Scenic Route

There has been a lot of dialog going on for a long time in the blogging world regarding PDF patterns vs. paper patterns.  The most memorable one (I think) being on  A Fashionable Stitch  a few years ago.  Sunni really nailed it!  That post obviously hit a chord with sewers as she got 139 comments --equally entertaining.  Some fer, some agin PDFs.  So, I'm not going to go on a rant as its all been said before. That said, when in Mongolia, I do PDFs.  I prefer paper patterns, but I can only cram so many into my luggage when boots, toiletries, vitamins, blah, blah, blah need to be packed--stuff I can't get here.  Then creativity hits and the perfect pattern is on the other side of the world. I did haul over a year's worth of Burda Magazines last year and even though I whined through the tracing process, I have to say, everything I've made from them have FIT with little more than some of my basic adjustments.   So I've recently...

The  muumuu  or  mu ʻ umu ʻ u   / ˈ m uː m uː /  is a loose dress of  Hawaiian  origin [1]  that hangs from the shoulder   Wikipedia Before the big Hong Kong trip, I managed to make a muumuu for those weekend evenings when loose and comfortable is mandatory.  I used this great rayon knit I forgot I had here in UB.  Exotic, no?  Very godess-ish I think ;)   Especially since I was so busy getting the neckline & yoke placed just so that I didn't think about the "wings" placed in a rather odd spot.   I used my TNT Simplicity 2852 , just making it longer like I did for my muumuu stateside,  seen here. I had enough left over to make yet another  Kirsten Kimono Tee, a free download you can find here.  (Note:  all her patterns are great--very well drafted)    In fact, Kirsten Kimono Tees and Magic Pencil Skirts (find here)   have become my uniform this s...