Sewing a Collection, Part 4: The Collection!

I have focused on sharing the journey, but today I am sharing the results! I will list the patterns used, fabrics, and share a few days of outfits. I just used my phone camera and collage app to make these, so its not going to win any photography awards 😀 Its just for my own organization and documentation purposes. (#usewhatyouhave and start now).

I didn’t set a number for myself because in the past that has sabotaged my task-oriented brain. I just made a list of what I want to wear and sewed it up over a couple months. It came out to be 5 tops, 3 bottoms, and 1 completer.

** I have included the wardrobe pieces I pulled to be part of the overall capsule in the following grids.**

Tops:

• **Mandy Boat Tee, stripe jersey (given to me)
• Stellan Tee, white jersey (thrifted), embroidered by hand
• Stellan Tee, coral jersey (thrifted)
• Sorbetto top, navy silk blend (given to me)
• Willow tank, Riley Blake metallic quilting cotton (Fabricland)
• Ogden cami, floral crepe (given to me)

Bottoms:

• **Dotted midi skirt, RTW, Thrifted
• **Olive midi skirt, RTW, Thrifted
• Dawn Jeans, 11 oz Cone mills denim with stretch, (Spool & Spindle)
• Morgan Jeans, rigid white denim, (given to me)
• Sasha trousers with cargo hack, olive ponte knit (Fabricland)

Completers:

• **Denim jacket, RTW, thrifted
• ** Chambray shirt pattern from Love to Sew Magazine, chambray (Fabric Market California)
• Cropped Fulton Sweater blazer , thick scuba knit (given to me)
• ** Blackwood cardigan, Rayon Cashmere (Dressew)

Here is 5 days of outfits that were SO easy to put together, and I still haven’t even scratched the surface of options!

I have already begun planning the Spring “expansion” module (just in time for #thegreatmodulesewalong on Instagram, hosted by TomKat Stitchery and Carla Mayfield , and planning feels easy this time around. I am having a lot of fun! I’m sure that it is partly because I now have plenty of outfits and am not feeling so intimidated by the project!

I hope that this series has given you some inspiration and taken the pressure off making a cohesive collection of garments- that you will love to wear. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, messaging, and I’ll be back here in the Spring!