This years' masquerade/ carnival/ costumes/ Fasching/ pust

   This year I was totally lazy and uninterested in making any costumes. Maybe because I had made a week earlier a lot of costumes for our school theatre group and I was already tired because I usually make a lot of things overnight and I completely give up sleep.

    I must admit that I don't have the stamina like I used to have when I was (20 years) younger. And partly I was not interested in making costumes because I spent every free moment following war in Ukraina and I was just devastated that this was happening in 2022. I really thought that this was going to be a great year. Because I like even numbers (even number - 22, odd number - 21).

   Anyway, I started making costumes just the night before the carnival and I was of course in trouble because I have 3 kids. I decided that my youngest daughter was going to get an old costume from my oldest daughter, so this actually took me 10 min to climb up the attic and look for old costumes. I didn't manage to complete the spiderman costume for my son (sob sob) so I had to buy a pirate costume at the shop in the morning before going to the kindergarten. Yes, criminal, I know. The only thing that I managed to make was a rainbow skirt for my 9-year-old daughter. 

Rainbow skirt:

The lining is made of taft; from Burda 12/ 2006, size 36 (for my 9.5 year-old daughter), mod. 113:

I love sewing. I loved sewing this skirt (in the night form 28th Feb. to  1st March) but I was so sad when I was thinking about and listening to the news about Ukrania on the radio.

SLAVA UKRAJINI, GLORY TO THE UKRANIA

Spiderman tracksuit trousers/ tracksuit bottoms/ sweatpants

I made these trousers for my son (5.5 y) in spiderman-style so that he feels more like spiderman. I decided to make them very practical - they are made of red and blue sweatshirt fabric; they have 2 pockets and an elastic band in the waist. He loves them. 

Initially I wanted to draw/ paint some spiderman web pattern on the red part of the legs but I decided not to. I could either draw them with a black permanent marker or I got a contour relief paste.

I used the pattern from burda style 10/ 2013; mod. 142; size: 110.

And a glimps of the costume (2 piece outfit) I made when he was 4 years old, now it's full of holes, and worn out. He really liked wearing it and playing in it.

Part 2: Not-your-ordinary-white office blouse

 So, I had to construct the back pieces, sleeves, back tail and collar. There weren't pieces of fabric big enough for that.

Back pieces:

sleeves:

back tail:

inbetween photo:

collar:

Not-your-ordinary-white-office blouse

 My inspiration was this white shirt from Burda 4/ 2012; mod. 117, size: 40.

and the color-blocking from this picture from the net:

My creation was this:

I've finally used 3 bigger pieces of leftover fabric. I've had them for about 10 years now so I'm really happy. The colourful one was actually bought for my wedding dress which I still have but it's in size 36.  I now make size 40 for myself .  Then there are white poplin stretch and a shiny white fabric. The shiny fabric is not exactly my favourite choice but I just tried to use what I already had in my stash. Keep in mind that I needed almost 2 metres of fabric (which I had but in pieces).

I changed the collar because I prefer a standing collar (in Slovene we call it a Russian collar). At frist I thought I'll just leave the shirt open but then I decided for a short zipper at the front. Now the whole shirt almost looks like a coat because there's a lot of fabric at the back. I love it.   

I had to construct my fabric (I needed almost 2 metres) so I decided to do the simplest variation possible. I arranged the pieces together so that they overlapped for 0.5 cm or 1 cm and first sewed them with a straight stitch and then went over it with my new cover stitch (Brother CV 3550) so the joining seams are exposed. (It might seem like a lot of work but it was actually easier than sewing wrong sides together as we usually do things.)

Front pieces:

 

I will show the rest: back pieces, the back tail and the collar in the next post because this is getting too long.