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Simplicity 9175 in Minerva Exclusive Floral Resort Crush Velvet Stretch Knit Fabric

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This new range of stretch velvet from Minerva is positively delicious so we had to give it a go!

Fabric: Minerva Exclusive Floral Resort Crush Velvet Stretch Knit Fabric

The new Velvet Stretch Knit fabrics come in all our favourite Minerva Exclusive Prints. We are slowly making our way through all of the wonderful Minerva Exclusive Prints in the different fabric types. This one is the floral Resort Print! It has so many wonderful colours, with the greens, pink, yellow, red and blue all standing out against the black background. See more about the fabric here.

Pattern: Simplicity 9175

We made Simplicity 9175 view A, with the long sleeves (without the slits in the arms) and pareo wrap across the front of the skirt. In the last year we have started making more knit garments. The wonderful thing about knit fabrics is that they can mostly be sewn on four thread overlocker. For this dress, we did a combination of machine and overclocking. Find your copy on Minerva here.

Finished Make

We ‘bagged out’ the skirt panel first, stitching the edge of the skirt piece and hem with ride sides together. Then turned to the right side and stitched onto the waistband (consistent with the instructions when you aren’t lining the skirt), then stitched both into the side seams. Otherwise the construction of the dress remains the same. There is more bulk in the side seam which includes the skirt seam – to address this we stitched on the machine first, then cut back the seam allowances before overlocking

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Photo Credits

Photographer: James Christie Media
Pattern: Simplicity 9175
Fabric: Minerva Exclusive Floral Resort Crush Velvet Stretch Knit Fabric

Style Arc Loungewear in Minerva Exclusive Floral Expression Viscose Challis Fabric

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Secret Pjs? Not so secret PJs? We will let you decide with this loungewear set in Viscose Challis

Fabric: Minerva Exclusive Floral Expression Viscose Challis Fabric

For this project as always in the Minerva Kits it had everything we needed! The absolute essential is the Minerva exclusive print quality Viscose Challis, a feature red cotton velour for the bands, pre-made (thank goodness) piping with bias binding for features in the pockets and the edge of the bands. Find the kit here.

Pattern: Style Arc Loungewear

This set is a combination of the Style Arc Sewing Pattern Loungewear patterns which includes the PJ Pant, PJ Shirt and Robe.

Finished Make

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Photo Credits

Photographer: James Christie Media
Pattern: Style Arc Sewing Pattern Loungewear patterns which include PJ Pant, PJ Shirt and Robe.
Fabric:  Minerva Exclusive Floral Expression Viscose Challis Fabric

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Know Me ME2016 in Minerva Wildflower Cotton Sateen

by two.sewing.sisters, posted in Sewing Project

Does anyone have a favourite pattern? That they keep sewing over and over again? We go through phases of different patterns depending on the weather, what we are doing for work at the time and our general style “vibe” at the time.  Right now, we can’t get enough of Know Me ME2016! The gathered skirt, pockets, shaped bodice and full sleeves… we just love everything about it

Fabric: Minerva Exclusive Wildflower Fusion Cotton Sateen Fabric

We used the Minerva Exclusive Wildflower Fusion Cotton Sateen Fabric – it is the most wonderful whimsical print! The purples and pinks are the most beautiful hue. This is our fourth version of this pattern (did we mention we love it?!). We have made it in a heavier polished cotton fabric and quilting weight cotton, all of which look good, but none as whimsical as this version! Find out more on the Minerva website here.

Pattern: Know Me ME2016

Know Me 2016 is a design by Beaute’ J’adore. The dress is a fully lined bodice that features a shaped tiers with gathers at the front, a high neckline, bust darts, slant pockets, and an invisible back zipper. The dress pattern includes full sleeves in mid or long-length options and elastic at sleeve hem.  Find this pattern on the Minerva website here.

Three tips we have for making Know Me 2016:

1 – Skirt Gathering: If you follow Tricky.Pockets on Instagram, you might have seen her make a version of Know Me 2016. In her fitting comments, she mentions that there isn’t very much gathering in the bottom tier of the skirt that she had imagined, and we totally agreed! In this version, we added more fabric to the skirt to ensure it was gathered all around the bottom part of the skirt. As the fabric is 142 cm wide, we just made the most of the width of the fabric, which also saves fabric waste.

2 – Lengthed Bodice: The bodice has a shaped bodice, with the centre front being higher than the back bodice. As we are quite tall, we extended the length of the bodice while still keeping the shape so the bodice finished closer to our waistline.

3 – Sleeve head: This pattern has a snazzy gathered sleeve trick – a sleeve head piece! It is a petal-shaped piece cut on the cross and folded in half. Yes, we know it sounds odd, but it is life-changing for gathered sleeve heads! Tip – we have learnt the hard way, with a couple of broken needles, that overlockers do not love going through 5 layers of fabric when 4 of those layers are gathered! Overlock the sleeve seam (which attaches the sleeve to the lined bodice) and the sleeve head piece separately. You can then stitch the sleeve head onto the bodice – we joined the two together using a zip zag stitch for extra security.

Finished Make of ME2016

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Photo Credits

Photographer: James Christie Media
Pattern: Know Me ME2016
Fabric:  Minerva Exclusive Wildflower Fusion Cotton Sateen Fabric provided by Minerva

Green Cotton Sateen from Minvera in Butterick 6410 & Vogue 9357

by two.sewing.sisters, posted in Sewing Project

There are two things we love sewing:
(1) Hacking patterns together
(2) Pockets (really big useful pockets)
This dress has both!

Getting to add pockets to garments is one of the greatest things about sewing. On the rare occasion, we walk into a store to buy clothing, we are constantly on the hunt for clothes with pockets. So when you get to make your own clothes, you get the opportunity to put pockets in everything!

Fabric: Woven Stretch Cotton Sateen Fabric Green from Minerva

Those who have been following up for a while will know the cotton sateen fabric is one of our favourite fabrics to sew. Cotton sateen is easy to sew with, comfortable to wear and comes in many colours or patterns. And this fabric was no exception. This fabric is a lighter cotton sateen, with a vibrant green background and delicate floral print. The black theme in the pattern means it was really easy to pair with white or black shoes, but still keeping the over vibe of the fabric colourful and bright! See the fabric on Minerva here

Pattern: Butterick 6410 and Vogue 9357

For this dress, we hacked the skirt and pocket combo onto Butterick 6410. Butterick 6410 have a great collar option and centre seam across the bust. To create a feature of these design lines, we used a bias to highlight the seams. Rather than a standard cotton bias, we used a satin bias which creates a great contrast against the green fabric.

One of our favourite pockets are from the pattern Vogue 9357 – they are big and very useful patch pockets. Patch pockets often remind us of vintage kids clothes, only this pattern turns them into modern corporate pockets. It helps that they are sewN into the side seams, giving the pockets a more modern vibe, it also helps keep them sturdy once you fill the pockets!

Vogue 9357 is also a great skirt pattern with an A-line calf length skirt. It is one of our favourite patterns to make and hack onto other bodice fabrics.

Finished Make

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Photo Credits

Photographer: James Christie Media
Pattern:  Vogue 9357 and Butterick 6410
Fabric:  Woven Stretch Cotton Sateen Fabric Green provided by Minerva