Tag: Adjustments

Learn to sew a upcycling jacket – long enough for me.

I have never been able to find a Jeans jacket with long enough sleeves or long enough in the torso lengt in my size 😔😔. So why not sew my own with my style?

That’s what I’ve started on 😊🤩

How to adjust the length from torso 67cm to 74cm.
The sleeves.
How will this work? (I didn’t understand)
Just the details of the zipper.
Here I found out that the left sleeve got too long because the shoulder was to far out.

Here I needed to pick up the top seam on the left shoulder and resew 1,5cm farther in on the shoulder 🤪. But it worked and made wonder!

The only thing left now is the zipper… I need a “jacket zipper” and I want a red one, just because I can.

The jeans (leg) dress. Black and green.

I have used the legs from a pair of jeans and added decoration band, zippers and old T-shirts to make it longer. Like it and can just wait until the weather let’s me use it…

The challenges to be taller than 5’10 – the standard size.

Just wanted to finish it. Not that I thought I would need one more 😆😆 but, I do need more than one bikini.  Therefor will I sew a matching bikini buttom to this green top.

I started on this in 2020.
Wanted a bikini buttom that matched the bikini top. Here have I used what was ment to be a summer dress but I used it to sleep in during the summer.

I am between sizes, the sizes you find in the stores 🤪 . Their for it’s easier to sew something that fits my body.  Their for adjustment is nessesary. Try it on my body to know it fits and I dislike to go shopping and trying things on.

I sew to challenges myself to become better but also offcourse to be able to have clothing that fits my tall body!

I found another bikini top 😆 and going to finish that too, but this one will have a twist 😊.

To be 6’2 ( or 189cm) doesn’t come with just happiness just because I am tall, as most people are jealous on. No it comes with a lot more challenges.   We who are taller than 5’10 have the challenges to find clothes long enough or fit all the other curvers, weight, longer upper torso than legs or the opposite. Not something we find in a normal clothing store!  (It is easier to be shorter because you can shorten clothes than make one item longer!)  

Most of my tall friends buy clothes in online stores that has started their own business just because they never found clothes for their body or in online stores that has been approached to get clothes for tall people.   I do too, mostly for Jeans and sweaters.

Sewing is not just a hobby for me, as many of my friends and students asks. No it’s more than that! It is mostly to be able to get clothes my style and learn to sew 🧵✂️my wardrobe 😊. But it also is to save the planet. If we sew, we can choose the fabric. Use what we already have and redesign it into upcycling or choose naturally fabric we know is good for the environment!

Empire dress without sleeves and floor long – part one  – my summer dress 😊.

All of us who has ADHD knows what I mean!  So my next sewing project is an empire dress in full length. In a light fabric with wider sholders for warm summer days. I am “a bit allergic” to long sleeves 😆😆 in the summer.

My challenge is to get it floor long and sew an under skirt.

Here are the start of my summer dress.

While I was cutting out the fabric I realised I wouldn’t have enough fabric from one curtain so here am I using 3 curtains. And instead of sewing an undergown (skirt under) I am testing to sew the nice fabric on the inside of the dress.

Sewing June 1st in the evening, after a “bumpy-ride-day” (lots of back pain). I started with the turquoise fabric the only fabric I hadn’t done anything with so far.

If my back is better today, June 2nd, I hope to managed to sew all the insides so I can sew it all together. And start on the top part soon. Because I really want to be done before my holiday so I can bring it with me and wear it.

I am taking Holiday the 2nd week of July, the first propper Holiday in 8 years.