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DIY Shirt Jacket (Shacket), Burdastyle Pattern

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Hi there, Happy New Year and I wish you all the best in 2025 💖 Today's post is about the finished shirt jacket (shacket) I started working on in October last year. It was delayed because I was doing other things but well, I'm glad I finished it and look forward to wearing it daily. It's a simple and comfy shacket. It has low shoulders and is finished with a straight hemline. I used Burdastyle long jacket 9/2023 size 40 for the pattern and shortened the length.  For the fabric, I used cotton chino in beige from my stash. Also, the rest of the notions were from stash, yay! for not buying anything new 😍 The sewing process started in October last year. I did it in my free time, but unfortunately, I couldn't finish quickly. And then, other projects came and I put this shacket aside. As usual, I pinned and sewed the back pieces together as shown below. And then, sewed the front and back pieces together. Fused the f...

V-Neck Purple Shirt

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I realized that my last post on this blog was in November, wow! Time flies so fast, I was busy, low sewjo but glad I still managed to sew a few simple garments. I posted them on  my Instagram  and I will show the collage at the end of this post. And today, I want to show my recent make, a simple shirt that I wore at Valentine's dinner last Tuesday. Also, this shirt is my entry to  #magamsewalong  challenge "February Fling" on Instagram hosted by Sue, Suzy and Morag, thank you, ladies. To follow the theme, I just make something to fling on, to get rid of one more fabric in my stash and make something nice to wear for dinner out 😄 I used Burdastyle pattern 12/2019 -101 A size 38 and changed the neckline into a v-neck by lowering the center front 11 cm and creating a new v-line. I moved the front shoulder line to the actual shoulder, omitted the ruffles and inserted elastic on the sleeve hem (the original pattern was with a sleeve slit and band). Here is...