<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644</id><updated>2011-11-25T08:26:33.240-05:00</updated><category term='manifesto'/><category term='04-2007-118'/><category term='PR Knockoff Contest'/><category term='Trouser Sewalong'/><category term='quilted'/><category term='magazine'/><category term='leather'/><category term='toile'/><category term='muslin'/><category term='Le défi 2010'/><category term='chats'/><category term='Pantalon'/><category term='Robe de chambre'/><category term='blouse'/><category term='jersey'/><category term='surjetteuse'/><category term='projects'/><category term='stash'/><category term='mini aspirateur'/><category term='New Look'/><category term='fabric'/><category term='04-2010-116'/><category term='jupon'/><category term='How Much Fabric?'/><category term='cloque'/><category term='6558'/><category term='merci'/><category term='tremblement de terre'/><category term='traduction'/><category term='shirtdress'/><category term='top'/><category term='B02-2010-102'/><category term='retour'/><category term='inverter'/><category term='review'/><category term='V.O.'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='RFI'/><category term='therapy'/><category term='serger'/><category term='bilingue'/><category term='blue'/><category term='04-2007-106'/><category term='argent'/><category term='dress'/><category term='intro'/><category term='UFO'/><category term='mojo'/><category term='Simplicity'/><category term='TCG2011TS'/><category term='2007'/><category term='cuir'/><category term='album'/><category term='March'/><category term='embroidery'/><category term='viscose'/><category term='broderie'/><category term='Petite'/><category term='opinion'/><category term='sewing plans'/><category term='E842'/><category term='11-2010-129'/><category term='106'/><category term='Vintage'/><category term='corsage'/><category term='do-over'/><category term='coton'/><category term='matelassé'/><category term='remaniements'/><category term='Sewalong'/><category term='return'/><category term='Robe'/><category term='B12-2010-102'/><category term='Beautiful Miracle'/><category term='podcast'/><category term='couture'/><category term='jaune'/><category term='skirt'/><category term='2011'/><category term='S8296'/><category term='organization'/><category term='Gwen'/><category term='NYC'/><category term='box'/><category term='M8293'/><category term='tricot'/><category term='stretch'/><category term='Vogue Fabrics'/><category term='inspiration'/><category term='cotton'/><category term='earthquake'/><category term='thank you'/><category term='electricity'/><category term='silver'/><category term='plan couture'/><category term='La Mia Boutique'/><category term='boite'/><category term='batteries'/><category term='robe chemisier'/><category term='projets'/><category term='mini vacuum'/><category term='electricité'/><category term='completement folle'/><category term='africain'/><category term='sewing'/><category term='obi'/><category term='NPR'/><category term='woven'/><category term='seersucker'/><category term='african'/><category term='tissu'/><category term='translation'/><category term='Bienvenue en R.D.I.'/><category term='bleu'/><category term='Fashion Babel'/><category term='Mars'/><category term='LMB 08-2010-12'/><category term='concours'/><category term='the 2010 challenge'/><category term='slip'/><category term='IRL'/><category term='tissé'/><category term='thérapie'/><category term='S2614'/><category term='jupe'/><category term='modèle'/><category term='rayon'/><category term='Ze stash'/><category term='Burda'/><category term='Patrones'/><category term='critique'/><title type='text'>Fashion Maté</title><subtitle type='html'>My fashion/sewing/crafting blog. 

Mon blog couture, mode etc.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-6691285499694609427</id><published>2011-11-10T19:35:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2011-11-10T20:19:07.223-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vintage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='RFI'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NPR'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='podcast'/><title type='text'>Vous ne m'avez pas vue...</title><content type='html'>depuis un bon moment. Pourtant, je suis bien là, en coulisse! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne couds pas beaucoup mais ça reprend un peu. Je vous raconterai toute l'histoire très bientôt, promis!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En attendant, pour passer le temps,voici une émission sur le vintage qui passait sur RFI aujourd'hui:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Pourquoi la fripe c'est chic ? Comment expliquer ce regain d'intérêt pour le rétro et le vieux ? Est-ce un retour nostalgique vers le passé ou simplement un phénomène de mode qui ne durera pas ?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Première partie (19:31)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link href="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/all/themes/aef_theme/aef_theme.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link href="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/rfi.fr/modules/maison/rfi_ct_sound/rfi_ct_sound.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="rfi-ct-sound-teaser rfi-ct-sound-teaser-medium rfi-ct-sound-embed"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="infos"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      7 milliards de voisins    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;span class="time"&gt;(19:31)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;img width="24" height="24" title="" alt="" src="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/rfi.fr/themes/rfi/images/logo-rfi-redbg.png"&gt; 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   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deuxième partie (26:31)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link href="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/all/themes/aef_theme/aef_theme.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;link href="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/rfi.fr/modules/maison/rfi_ct_sound/rfi_ct_sound.css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="rfi-ct-sound-teaser rfi-ct-sound-teaser-medium rfi-ct-sound-embed"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;div class="infos"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;      7 milliards de voisins    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;          &lt;span class="time"&gt;(26:31)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;          &lt;div class="image"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;img width="24" height="24" title="" alt="" src="http://www.rfi.fr/sites/rfi.fr/themes/rfi/images/logo-rfi-redbg.png"&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt; 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   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amusez vous bien!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;OOPS! Posted the wrong link just now. Sorry!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey everybody! I know I've been MIA for quite a while but I've mostly been lurking. I promise to update this blog soon. Not a lot of sewing lately, though things have picked up a bit in the last few weeks. Watch this space!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The embeded podcasts above are for a French radio show on Vintage clothing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't want my English-speaking readers to feel left out so I found a podcast on a related topic on NPR:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142094103/indigo-the-indelible-color-that-ruled-the-world"&gt;Indigo: The Indelible Color That Ruled The World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;but also two podcasts on the topic of sewing:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/09/09/140141279/at-maison-lesage-beauty-embroidered-by-hand"&gt;At Maison Lesage, Beauty Embroidered By Hand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/09/06/140220140/op-ed-for-healthier-kids-bring-back-home-ec"&gt;Op-Ed: For Healthier Kids, Bring Back Home Ec&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-6691285499694609427?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/6691285499694609427/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=6691285499694609427' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6691285499694609427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6691285499694609427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/11/vous-ne-mavez-pas-vue.html' title='Vous ne m&apos;avez pas vue...'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-2669619938099921416</id><published>2011-05-01T14:30:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T15:57:14.484-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='B12-2010-102'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viscose'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PR Knockoff Contest'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='concours'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rayon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jaune'/><title type='text'>Perseverare diabolicum</title><content type='html'>Je viens de &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/05/les-meilleures-intentions-du-monde.html"&gt;confesser mon abandon de deux (2) &lt;em&gt;sew alongs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; depuis le début de l'année.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et qu'est-ce que je fais? Je m'inscris à deux CONCOURS sur &lt;a href="http://patternreview.com/"&gt;Pattern Review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'abord, ce mois-ci, le concours &lt;strong&gt;Knock Off Contest 2011&lt;/strong&gt;. J'ai choisi de copier une robe de &lt;a href="http://wwww.modcloth.com/"&gt;Modcloth&lt;/a&gt; appelée &lt;a href="http://www.modcloth.com/Womens/Dresses/-Color-of-Desire-Dress"&gt;Color of Desire&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 101px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vue de dos:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6D6PsSI/AAAAAAAABes/LvQa1tVcZI4/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire%20back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 101px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6D6PsSI/AAAAAAAABes/LvQa1tVcZI4/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire%20back.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Incroyable mais vrai, je tripe sur cette robe depuis novembre ou décembre 2010 en voyant la robe 102 du Burda de décembre. Le dessin technique, comme toujours, est plus intéressant donc je vous le montre:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO58B6t9I/AAAAAAAABes/rJC-ViJVP94/s144/Burda%2012-2010-102%20dessin.jpg" /&gt; J'ai déjà relevé le patron et envisage les modifications suivantes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminer le panneau portefeuille de la jupe;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Raccourcir la jupe à ma longueur habituelle;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminer les manches;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Transformer les fronces du corsage devant et dos en plis-pinces;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminer tout effet blousant du corsage;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ajouter un volant forme au côté droit du corsage, depuis la ligne d'épaule?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ajouter des poches italiennes à la jupe devant?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Ajouter une ceinture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Il me parait déjà évident que le gros morceau sera le volant forme mais il y en a un dans la même revue donc pas de problème.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai pas de tissu rouge, malheureusement. Pas grave, j'avais très envie d'une robe jaune et pense utiliser ce tissu, un viscose, je crois:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 108px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/Tb3CHFCHE1I/AAAAAAAACHM/WrTDcoBWT9E/s144/DSCF3051.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Le tissu ayant été acheté indépendamment du patron, je &lt;em&gt;crois &lt;/em&gt;en avoir suffisamment pour réaliser la robe mais je n'ai pas encore vérifié.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;En juin, ce sera le concours &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/contestreport.pl?ContestID=139"&gt;Vintage Pattern 2011&lt;/a&gt; avec une robe pour ma mère mais je n'ai rien encore choisi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toutes les photos sont dans &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/ModClothKnockOff?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know I just &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/05/les-meilleures-intentions-du-monde.html"&gt;confessed to dropping out of two (2) &lt;em&gt;sew alongs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; since the year started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and then what do I turn around and do? Sign up to two CONTESTS on &lt;a href="http://patternreview.com/"&gt;Pattern Review&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First up, this month, the &lt;strong&gt;Knock Off Contest 2011&lt;/strong&gt;. I picked a dress by &lt;a href="http://wwww.modcloth.com/"&gt;Modcloth&lt;/a&gt; called &lt;a href="http://www.modcloth.com/Womens/Dresses/-Color-of-Desire-Dress"&gt;Color of Desire&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 101px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back view:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6D6PsSI/AAAAAAAABes/LvQa1tVcZI4/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire%20back.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 101px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6D6PsSI/AAAAAAAABes/LvQa1tVcZI4/s144/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire%20back.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Would you believe I've been daydreaming about this dress since november or december of 2010? Check out the line drawing for december 2010 model 102 from Burda:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 144px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO58B6t9I/AAAAAAAABes/rJC-ViJVP94/s144/Burda%2012-2010-102%20dessin.jpg" /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I've already traced the pattern and am considering the following alterations:&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminate the wrap in the skirt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Shorten skirt to standard lenght;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminate sleeves;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Turn gathers into release darts in the front and back bodice;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Eliminate blousant effect in bodice so no overflow;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Add a ruffle to the right neckline, from the shoulder line?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Add pockets to front skirt?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Add a belt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The big hurdle will be the ruffle, obviously but there is one in the same issue for anotheer top/dress so it shouldn't be too hard to modify.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, I don't have any red fabric. That's ok since I wanted a yellow dress anyway so I'm thinking of using this yellow rayon(?):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 108px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/Tb3CHFCHE1I/AAAAAAAACHM/WrTDcoBWT9E/s144/DSCF3051.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; Since I bought the fabric before I had the pattern, I *think* I have enough fabric but I haven't checked yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;In june, I'll tackle the &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/contestreport.pl?ContestID=139"&gt;Vintage Pattern 2011&lt;/a&gt; with a dress for my mother but neither pattern nor fabric have been chosen yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the photos are in the  &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/ModClothKnockOff?feat=directlink"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-2669619938099921416?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/2669619938099921416/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=2669619938099921416' title='8 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2669619938099921416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2669619938099921416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/05/perseverare-diabolicum.html' title='Perseverare diabolicum'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRuO6BvJBTI/AAAAAAAABes/L0VtKLS6sFo/s72-c/ModCloth%20Color%20of%20Desire.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-1064698283322729483</id><published>2011-05-01T13:31:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T14:36:40.819-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jupe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broderie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embroidery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='B02-2010-102'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe de chambre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='M8293'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bleu'/><title type='text'>Les meilleures intentions du monde</title><content type='html'>Je réalise avec stupéfaction que je n'ai rien publié depuis janvier, quelle horreur!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, je l'avoue, j'ai raté à la fois &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/trouser-sewalong/"&gt;The Cupcake Goddess' Trouser Sew Along&lt;/a&gt; ET le  &lt;a href="http://thegreatvintagesewalong.blogspot.com/"&gt;Great Vintage Sew Along&lt;/a&gt; auquels je comptais participer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pourtant, j'étais active. J'ai cousu des choses, je vous jure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'abord, je me suis faite une robe de chambre avec un ancien patron McCall's 3893 donné par une amie de ma mère:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbN69-PI/AAAAAAAABpI/I7n0hSMIrl4/s144/M3893%20Front.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 82px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbN69-PI/AAAAAAAABpI/I7n0hSMIrl4/s144/M3893%20Front.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tissu est une sorge de chambray moyen avec un fil blanc et un fil bleu ciel. Froissable à mort mais très agréable à repasser et à porter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le truc en plus: mon initiale brodée par ma mère qui dit se remettre à la broderie et à la couture (sic):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbZIixcI/AAAAAAAABpQ/Uu5z2WK6Wjc/s144/M3893%20Detail.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbZIixcI/AAAAAAAABpQ/Uu5z2WK6Wjc/s144/M3893%20Detail.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=59815"&gt; La critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/McCallS3893?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturellement, dans ma paranoïa habituelle, j'ai trop acheté. J'en ai donc profité pour me faire une jupe inspirée d'un modèle Boden dont je n'ai pas gardé de photo, zut!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est le fameux Burda 02-2010-104:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuJzmnKQI/AAAAAAAABto/Q3V0rW1dmKs/s144/DSCF1981.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 68px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuJzmnKQI/AAAAAAAABto/Q3V0rW1dmKs/s144/DSCF1981.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai copié la technique d'un pantalon du PAP pour les poches, confectionnées moitié tissu, moitié doublure en coton:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuIsfZB2I/AAAAAAAABtY/_rHihXrPxJ8/s144/DSCF1970.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 88px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuIsfZB2I/AAAAAAAABtY/_rHihXrPxJ8/s144/DSCF1970.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le truc en plus, là encore, c'est le petit oiseau brodé par ma mère (je profitais de l'élan premier, n'est-ce pas?). Elle dit que c'est un paon stylisé; mois je vois une dinde, LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuI8trncI/AAAAAAAABtc/m4v7ztXD7gc/s144/DSCF1973.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuI8trncI/AAAAAAAABtc/m4v7ztXD7gc/s144/DSCF1973.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai pas pensé à faire la photo mais c'est bien la meilleure fermeture invisible de ma carrière!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=59814"&gt;La critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/Burda022010104?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est un peu court, n'est-ce pas? Et bien, c'est que j'ai pas moins de quatre (4) UFOs: 2 robes, 1 corsage et 1 jupe. Sans compter des tentatives de hauts en jersey qui ont plus ou moins bien marché. Photos à venir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Je m'excuse pour la taille des photos, mystérieusement très petites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm shocked to realize that I haven't posted anything since January, ugh!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I admit I dropped out of both &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/trouser-sewalong/"&gt;The Cupcake Goddess' Trouser Sew Along&lt;/a&gt; AND the &lt;a href="http://thegreatvintagesewalong.blogspot.com/"&gt;Great Vintage Sew Along&lt;/a&gt; which I had signed up for.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, I was productive. I've been sewing stuff, I swear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, I made myself a robe with an OOP McCall's 3893 I got from a friend of my mother's:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbN69-PI/AAAAAAAABpI/I7n0hSMIrl4/s144/M3893%20Front.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 82px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbN69-PI/AAAAAAAABpI/I7n0hSMIrl4/s144/M3893%20Front.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fabric is some sort of midweight cambric with a white and a light blue thread. Wrinkles like crazy but such a joy to press and to wear.&lt;br /&gt;The little extra : my monogram embroidered by my mother who is, I quote, coming back to embroidery and sewing. No comment. Look how cute it came out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbZIixcI/AAAAAAAABpQ/Uu5z2WK6Wjc/s144/M3893%20Detail.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbZIixcI/AAAAAAAABpQ/Uu5z2WK6Wjc/s144/M3893%20Detail.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=59815"&gt; The review&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/McCallS3893?feat=directlink"&gt;the album&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I bought to much fabric in my paranoïa so I made a skirt inspired by a Boden skirt (sorry, forgot to save the photo). It's the popular Burda 02-2010-104:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuJzmnKQI/AAAAAAAABto/Q3V0rW1dmKs/s144/DSCF1981.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 68px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuJzmnKQI/AAAAAAAABto/Q3V0rW1dmKs/s144/DSCF1981.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My pockets are half fashion fabric, half cotton lining, copied from some RTW pants :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuIsfZB2I/AAAAAAAABtY/_rHihXrPxJ8/s144/DSCF1970.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 88px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuIsfZB2I/AAAAAAAABtY/_rHihXrPxJ8/s144/DSCF1970.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The little extra, here again, is the little bird my mother stitched (had to take advantage of that early enthousiasm, right?). She says it's a stylized peacock, I see a turkey, LOL! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuI8trncI/AAAAAAAABtc/m4v7ztXD7gc/s144/DSCF1973.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 144px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TVRuI8trncI/AAAAAAAABtc/m4v7ztXD7gc/s144/DSCF1973.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't think to take a photo but it was hands down the best insivible zipper of my sewing career!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=59814"&gt;The review&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/Burda022010104?feat=directlink"&gt;the album&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bit short, right? Well, I also managed to create four (4) UFOs: 2 dresses, 1 blouse et 1 skirt. To say nothing of the more or less successfull knit tops I attempted. Photos to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. Sorry for the oddly small photos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-1064698283322729483?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/1064698283322729483/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=1064698283322729483' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1064698283322729483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1064698283322729483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/05/les-meilleurs-intentions-du-monde.html' title='Les meilleures intentions du monde'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TU_fbN69-PI/AAAAAAAABpI/I7n0hSMIrl4/s72-c/M3893%20Front.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-5055666777652597226</id><published>2011-01-12T08:35:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T09:39:42.875-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='therapy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='earthquake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tremblement de terre'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thérapie'/><title type='text'>Ma thérapie</title><content type='html'>Aujourd'hui, nous commémorons la première année depuis le terrible tremblement de terre qui a détruit plusieurs villes du pays et, notamment, la capitale mais surtout tué plus de 250,000 de mes concitoyens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai pensé qu'il était à propos de vous raconter le rôle qu'a joué ma passion pour la couture ces douze derniers mois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pendant des semaines après l'évènement, j'étais perdue. Perdue dans la peur, l'angoisee et le chagrin. J'ai passé des semaines à dormir sur un matelas posé sur une bache dans la cour de ma tante parce que dormir à l'intérieur de la maison faisait trop peur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il faisait froid, pour les Antilles en tout cas, donc je dormais emmitouflée sous plusieurs couches de vêtements. Ma tante habite dans la montagne où il fait plus frais qu'en ville. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et puis un jour, j'ai pensé "Si seulement j'avais ma machine avec moi. Je crois bien que j'ai un coupon de flanelle qui pourrait bien faire un pantalon de pyjama". J'avais déjà tiré des gravats de la maison tout ce qui n'avait pas été volé ou écrasé. J'avais pleuré de joie en voyant mes deux machines, posées là sur leur table, miraculeusement sauvées alors que le reste de la pièce s'était effondré.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc les machines étaient au dépôt chez mon père mais jusqu'à ce moment là, je n'avais pas la moindre envie de coudre. Et j'ai compris que j'étais enfin revenue à moi-même.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lorsque j'ai trouvé un endroit plus ou moins permanent où vivre, mon premier geste a été d'installer mon coin couture. Ensuite, j'ai illico tiré une jupe en souffrant depuis des mois. Oui, parce qu'il y a des inachevés qui refusent de mourir, 7.2 ou pas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aujourd'hui, j'ai encore des moments d'angoisse. Tout à coup, tandis que je me bats avec une boutonnière têtue, une pensée se glisse "Et si un tremblement de terre frappe maintenant? Qu'est-ce que tu fous assise là, bêtement devant ta machine? Sors de là?" Alors je respire un grand coup et je continue. Parce que coudre me fait du bien. Commencer un projet me donne un sentiment de contrôle que j'avais perdu. Ça me donne un but dans un pays à la dérive. Ça me permet de continuer alors que la sécurité se dégrade, la politique prend un mauvais tournant et l'épidémie de choléra fait des ravages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je couds un peu tous les jours et ça me fait du bien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS Je parle un peu de ce qui m'est arrivé &lt;a href="http://3rdworldgirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/ghostland.html"&gt;ce jour-là&lt;/a&gt; sur mon blog en anglais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A year ago today, a terrible earthquake destroyed several cities in my country, especially the Capital and killed more than 250,000 of my countrymen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought it would be appropriate to describe what role my passion for sewing has played in my life these last twelve months. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For weeks after the event, I was lost. Lost in fear, anxiety and sadness. I spent weeks sleeping outside on a mattress laid out on a tarp in my aunt's yard because sleeping inside concrete walls was inconceivable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was cold, by Caribbean standards anyway, so I slept wrapped up in layers of clothes. My aunt lived in the hills where it is much cooler than in the city.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then one day I thought "If only I had my sewing machine. I think I still have that cut of flannel that would make a good pair of pj pants." I had already pulled out everything that was salvageable from the rubble. I had cried at the sight of my two sewing machines, sitting pretty on their table, miraculously intact when the entier room was down. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, until that day and that thought, my machines were in storage at my father's since I had yet to feel the need to sew a single stitch. And I understood then that I had come back to myself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I found a semi-permanent place to stay, the first thing I did was to set up my sewing space. And then, right after that was done, I sat down to finish a skirt that had been languishing for months. Yes, alas, some UFOs just can't be killed, 7.2 or not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today still, I have moments of acute anxiety. All of a sudden, while I'm fitting this stubbornly crooked buttonhole, this thought sneaks in "What if another one hits right now? Why the hell are you sitting there, in front of this machine? Get out of here!!!" But I take a deep breath and I keep sewing. Because sewing helps. Starting a project gives me a feeling of control that I had lost. It gives me a purpose in a country made up of chaos. It helps me keep on when security is falling apart, when politics are taking a sour turn and cholera is killing us off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sew a little every day and it makes me feel better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted about &lt;a href="http://3rdworldgirl.blogspot.com/2011/01/ghostland.html"&gt;what happened to me that day&lt;/a&gt; on my other blog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-5055666777652597226?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/5055666777652597226/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=5055666777652597226' title='14 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/5055666777652597226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/5055666777652597226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/01/ma-therapie.html' title='Ma thérapie'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-4842561175657674865</id><published>2011-01-06T08:06:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-06T08:11:15.939-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mini vacuum'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mini aspirateur'/><title type='text'>Trop cute!</title><content type='html'>Un collègue est revenu de voyage hier et m'a rapporté le mini aspirateur que mon frère m'a offert. Il est tellement cute! Je compte l'utiliser pour nettoyer ma surjeteuse (la nuit, sans doute). Regardez:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSW_Mrn95lI/AAAAAAAABiM/9tzm8y-UEiI/s1600/DSCF1813.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSW_Mrn95lI/AAAAAAAABiM/9tzm8y-UEiI/s400/DSCF1813.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559059539648439890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSW_MHJYGaI/AAAAAAAABiE/SxbpAcoEeTI/s1600/DSCF1812.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSW_MHJYGaI/AAAAAAAABiE/SxbpAcoEeTI/s400/DSCF1812.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559059529856457122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A coworker brought me back the mini vacuum my brother gave me. I'm going to use it to clean my serger (probably during the night). How cute is that!?!?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-4842561175657674865?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/4842561175657674865/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=4842561175657674865' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4842561175657674865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4842561175657674865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/01/trop-cute.html' title='Trop cute!'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSW_Mrn95lI/AAAAAAAABiM/9tzm8y-UEiI/s72-c/DSCF1813.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-8713747039661239964</id><published>2011-01-04T21:10:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T22:31:23.107-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muslin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='11-2010-129'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TCG2011TS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trouser Sewalong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toile'/><title type='text'>TCG2011TS: Premières surprises</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPXRH7iv4I/AAAAAAAABhE/Q5pV8_UXXl8/s1600/TCCG-Trouser.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPXRH7iv4I/AAAAAAAABhE/Q5pV8_UXXl8/s200/TCCG-Trouser.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558523054291861378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/TCG2011TrouserSewAlong?feat=directlink"&gt;l'aventure du pantalon&lt;/a&gt; est lancée depuis dimanche. J'ai lavé et repassé péniblement ma toile puis taillé le patron.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'avoue que je n'ai pas suivi un seul des &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/2011/01/snipping-up-your-trouser-muslin.html"&gt;conseils donnés par Sunni&lt;/a&gt;, en particulier celui des coutures de 2,5cm. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surprise no 1 : Y'A PAS DE COUTURES DE CÔTÉ!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je ne vous avais pas montré le plan de coupe mais il y a des coutures au dos du pantalon. Pour le reste, deux pinces font le travail de modeler la taille du pantalon à votre corps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZjPbh2II/AAAAAAAABhM/PXza393n_X8/s1600/Burda_11-2010-129_Instr_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZjPbh2II/AAAAAAAABhM/PXza393n_X8/s400/Burda_11-2010-129_Instr_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525564565969026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'avais jamais vu ça avant!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et il faudra que je répète les poches passepoilées avant le Jour-J parce que je n'en ai jamais cousues...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc je fais ma toile avec du coton brut appelé Siam ici. Voici la vue de face:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZj_MJuBI/AAAAAAAABhU/nuYqSXRnmQ4/s1600/DSCF1777.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZj_MJuBI/AAAAAAAABhU/nuYqSXRnmQ4/s400/DSCF1777.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525577386375186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plutôt positif malgré la fourche avant un peu bizarre. La taille est à la bonne place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surprise no 2 : le pantalon est TRÈÈÈÈS long!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;111 cm de côté alors que la longueur normale est 100 cm. J'ai raccourci de 14 cm pour avoir la longueur que vous voyez là, ourlet non compris. Je crois que ça marche pour des talons (ce sont mes chaussures de travail).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les vues de côté révèlent les premiers tracas: ça tire sur les hanches et sur le ventre, l'arrière des cuisses est affaissé et, naturellement, ça tire sur les fesses:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkD1jwqI/AAAAAAAABhc/9gYajlacvGs/s1600/DSCF1775.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkD1jwqI/AAAAAAAABhc/9gYajlacvGs/s400/DSCF1775.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525578633790114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Côté gauche:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkdHnEPI/AAAAAAAABhk/tu40UGwNRVY/s1600/DSCF1776.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkdHnEPI/AAAAAAAABhk/tu40UGwNRVY/s400/DSCF1776.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525585420390642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nous arrivons avec la pièce de résistance, la vue de dos qui confirme tout ce que j'ai déjà dit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZlBvOHGI/AAAAAAAABhs/nE4yS_GNuzE/s1600/DSCF1774.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZlBvOHGI/AAAAAAAABhs/nE4yS_GNuzE/s400/DSCF1774.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525595250203746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Malgré tout, je suis plutôt positive. Je craignais le pire. Bien sûr la forme du pantalon aide. Je crois que la deuxième paire sera plus dure à ajuster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai pas touché à ma toile depuis Dimanche, faute d'électricité le soir. Je peux coudre mais je préfèrerais pouvoir repasser entre deux essayages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suivre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPXRH7iv4I/AAAAAAAABhE/Q5pV8_UXXl8/s1600/TCCG-Trouser.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPXRH7iv4I/AAAAAAAABhE/Q5pV8_UXXl8/s200/TCCG-Trouser.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558523054291861378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/TCG2011TrouserSewAlong?feat=directlink"&gt; the Trouser making adventure&lt;/a&gt; started on Sunday. I washed and ironed my muslin and cut out the pattern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I confess to not following one single &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/2011/01/snipping-up-your-trouser-muslin.html"&gt;piece of advice given by Sunni&lt;/a&gt;, especially the part about 1in seam allowances. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surprise no 1 : THERE ARE NO SIDE SEAMS!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I never showed you the cutting layout but there are only seams at the back of the pants. Two darts on each side take up the fabric at the waist:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZjPbh2II/AAAAAAAABhM/PXza393n_X8/s1600/Burda_11-2010-129_Instr_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZjPbh2II/AAAAAAAABhM/PXza393n_X8/s400/Burda_11-2010-129_Instr_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525564565969026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had never seen that before!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I'll need to practice welt pockets, having never done them before...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I did my muslin with unbleached cotton we call Siam around here. Here's the front view:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZj_MJuBI/AAAAAAAABhU/nuYqSXRnmQ4/s1600/DSCF1777.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 248px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZj_MJuBI/AAAAAAAABhU/nuYqSXRnmQ4/s400/DSCF1777.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525577386375186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rather good despite the odd front crotch. The waist is at my natural waist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Surprise no 2 : the pants are LOOOOONG!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;43in3/4 side seams instead of the standard Petite length of 39in. I cut off 5in1/2 to the length shown, without hem allowances. I think it works fine for heels (these are my work shoes).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the sides, you can see the first hint of trouble: stress at the hips and tummy, colapsed back of thigh and, obviously, stress at the behind:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkD1jwqI/AAAAAAAABhc/9gYajlacvGs/s1600/DSCF1775.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkD1jwqI/AAAAAAAABhc/9gYajlacvGs/s400/DSCF1775.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525578633790114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Left side:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkdHnEPI/AAAAAAAABhk/tu40UGwNRVY/s1600/DSCF1776.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZkdHnEPI/AAAAAAAABhk/tu40UGwNRVY/s400/DSCF1776.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525585420390642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the main course, the back view that sums up all I have already outlined:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZlBvOHGI/AAAAAAAABhs/nE4yS_GNuzE/s1600/DSCF1774.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 205px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPZlBvOHGI/AAAAAAAABhs/nE4yS_GNuzE/s400/DSCF1774.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5558525595250203746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All in all, I'm rather happy. I feared it would be much worse. Of course, the general shape of the trousers helps a lot. I think the second, narrower pair will be harder to fit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't touched the muslin since Sunday. I could sew but I don't have electricity at night and would rather iron out the wrinkles between fittings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-8713747039661239964?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/8713747039661239964/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=8713747039661239964' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8713747039661239964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8713747039661239964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/01/tcg2011ts-premieres-surprises.html' title='TCG2011TS: Premières surprises'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TSPXRH7iv4I/AAAAAAAABhE/Q5pV8_UXXl8/s72-c/TCCG-Trouser.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-3928298650838874316</id><published>2011-01-01T20:58:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T22:21:36.152-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='LMB 08-2010-12'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blouse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='S8296'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viscose'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='critique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corsage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shirtdress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Simplicity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe chemisier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vintage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La Mia Boutique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='top'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jupon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='S2614'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='slip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rayon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='review'/><title type='text'>Les derniers projets de 2010</title><content type='html'>J'ai réalisé ce corsage il y a un moment déjà avec l'un des tissus achetés lors de mon voyage: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_corqq_YI/AAAAAAAABew/teS3ZPma3R4/s1600/DSCF1432.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_corqq_YI/AAAAAAAABew/teS3ZPma3R4/s400/DSCF1432.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557403056673062274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est Simplicity 2614, délicieusement vintage sur les bords:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_co-BIteI/AAAAAAAABe4/OddBKsk2puY/s1600/S2614%2Bdessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_co-BIteI/AAAAAAAABe4/OddBKsk2puY/s400/S2614%2Bdessin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557403061599122914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simple et rapide mais taillé dans le bias. &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57649"&gt;La critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/S2614Blouse?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et pour le 24 décembre au bureau, un patron vraiment vintage cette fois, &lt;a href="http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Simplicity_8296_A"&gt;Simplicity 8296&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTfB7kjI/AAAAAAAABfI/6suTqsAq8ig/s1600/DSCF1695.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTfB7kjI/AAAAAAAABfI/6suTqsAq8ig/s400/DSCF1695.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414787131609650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tissu est, lui, acheté localement, une sorte de viscose, je crois. Les bonnes affaires de ce genre sont rares donc j'ai acheté tout ce qui restait sur le rouleau. Traduction: vous allez revoir cet imprimé un de ces jours!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je porte en dessous un jupon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTu0vkSI/AAAAAAAABfQ/sO149ccE4eA/s1600/DSCF1744.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTu0vkSI/AAAAAAAABfQ/sO149ccE4eA/s400/DSCF1744.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414791371264290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est le modèle no 12 du magazine La Mia Boutique Agosto 2010: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTjK1UJI/AAAAAAAABfY/1cwOZXfJaaY/s1600/DSCF1665.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTjK1UJI/AAAAAAAABfY/1cwOZXfJaaY/s400/DSCF1665.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414788242690194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=58278"&gt;critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/VintageS8296196902?authkey=Gv1sRgCO-L0cjLnM35jgE&amp;feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt; de la robe, &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=58280"&gt;la critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/LMB08201012?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt; du jupon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I made this blouse a while ago, from fabric I bought on my recent trip to the US:  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_corqq_YI/AAAAAAAABew/teS3ZPma3R4/s1600/DSCF1432.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_corqq_YI/AAAAAAAABew/teS3ZPma3R4/s400/DSCF1432.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557403056673062274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's Simplicity 2614, sweetly vintage looking:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_co-BIteI/AAAAAAAABe4/OddBKsk2puY/s1600/S2614%2Bdessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_co-BIteI/AAAAAAAABe4/OddBKsk2puY/s400/S2614%2Bdessin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557403061599122914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Simple and fast but cut on the bias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57649"&gt;La critique&lt;/a&gt; et &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/S2614Blouse?feat=directlink"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And for Christmas at the office, a true vintage pattern this time, &lt;a href="http://vintagepatterns.wikia.com/wiki/Simplicity_8296_A"&gt;Simplicity 8296&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTfB7kjI/AAAAAAAABfI/6suTqsAq8ig/s1600/DSCF1695.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTfB7kjI/AAAAAAAABfI/6suTqsAq8ig/s400/DSCF1695.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414787131609650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fabric was bought locally, looks like rayon, I think. As these good finds are rare, I bought the end of the roll. Read: You'll be seeing this print again one of these days! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm wearing a full slip underneath:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTu0vkSI/AAAAAAAABfQ/sO149ccE4eA/s1600/DSCF1744.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTu0vkSI/AAAAAAAABfQ/sO149ccE4eA/s400/DSCF1744.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414791371264290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's number 12 from the August issue of La Mia Boutique: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTjK1UJI/AAAAAAAABfY/1cwOZXfJaaY/s1600/DSCF1665.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_nTjK1UJI/AAAAAAAABfY/1cwOZXfJaaY/s400/DSCF1665.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5557414788242690194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=58278"&gt;The review&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/VintageS8296196902?authkey=Gv1sRgCO-L0cjLnM35jgE&amp;feat=directlink"&gt;the album&lt;/a&gt; for the dress, &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=58280"&gt;the review&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/LMB08201012?feat=directlink"&gt;the album&lt;/a&gt; for the slip&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-3928298650838874316?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/3928298650838874316/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=3928298650838874316' title='6 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3928298650838874316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3928298650838874316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2011/01/les-derniers-projets-de-2010.html' title='Les derniers projets de 2010'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TR_corqq_YI/AAAAAAAABew/teS3ZPma3R4/s72-c/DSCF1432.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-8037267167860446421</id><published>2010-12-26T09:54:00.011-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T10:36:32.803-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projects'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='11-2010-129'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TCG2011TS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='04-2007-118'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pantalon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trouser Sewalong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdg2pyeQyI/AAAAAAAABJI/xbwQ5XFSiXw/s1600/TCCG-Trouser.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdg2pyeQyI/AAAAAAAABJI/xbwQ5XFSiXw/s320/TCCG-Trouser.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555015157431550754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je me suis inscrite au Sewalong Pantalon de Sunni The Cupcake Goddess parce que je ne possède qu'un seul pantalon, noir, du prêt-à-porter. Ma dernière tentative date d'il y a deux ans environ, un patron Burda Petite. Malheureusement, la couleur vert olive n'a pas suffit pour me faire oublier les deux grands problèmes : 1) la ceinture descend au milieu dos (traduction : mes fesses ne sont pas allemandes!) et j'ai des grands plis derrière les cuisses (encore mes fesses!?!?!?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc, je m'y mets sérieusement en 2011 avec ce patron-ci:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXxw7vWEI/AAAAAAAABIo/BxD0uTSeMwo/s1600/Burda%2B11-2010-129%2Bphoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXxw7vWEI/AAAAAAAABIo/BxD0uTSeMwo/s400/Burda%2B11-2010-129%2Bphoto.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005177845471298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est le modèle 129 du Burda de Novembre dernier. Jambes larges, pas de ceinture, poches passepoilées...que je ne sais pas encore faire!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXx5Wm-NI/AAAAAAAABIw/2yOqEAkjl0M/s1600/Burda%2B11-2010-129.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXx5Wm-NI/AAAAAAAABIw/2yOqEAkjl0M/s400/Burda%2B11-2010-129.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005180105652434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai pas encore de tissu mais je vais faire un tour chez Oscar la semaine prochaine pour voir de plus près ces Casimir qu'il essaie de fourguer à ma mère.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et si ça se passe bien, je continue avec un pantalon étroit (j'ai des envies de tunique), le 118 du Burda d'Avril 2007:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyKUn-2I/AAAAAAAABI4/NnktXjBdR4E/s1600/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bphoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 396px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyKUn-2I/AAAAAAAABI4/NnktXjBdR4E/s400/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bphoto.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005184660732770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Maintenant que j'y pense, la veste n'est pas mal non plus!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyV1jiaI/AAAAAAAABJA/odrFpzh14uY/s1600/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bdessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyV1jiaI/AAAAAAAABJA/odrFpzh14uY/s400/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bdessin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005187751643554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le calendrier est déjà établi:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•3 au Janvier      : coupe et assemblage de la toile &lt;br /&gt;•9 au 15 Janvier   : ajustage de la toile et modifications du patron&lt;br /&gt;•16 au 22 Janvier  : traitement des tissu et doublure, coupe &lt;br /&gt;•23 au 31 Janvier  : couture! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suivez l'aventure &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/TCG2011TrouserSewAlong?feat=directlink"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;, chez &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/trouser-sewalong/"&gt;Sunni&lt;/a&gt; et sur &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cgsewingleague/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai aussi mis à jour mon menu de droite avec tous les liens utiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I signed up for the Trouser Sewalong that Sunni the Cupcake Goddes is hosting because I only own one pair of trousers, some ancient black RTW.  My last go at this was about two years ago, a Burda Petite pattern. Sadly, not even the gorgeous olive green fabric could hide two major problems: CB waist dipped low (read : non-German behind!) and wrinkles at the back thigh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I'm tackling the problem in 2011 with this pattern: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXxw7vWEI/AAAAAAAABIo/BxD0uTSeMwo/s1600/Burda%2B11-2010-129%2Bphoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXxw7vWEI/AAAAAAAABIo/BxD0uTSeMwo/s400/Burda%2B11-2010-129%2Bphoto.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005177845471298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's modell 129 from the November issue. Wide legs, no waistband belt and welt pockets...that I've never made yet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXx5Wm-NI/AAAAAAAABIw/2yOqEAkjl0M/s1600/Burda%2B11-2010-129.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXx5Wm-NI/AAAAAAAABIw/2yOqEAkjl0M/s400/Burda%2B11-2010-129.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005180105652434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have any fabric yet but I'm going to check out these Casimir (keysemere aka tropical wool) that Oscar keeps pushing on my mother all the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And, if all goes well, I'll move on to narrow trousers (to wear with tunic tops I'm craving lately), like 04-2007-118:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyKUn-2I/AAAAAAAABI4/NnktXjBdR4E/s1600/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bphoto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 224px; height: 396px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyKUn-2I/AAAAAAAABI4/NnktXjBdR4E/s400/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bphoto.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005184660732770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Hum, that jacket isn't bad either!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyV1jiaI/AAAAAAAABJA/odrFpzh14uY/s1600/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bdessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 304px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdXyV1jiaI/AAAAAAAABJA/odrFpzh14uY/s400/Burda%2B04-2010-117%2526118%2Bdessin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555005187751643554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the schedule :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;•January 3 - 8 ~ cutting and constructing your muslin&lt;br /&gt;•January 9 -15 ~ muslin fitting and pattern adjustments&lt;br /&gt;•January 16 - 22 ~ preparing and cutting your fabric, lining and interling&lt;br /&gt;•January 23 - 31 ~ trouser construction &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Follow along &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/TCG2011TrouserSewAlong?feat=directlink"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, over at &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/trouser-sewalong/"&gt;Sunni's&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/cgsewingleague/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've also updated my right-hand menu with all the helpful links.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-8037267167860446421?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/8037267167860446421/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=8037267167860446421' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8037267167860446421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8037267167860446421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/12/je-me-suis-inscrite-au-sewalong.html' title=''/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TRdg2pyeQyI/AAAAAAAABJI/xbwQ5XFSiXw/s72-c/TCCG-Trouser.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-8016661789689072605</id><published>2010-12-06T11:44:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T09:20:54.676-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projects'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2011'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sewalong'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TCG2011TS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='projets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trouser Sewalong'/><title type='text'>Les grands travaux</title><content type='html'>Bon, je fais des projets pour 2011, surtout que l'année risque de mal commencer avec nos éternels problèmes politiques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai décidé de participer au &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/2010/12/trouser-tantalizer.html"&gt;Sewalong pantalon&lt;/a&gt; (comment ça se dit en Fr de blogue???) de Sunni The Cupcake Goddess qui débute le 3 janvier 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suivre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TP0U9XBnEUI/AAAAAAAABC0/hxjVOGgi5Dw/s1600/TCCG-Trouser.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TP0U9XBnEUI/AAAAAAAABC0/hxjVOGgi5Dw/s400/TCCG-Trouser.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5547613360375664962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I have plans for 2011, especially since things are looking bad political-wise for 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've decided to join the &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/2010/12/trouser-tantalizer.html"&gt;Trouser Sewalong&lt;/a&gt; over at Sunni The Cupcake Goddess's blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-8016661789689072605?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/8016661789689072605/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=8016661789689072605' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8016661789689072605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8016661789689072605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/12/les-grands-travaux.html' title='Les grands travaux'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TP0U9XBnEUI/AAAAAAAABC0/hxjVOGgi5Dw/s72-c/TCCG-Trouser.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-7396266970311128547</id><published>2010-11-30T17:47:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-30T20:29:29.955-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='robe chemisier'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='04-2010-116'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Le défi 2010'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the 2010 challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='shirtdress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Le suffrage universel</title><content type='html'>Il y a eu des élections générales dans le pays dimanche et, comme d'hab, ça a mal fini. Ceci m'a valu un jour de congé inattendu hier. Qu'est-ce qu'on fait après des heures de débats audio-télé-électroniques qui vous saoûlent? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On termine une robe trop longtemps en suspens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSPD0_xSI/AAAAAAAAA8o/FH-jmHg91Vg/s144/Le%20defi%20no%202%20cotonnade%20rayee%20bleus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 72px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSPD0_xSI/AAAAAAAAA8o/FH-jmHg91Vg/s144/Le%20defi%20no%202%20cotonnade%20rayee%20bleus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'avais commencé la robe chemisier Burda 04-2010-116 &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-defi.html"&gt;en juin dernier&lt;/a&gt; et elle a langui sur un cintre depuis lors. Je n'aimais pas la manche que j'avais montée et je voulais la refaire plus nette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'avais, surtout, failli tout bousiller en voulant poser des boutons-pressions à la place de boutonnières et boutons le long de la patte de boutonnage avant. J'en avais justement reçu dans &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;la fameuse boîte&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS1erpJgI/AAAAAAAAA9M/qtm9GByS8H8/s144/DSC00456.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS1erpJgI/AAAAAAAAA9M/qtm9GByS8H8/s144/DSC00456.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais j'ai beau essayé, je n'arrivais pas à faire tenir les boutons-pressions. Regardez un peu le désastre à peine évité:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS5u8HzZI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/alA3aKes_80/s144/DSC00458.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 108px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS5u8HzZI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/alA3aKes_80/s144/DSC00458.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plein de petits trous!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heureusement que j'ai pu camoufler tout ça sous les boutons et les boutonnières traditionnelles auxquelles j'ai du me résoudre en dernier lieu:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTEW4wiuI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Lv2r-vlNjh8/s144/DSCF1549.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 108px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTEW4wiuI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Lv2r-vlNjh8/s144/DSCF1549.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis très contente du résultat final qui a obtenu un vote unanime au suffrage universel (autrement dit, mes collègues ont adoré au bureau):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTMTOUZII/AAAAAAAAA9k/AwU-zCIJk-o/s144/DSCF1553.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 81px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTMTOUZII/AAAAAAAAA9k/AwU-zCIJk-o/s144/DSCF1553.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La robe est un peu courte pour le bureau parce que je n'avais pas lu mes notes pour voir que je n'avais prévu que 3 cm d'ourlet!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comme j'avais juste assez de tissu pour réaliser la robe, je me suis contentée d'un empiècement dos horizontal mais je voulais tellement des chevrons:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTtTAD49I/AAAAAAAAA9w/lxM951nMqSo/s144/DSCF1556.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTtTAD49I/AAAAAAAAA9w/lxM951nMqSo/s144/DSCF1556.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai fabriqué ma ceinture moi-même à partir d'une ceinture fournie avec un pantalon du prêt-à-porter et un long morceau de ruban blanc:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSyps1hjI/AAAAAAAAA9I/SK125VfnH68/s144/DSC00455.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSyps1hjI/AAAAAAAAA9I/SK125VfnH68/s144/DSC00455.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour aller plus loin: l'&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/Burda04201011602?authkey=Gv1sRgCJiXxLiqyv2wyAE&amp;feat=directlink"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt; en ligne et &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57650"&gt;la critique&lt;/a&gt; (en anglais)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;There were elections here this past Sunday and, predictably, it's not going well. This meant I stayed home unexpectedly yesterday. So what do you do after mind numbing hours of debat online, on tv  and on the radio?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You finish up a UFO dress, of course!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSPD0_xSI/AAAAAAAAA8o/FH-jmHg91Vg/s144/Le%20defi%20no%202%20cotonnade%20rayee%20bleus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 72px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSPD0_xSI/AAAAAAAAA8o/FH-jmHg91Vg/s144/Le%20defi%20no%202%20cotonnade%20rayee%20bleus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had started Burda 04-2010-116 &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-defi.html"&gt;back in June&lt;/a&gt; and since then it had been gathering dust on a hanger. I didn't like how one of the sleeves was set and I wanted to unstitch it and do it over better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, above all, I had almost ruined it while trying to set in some snap bouttons down the front placket. As it happens, I had received some in &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;Ze box&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS1erpJgI/AAAAAAAAA9M/qtm9GByS8H8/s144/DSC00456.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS1erpJgI/AAAAAAAAA9M/qtm9GByS8H8/s144/DSC00456.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, try as I might, I just couldn't get them to hold. Look at this narrow escape from disaster:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS5u8HzZI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/alA3aKes_80/s144/DSC00458.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 108px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWS5u8HzZI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/alA3aKes_80/s144/DSC00458.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bunch of little holes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully, I was able to hide all this mess beneath the buttons and buttonholes I put in in the end:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTEW4wiuI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Lv2r-vlNjh8/s144/DSCF1549.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 108px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTEW4wiuI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Lv2r-vlNjh8/s144/DSCF1549.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm very happy with the finished results which garnered direct universal suffrage (ie my coworkders loved it) Je suis très contente du résultat final qui a obtenu un vote unanime au suffrage:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTMTOUZII/AAAAAAAAA9k/AwU-zCIJk-o/s144/DSCF1553.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 81px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTMTOUZII/AAAAAAAAA9k/AwU-zCIJk-o/s144/DSCF1553.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dress is a bit short for work but it's my fault. I forgot to reread my notes in order to notice I had only figured 3cm (1in1/4) of hem allowance!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since I had just enough fabric to do the dress, I had to settle for a horizontal back yoke instead of the chevrons I really wanted:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTtTAD49I/AAAAAAAAA9w/lxM951nMqSo/s144/DSCF1556.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWTtTAD49I/AAAAAAAAA9w/lxM951nMqSo/s144/DSCF1556.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made my belt myself from one that came with RTW pants I had and a long piece of poly ribbon:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSyps1hjI/AAAAAAAAA9I/SK125VfnH68/s144/DSC00455.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSyps1hjI/AAAAAAAAA9I/SK125VfnH68/s144/DSC00455.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more thrills: the &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/Burda04201011602?authkey=Gv1sRgCJiXxLiqyv2wyAE&amp;feat=directlink"&gt;album&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57650"&gt;the review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-7396266970311128547?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/7396266970311128547/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=7396266970311128547' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7396266970311128547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7396266970311128547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/le-suffrage-universel.html' title='Le suffrage universel'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TPWSPD0_xSI/AAAAAAAAA8o/FH-jmHg91Vg/s72-c/Le%20defi%20no%202%20cotonnade%20rayee%20bleus.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-7578730121731053109</id><published>2010-11-23T18:03:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-23T18:18:50.282-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gwen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='translation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traduction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='How Much Fabric?'/><title type='text'>By moi!</title><content type='html'>Je suis en train, un peu malgré moi, d'affirmer ma présence en ligne. J'ai traduit les cartes de Gwen &lt;a href="http://www.gwynhug.com/index.php?pagelet=French"&gt;en français&lt;/a&gt; et la page est maintenant en ligne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oui, je suis très fière :) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, ce n'est pas encore le &lt;a href="http://atelier.rfi.fr/profiles/blogs/fautil-former-les-journalistes"&gt;personal branding&lt;/a&gt; (que je découvrais avant-hier seulement), loin de là, mais ça fait tout chose de voir son nom sur la toile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En échange, je dois recevoir sous peu un jeu à moi. J'ai choisi les cartes en verges parce que je me trompe à chaque fois que j'essaie d'acheter dans le système impérial. Au moins avec ces cartes, ça devrait mieux aller à l'avenir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;It seems I'm growing my online presence, quite accidentally. I translated Gwen's card &lt;a href="http://www.gwynhug.com/index.php?pagelet=French"&gt;to French&lt;/a&gt; and the page is online now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I'm quite proud :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not yet &lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/07/personal-branding-becomes-a-necessity-in-digital-age197.html"&gt;personal branding&lt;/a&gt; (which I discover only two days ago) but what a fuzzy feeling to see your name on the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In exchange for my services, I'm getting a set of cards. I asked for yards because I can't keep getting my fabric wrong when I use the Imperial system. At least with these cards, I should do better next time.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-7578730121731053109?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/7578730121731053109/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=7578730121731053109' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7578730121731053109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7578730121731053109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/by-moi.html' title='By moi!'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-5150712031832335114</id><published>2010-11-22T17:50:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-22T19:37:48.763-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ze stash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tissu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stash'/><title type='text'>Restashification : Octobre 2010</title><content type='html'>J'ai fait allusion dans mon &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/jai-pas-dexcuses.html"&gt;billet d'hier&lt;/a&gt; à un voyage aux Etats-Unis en octobre dernier. Durant ce séjour, j'en ai naturellement profité pour reflouer mon stash de tissus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oui, malgré (ou à cause de, peut-être!) &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;Ze box&lt;/a&gt;, comme une vraie malade, il me fallait encore plus de tissus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les acquisitions se sont faites en trois temps. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'abord, à NYC avec l'aventure chez AKN Fabrics avec ma tante. Imaginez un peu, elle avait oublié l'adresse et nous sommes parties, sur Broadway, espérant trouver de mémoire le magasin!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc, ça a commencé par mon tissu africain. Ma tante m'a aussi offert des patrons de ma liste d'envies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbrgOnT0I/AAAAAAAAAtY/oO3yXGj2mmM/s144/DSCF1287.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 118px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbrgOnT0I/AAAAAAAAAtY/oO3yXGj2mmM/s144/DSCF1287.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite, Philadelphie où je visitais une copine de longue date. Nous avons fait une excursion chez &lt;a href="http://www.jomarstores.com/locations.cfm"&gt;JOMAR&lt;/a&gt; que j'ai découvert sur le blogue Cidell. Malheureusement, j'ai égaré le reçu sinon je vous aurais dit précisément lequel mais c'est un magasin sur un seul plan comme un hangar. J'espère que celles qui connaissent indiqueront la bonne adresse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai craqué sur des voiles de coton imprimés dans les tons marron, le délire total!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcWK2qltI/AAAAAAAAAtY/W3gQRA4VYXY/s144/DSCF1454.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcWK2qltI/AAAAAAAAAtY/W3gQRA4VYXY/s144/DSCF1454.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai acheté au pifomètre (oui, hautement scientifique), parfois achetant tout ce qui restait sur le rouleau. J'adore quand ça m'arrive! Et le tout pour $30 TTC. J'ai vraiment du me retenir. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et dimanche, elle m'emmène chez &lt;a href="http://www.gaffneyfabrics.com/"&gt;Gaffney Fabrics&lt;/a&gt; et m'OFFRE des tissus. J'ai pris plusieurs tricots: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcTlpQIOI/AAAAAAAAAtY/XXfUELu8HRE/s144/DSCF1453.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcTlpQIOI/AAAAAAAAAtY/XXfUELu8HRE/s144/DSCF1453.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La fin de semaine suivante, j'étais avec Cidell à Baltimore. Si vous êtes son amie sur FB, vous avez eu la primeure : un dimanche de rêve sur un bateau (au port mais quand même) avec BeeBee, Marji, Robin et Susan Khalje. Ici, on appelle ça un plon gaye*, mdr!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cidell m'a amenée chez Joann's à ma descente du bus et j'ai pris quelques fournitures mais surtout des patrons durant la vente à 99c:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbj7PdenI/AAAAAAAAAtY/oHlIPhdsesY/s144/DSCF1285.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 120px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbj7PdenI/AAAAAAAAAtY/oHlIPhdsesY/s144/DSCF1285.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;et des tissus dans la section "red tag" à moitié prix:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgaxEnhDsI/AAAAAAAAAtY/_uoCYwE3N24/s144/DSCF1266.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgaxEnhDsI/AAAAAAAAAtY/_uoCYwE3N24/s144/DSCF1266.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais la meilleure, vous savez ce que c'est? Tous ces tissus ont coûtés tout au plus $3.00 la verge!!!! Ça me changeait de polyester à $10 US que je trouve ici.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous pouvez voir tous les tissus individuellement dans l'album &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RestashificationOct2010?feat=directlink"&gt;Restashification&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*plon gaye : mot à mot, une cartouche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/jai-pas-dexcuses.html"&gt;yesterday's post&lt;/a&gt;, I mention a trip this past October to the US. Obviously, I took the time to increase my stash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, despite (or, even, because of) &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;Ze box&lt;/a&gt;, like the sick puppy that I must be, I needed more fabric. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The purchases were made in three stops. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, in NYC, I went hunting for AKN Fabrics with my aunt. Picture it, she had forgotten the address and we went off on Broadway hoping to find it by ourselves from her vague memory of the street number!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So it all started with my African fabric. My aunt also gave me some patterns from my wishlist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbrgOnT0I/AAAAAAAAAtY/oO3yXGj2mmM/s144/DSCF1287.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 118px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbrgOnT0I/AAAAAAAAAtY/oO3yXGj2mmM/s144/DSCF1287.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, I went Philadelphia to visit a long time friend. We took a trip to &lt;a href="http://www.jomarstores.com/locations.cfm"&gt;JOMAR&lt;/a&gt; which I had heard of through Cidell's blog. Unfortunately, I misplaced the receipt so I cannot tell you which store it was but it's a one floor hangar-type structure. I hope those who recognise it will post the correct address in the comments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went crazy for these brown toned cotton lawn prints!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcWK2qltI/AAAAAAAAAtY/W3gQRA4VYXY/s144/DSCF1454.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcWK2qltI/AAAAAAAAAtY/W3gQRA4VYXY/s144/DSCF1454.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guestimated the yardage (yes, highly scientific, I know!), sometimes buying whatever was left on the roll. I LOVE when this happens! And all that for less than $30 after taxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then on Sunday, she took me to &lt;a href="http://www.gaffneyfabrics.com/"&gt;Gaffney Fabrics&lt;/a&gt; and GIFTED me some more fabric. I picked several knits: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcTlpQIOI/AAAAAAAAAtY/XXfUELu8HRE/s144/DSCF1453.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgcTlpQIOI/AAAAAAAAAtY/XXfUELu8HRE/s144/DSCF1453.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following week-end, I was with Cidell in Baltimore. If you've friended her on FB, you heard it first : a Sunday on a boat (moored but whatever!) with BeeBee, Marji, Robin and Susan Khalje. This is what we call here a "plon gaye", LOL! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cidell took me to Joann's after picking me up from the bus. I bought a few notions, mostly patterns in the 99c sale:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbj7PdenI/AAAAAAAAAtY/oHlIPhdsesY/s144/DSCF1285.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 120px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbj7PdenI/AAAAAAAAAtY/oHlIPhdsesY/s144/DSCF1285.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;but also fabrics in the red tag section: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgaxEnhDsI/AAAAAAAAAtY/_uoCYwE3N24/s144/DSCF1266.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgaxEnhDsI/AAAAAAAAAtY/_uoCYwE3N24/s144/DSCF1266.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best part of all this? All these fabrics cost me $3/yard or less!!!What a difference from all the $10 US polyester I keep finding around here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see each fabric separately in the &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RestashificationOct2010?feat=directlink"&gt;Restashification&lt;/a&gt; album. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*plon gaye: literally buck shot&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-5150712031832335114?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/5150712031832335114/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=5150712031832335114' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/5150712031832335114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/5150712031832335114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/restashification-octobre-2010.html' title='Restashification : Octobre 2010'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgbrgOnT0I/AAAAAAAAAtY/oO3yXGj2mmM/s72-c/DSCF1287.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-1048790971137121268</id><published>2010-11-21T16:43:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T18:48:59.113-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jupe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mars'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='106'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='March'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='modèle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='skirt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='04-2007-106'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='african'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='NYC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tissu'/><title type='text'>J'ai pas d'excuses</title><content type='html'>Hélas, non, je n'ai pas d'excuses pour expliquer mon absence sur la toile. Le mojo comme le moral est en zigzag. Je couds mais je suis poursuivie par une guigne de toiles les unes plus nulles que les autres. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sauf que...ma chance semble avoir tourné. J'ai plus d'excuses mais j'ai une jupe que voici: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjBa3qMeI/AAAAAAAAAtc/O-p8GnmHtfU/s144/DSCF1289.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 104px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjBa3qMeI/AAAAAAAAAtc/O-p8GnmHtfU/s144/DSCF1289.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je l'ai réalisée avec le &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Nc6vnBZTZT-qoiv-Vj6YGw?feat=directlink"&gt;tissu africain&lt;/a&gt; offert par Ma-Tante-Qui-Coud lors de notre séjour à NYC. Le modèle de base est très simple:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgi9LcVh_I/AAAAAAAAAtc/3MAXmnp_GCk/s144/Burda%2004-2007-106%20dessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 110px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgi9LcVh_I/AAAAAAAAAtc/3MAXmnp_GCk/s144/Burda%2004-2007-106%20dessin.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deux grandes leçons: &lt;br /&gt;1) tissu extra + patron raz* = effet boeuf;&lt;br /&gt;2) la paresse se paie cher: ne faites pas comme moi, j'ai refusé de faufiler les arêtes de plis et après il a fallu me taper une corvée terrible au repassage. Et en plus, cette cotonnade ne tient pas les plis bien ni toute seule donc je l'ai portée deux fois mais j'hésite à la laver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai baptisé la jupe un vendredi au bureau par cette tenue qui a reçu plein de compliments :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjJenTMJI/AAAAAAAAAtc/60Wg4CWCV9s/s144/DSCF1376.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 62px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjJenTMJI/AAAAAAAAAtc/60Wg4CWCV9s/s144/DSCF1376.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Excusez la piètre qualité de la photo, je l'ai prise en rentrant du bureau, façon système D (je vous montrerai ça plus tard).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Avant de vous laisser, il faut que je vous montre mes chaussures, source de bonheur intense:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjKw7km8I/AAAAAAAAAtc/yJ143m7zALM/s144/DSCF1377.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjKw7km8I/AAAAAAAAAtc/yJ143m7zALM/s144/DSCF1377.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ce sont des &lt;a href="http://www.naturalizer.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?p=EC0223870"&gt;Verstood&lt;/a&gt; de Naturalizer, acheter une pitance lors d'une vente chez Macy's durant le même voyage. J'ai aussi les noires et je convoites intensément les grises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour aller plus loin: &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/B042007106?feat=embedwebsite#"&gt;l'album&lt;/a&gt; et la &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57382"&gt;critique&lt;/a&gt; (en anglais)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;*raz= simple ou ennuyeux en Créole Haïtien. (SVP, prononcez A-I-sien comme nous!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sadly, no, I have no excuses for my long online absence. The mojo, as themorale, has had its ups and downs. I sew but I'm plagued with the worst bad luck of ever more horrible muslins.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except...my luck seems to be changing. I don't have excuses but I do have this skirt: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjBa3qMeI/AAAAAAAAAtc/O-p8GnmHtfU/s144/DSCF1289.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 104px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjBa3qMeI/AAAAAAAAAtc/O-p8GnmHtfU/s144/DSCF1289.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made it with the &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Nc6vnBZTZT-qoiv-Vj6YGw?feat=directlink"&gt;african fabric&lt;/a&gt; my Sewing Aunt gave me during our trip to NYC. The base pattern is really simple:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgi9LcVh_I/AAAAAAAAAtc/3MAXmnp_GCk/s144/Burda%2004-2007-106%20dessin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 110px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgi9LcVh_I/AAAAAAAAAtc/3MAXmnp_GCk/s144/Burda%2004-2007-106%20dessin.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two things I learned :&lt;br /&gt;1) wow fabric + raz* pattern = killer effect;&lt;br /&gt;2) laziness is will cost you : don't do as I did and omit basting the pleat edges. Afterwards, you have a hell of a time ironing them all. Especially when dealing with cotton that doesn't hold pleats unless you iron it to death. So far, I've worn the skirt twice, pushing back the time to wash (and iron!) it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wore my skirt on Casual Friday at work with this well received styling :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjJenTMJI/AAAAAAAAAtc/60Wg4CWCV9s/s144/DSCF1376.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 62px; height: 144px;" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjJenTMJI/AAAAAAAAAtc/60Wg4CWCV9s/s144/DSCF1376.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please forgive the crappy photo, I took it after work in a very DIY way (which I will show you later)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before I go, I have to show you my feel good shoes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjKw7km8I/AAAAAAAAAtc/yJ143m7zALM/s144/DSCF1377.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 108px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjKw7km8I/AAAAAAAAAtc/yJ143m7zALM/s144/DSCF1377.JPG" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are &lt;a href="http://www.naturalizer.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?p=EC0223870"&gt;Verstood&lt;/a&gt; by Naturalizer, that I got for a steal during a sale at Macy's during my trip. I own the black and am plotting towards the greys. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more thrills: the &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/B042007106?feat=directlink"&gt;online album&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;reviewnum=57382"&gt;review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;*raz= simple or boring in Haitian Creole (Please pronounce I-ee-tian as we do!)&lt;/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-1048790971137121268?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/1048790971137121268/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=1048790971137121268' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1048790971137121268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1048790971137121268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/11/jai-pas-dexcuses.html' title='J&apos;ai pas d&apos;excuses'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TOgjBa3qMeI/AAAAAAAAAtc/O-p8GnmHtfU/s72-c/DSCF1289.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-3421166203785137431</id><published>2010-07-31T08:26:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T15:36:46.487-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ancora più bella!</title><content type='html'>Vendredi, j'ai reçu mon courrier pour la semaine. Il n'y avait qu'un seul colis, de Zagreb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mille mercis à &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/"&gt;Barbara&lt;/a&gt; qui avait gentillement accepté de relever pour moi le patron de cette super robe en jersey Burda 08-2000-127 &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/2010/06/dress-burda-82000127.html"&gt;qu'elle a fait en tissu rayé&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFQoE5Ndz0I/AAAAAAAAAhc/K2zzSUDFUJA/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 151px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFQoE5Ndz0I/AAAAAAAAAhc/K2zzSUDFUJA/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500065109468106562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais alors, pourquoi une boîte? Et bien, Barbara m'avait promis une surprise. Regardez un peu ce qu'il y avait d'inclus:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYs9UpcvI/AAAAAAAAAic/WsEeOYk8Uzo/s1600/DSC00544.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYs9UpcvI/AAAAAAAAAic/WsEeOYk8Uzo/s320/DSC00544.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500540786789937906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYsneEvPI/AAAAAAAAAiU/UyQXRPGAk4c/s1600/DSC00543.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYsneEvPI/AAAAAAAAAiU/UyQXRPGAk4c/s320/DSC00543.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500540780923895026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deux magazines : La Mia Boutique Ottobre 2008, Modellina No 114 Autunno Inverno 2001-2002, trois fermetures Eclair invisible noires ruban maille et quatre coupons de tissu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et s'il fallait encore vous convaincre de la grande générosité de Barbara, elle a numérisé et mis &lt;strong&gt;tous ses magazines de couture &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/2010/07/i-made-the-ufos-and-wips-list.html"&gt;en ligne&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis sur un petit nuage!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friday, I got my mail. Just one box, from Zagreb. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you sooo much &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/"&gt;Barbara&lt;/a&gt; who kindly agreed to trace this wonderful knit dress pattern Burda 08-2000-127 &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/2010/06/dress-burda-82000127.html"&gt;that she made in a stripe print&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFQoE5Ndz0I/AAAAAAAAAhc/K2zzSUDFUJA/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 151px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFQoE5Ndz0I/AAAAAAAAAhc/K2zzSUDFUJA/s320/untitled.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500065109468106562" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, why a whole box? Well, Barbara had warned me there would be a surprise included. Take a look :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYs9UpcvI/AAAAAAAAAic/WsEeOYk8Uzo/s1600/DSC00544.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYs9UpcvI/AAAAAAAAAic/WsEeOYk8Uzo/s320/DSC00544.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500540786789937906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYsneEvPI/AAAAAAAAAiU/UyQXRPGAk4c/s1600/DSC00543.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFXYsneEvPI/AAAAAAAAAiU/UyQXRPGAk4c/s320/DSC00543.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500540780923895026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two magazines : La Mia Boutique Ottobre 2008, Modellina No 114 Autunno Inverno 2001-2002, three black invisible mesh tape zippers and four cuts of fabric.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And if you still need convincing as to her great generosity, she scanned and posted &lt;strong&gt;all her sewing magazines &lt;a href="http://floweryskirt.typepad.com/the_flowery_skirt/2010/07/i-made-the-ufos-and-wips-list.html"&gt;online&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm walking on air!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-3421166203785137431?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/3421166203785137431/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=3421166203785137431' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3421166203785137431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3421166203785137431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/07/ancora-piu-bella.html' title='ancora più bella!'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TFQoE5Ndz0I/AAAAAAAAAhc/K2zzSUDFUJA/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-6624849305180068751</id><published>2010-07-31T07:52:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T08:15:15.952-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mojo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UFO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electricity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electricité'/><title type='text'>Du plomb dans l'aile...</title><content type='html'>Je n'ai rien cousu depuis trois semaines. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D'abord parce que j'ai eu des problèmes d'électricité. Il semble, d'après ce que me disent les voisins, que la compagnie nationale a refait surface et procedait à une vaste campagne de rebranchement/débranchement. Et mon fil fut la victime innocente d'un employé trop zélé!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous connaissez le problème: il me reste une tête de manche à corriger, des boutonnières et l'ourlet et puis PAF! plus de courant pendant 2 jours. Adieu Mojo, manche et ourlet. Un UFO est né.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite, la chaleur torride de l'été tropicale. Mon coin couture est CHAUD! Et j'ai souvent du mal à supporter la température de la pièce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais le coup de grâce, c'est le moral. J'ai eu des problèmes au bureau et ça a mis à genoux ma motivation. Trop déprimée pour coudre, l'horreur totale!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La bonne nouvelle, c'est que ça va mieux dans tous ces domaines. Ce n'est pas le bonheur total mais j'ai envie de coudre comme une folle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suivre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I haven't sewn a thing in three weeks. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, I had electrical problems. According to the neighbors, the national electrical company was cleaning up the wiring, unplugging illegals and replugging downed lines. Well, my poor innocent line was a victim, collateral damage really!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know how it is: a sleevehead to correct, buttonholes and a hem to go and then BAM! no electricity. Goodbye Mojo, sleevehead and hem. Hello UFO.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the intense summer heat. My sewing nook is in a really hot part of the house and I just can't sew comfortably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the really trouble came from all my work troubles. I was just too depressed of the situation to sew. The horror!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the good news is that things are better on all fronts and I'm really itching to sew something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-6624849305180068751?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/6624849305180068751/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=6624849305180068751' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6624849305180068751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6624849305180068751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/07/du-plomb-dans-laile.html' title='Du plomb dans l&apos;aile...'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-8577324217342611316</id><published>2010-07-07T19:51:00.013-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-08T20:24:48.681-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La Mia Boutique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thank you'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magazine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='merci'/><title type='text'>La vita è bella</title><content type='html'>Je passais une journée plutôt mauvaise au bureau quand mon courrier est arrivé:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491337000635517282" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUl6GDWyWI/AAAAAAAAAc8/PX_PAPHexP4/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-couv.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oui, le numéro de Mars 2010 de La Mia Boutique. Le bonheur total!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Au début, j'étais un peu perplexe: je n'avais pas commandé de copie, j'en cherche un partout (enfin, partout ou on accepterait ma carte de crédit). Et puis j'ai découvert le petit mot glissé dans la première page.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Alors, merci beaucoup à &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/members/lyl"&gt;lyl&lt;/a&gt; pour ce joli cadeau qui a sauvé une journée merdique! Si j avais ton courriel, je t aurais fait un merci plus discret mais bon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mon gros coup de coeur est dans la section que mon traducteur en ligne décrit comme:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Entre rigueur et seduction&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dédié à la passion du style un peu masculin et que, même avec l été, veux renoncer à la rigeur d un costume ou d un pantalon classique. Tous être complété par une touche de couleur dans les accessoires&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;L' explication en images:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491337593927419330" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUmcoPKxcI/AAAAAAAAAdE/apzo0q__D2s/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-22%2623.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regardez un peu les dessins techniques:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUn3sUCugI/AAAAAAAAAdc/1wCMQOuhg24/s1600/LMB-Marzo2010-22instr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 182px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491339158389701122" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUn3sUCugI/AAAAAAAAAdc/1wCMQOuhg24/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-22instr.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUnUnmv-wI/AAAAAAAAAdU/plPhzK-a6ek/s1600/LMB-Marzo2010-23instr.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 210px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491338555830565634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUnUnmv-wI/AAAAAAAAAdU/plPhzK-a6ek/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-23instr.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Alors, elle est pas belle, la vie?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Au fait, je compte numérisé toutes les images de la revue et les mettres &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/LMB4201002#"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I was having a rather yucky day at work when the mail came in :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 235px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491337000635517282" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUl6GDWyWI/AAAAAAAAAc8/PX_PAPHexP4/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-couv.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, that's right, the March 2010 issue of La Mia Boutique. Bliss!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;At first, I was a bit confused : I hadn't ordered any copy of LMB, I' ve been looking for one everywhere (at least, everywhere that would take my credit card and not just Paypal). And then I found the little note slip under the cover.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;So thank you very much &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/members/lyl"&gt;&lt;em&gt;lyl&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; for a lovely gift that made my up-to-then-crappy day! If I had your email, I would write a less public thank you note but still...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;My must-make is in the section the online translator describes as:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Between rigor and seductiveness&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dedicated to the passionate style a bit male and that even with the summer want to resist the rigor of a suit or a classic suit. All be completed with a touch a colour in the accessories.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What this means :&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 232px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491337593927419330" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUmcoPKxcI/AAAAAAAAAdE/apzo0q__D2s/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-22%2623.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the line drawings:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUn3sUCugI/AAAAAAAAAdc/1wCMQOuhg24/s1600/LMB-Marzo2010-22instr.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 182px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491339158389701122" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUn3sUCugI/AAAAAAAAAdc/1wCMQOuhg24/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-22instr.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUnUnmv-wI/AAAAAAAAAdU/plPhzK-a6ek/s1600/LMB-Marzo2010-23instr.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 210px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5491338555830565634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUnUnmv-wI/AAAAAAAAAdU/plPhzK-a6ek/s320/LMB-Marzo2010-23instr.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ain't life grand?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oh, and I plan to scan the rest of the magazine and put the pix &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/LMB4201002#"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-8577324217342611316?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/8577324217342611316/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=8577324217342611316' title='7 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8577324217342611316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/8577324217342611316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/07/la-vita-e-bella.html' title='La vita è bella'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDUl6GDWyWI/AAAAAAAAAc8/PX_PAPHexP4/s72-c/LMB-Marzo2010-couv.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-1648619149555883358</id><published>2010-07-03T18:57:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2010-07-06T18:26:51.371-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='6558'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Le défi 2010'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='critique'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='review'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Look'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the 2010 challenge'/><title type='text'>Quelle est cette bête?</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;NDLR : Des problèmes techniques m'empêchent d'insérer plus de photos, j'ai dû me contenter de liens. Mes excuses, je ferai mieux la prochaine fois, promis juré!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voici ma première réalisation pour Le Défi 2010 : &lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2555-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;New Look 6558&lt;/a&gt;. Croyez-moi, en arriver là n'a pas été facile! Mais pas pour les raisons que vous pensez!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'ai l' électricité ni le matin, ni le soir. Avec la Coupe du Monde, je l'ai aux heures de match mais la compagnie nationale demande de ne pas allumer d'appareils ènergivores donc je me sacrifie pour la nation!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, la robe : New Look 6558, comme &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-defi.html"&gt;annoncé précédemment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'adore vraiment cette serie de patrons "Mix and Match". Six variations de corsage dans un seul patron, ça donne des idées!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai fait la version G+I avec le corsage froncé et retenu par une bande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b_3MLTHYEq0SZ1yBFxYefQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDD6Xo6eNVI/AAAAAAAAAZY/uNY8cib61qs/s400/DSC00440.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;table style="WIDTH: auto"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b_3MLTHYEq0SZ1yBFxYefQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 11px"&gt;De &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RobeGiraffeNL6885?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;Robe giraffe NL6885&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;En gros, pas de problème sauf que...Vous avez entendu parler de la &lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pens%C3%A9e_magique"&gt;pensée magique&lt;/a&gt;? Et bien, je l' applique souvent en couture. Trop souvent, même.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je pensais pouvoir sauter la case Ajustement. J'ai eu tort! En voici la liste:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) 1,7 cm enlevés au-dessus de la taille pour réduire la longueur dos; la balance étant ajusté dans la bretelle, une adaptation de la règle de 1/3 + 2/3 de Burda;&lt;br /&gt;2) 10cm ôtés de la jupe par tranches de 2,5 cm pour ramener mon ourlet au-dessus de MON genou à moi! Je ne fait que 1m53;&lt;br /&gt;3) J ai pris un petit 1,5 cm au milieu Devant à l encolure, en mourant comme disait ma grand-mère.&lt;br /&gt;4) Moins 1,5 cm à peu près sous chaque aisselle, toujours en mourant vers le bas du corsage;&lt;br /&gt;5) Je doute que le milieu froncé fasse les 6,3 cm demandés parce que mon fil s est cassé donc je l ai noué et puis finito;&lt;br /&gt;6) J ai cousu la bande avec 1,5 cm de coutures plutôt que 1,3 cm;&lt;br /&gt;7) Cousu mon ourlet habituel de 5cm et non les 4cm indiqués.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En bref, les ajustements verticaux habituels plus la question des épaules étroites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'aimais pas non plus la technique de doublure conseillée pour le corsage. J'ai préféré doubler le devant avant de le froncer et de finir le dos du corsage avec la &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Xm8sURFTP3HVyutfjgOsGQ?feat=directlink"&gt;technique de New Look 6557&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'aime beaucoup cette robe mais attention &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2mDl-eevaqHGoEUlaSUIMQ?feat=directlink"&gt;au décolleté plutôt plongeant&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A noter que je porte un soutien-gorge à balconnet de chez Celle-Qui-A-Un-Secret. Faites gaffe!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RobeGiraffeNL6885#"&gt;ici&lt;/a&gt; pour les photos et la critique &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;amp;reviewnum=53150"&gt;là&lt;/a&gt; (en anglais!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Author's note : Technical difficulties prevented me from posting more pictures in the body of the post. Please accept my apologies, I promise to do better next time!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the first Finished Object of my 2010 Challenge : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2555-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;New Look 6558&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;. Believe me, it wasn't easy crossing that finish line! But for the reasons you think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have electricity in the morning OR in the evenings. With the Cup, it's on during the matches but the national company asks us not to turn on energy-hungry appliances so I sacrifice my passion to the greater good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made New Look 6558, as announced in a &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-defi.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;previous post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm really loving this series. When they say "Design your look...with mix and match pattern pieces" they really mean it. This dress has an Empire waistline, 6 bodice variations, an optional belt and an above the knee A-line skirt that is standard for all views.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b_3MLTHYEq0SZ1yBFxYefQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDD6Xo6eNVI/AAAAAAAAAZY/uNY8cib61qs/s400/DSC00440.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table style="WIDTH: auto"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b_3MLTHYEq0SZ1yBFxYefQ?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; FONT-FAMILY: arial, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 11px"&gt;&lt;em&gt;De &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RobeGiraffeNL6885?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Robe giraffe NL6885&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Have you heard of &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Magical Thinking&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;? Apparently I use this in my sewing...A LOT. I actually thought that, because I wanted to start sewing this dress right away, all my Narrow Shoulders Alteration, and Petite Alteration needs would just fade away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was wrong. Here's the list:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) I shortened the Skirt Front and Back pieces by 6/8" (1,7 cm) above the waist to shorten the back length. The remaining 1/3 of back length difference was taken up in the strap.&lt;br /&gt;2) I also shortened the skirt by 4" (10cm) below in 1" (2,5 cm) increments to bring the length above MY knee. I'm only 5'05 (1m53);&lt;br /&gt;3) At the first fitting, I took the bodice in at CF by 5/8" (1,5 cm), tapering to nothing about halfway on the curve to compensate for being too lazy to do a Narrow Shoulders Alteration;&lt;br /&gt;4) I also took out 5/8" (1,5 cm) approx. at the side seam at the underarm, tapering to nothing at lower bodice seam, still for NSA purposes;&lt;br /&gt;5) Not sure my front gathered to the 2.5" (6,3 cm) instructed because my thread broke and so I tied off my ends and called it a day;&lt;br /&gt;6) The tab at CF called for 3/8" (1,3 cm) seams but it looked too wide for my tastes so I sewed it with 5/8" (1,5cm) instead;&lt;br /&gt;7) I made my standard 2" (5cm) hem instead of the 1.5" (4 cm) just because I'm a creature of habit ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't be scared, this is not surprising to me. Most of my alterations are due to my height and my sub-standard shoulders. The rest of me is (so far as I have discovered) pretty standard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the start I disagreed with the lining technique for the Center Front seam so I ditched them. I also used &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Xm8sURFTP3HVyutfjgOsGQ?feat=directlink"&gt;&lt;em&gt;the instructions for NL6557&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that I'm wearing a demi-bra from She Who Has A Secret in the photo and this might be a little &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2mDl-eevaqHGoEUlaSUIMQ?feat=directlink"&gt;&lt;em&gt;too low-cut for some&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/RobeGiraffeNL6885#"&gt;&lt;em&gt;photos&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; and read the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/readreview.pl?readreview=1&amp;amp;reviewnum=53150"&gt;&lt;em&gt;review&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-1648619149555883358?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/1648619149555883358/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=1648619149555883358' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1648619149555883358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1648619149555883358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/07/quelle-est-cette-bete.html' title='Quelle est cette bête?'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TDD6Xo6eNVI/AAAAAAAAAZY/uNY8cib61qs/s72-c/DSC00440.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-1791025459639509798</id><published>2010-06-26T07:50:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-26T09:29:42.044-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing plans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tricot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plan couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Le défi 2010'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='jersey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='New Look'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woven'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tissé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the 2010 challenge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Le défi</title><content type='html'>Bon, maintenant que tout le monde a vu le contenu de &lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;la boîte&lt;/a&gt;, la grande question devient : qu'est-ce que je vais en faire?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai déjà quelques idées.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Cotonnade orange à petits pois blancs: &lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2349-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;NL 6557, B&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487068454278732178" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCX7r_uJGZI/AAAAAAAAAW8/xh_az4nI21o/s320/Defi+no+1+orange+pois+blancs.jpg" /&gt;2) Cotonnade rayée bleue: &lt;a href="http://www.burdafashion.com/fr/Magazines/Archives_des_magazines/116_Robe/1270777-1463237-1766206-1766346-1766362.html"&gt;Burda 04-2010-116&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 159px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487070518917729106" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCX9kLGcC1I/AAAAAAAAAXE/NW2gfRsDzYk/s320/Le+defi+no+2+cotonnade+rayee+bleus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Velours extensible mauve : &lt;a href="http://butterick.mccall.com/b5078-products-8530.php?page_id=414&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;Butterick 5078, A&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYCc-eEX1I/AAAAAAAAAXM/NM2kLOKzt2s/s1600/Le+defi+no+3+velours+mauve+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487075892826234706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYCc-eEX1I/AAAAAAAAAXM/NM2kLOKzt2s/s320/Le+defi+no+3+velours+mauve+.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Jersey de coton imprimé léopard : &lt;a href="http://butterick.mccall.com/b5078-products-8530.php?page_id=414&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;Butterick 5078, A &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYDYuoSw3I/AAAAAAAAAXU/kt4wDrjeebI/s1600/Le+defi+no+3+jersey+leopard+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487076919366304626" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYDYuoSw3I/AAAAAAAAAXU/kt4wDrjeebI/s320/Le+defi+no+3+jersey+leopard+.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Coton brodé rouge : &lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/patterns/sewingpatterns.pl?patternid=4315"&gt;NL6182, D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYE4hEeF7I/AAAAAAAAAXc/tY3Bs2EgfTo/s1600/Le+defi+no+5+rouge+brode.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 234px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487078564993832882" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYE4hEeF7I/AAAAAAAAAXc/tY3Bs2EgfTo/s320/Le+defi+no+5+rouge+brode.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;6) Coton écossais mauve et bleu: &lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2451-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;NL6774, E+L&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYIxSuNB-I/AAAAAAAAAXs/1X1GF2TDzuA/s1600/Le+defi+no6+ecossais+mauve.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487082838929770466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYIxSuNB-I/AAAAAAAAAXs/1X1GF2TDzuA/s320/Le+defi+no6+ecossais+mauve.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;7) Cotonnade imprimée girafe en noir et blanc : &lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2555-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;NL6885, G+I &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYKLSwFaII/AAAAAAAAAX0/ih2D7xFm9D4/s1600/Le+defi+no7+coton+imprime+girafe.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487084385125886082" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYKLSwFaII/AAAAAAAAAX0/ih2D7xFm9D4/s320/Le+defi+no7+coton+imprime+girafe.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturellement, je me réserve le droit de prendre des pauses ou des tangentes. Déjà que j'ai l'impression de mettre les mêmes cinq choses pour aller au travail. Mais bon, voici donc mon plan de couture pour cet été.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 2010 challenge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;So, now that everyone has seen the contents of &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ze box&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;, the next big question becomes : What do I sew with it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I already have a few ideas.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;1) Orange coton with white pindots : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2349-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;NL 6557, B&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487068454278732178" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCX7r_uJGZI/AAAAAAAAAW8/xh_az4nI21o/s320/Defi+no+1+orange+pois+blancs.jpg" /&gt;2) Blue striped coton shirting : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.burdafashion.com/fr/Magazines/Archives_des_magazines/116_Robe/1270777-1463237-1766206-1766346-1766362.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Burda 04-2010-116&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 159px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487070518917729106" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCX9kLGcC1I/AAAAAAAAAXE/NW2gfRsDzYk/s320/Le+defi+no+2+cotonnade+rayee+bleus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Velours extensible mauve : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://butterick.mccall.com/b5078-products-8530.php?page_id=414&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Butterick 5078, view A&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYCc-eEX1I/AAAAAAAAAXM/NM2kLOKzt2s/s1600/Le+defi+no+3+velours+mauve+.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487075892826234706" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYCc-eEX1I/AAAAAAAAAXM/NM2kLOKzt2s/s320/Le+defi+no+3+velours+mauve+.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;4) Leopard print coton knit : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://butterick.mccall.com/b5078-products-8530.php?page_id=414&amp;amp;search_control=display&amp;amp;list=search"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Butterick 5078, view A &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYDYuoSw3I/AAAAAAAAAXU/kt4wDrjeebI/s1600/Le+defi+no+3+jersey+leopard+.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487076919366304626" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYDYuoSw3I/AAAAAAAAAXU/kt4wDrjeebI/s320/Le+defi+no+3+jersey+leopard+.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Embroidered coton : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://sewing.patternreview.com/cgi-bin/patterns/sewingpatterns.pl?patternid=4315"&gt;&lt;em&gt;NL6182, view D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYE4hEeF7I/AAAAAAAAAXc/tY3Bs2EgfTo/s1600/Le+defi+no+5+rouge+brode.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 234px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487078564993832882" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYE4hEeF7I/AAAAAAAAAXc/tY3Bs2EgfTo/s320/Le+defi+no+5+rouge+brode.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;6) Purple and blue windowpane cotton : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2451-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;NL6774, E+L&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYIxSuNB-I/AAAAAAAAAXs/1X1GF2TDzuA/s1600/Le+defi+no6+ecossais+mauve.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487082838929770466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYIxSuNB-I/AAAAAAAAAXs/1X1GF2TDzuA/s320/Le+defi+no6+ecossais+mauve.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;7) Black giraffe print cotton : &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.simplicity.com/p-2555-misses-dresses.aspx"&gt;&lt;em&gt;NL6885, G+I &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYKLSwFaII/AAAAAAAAAX0/ih2D7xFm9D4/s1600/Le+defi+no7+coton+imprime+girafe.jpg"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487084385125886082" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCYKLSwFaII/AAAAAAAAAX0/ih2D7xFm9D4/s320/Le+defi+no7+coton+imprime+girafe.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, I'm allowing myself the right to take a break or to segue into another project. Especially since I seem to be wearing the same 5 things to work lately. In any case, this is the sewing plan for this summer.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-1791025459639509798?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/1791025459639509798/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=1791025459639509798' title='3 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1791025459639509798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1791025459639509798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/le-defi.html' title='Le défi'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TCX7r_uJGZI/AAAAAAAAAW8/xh_az4nI21o/s72-c/Defi+no+1+orange+pois+blancs.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-1303687147298786119</id><published>2010-06-16T20:49:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-16T21:02:09.213-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='thank you'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='box'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='merci'/><title type='text'>Merci</title><content type='html'>Je vous explique comment ça s'est passé. J'ai pleurniché "Plus d`épingles! ouiiiiin!", alors &lt;a href="http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/"&gt;Selfish Seamstress&lt;/a&gt; a dit : "T'en fais pas" et &lt;a href="http://missceliespants.com/"&gt;Cidell&lt;/a&gt; a rajouté : "Je m'en occupe". (bon, j'ai abrégé, c'est vrai...) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et puis j'ai reçu La Boîte de la Mort. Regardez la photo que &lt;a href="http://missceliespants.com/2010/05/29/people-are-awesome/"&gt;Cidell&lt;/a&gt; a prise à la poste: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/ZeBox?feat=directlink"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483538006225075394" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBlww31mPMI/AAAAAAAAAIU/Pgar3ZY4UOo/s320/Ze+box+a+la+poste.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Découvrez le contenu en cliquant sur la photo) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je tiens ici à remercier tous ceux et celles qui ont non seulement contribuer à la boîte mais aussi qui m'ont&amp;nbsp;contacté dans certains cas le jour même de la catastrophe. J'étais vraiment émue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc merci à : Elaine, Renée, Wynter, &lt;a href="http://sewingforlife.wordpress.com/"&gt;Cathy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thecupcakegoddess.com/the-cupcake-goddess/handsewn-garments"&gt;Sunni&lt;/a&gt;, Patti, Diane, Becca, Joyce, Emilie de &lt;a href="http://www.jalie.com/"&gt;Jalie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.fehrtrade.com/"&gt;Melissa&lt;/a&gt;, TracyB, Jatman, Laura, &lt;a href="http://adonising.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lourdes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://sewingbytheseatofmypants.blogspot.com/"&gt;Karen&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://lasandrou.blogspot.com/"&gt; LaSandrou&lt;/a&gt;, MelanieP, &lt;a href="http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/"&gt;SpottedRoo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ladylinaland.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lina&lt;/a&gt;, Amber, Lynda, John de &lt;a href="http://www.allbrands.com/"&gt;Allbrands&lt;/a&gt;, Trudy de &lt;a href="http://www.hotpatterns.com/"&gt;Hot Patterns&lt;/a&gt;, Lynn, Liezel, &lt;a href="http://vacuumingthelawn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Kyle&lt;/a&gt;, Patricia, Sandra, Pat, Nicole, Karin, Becky, Angela, Nikia, MelanieW, Rose et tant d`autres que j`ai sans doute omis de citer. (j'ai plein de liens à ajouter mais taper sur un Acer Aspire One est assez pénible!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je&amp;nbsp;profite par la même occasion pour m'excuser auprès de ceux et celles à qui je dois encore un email. Comme on dit ici, j'ai la mémoire fissurée, LOL! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inutile de vous dire que mon Mojo a pris un gros coup de pied dans le cul. A suivre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank You&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me tell you how it all happened. I whined "Couldn't even find my pins waaaaaah!" so &lt;a href="http://selfishseamstress.wordpress.com/"&gt;Selfish Seamstress&lt;/a&gt; said : "Don't worry about it"&amp;nbsp; and &lt;a href="http://missceliespants.com/"&gt;Cidell&lt;/a&gt; went "Let me handle it" (ok, so that's the Cliffsnotes version). &lt;br /&gt;And then I got the Sewing Box of Doom. Check out Cidell's pic of the beast at the post office:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lakaribane/ZeBox?feat=directlink"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5483538006225075394" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBlww31mPMI/AAAAAAAAAIU/Pgar3ZY4UOo/s320/Ze+box+a+la+poste.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Click on the pic to see the contents)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to thank, not only those who contributed to the contents of the box but also to those who sent me their well wishes, in some cases, the very day of the earthquake. I was very touched by your kindness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So thank you to&amp;nbsp; : Elaine, Renée, Wynter, Cathy, Sunni, Patti, Diane, Becca, Joyce, Emilie de Jalie, Melissa, TracyB, Jatman, Laura, Lourdes, Karen, LaSandrou, MelanieP, SpottedRoo, Lina, Amber, Lynda, John de Allbrands, Trudy de Hot Patterns, Lynn, Liezel, Kyle, Patricia, Sandra, Pat, Nicole, Karin, Becky, Angela, Nikia, MelanieW, Rose and many others I'm sure I'm forgetting (I know I have more links to add but typing on an&amp;nbsp;Acer Aspire One is borderline painfull!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would also like to apologize those all those I have yet to reply to by email. As they say here, my memory is cracked LOL!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Needless to say, my Mojo got a kick in the ass. Stay tuned...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-1303687147298786119?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/1303687147298786119/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=1303687147298786119' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1303687147298786119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/1303687147298786119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/merci.html' title='Merci'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBlww31mPMI/AAAAAAAAAIU/Pgar3ZY4UOo/s72-c/Ze+box+a+la+poste.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-3720331450064322113</id><published>2010-06-13T08:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2010-06-13T08:11:02.603-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mojo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='do-over'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remaniements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='return'/><title type='text'>Au fur et à mesure</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Me revoilà de retour sur la toile après six mois d'absence. Sans trompettes ni fanfare parce que...eh bien, il n'y a pas cause, tout simplement. Le contexte est encore très glauque et mon mojo est aux abonnés absents. Pas matière à bloguer, n'est-ce pas?&lt;br /&gt;Que faire? Après mûre réflexion, j'opte pour la méthode de ma thérapie de groupe: Avant, Pendant, Après. On va donc commencer par ce trio de billets sur ma couture. J'ai besoin de faire le point mais, surtout, de me rappeler à moi-même que je suis une fille qui coud pour le plaisir.&lt;br /&gt;Alors, le programme:&lt;br /&gt;Il était une fois : petite rétrospective en image de mes réalisations&lt;br /&gt;Tenue correcte exigée: la jupe du Jour J&lt;br /&gt;Les sources de la rivière Mojo : et maintenant, on fait quoi?&lt;br /&gt;[NDLR: les liens seront ajoutés après. Titres sujets à changement sans préavis]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Step by step&lt;br /&gt;So here, at last, is my return to the blogosphere. Rather discreet, as you can see...if only because there isn't much to tell. The general mood is pretty dark and I've misplaced my mojo. Not much to blog about, is there?&lt;br /&gt;So, what now? After thinking about it long and hard, I decided to use my groupe therapy outline: Before, During and After. So we're going to start with three posts. I need the closure, but, mostly, I want to remember that sewing is my favorite hobby.&lt;br /&gt;So, the roster:&lt;br /&gt;Once upon a time : past projects with photos&lt;br /&gt;Battle gear : what to wear for a natural disaster&lt;br /&gt;Enter the Mojo : what's next?&lt;br /&gt;[Author's note : links will be added later. Titles subject to change without warning]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-3720331450064322113?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/3720331450064322113/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=3720331450064322113' title='8 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3720331450064322113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/3720331450064322113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2010/06/au-fur-et-mesure.html' title='Au fur et à mesure'/><author><name>lakaribane</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08073597431551606401</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b-oQfERr4es/TBYkWOmhg6I/AAAAAAAAAG8/fsRc7bdM7u8/S220/Google+Follow+pic.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-174923015518582119</id><published>2009-12-31T16:49:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-31T17:06:45.167-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='V.O.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IRL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electricity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='batteries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inverter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electricité'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Liberté, j'ai crié ton nom!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je vois partir l'année 2009 avec joie. J'ai passé les six derniers mois à me battre contre la technologie. Quand mon téléphone n'était pas en panne, c'était des virus à répétition sur mon ordinateur. Ensuite le téléphone de la compagnie nationale de télécommunications, ma fournisseuse d'internet ne répondait plus pendant 10 jours. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais plus prosaïquement, j'avais un grave problème d'énergie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, je vous fais un peu l'historique de la chose. Dans ce pays, depuis 15-20 ans nous ne connaissons les 24h/24 d'électricité de ville que lors des grandes fêtes religieuses: Nouvel An/Jour de l'Indépendance, Carnaval, Pâques ou Coupe du Monde de Football. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ne me demandez pas pourquoi, personne ne se préoccupe plus tellement des causes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il y a différentes façons de gérer tout ça: &lt;br /&gt;a) vous faites avec, la patience est une vertu;&lt;br /&gt;b) vous avez un petit budget (comme plus de 90% des habitants) vous utilisez lampes à kérozène, bougies et la lune;&lt;br /&gt;c) vous avez quelques moyens et vous engloutissez des centaines voire des milliers de dollars US dans un inverteur et un nombre variable de batteries;&lt;br /&gt;d) vous êtes riche, entre votre inverter, votre génératrice silencieuse et vos panneaux solaires, vous êtes à peine concerné!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai pris toutes mes économies de l'époque et j'ai souscrit à l'option c) en 2002.  Je restais tributaire du courant de ville mais plus de bougies ni de lampes. Et, suprême avantage, je pouvais coudre quand je le voulais.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sauf que...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sauf que les batteries, elles finissent par crever. Depuis l'été, je ne peux qu'allumer les lumières chez moi. Donc un grand coup de frein dans le Mojo, déjà pas en forme.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai tenu bon jusqu'à la Noël et avec mon bonus, j'ai acheté quatre nouvelles batteries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour ceux et celles que ça intéresse, un inverter et des batteries, ça ressemble à ça:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/Sz0d3f6zSzI/AAAAAAAAADA/Yp0YpdOrzro/s1600-h/DSC06977.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/Sz0d3f6zSzI/AAAAAAAAADA/Yp0YpdOrzro/s320/DSC06977.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421522365722086194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Les batteries sont dans la cour, l'appareil dans la maison parce que la réaction électrochimique produit des vapeurs toxiques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais comment ça marche?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pour faire simple, le courant de ville passe à travers la machine qui permet aux batteries d'emmagasiner de l'énergie électrique. Quant on coupe le courant de ville, le circuit de la maison est alimenté par les batteries. En fait, c'est comme une grande pile rechargeable! Naturellement, tout dépend de votre alimentation en courant de ville, du nombre de batteries et de la consommation. Je ne peux pas repasser parce que ça demande trop de jus. Idem pour tous les gros moteurs genre pompe à eau ou les résistances genre grille-pain ou séchoir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mais je peux coudre quand je veux (ter)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 n'a qu'a bien se tenir!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cry Freedom!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2009 cannot end quickly enough for me. I have spent de past six months struggling with one tech problem after another. Either my phone is dead or my laptop has a virus. Then it's the ISP's phone that goes out of order for 10 days. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the real problem was a major energy shortage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the backstory: in this country, for the past 15-20 years, we have seldom had electricity 24/7 outside of the major hollidays: New Year's Day/Independance Day, Carnival, Easter or the World Cup. Don't ask me why, nobody really bothers with the reasons anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, you can deal with this situation a number of ways:&lt;br /&gt;a) Live with it. Ascetism is good for the soul;&lt;br /&gt;b) money is tight (as it is for 90% of the population) so you light the night with candles, kerosene lamps and the moon;&lt;br /&gt;c) you have some money and you sink it a few hundred to a few thousand US dollars into an inverter and batteries;&lt;br /&gt;d) you're so rich that, between your inverter, your silent generator and your solar panels, you're barely aware that there is a problem to begin with!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went with c) back in 2002, investing all my savings in this system. I still needed city electricity but bye bye lamps and candles. And *gasp* I could sew whenever I wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except batteries grow old and stop working. Since this summer, I have only been able to turn on the lights in my house. So one giant knife in the already wavering Mojo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hung in there until Christmas and, with my bonus, bought four new batteries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those who wonder, an inverter and batteries looks like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/Sz0d3f6zSzI/AAAAAAAAADA/Yp0YpdOrzro/s1600-h/DSC06977.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/Sz0d3f6zSzI/AAAAAAAAADA/Yp0YpdOrzro/s320/DSC06977.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421522365722086194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The batteries are in the yard, the inverter inside the house because the chemical reaction produces dangerous fumes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But how does it work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Basically, the city electricity goes through the machine to charge the batteries. when there's a blackout, the batteries power the whole house. Like one big rechargeable battery, actually. Obviously, it all depends on the number of hours of city electricity, the number of batteries and how much electricity you use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I can sew whenever I want (repeat 3 times).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2010 better watch out!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-174923015518582119?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/174923015518582119/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=174923015518582119' title='5 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/174923015518582119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/174923015518582119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/12/liberte-jai-crie-ton-nom-je-vois-partir.html' title=''/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/Sz0d3f6zSzI/AAAAAAAAADA/Yp0YpdOrzro/s72-c/DSC06977.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-6798980537684685217</id><published>2009-06-24T20:24:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-27T07:01:34.438-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='obi'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='matelassé'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='inspiration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cuir'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='quilted'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Obis, quels obis?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Edito: Voilà que &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://twoontwooff.blogspot.com/2009/06/im-gonna-tan-me-cow-burda-151-leather.html"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Dawn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt; s'est fait un obi...en cuir rouge!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/missceliespants.com"&gt;Cidell&lt;/a&gt; vient de réaliser le modèle 151 du Burda de 6/09 et elle a eu &lt;a href="http://missceliespants.com/2009/06/20/dude-seriously"&gt;quelques surprises&lt;/a&gt;. Il se trouve que cette fin de semaine, j'ai retrouvé les deux ceintures obis que ma mère avait gardées.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SkYJbHUF5tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4B-f-qqscko/s1600-h/Obis+Evelyn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351975568600852178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SkYJbHUF5tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4B-f-qqscko/s320/Obis+Evelyn.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A titre de comparaison, voici les dimensions de ces obis "rétro":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'obi en tissu, à l'origine rouge lui aussi, est formé de trois pièces. La partie ventrale est matelassée tandis que les deux côtés sont simplement surpiqués.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La partie la plus large, le milieu devant, mesure 10 cm et à peine 2 cm à chaque bout pour 183 cm de long. L'ensemble est déteint mais le fil était assorti ton sur ton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L'obi en cuir, quant à lui, est plutôt en mauvais état. Il est sec et cassant, voire déchiré en un point. Je me souviens que ma mère le portait souvent, en particulier avec une robe blanche à mancherons, un style qui est revenu en force ces derniers temps. (Oui, je me sens vieille et déprimée rien que d'y penser!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il mesure seulement 6,5 cm au centre et 1 cm à chaque bout; 181,5 cm de long. A noter que la finition était un simple repli du bord franc, collé au dos de la pièce. Là aussi, trois morceaux piqués ensemble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je n'envisage pas de les porter, vu leur état un peu fragile, surtout le cuir, desséché mais ils me serviront de patron parce que je pense que les dimensions sont idéales pour moi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturellement, le choix de patrons ne manque pas si on compte &lt;a href="http://kecookatoo.free.fr/wordpress/?p=189"&gt;celui de Katoo &lt;/a&gt;et les divers modèles de Burda.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;ETA: &lt;a href="http://twoontwooff.blogspot.com/2009/06/im-gonna-tan-me-cow-burda-151-leather.html"&gt;Dawn&lt;/a&gt; just made one too...in red leather!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/missceliespants.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cidell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; just posted about the obi belt #151 of the 6/09 BWOF and had &lt;a href="http://missceliespants.com/2009/06/20/dude-seriously"&gt;a few surprises &lt;/a&gt;making it up. It just so happens that this past week-end, I unearthed these two obi belts my mother used to wear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SkYJbHUF5tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4B-f-qqscko/s1600-h/Obis+Evelyn.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351975568600852178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 309px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SkYJbHUF5tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4B-f-qqscko/s320/Obis+Evelyn.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For comparison sake, here are their stats:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fabric obi, formerly red, is made of three parts. The front part is lightly quilted while the sides/ties are just topstiched.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It measures 3 7/8"at it's widest point, center front, and a mere 3/4" at the ends for an overall length of about 72". It's very faded but used to be red with matching red topstitching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leather obi is in far worse shape. It's dry and brittle, and even torn on one side. I remember my mother wearing it often with this white dress with drop shoulders/cap sleeves, a style that has made a strong comeback lately. (yes, I feel old and depressed at the very thought!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's only 2 1/2" at center front and a tiny 3/8" at the ends for around 71 5/8"of length. The edges are finished by simply folding over and gluing the raw edges against the back. Like the previous one, three pieces, stitched together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think I'll wear them but, rather, use them as templates since I feel they are a flattering size on me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, I have a wide range of possible patterns, including &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://kecookatoo.free.fr/wordpress/?p=189"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Katoo's tute &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;and the various Burda ones.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-6798980537684685217?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/6798980537684685217/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=6798980537684685217' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6798980537684685217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/6798980537684685217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/06/obis-quels-obis.html' title='Obis, quels obis?'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SkYJbHUF5tI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4B-f-qqscko/s72-c/Obis+Evelyn.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-9064884729407270356</id><published>2009-06-12T19:45:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T19:50:17.782-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='do-over'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remaniements'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fashion Babel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ze stash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='completement folle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bienvenue en R.D.I.'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beautiful Miracle'/><title type='text'>Remaniements</title><content type='html'>J'ai planché ces derniers temps sur la manière de rendre ce blogue plus intéressant. Donc j'envisage de diversifier les rubriques, histoire de me donner des pistes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fashion Babel &lt;/strong&gt;: magazines, patrons et blogues du monde entier;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ze stash &lt;/strong&gt;: nouvelles acquisitions;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complètement folle de&lt;/strong&gt;: mes idées ou inspirations, bonnes ou mauvaises;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bienvenue en R.D.I.&lt;/strong&gt; : ou comment je réduis peu à peu la montagne des inachevés;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beautiful miracle &lt;/strong&gt;: nouveaux gadgets, nouvelles techniques. (Dans la vraie vie, c'est le nom d'une école!!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Do-Over&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been brainstorming lately ways of making this blog more fun. So I'm thinking of having these different columns, it might help me find content:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fashion Babel &lt;/strong&gt;: magazines, patterns and blogs worldwide;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ze stash &lt;/strong&gt;: what I bought recently;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Complètement folle de&lt;/strong&gt;: ideas and inspiration, good or bad;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bienvenue en R.D.I. &lt;/strong&gt;: see me chip away at the UFO pile;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beautiful miracle &lt;/strong&gt;: new gadgets and techniques (IRL, it's a school's name!!!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-9064884729407270356?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/9064884729407270356/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=9064884729407270356' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/9064884729407270356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/9064884729407270356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/06/remaniements.html' title='Remaniements'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-2676461048018357217</id><published>2009-06-12T19:28:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T19:44:57.147-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cotton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Petite'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vogue Fabrics'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Robe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cloque'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='E842'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='seersucker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bleu'/><title type='text'>Je veux du bleu plein les yeux</title><content type='html'>On a raison de dire que la couture est une forme de therapie. Vendredi [8 juin], j'ai recu une nouvelle terrible: une copine du lycee etait en soins intensifs et risquait d'y passer. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ca m'a bouleversee. J'ai exorcise tout ca en me cousant une petite robe toute bleue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0aaoAK_I/AAAAAAAAACY/rOy0DqsAbjQ/s1600-h/Burda+E842+no+820.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0aaoAK_I/AAAAAAAAACY/rOy0DqsAbjQ/s320/Burda+E842+no+820.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346604442303081458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le modele de base vient du Burda Petite E842 modele 820. J'ai modifie la jupe pour la rendre plus evasee. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et, surtout, j'ai ajoute un double volant forme a l'encolure en suivant les conseils du livre &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Manipulating-Fabric-Colette-Wolff/dp/0801984963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1244852835&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;The Art of Manipulating Fabric de Colette Wolff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0ank8HbI/AAAAAAAAACg/YM27vhWz7UY/s1600-h/Volants.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 113px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0ank8HbI/AAAAAAAAACg/YM27vhWz7UY/s320/Volants.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346604445779893682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le tissu est &lt;a href="http://www.voguefabricsstore.com/store/catalog/32182-C-Blue-Plaid-Seersucker-p-7540.html"&gt;un ecossais cloque bleu, 100% coton&lt;/a&gt; de chez Vogue Fabrics. Une premiere: j'ai fait l'ourlet des volants et de la robe avec ma surjeteuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La saison des cyclones ayant commence, le temps est couvert et donc la lumiere est tres blanche dans la cour. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vous remarquerez les murales thematique Lucky Luke de la maison, un ancien jardin d'enfants. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0awLpx7I/AAAAAAAAACo/zfd9X7vCyec/s1600-h/Murales+N.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 155px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0awLpx7I/AAAAAAAAACo/zfd9X7vCyec/s320/Murales+N.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346604448089753522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C'est ma cousine Paula, je crois (photos 2 et 3). Et les Dalton sont dans les bananiers (photo 1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blue skies smiling at me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sewing is truly a forme of therapy, as they say. Last Friday [June 8th], I got some really bad news. A high school friend was in intensive care and might not survive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was really upset. To get through it, I decided to sew myself a little blue sundress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0aaoAK_I/AAAAAAAAACY/rOy0DqsAbjQ/s1600-h/Burda+E842+no+820.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0aaoAK_I/AAAAAAAAACY/rOy0DqsAbjQ/s320/Burda+E842+no+820.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346604442303081458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The base pattern is Burda Petite E842 #820. I altered the skirt to make it flare more. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But, above all, I added a double circular flounce to the neckline, following the advice in &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Art-Manipulating-Fabric-Colette-Wolff/dp/0801984963/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1244852835&amp;sr=8-1"&gt;The Art of Manipulating Fabric de Colette Wolff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fabric is a &lt;a href="http://www.voguefabricsstore.com/store/catalog/32182-C-Blue-Plaid-Seersucker-p-7540.html"&gt;100% cotton plaid seersucker&lt;/a&gt; from Vogue Fabrics. A first: I did the narrow hem on both the flounces and the hemline with my serger.&lt;br /&gt;The light is very white in the pix because Hurrican Season has started and the day was overcast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'll notice the Lucky Luke murals in the yard. The house used to be a kindergarten. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0awLpx7I/AAAAAAAAACo/zfd9X7vCyec/s1600-h/Murales+N.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 155px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0awLpx7I/AAAAAAAAACo/zfd9X7vCyec/s320/Murales+N.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346604448089753522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my Cousin Paula, I think (pix 2+3). The Daltons are in the banana trees (pic 1)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-2676461048018357217?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/2676461048018357217/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=2676461048018357217' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2676461048018357217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2676461048018357217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/06/je-veux-du-bleu-plein-les-yeux.html' title='Je veux du bleu plein les yeux'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SjL0aaoAK_I/AAAAAAAAACY/rOy0DqsAbjQ/s72-c/Burda+E842+no+820.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-4965877290911906361</id><published>2009-06-12T18:57:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T19:06:17.402-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mojo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><title type='text'>Mais enfin, ma fille!</title><content type='html'>Vous connaissez bien cette histoire. La fille s'emballe pour la couture, elle a accumulé des masses de tissus, boutons, gadgets en tous genres et est complètement accro aux blogues couture. Donc elle lance le sien. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Et puis, catastrophe, le mojo part en voyage illico. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zéro réalisation donc zéro contenu pour le blogue fraichement créé. Les semaines passent, elle coud à peine un ourlet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jusqu'au jour où...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rien a signaler jusqu'a la fin Avril ou je recois la visite de ma Tante Qui Coud. C'est le declic. Le fait d' avoir tirer tous les magazines, les bouquins, les tissus et les gadgets, l'envie de coudre est revenue. Depuis, je couds chaque semaine, sinon chaque jour. Etant la reine des lambines, il ne faudrait pas croire que j'ai une productivite d'usine!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A suivre...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Girl, what are you doing???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This might sound familiar to you. Girl goes wild for sewing, the fabrics and notions are stacking up and she's obsessed with sewing blogs. So much so that she decides to start her own. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then it happens. The mojo goes bye-bye. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until one day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So nothing was happening in the sewing room until late April when my Sewing Aunt came to visit. And then it happened. It must have been while I was pulling out all the stash, the books, the knick-knacks or something but my mojo was back with a vengeance. Of course, being the queen of slooow sewing, don't expect to see piles of finished garments!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay Tuned...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-4965877290911906361?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/4965877290911906361/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=4965877290911906361' title='1 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4965877290911906361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4965877290911906361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/06/mais-enfin-ma-fille.html' title='Mais enfin, ma fille!'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-7868656032850920635</id><published>2009-02-01T11:48:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T12:23:11.382-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='muslin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='completement folle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tissu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toile'/><title type='text'>Complètement malade : ma toile</title><content type='html'>Parmi mes nombreuses non-résolutions* de 2009, j'ai décidé de faire une toile pour tous les patrons ou modèles que j'essaie pour la première fois, comme les Patrones et Knipmode achetés en 2008. Aucune idée du seyant donc ça me parait intelligent (voire prudent).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donc, je choisis d'acheter du &lt;em&gt;Siam&lt;/em&gt;, une toile de coton naturelle très bon marché. Ici, on vend le tissu par &lt;em&gt;aune&lt;/em&gt;, soit 1m14, et un rouleau de 20 aunes, soit 22m80, s'appelle une &lt;em&gt;pièce&lt;/em&gt; (je découvre ce terme grâce à ce blog!). Mirez-moi ça:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SYXUTILmndI/AAAAAAAAABo/DTil621f9ck/s1600-h/DSC05739.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SYXUTILmndI/AAAAAAAAABo/DTil621f9ck/s320/DSC05739.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297873961750011346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;* résolution non verbalisée ou non écrite donc virtuelle et secrète!!! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Completely crazy : my muslin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among the many non-resolutions for 2009, I had decided to make muslins for all the new-to-me patterns or models bought in 2008 I've been wanting to sew, particularly from Patrons and Knipmode. No idea what the fit is so seems like a good (safe) route to go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I purchased the cheapest unbleached cotton I could find locally, called &lt;strong&gt;Siam&lt;/strong&gt;. Fabric is sold here by the &lt;strong&gt;aune&lt;/strong&gt; or 1.25 yards and the roll is a &lt;strong&gt;pièce&lt;/strong&gt; of 25 yards**. Lookit:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SYXUTILmndI/AAAAAAAAABo/DTil621f9ck/s1600-h/DSC05739.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SYXUTILmndI/AAAAAAAAABo/DTil621f9ck/s320/DSC05739.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297873961750011346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* unspoken or unwritten and therefore virtual resolution!!!&lt;br /&gt;** &lt;a href="missceliespants.wordpress.com"&gt;Cidell&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="divinerae.blogspot.com"&gt;Shawnta&lt;/a&gt;, yes, I actually don't know how to count, LOL&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-7868656032850920635?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/7868656032850920635/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=7868656032850920635' title='6 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7868656032850920635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7868656032850920635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/02/completement-malade-ma-toile.html' title='Complètement malade : ma toile'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SYXUTILmndI/AAAAAAAAABo/DTil621f9ck/s72-c/DSC05739.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-2886979449542374533</id><published>2009-01-21T21:33:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T21:55:03.993-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='album'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fabric'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tissu'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stash'/><title type='text'>Ze Stash</title><content type='html'>J'ai finalement eu un peu de temps pour coudre cette fin de semaine, le modèle 108 du burda de Janvier 2008, la jolie blouse avec les découpes. Photos et commentaires à venir...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En attendant, une partie de ma collection de tissus a été photographiée. Ce qui reste est un malheureux mélange de UFOs, coupons et métrages ensevelis (pour ne pas dire oubliés). Allez donc y jeter un coup d'oeil. La qualité n'est pas super mais bon, je ferai des progrès éventuellement!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:194px;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/arielle.bkshlf/Stash1?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AoS73R5GIY0/SXIDCHLL7WE/AAAAAAAAAWQ/w4mGcJ6GXfY/s160-c/Stash1.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/arielle.bkshlf/Stash1?feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Stash 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me voici, à l'oeuvre. Excusez, svp, le teint gras, il a fait une météo dégueulasse toute la fin de semaine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SXfdxqAbAzI/AAAAAAAAABg/pF66ZMoE7aw/s1600-h/DSC05726.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SXfdxqAbAzI/AAAAAAAAABg/pF66ZMoE7aw/s320/DSC05726.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293943732156695346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally had a block of free time this week-end to do a little sewing. Started on BWOF 01-08 # 108, the cute blouse with the bib. Pix and commentary coming soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, I was even able to photog part of the stash of fabrics. Whatever has yet be immortalized is a most unfortunate mix of UFOs, remnants and (forgotten?) cuts. Go take a look. Not the best pix but I'll improve!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width:194px;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/arielle.bkshlf/Stash1?feat=embedwebsite"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AoS73R5GIY0/SXIDCHLL7WE/AAAAAAAAAWQ/w4mGcJ6GXfY/s160-c/Stash1.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/arielle.bkshlf/Stash1?feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;"&gt;Stash 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here I am, hard at work. Please forgive the greasy face, craptastic weather all week-end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SXfdxqAbAzI/AAAAAAAAABg/pF66ZMoE7aw/s1600-h/DSC05726.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SXfdxqAbAzI/AAAAAAAAABg/pF66ZMoE7aw/s320/DSC05726.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293943732156695346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-2886979449542374533?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/2886979449542374533/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=2886979449542374533' title='4 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2886979449542374533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/2886979449542374533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/01/ze-stash.html' title='Ze Stash'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_AoS73R5GIY0/SXIDCHLL7WE/AAAAAAAAAWQ/w4mGcJ6GXfY/s72-c/Stash1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-9120801476163308548</id><published>2009-01-12T21:05:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-12T21:35:30.267-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IRL'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chats'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='organization'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magazine'/><title type='text'>Mais qu' est-ce qu' elle fait?!?!?</title><content type='html'>La réponse: Pas de la Couture, ah non!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J'ai eu une fin de semaine très domestique (quelle horreur!). Malheureusement, ma mère fait une lymphangite et est au lit sous antibiotiques. Donc j'avais l'ensemble des tâches ménagères à prendre en charge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Par contre, je suis toujours branchée couture mais si mon énergie sert la cause indirectement. Samedi matin, j'ai pris livraison de ma toute nouvelle bibliothèque en métal (à cause des termites, une plaie ici).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv7leOmaNI/AAAAAAAAABQ/9wLc2jPqXtg/s1600-h/DSC05599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv7leOmaNI/AAAAAAAAABQ/9wLc2jPqXtg/s320/DSC05599.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290598808464812242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naturellement, ce que vous voyez ne représente que 15% des trucs à ranger pour avoir un coin couture digne de ce nom. Hélas! Je vous prie d'ignorer l'énorme masse de film plastique que j'ai posé temporairement sur la tablette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon assistante d'atelier, Tina:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv8hpP1uHI/AAAAAAAAABY/liD6yHjqNvA/s1600-h/DSC05591.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv8hpP1uHI/AAAAAAAAABY/liD6yHjqNvA/s320/DSC05591.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290599842214951026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je crois que je commence avoir un problème de SABLE vis-à-vis des magazines de couture (deux dernières tablettes)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;WHAT IS SHE DOING !?!?!?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No sewing AT ALL this week-end, that's what. I spent my whole time doing house chores. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, my mother is sick in bed with lymphangitis. She's on antibiotics. So I had to take over her part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I kept the mojo alive by trying to organize my sewing corner. My brand new metal [because of the termites that plague us] bookcase was delivered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv7leOmaNI/AAAAAAAAABQ/9wLc2jPqXtg/s1600-h/DSC05599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv7leOmaNI/AAAAAAAAABQ/9wLc2jPqXtg/s320/DSC05599.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290598808464812242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The down side is that this is probably only 15% of what I need to order. Oh, well! Please don't pay attention to the massive ball of plastic wrapping temporarily stored on the shelf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had help, mostly moral support from Tina:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv8hpP1uHI/AAAAAAAAABY/liD6yHjqNvA/s1600-h/DSC05591.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv8hpP1uHI/AAAAAAAAABY/liD6yHjqNvA/s320/DSC05591.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290599842214951026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I'm having a little bit of a SABLE issue where sewing magazines are concerned (two bottom shelves)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-9120801476163308548?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/9120801476163308548/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=9120801476163308548' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/9120801476163308548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/9120801476163308548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/01/mais-qu-est-ce-qu-elle-fait.html' title='Mais qu&apos; est-ce qu&apos; elle fait?!?!?'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SWv7leOmaNI/AAAAAAAAABQ/9wLc2jPqXtg/s72-c/DSC05599.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-7215454899350860573</id><published>2009-01-02T16:09:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-02T16:23:30.991-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patrones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='argent'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stretch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='silver'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bilingue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intro'/><title type='text'>Allô le Monde!</title><content type='html'>Bienvenue sur mon blogue de couture. Au risque de faire une très mauvaise impression, je confesse tout de suite : je mijote cette initiative depuis plus d’ un an. Voilà, vous savez tout.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Je suis une Grande Paresseuse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La preuve, ce petit message sera super court. Je vous réserve un loooong billet sur le Pourquoi et le Comment de ma passion. Vous êtes prévenus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L’éternel paradoxe, je passe souvent de l’inaction au Grand Projet. Un exemple : je lance ce blogue alors que je néglige depuis des mois mon autre blog « sérieux ». Et je décide de le faire bilingue ! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En attendant, je vous montre déjà ce que j’ai réalisé durant le mois de Décembre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D’abord, pour mon neveu M., parti vivre au Canada, une pochette pour ranger les crayons de cire : &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EWf7J-cI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Bn-6v7yC3Y4/s1600-h/Le+cadeau+de+Matteo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EWf7J-cI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Bn-6v7yC3Y4/s200/Le+cadeau+de+Matteo.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286808534641146306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai copié un modèle trouvé sur Amazon.com. Entièrement réalisé avec des chutes de tissu et des fournitures en stock. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ensuite, charité bien ordonnée commençant par soi-même, j’ai utilisé pour la première fois ma surjeuteuse pour me confectionner une petite robe spécial Nouvel An. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EpoUyOeI/AAAAAAAAAA8/FDbGPi_Sz0Y/s1600-h/Patrones+-263-No19.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EpoUyOeI/AAAAAAAAAA8/FDbGPi_Sz0Y/s200/Patrones+-263-No19.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286808863313639906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;J’ai acheté les deux tissus chez Joann’s, lors de mon dernier voyage à Miami. Depuis que j’ai réveillé le monstre Couture, l’été dernier,  ma première destination est désormais un magasin de tissus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bon, je vous laisse là. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hello, World!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to my sewing blog. It might give the wrong first impression to start with a confession but so be it. The truth is, I’ve been working on this blog for over a year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now you know everything. I am the Queen of Procrastination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, this fist post is going to be really short. Look forward to a HUGE post full of the Whys and Hows of this passion of mine. You’ve been warned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The strange thing is, I often go from doing nothing to taking on a Major Project. Witness the blog that I’m starting when I’ve been neglecting my “serious” blog for months. And I make it bilingual! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mean time, let me show you what I made in December.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, a crayon roll for my nephew M., gone to live in Canada. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EWf7J-cI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Bn-6v7yC3Y4/s1600-h/Le+cadeau+de+Matteo.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EWf7J-cI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Bn-6v7yC3Y4/s200/Le+cadeau+de+Matteo.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286808534641146306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s a knock-off of something I found on Amazon.com. Made entirely of remnants and notions already in stock.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, something for me, naturally. This is the first actual outfit I made on my serger:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6D4bDpB1I/AAAAAAAAAAs/LJfgtFrto8Q/s1600-h/Patrones+-263-No19.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 136px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6D4bDpB1I/AAAAAAAAAAs/LJfgtFrto8Q/s200/Patrones+-263-No19.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286808017938483026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought both fabric at Joann’s, in Miami. Ever since I rediscovered my passion for sewing, my first stop is always a fabric store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read you soon.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-7215454899350860573?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/7215454899350860573/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=7215454899350860573' title='2 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7215454899350860573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7215454899350860573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2009/01/all-le-monde.html' title='Allô le Monde!'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vD0KAqJ20Ng/SV6EWf7J-cI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Bn-6v7yC3Y4/s72-c/Le+cadeau+de+Matteo.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-7869422851195559274</id><published>2007-09-10T09:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T09:58:39.909-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='manifesto'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broderie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embroidery'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surjetteuse'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sewing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='serger'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burda'/><title type='text'>Manifesto</title><content type='html'>I love to sew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'adore coudre.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm too impatient for embroidery/knitting/crocheting but I love it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je n'ai pas la patience pour la broderie, le tricot ou le crochet mais j'aime ça quand même.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know how to draft my own pattern...yet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je ne sais pas encore tracer mes propres patrons mais ça viendra!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bought a serger for my last birthday...that I haven't used... yet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je me suis achetée une surjetteuse pour mon dernier anniversaire et je ne l'ai pas encore utilisée...mais ça viendra!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Burda. A lot. Expect most of my outfits to be from or inspired by Burda patterns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'adore Burda. A mort. Même que la plupart des modèles que vous verrez ici seront inspirés par ou réaliser avec des patrons Burda.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I like simple, clean lines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;J'aime les lignes pures.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I seldom wear long skirts and the few I own are love stories. As are most of my clothes, actually.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Je porte rarement des jupes longues et les rares que je possède, je suis tombée pour elles au premier regard. Comme la plupart de mes vêtements, d'ailleurs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I go shopping/I try out my projects and make the final call based on my digital pictures. Trust me, you can't really buy read-to-wear alone without taking an instant pic of yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Je ne magazine pas ou n'essaie pas mes vêtements sans trancher grace mes photos numériques. Croyez-moi, c'est impossible d'acheter du prêt-à-porter sans prendre quelques instantanés de vous.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-7869422851195559274?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/7869422851195559274/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=7869422851195559274' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7869422851195559274'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/7869422851195559274'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto.html' title='Manifesto'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150530622390711644.post-4862572251114644981</id><published>2007-09-05T10:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T10:29:16.273-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='couture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='opinion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bilingue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='intro'/><title type='text'>I am completely crazy... / Complètement folle...</title><content type='html'>...so I decided to have a blog for my sewing/crafts/other projects. In two languages. And I gave it a Creole title. (What did I tell you in the title?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...donc j'ai décidé de faire un blog couture etc. Bilingue. Le pire, le titre est en créole. (Je vous avais prévenus dans le titre!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sursum corda!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/150530622390711644-4862572251114644981?l=fashionmate.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/feeds/4862572251114644981/comments/default' title='Publier les commentaires'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=150530622390711644&amp;postID=4862572251114644981' title='0 commentaires'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4862572251114644981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/150530622390711644/posts/default/4862572251114644981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fashionmate.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-am-completely-crazy-compltement-folle.html' title='I am completely crazy... / Complètement folle...'/><author><name>La Karibane</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
