Holiday making (95/365)

[white_hart]

(I remember years ago "Making Monday" was a thing in the craft blogosphere. Maybe I should revive that?)

My biggest plan for my holiday was making a boiler suit. It turned out that boiler suits take quite a lot of sewing, so it took me several days, but I finished it on Saturday afternoon and immediately put it on to go out to meet my swimming friends.

I did also sew up the basic garment out of an old sheet first, to check fit, so that was some of the time it took, though it turned out not to need any adjustments at all from the plus-size version of the pattern, which was cut for a D-cup rather than the normal B and also has darts at the back waist which the normal version doesn't. It's a while since I've installed a zip, but mine ended up coming out very neatly, and it turns out that setting in sleeves isn't even something I find particularly difficult any more. And I'm absolutely delighted with the finished garment, even if it does turn out that boiler suits are surprisingly hard to get out of quickly.

I also made another set of underwear, this time with space print on.

I am very pleased with these too.

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

I love your boiler suit and your space underwear!

[sartorias]

I had no idea what a boiler suit was--never heard of that before! I love that color!

[callmemadam]

The boiler suit fits you really well! Very impressed.

[girlyswot]

The getting out of them is my main objection to boiler suits! But it is still fabulous on you and the fit is excellent.

[mountainkiss]

It looks wonderful.

[sfred]

I am very impressed!

[ankaret]

Those are excellent!

On the subject of overalls / dungarees and jumpers / pinafore dresses, I had worked out through trial and error what to put into the eBay search box to find what I wanted and then they changed the algorithm and if you type in 'pinafore dress' you now also get UK listings for jumper dresses which are not the same thing at all, being bodycon, made of thin knit material and usually having sleeves.

[lokifan]

omg that looks AWESOME!!!!