a tacking), which holds two or more layers of fabric in place until it has been stitched together properly. Basting can be done two ways by hand or by using a sewing machine, if doing it by hand, simply use a straight running stitch and the basting is to be done by machine, use a long-length straight stitch.

Finished product

Well I've finally finished the wallet I said I was making and I figured out that my sewing machine was in the wrong settings and I was using wrong needles. Anyway here's the finished product.

Welcome to LovaLaFashion :)

Hi everyone (I'm not sure I should say everyone yet though), I'm new to this whole blogging thing so please be calm. I'm guessing you are here because you like fashion; dresses, skirts, fancy/casual print tops, shoes especially heels, hair accessories, jewelry accessories the works, old shows & new  shows, old fashioned trends and the latest, to see famous stars in their nicest clothes or maybe just for fun. Well if you did end up here by mistake or not, you are at the right place, here you will find my inspirational outfits, Zooey Deschanel ('New Girl' outfit inspirations sometimes), the beautiful Emma Stone, Nina Dobrev, Taylor Swift, Adele, Robert Patterson and Kristen Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leighton Meester, Hilary Duff, Jennifer Lawerence, Anne Hathaway, Sophia Bush, Alexa Chung, Amanda Bynes, Troian Bellisario, Ellen page and sometimes random inspirations of models I find. I Just want to thank Scatheringbrilliant.blogspot.com for inspiring me to start my own blog and I also love her outfits (which are 60s based, also thank you Kate). I like old shows and actresses and actors and vampire books (including Harry potter even though it is not a vampire book). I listen to a variety of music from Taylor Swift, Adele, Owl City, etc. Finally I love to talk a lot as you can see.One last thing I love the internet for giving me access to these things, there is more but I will keep that for later. Thx for reading :) Please follow lovalafashion.tumblr.com to keep posted of the latest on tumblr. (I will try to update daily)