There is a new Fibre Mood * released and I got to sew a great sweater from it, the Ellis sweater . The Ellis sweater is very quick sew but stands out because of the split neckband and waistband, such a fun detail! And of course the diagonal colour block is right up my alley. Our girl picked out the fabric herself, at least the fireworks fabric. I picked out the matching fabric. The print works well with the large piece. The sweater is a bit roomy, that is because there is a size 6 and a size 8 and she doesn't fit in the size 6, but the size 8 is still a bit big on her. Well she can grow into it. At textielstad I bought a couple of multicolour threads . I felt this was the perfect project to try it out and indeed it matches the colours in the sweater very well. Fabric : Starburst French Terry from Second Star Fabric Pattern : Ellis sweater from Fibre Mood Sizing : 2 - 14 Options : just 1, the colour blocked sweater Difficulty : 1 out of 5 stars Sewing time : 1,5 hours # Fabric t...
A lot of people already know the Dia Sweater by Misusu. It is a sweater with a great diamond in the middle of the sweater. Now it has been updated! In addition to the children sizes there is also a women's version of the sweater. Also the sizes have been extended (80-164 which is 9-12M - 13-14Y) and a tunic version has been added. The pattern has lots of options. You can make a regular sweater, high low sweater, regular tunic and high low tunic.
During testing I made two different versions for our middle girl. First I made the tunic (or dress version in the case of small girl) because I just love sewing dresses. I used different colours to highlight the different pattern pieces. For the diamond I used glitter sweat, which of course is very much appreciated by our girl. I love how the different pattern pieces are great for colour blocking. However, if you are not so much into colour blocking have a look at my tunic, where I did not go bold on colour blocking.
For the second version I made the high low sweater. There were very creative ideas in the tester group and one of the testers made a version with an animal face. This got me inspired and I wanted to try something similar. I added an extra element of actual ears! I just cut two animal ears and folded them and added them when sewing the last front pattern piece.
Fabric in 2018: this week 0 in - 8 out (2018: bought 59 - used 86 fabric - used 4 gifted fabric - used 22 scrap pieces of fabric) - in total 59 in 112 out
At first I was aiming for a giraffe, however my husband said it looked more like a kangaroo. So I went with a kangaroo in the end and didn't add the spots of the giraffe. Our girl of course doesn't care which animal it is, she just loves the sweater with the ears!
Fabric: All fabric is sweat fabric, which either comes from Italy or from Micha's Stoffecke. The glitter sweat was a leftover from this jacket. The giraffe is made of wool fabric from a dress for myself that did not make it to my blog yet. I bought the wool fabric at Hoofs.
Pattern: Dia sweater and tunic for children by Misusu
Fabric in 2018: this week 0 in - 8 out (2018: bought 59 - used 86 fabric - used 4 gifted fabric - used 22 scrap pieces of fabric) - in total 59 in 112 out
Love both versions, really cool, makes me want to sew another as well!!
ReplyDeleteYes, all new versions are so inspiring!
DeleteThank you Aukje! What amazing Dia versions you came up with, love the colors!!
ReplyDeleteAnd it was great working with you again!
Thank you so much! I loooove your patterns, cannot wait for your next patterns!
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