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Fall Into Fashion – November 1 :: Straight Palazzos

November 1, 2020

All November long, we are looking to “Fall Into Fashion” with some sewing and style fun. As the weather cools down, fashion heats up! This time of year can provide some of the best opportunities for styling yourself.

Have you ever heard the term “capsule wardrobe”? It is the practice of editing your wardrobe down to your favorite clothes (aka the items that fit your fashion sense, your body, and your lifestyle right now), remixing them regularly, and shopping/sewing less often and more intentionally.

Here at Patterns for Pirates headquarters, we thought it would be so fun to show you how to do this with your handmade wardrobe! We hired some incredible sewists from the Pirate Community and asked them to sew a pattern from our collection, and then show you how to get more wearability out of it. They are showing up each day to remix a different P4P pattern AND the pattern of the day will be on sale for that 24-hour period. So fun, right?

TODAY’S FEATURED PATTERN

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Pattern: Straight Palazzos

Quick Summary: This beginner knit pattern has all the style you need in a soft comfortable pant! It is a slim fit over booty and falls straight/wide down legs for a flattering fit on any size!
Options include: shorts, capri, and pant length with 30″,32″, and 34″ inseam cut lines. Yoga wasitband you can fold over or wear high waisted, and enclosed elastic waistband. (Thicker width elastic for a much more flattering look!)

This pattern is on sale only thru tonight, at 11:59pm CST. If you’ve had your eye on it, don’t wait to jump on the deal!

Make sure you check out Instagram and Facebook today, for more fun videos and photos from our featured sewist! But before you go, here are a few quick pics to keep you inspired!

Fall Into Fashion – November 2020

October 31, 2020

Happy Fall, Pirate Friends!! We are beyond thrilled to finally be able to announce what we’ve been working on behind the scenes here at Patterns for Pirates! Get ready for a super fun-filled November — because we sure are!

Each day during the month of November, we are going to be featuring a different Patterns for Pirates pattern.

On that day you can expect:

a 24-hour sale for the daily featured pattern.
videos and photos from your favorite sewists + bloggers.
daily styling inspiration.

We challenged our promo team by asking them to make one item from the daily featured pattern, and style it three (or more!) ways. For the next thirty days, you’ll see our team take something like that a basic t-shirt and make it look sporty, professional, and casual — simply by styling it differently. Or pairing a Wiggle Dress with different items from their closet to dress it up, or dress it down.

I’ve been blown away by everyone’s creativity and fashion know-how and I think you will be as well!

Be sure to keep an eye out each day in the Facebook Group / Page, on Instagram, or at this blog — because that’s where we will be notifying you of the featured pattern, and letting you know how to get your hands on that 24-hour sale price.

We could not have done this without our team of talented, creative, amazing people! Let’s meet each of them!

Judy Hale – Owner and head designer for Patterns for Pirates. Instagram | Facebook | Facebook Group | Website

Nicole Lanzarotto – P4P Crew Member and Owner of Edge Apparel and Accessories. Facebook

Alex Radu – P4P Crew Member and blogger at My Creative Room. Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Ashley Toombs – Designer at Lexi Lee Handmade. Instagram | Facebook

Brad Schultz – Designer at Brad Schultz Design. Instagram

Kamali Obiagu – Blogger at Obiagu Makes. Instagram | Blog

Livia Jonker-Yamada – Blogger at Liviality. Instagram | Blog | Facebook

Katy McKinley – P4P Crew Member and Owner/Blogger at Wild + Wanderful. Instagram | Facebook | Facebook Group | Website + Blog

Erinn Ounsted – P4P Crew Member, teacher, blogger at Love Madelynn. Instagram | Blog

Aaronica Bell Cole – Blogger at Crunchy Mommy Blog and Needle and the Belle. Instagram | Facebook | Blog

Becca Eutsler – Owner of Black Sheep Fabrics. Instagram | Facebook | Facebook Group

Kaara King – Blogger at Poppie Darling. Instagram | Facebook | Blog

Leanne Fayard – Blogger at Thready for It. Instagram | Blog

Rachel Hopkins – Blogger at Always a Project. Instagram | Blog

We are so looking forward a month full of celebrating fashion, fall, and sewing at Patterns for Pirates. Are you ready for the fun??

Flannel Kimono with pockets

October 28, 2016

It is officially fall! The crisp morning air should make its appearance soon and what better way to embrace it than by treating ourselves with a cozy flannel top. For my blog today I’ll show you how you can take the Summer Kimono into fall and I’ll also give you some tips for working with flannel.

You will need your printed and cut kimono pattern pieces. You can chose any of the styles, I went with the curved hem because it’s my favorite. 🙂 Now grab your Grandpa Cardi pattern and print just the pocket piece. It’s on page 22-23.

Sew your pockets according to the instructions. I opted for the band pocket but you can certainly use the non banded option too. Remember to press the bottom of the pocket too! You’ll now stitch them on to your two front pieces. Placement it’s a matter of personal preference so I’ll show you where I stitched mine on but you can certainly move them higher or lower. I placed the pocket about 4 inches from the center and about 2 inches from the bottom (remember the bottom is not hemmed yet). Sew the pockets on the front pieces.

You will now start assembling your kimono according to the instructions. Something very important to keep in mind, especially if you are sewing sizes L and up is that most flannel fabrics are 42-44 inches wide. Your fabric may not be wide enough to cut the entire length of the sleeve so in this case you have a few options. You can either do what I did and just shortened the sleeves length by 2.5 inches or so and either add the sleeve band (as per the pattern) or just hem it. The other option would be to attach additional fabric to the selvage and cut the pattern pieces as they are. You could use the same fabric as the main one or even coordinating/contrasting fabric for a colorblock look. Get creative!

TIP: When sewing a curved hem on woven fabrics I like to first serge the raw edge, making sure I don’t cut any of it with my serger knife. This will basically give me the 1/4 inch mark and make the fabric more stable. Press the 1/4 inch hem, and then press again another 1/4 inches and sew in place. Wasn’t that easy? That’s the magic of serging the raw edge first.

I know a lot of you have asked in the Facebook group is the Summer Kimono can be made with flannel fabric so now you know it can…and it’s pretty cozy on top of that! As always, don’t forget to show off your creations and tag me if you have any questions!

Alex

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