Briar T-Shirt and Kelly Skirt!

Now I made my Kelly Skirt AAAGGGEESS ago but I hadn't posted about it so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and post an entire handmade outfit (with muchos lovos to Megan Nielsen who made the two patterns I made!).

So here are the front and back views. I made the Briar top in the short cropped version purely because I only bought 70cm worth of wide jersey (I went fabric shopping with my Mum and fell in love with the colour but not the price!). The original pattern has a deeper arch at the front but I shallowed it a little as I cut it out as I didn't want to bare too much midriff as unlike the Man Repeller I feel I ought to avoid the Resort-full-on-belly-reveal trend! The sewing on the Briar top is far from perfect, but for my first time sewing with jersey I am rather pleased.

The Kelly Skirt is another fantastic pattern! Please excuse the creases and runkled-upness of the skirt - I'd already worn it the day prior to taking these photos and, well, I really hate ironing. I do really love the fabric I made it out of but next time I think a cotton twill or any fabric with a nicer drape would be better as it does rather stick out a bit. I'd also make a smaller waist band because, although you can't tell from the photos, it is tooo big for me! I can tuck a t-shirt, jumper and more into that thing (which to be fair has led to some interesting outifts!). 

Here's a closer look at both of them, and the horrendous creases in my skirt.

Thurlow Shorts

Now, I'm very excited (and a little apprehensive) to start my new project - these lovely Thurlow shorts from Sewaholic!! There's a lot of pattern pieces (always something a little scary about patterns with more than, say, 5 pieces xD) and includes making pocket welts AND attaching a fly zipper - something that the Great British Sewing Bee has taught us is a rather hard thing to do. So it'll be a learning curve but with the help of Lladybird's Thurlow sew-a-long, hopefully they'll turn out well!!

I've also recently made the gorgeous Kelly Skirt from Megan Nielsen. The whole internet seemed to be going crazy over this pattern and for a totally legitamite reason - it's amazing! Pictures shall come later :D

Now, I'm off to make a toile D: