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Oh hi 🤩! It’s me. I feel like I’ve been MIA from IG lol. I’ve been working on my MTBing gear and Woot!!! Finally. I get to wear a fun pair of cycling shorts/bibs. The pattern is @fehrtrade #rouleurleggings (more dets about the pattern another day. Fair to say - it’s brilliant). This is a wearable fugly, I dived right in and used the good fabric because life’s too short to let the good fabric stay in the stash pile. Plus, they use such a small amount of each fabric when mixing up the colours/prints I have oodles left over to make my next pair.

The chamois was a bit of a munter to put in in the round. I did baste fit it four 🤪 times to see if it was in the right place. Each time I went for a ride to see if OK, so it was a slow process getting them perfect. Next pair I will sew the chamois in the flat (I’m pretty sure I can) seeing as I have the positioning worked out. The FOE around the neckband is a cheapie - it stretched like a bitch when sewing & is a bit flimsy, thankfully still perfectly functional when worn.

The plan is to have my bibs/chamois for wearing under my MTBing shorts (yet to be made) longer than my shorts so you can see them peeking out. I told Hubs that I also want a few pairs to be able to be worn on their own - he looked horrified, until I figured out he thought that I meant with no tshirt over the top 😱. Once I stopped laughing I told him I couldn’t do that to the MTBing community 🤪🤣😅 and would indeed be wearing tops.

The psychedelic/hippy Lycra print is from @spoonflower, it’s called 1960_Psychedelic Flower Power Fabric by artist mia_valdez. It’s amazing 😍. The solids are my most fav supplex from Helen @nelliejoans. I also bought the print in a sport pique fabric - so good for T-shirts!!! Gonna be perfect for the matching top. And if you flick across and use your imagination you’ll see the colour of the shorts for this ensemble 🤩 & how good it will look.

My MTBing is improving leaps and bounds. And the desire to be the best dressed when shredding trails is strong.

NB: not only is the chamois hard to sew, but photographing the shorts was a mission too 🤪😬😅

Be prepared to see me wearing my new wrap skirt by @freuleins.de #freuleinsrockvienna a fair bit. 🤩. After making & thrashing my lilac denim skirt from end of last year, I thought it would be a bloody grand idea to add another denim skirt to the wardrobe.

And when I saw ‘at’ _anja.78 ‘s version of the #freuleinsrockvienna, I knew that at some stage I’d be making my own with selvedge denim.

I also wanted an opportunity to embroider circle pockets again, this time with a more contrasting thread so they stand out. And stand out they do 🤩. A couple of easy mods to the back - I added a seam in the centre back so I could topstitch, and two back pockets instead of one.

This selvedge denim is from the fabulous peeps at @fabricbox_morningside . I didn’t pre wash as this was the most common suggestion on the internet. So it’s still pretty stiff, but I’m planning on wearing this plenty so it should soften. Hardly any blue dye transfer onto my hands when I was sewing this up. Pleasantly surprised by that.

The pattern is in German, I used google translate to help. But basically I just used gut instinct & experience to sew this up. I referred to the photos that are in the instructions occasionally, but the construction order was quite different to how I’d sew a skirt.

There’s plenty of coverage for a wrap skirt due to the clever drafting, I’ve added some photos so you can see what I’m talking about.

The pattern has a tie wrap option as well. I think if this was made up in a softer cotton twill or linen the tie option would be fab.

My new skirt made its debut last night, I had the most fabulous time in Matakana, catching up with other sewing lovelies. A few I knew already and a few I meet for the first time. Such a great night.

And if you’re a certain age, there’s a song from the band Ultravox called Vienna. One of my all time fav songs and it has pretty special place in my heart 🩷. So many great memories whenever I listen to that song. This skirt will forever remind me of that song, as it popped up on Spotify as I was sewing on Friday. Serendipitous for sure.

What I wore to the Studio yesterday for Thursday’s Freestyle Class.

Sorry not sorry for wearing my blue denim #justmyluckjeans and #blpkaia jacket most days. And I thought I should be Be Better at mixing up some of my other fav makes & wear them more often. So here is one of the many Xanthea Tops #xantheatop I have made. Love this pattern. Like a lot 🤩. This one made up in @mindthemaker #aboutadot in cream. Can you believe that just 1 meter of fabric is all you need. #ZeroWastesewing at its best if you ask me.

It’s been typical spring weather in Aucks this week - a massive cold snap hit. So dug out a cowl I made a few years ago - and joy of joys!!! It’s the exact same pink as my Kaia Jacket - that has to be serendipitous for sure 🩷.

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Another @greenstyle_patterns #gsTrailJacket for MTBing. I sized up one size from the red/black one from my last post and it fits much better as an outer layer. Plenty of room to add a top or two underneath. It’s a bit big through the hips, but that’s an easy fix for next time. The fabric is almost a perfect match for my blue MTbing shoes. Close enough according to Hubs lol. I nearly always choose what I’m wearing starting from shoes up - so having something that matches my shoes is super important lol.

The blue fabric is a merino mix from @thefabricshop. It was only $6 per meter, it’s nice and light to wear and provides plenty of warmth. It was a bit spongy/stretchy to sew, so I needed to manipulate it into submission. Reflective tape again on the back seams - I don’t need reflective tape on the front, if we go for a night ride (so bloody good riding through the forest at night), we have lights on our helmets and handlebars so no need to be reflective from the front. But definitely an advantage on the back.

I added zips to the pocket openings, had to work out how to do it as it was a pattern hack, and it’s been a very long time since I’ve added a zips like this. Pretty pleased how they turned out.

Took it for a spin through Woodhill on Sunday - it was really good to ride in. Kept me comfortably warm and when I got hot from riding, I didn’t overheat. So the thermal properties of the merino doing its job mighty fine indeed.

No QOMs though - I wasn’t wearing make me go faster red lol.

And flick through to see me trying this on with my fav skirt when I was mucking around at the Studio last night. Definitely not going to be wearing it like this out in the real world 😅, but it was fun faffing around.

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