Tunics, yay!

I have fallen in love with a pattern recently and I loiter in fabric stores trying to find my next combination to try with the pattern. I bought it at Fabric Crush in Wallingford along with the fabric that I made the first one with. It was a teal color fabric which was also iridescent. I feel like the most challenging part about the tunic is the skirt. The pleats made it look really boxy and honsetly gave me a pooch gut. Not attractive. So rather than scrapping the project I changed the skirt to an A-line and I love it. It is on the shorter side but with a pair of leggings it is good to go.




Before meeting up with Jenny and Rashaun at the Capitol Hill Block Party I took a swing by my favorite sewing shop in Seattle: Stitches. Turns out they have expanded by renting an apartment upstairs of the shop as the project space. Very cool but also dangerous for me. So I found a couple of fabrics from Japan. I am pretty sure they are cotton. I am going to make another one of these tunics but alter the pattern yet again. This time I will stick with the A-line skirt because that is flattering on me. Rather than having 3/4 length sleeves I think I am going to go with a short sleeve... just above the elbow perhaps. I am trying to check out some dresses at Anthropology to find inspiration on the sleeve length and shape but that hasn't really told me anything. I am afraid it might be too boxy with the square-ish neckline. We will soon see. Oh! Below is a crappy picture I took with my iPhone of the fabrics I chose. The blue will be the skirt, the cream will be the bodice and the sleeves. Yay!


Pictures of the finished tunic is forth coming. I have a little bit of work to do... really I need to make it a bit more quirky... a closer resemblance of me. Maybe one of my kind friends will take a picture with a real camera. Wouldn't that be nice?