More knitting than sewing

In the past few weeks I’ve done more knitting than sewing. The sewing mojo was gone. A few reasons for it but the most important one is that I have been redecorating and organising my sewing room. Which has resulted in it being more messy than usual and not inspiring at all. Last weekend the painting was done and gradually I’m feeling I can do something again. 

My current knitting project is the Ivy top from Petiteknit. I’m using remnant yarn from earlier projects of both my daughter (who is an avid knitter) and myself. To get an idea of how to work the stripes I made a drawing of how it could look like:

The result so far is promising.

As the pattern is designed for negative ease, which I don’t like, I used a larger size than I normally would. Even then I added some extra increasess for the bust area. The top down knitting makes that you can easily fit during the knitting process and I think it’s okay. I’ll be ready for summer (which is still a long way off). 

Sewy Rebecca bra

 

Presenting my latest lingerie set. I’m so happy to have sewn two new complete sets recently. I’ve not been sewing lingerie in a long time and when I did, it seldom were sets. After trying other patterns I will stick to Sewy patterns (at least in the near future). Great fit for me and I’m done with disappointing patterns that don’t give me good results. I’m absolutely not saying that there is anything wrong with other patterns, but they are not for my shape. As in rtw bras, where there is only one brand that I like the fit of, this is my preferred pattern brand for bras.  

The panty/brief is also a Sewy pattern, with the same name: Rebecca.  

The second panty is a copy of a rtw one. As I’ve shown in my previous post, I used the last scraps of lace and sewn them to mesh fabric. I like the result with the trim from elastic. Not symmetrical at all this one, but glad it worked out like this. 

Most of the materials used are from Small Bobbins, with some additions from my stash. 

I did show you a photo from two kits I bought. Here’s the other set:

A new set in progress

 Isn’t this a wonderful lace? The photos don’t show the little blue light reflecting parts very well but even without these I still think it’s beautiful. I bought a kit at Small Bobbins in Belgium. I added a few parts from my stash, as the kit didn’t have any lycra and the shoulder straps were a bit narrow for me. Which was a pity, as the kit contained really special shoulder straps in velvet.

A few details of the bra.

The inside. I like the cup lining: thin but giving support. 

I’m making two panties to go with it, but as the bra took a lot of lace I had only remnants left for the second one and couldn’t cut a complete part from it. So I used mesh and put the lace on top. Then finished the cut edge with a trim from elastic. Haven’t finished the panties yet and I’m curious myself how it will look. 

Another project I almost finished, a velvet jacket. More on that one later.