MY FAVORITE GREEN

My wardrobe  has a very limited color palette and periodically I attempt to alter this, which is why I had this acid green rayon lycra jersey in my stash.  It's from Emmaonesock as usual.  Her knits are the best quality and this 11oz jersey is no exception.  I really prefer rayon knits to the cottons available   because those just don't feel as good.  It's wonderful against the skin; like wearing cashmere but far cheaper!  This is Burda 124 7/07 which I've made it before; it's the only twist top I've made that isn't too low and exposed. The review is here. It's a plus sized pattern that is cut rather small.  If I remember correctly, I didn't actually have to narrow the shoulders!  It's also very curvy and snug fitting in the middle, a part I don't like to showcase.  I had to make a small fba for this and I uncurved the middle a bit and then curved it back again in a different spot.  In other words, I needed to play around with the side seams to get  a fit I like.

You of course cannot see how fabulous this green looks on me.  I never used to like wearing green, but this is the perfect complement to the pink in my skin.  If you'll remember your color wheel green and red are complimentary colors and do good things for each other.  These are my spring sandal purchase.  Semi dressy and apparently green by Naya, which I think is made by Naturalizer because they are available as well as on other shoe sites,  on their website.  They are made from naturally tanned leather and the trim is bamboo.  I wore them yesterday for the first time and they were comfortable.  Hard to find stylish  when you have a wide foot.   Also wore them with my new black pants which are ok and even though out of a tight cotton gabardine, stretched out enough to be comfortable in the back leg. 

I have not been happy with either the quality of either  my buttonholes or the top-stitching on  my Viking 750 so I bought this vintage/used Singer on ebay for a big $20 in a cabinet and a trip to Jersey.  Got a great Korean lunch with my dh  too.  I wanted to use one of the vintage buttonholers with it, but yesterday it occurred to me to try top stitiching thread, the heavy Gutterman, with it.  Well hallelujah!  It's a trooper.  Worked like a charm.  I still haven't tried out the buttonholer on it though. 

Next up is cleaning my sewing room and studio.  Cannot work in this mess!  I have pattern pieces and rolls of drawings that need to be filed.  The floor isn't too bad because I do sweep it, but it needs a good dusting and vacuuming too.  Sigh. I hate to clean.

What am I going to sew next?  Yoga clothes.  I have 14oz rayon jersey for the pants and some hot pink rayon jersey,  I do not remember what possessed me to  buy it, because pink is so not my color, for a top.  I'm going to adapt my razer pant  for the bottoms and Simplicity 4076 for the top, which was altered several years ago and I never made the mock wrap with gathers which should work well with short sleeves. I looked through 5 years of BWOF for yoga patterns, and there are several, but in the end I really didn't want to trace and alter another top when this one would work fine. 
Have a great weekend