Latest Fabricgasms

Okay so it dawned on me that its been a long time since my last Fabricgasms post!

And seen as the weathers been pretty grotty I decided to theme this one around summer!!!!!

Apart from this one! Plain black babylon stretch liquid velvet dress fabric! 

How perfect would this be for a coco dress!!! I mean a velvet coco dress, I might die!

London underground Poly cotton print! 

This is all of the adorable, I have very found memories of travelling around London on the tube with my Mum so a dress in this print would be pretty fabulous!!! 

Tape Measure cotton poplin

It has tape measures on nuff said. I especially like the pink colourway.

Psychedelic Skulls cotton poplin

This has rainbows and skulls and flowers and its pinks. It might be the best print in the world. EVER!!! 

Tiny Bows Poly cotton

These are little tiny bows, its literally the most adorably twee print I've ever seen! It would make the cutest full skirt!

Stars print polycotton

Yet another awesome print, can you imagine strutting around in a star print dress? this comes in 19 colour ways! And I love about 80% of them!

Sewing Machine cotton poplin

It has sewing machines in it....... Do i really need to say anymore?

Floral border print stretch cotton sateen

I think I might have fallen in love with border prints, I love the cutting challenge and this one gives me all the vintage vibes!!!

Hand Printed Floral Batik Cotton

I love the hippy style this has and I just think the Batik looks so pretty! This comes in a few colourways but I think this one might be my favourite!

Bright Floral cotton poplin

This reminds me of some of the beautiful prints that high street fashion brands use. I love the 90's style and the colours are just AWESOME!

So that's my latest fabricgasms! What fabrics are you loving at the moment!!!

Much Love

Frankie

xx

Excess fabric...

We've all over ordered on fabric or quite simply had some left from a project. 

But what do you do with it? I use the medium bits for quilts and backings and appliqué, the really skimpy bits go to little knitwits nursery but sometimes there's bigger bits! 

And sometimes you can squeeze another garment out! 

 

The fabric is what was left of my navy stretch suiting from Minerva fabrics after is made my megan dress. 

And the skirt pattern is from the great British sewing bee sew your own wardrobe book (although I had to Frankenstein the front together) 

I went for a sailor vibe with two big white buttons as decoration .

And too stitched all my seams open, which left a really nice finish on the inside. 

The fits pretty good is slinky enough to be a pencil skirt but there's still room for cake. 

And it's got a cool split thing at the back (although I had to stitch mine shut a bit becuase it was indecent) 

And it goes with my first megan top! WINNER! 

And I got two garments from two metres!

WINNER!

Much love 

Frankie

Xxx

Finished Megan dress!

Here we go again with some awkward posing! I finally got around to photographing my finished megan dress from the love at first stich book! 

I used some blue stretch suiting that I brought from Minerva fabrics after Christmas! 

I like that it's a very basic lil blue dress! And that I can dress it up or down! 

The other plus is that it's stupidly comfortable! I think it's down to the slight stretch that the suiting had! Althought that did mean I had some small fitting issues with it being far to wide! The only seams on this dress that aren't French are the side seams from where I had to alter  them. 

The combination of the bodice and the darts in the pattern are stupidly flattering! 

I'm pleased with my zip too! I'm definitely getting better that the whole construction think! 

All in all I'm really pleased with the dress! I even wore it yesterday to look around a primary school for lil Knitwit! Sadly we got there to find that the school was closed because of the snow! Note to self always check for closures on the radio!!! 

Much love 

Frankie 

Xxx