Hot Minute and Cool Culottes

 

Wow, it's been a hot minute since I posted anything on my neglected blog!!!! I am waaaay behind with documenting my makes and thought it was about time I rectified the situation.

So here I am back with a co-ordinating make for me and my hubby. We both wanted culottes and I recieved this lovely poly/ viscose/ elastane suiting from Minerva before Christmas and set about making us matching culottes - no we are not sad enough to wear them at the same time. You can read the full details and see the fabric over on Minerva - but there are a few more photos here to give you more of a feel for the makes.

 

John's culottes were self drafted and took rather a lot of work to get the right shape and fulness that he wanted, but we got there in the end. My culottes and waistcoat are both Burdastyle Magazine patterns. I have made the culottes many times before and they are a go to pattern. The waistcoat was a new pattern to me and is cropped and as drafted very low cut. I did adapt this to make sure it was a little more modest.

I loved this fabric -and I'm not just saying that because i recieved it as part of Minerva's ambassador programme. It's actually really nice and i'll be ordering more to make John more trousers and waistcoats. It's probably one of the nicest suiting fabrics I have sewn with. I have had some really bad experiences with suiting fabric in the past, but this is a lovely fabric.

Anyway, check out the photos here and read more on Minerva and hopefully I'll be back soon with another make.