Cropped Polo
Love, Laur is over a year old now... that's crazy. A few years ago I had thought about having a fashion blog, but I had no drive. But it's interesting how much my style has changed since I started. I cannot wait for what's yet to come.---Originally, I wanted to make this shirt in November but I kept pushing it off. I was feeling uninspired to sew or I had a lot of school work or I was busy with the holidays. The only sewing I had been doing was altering pants and shirts for my friends.With the new year, I made a lot of goals and plans for Love, Laur. My ideas began flowing. But first, I had to go back and finally sew this shirt! Thankfully I had started the process back in November, sketching out a design and making the pattern pieces.
To make the pattern pieces I started with an old pattern (butterick 3766) that my mom got at a garage sale along with the yellow fabric. The pattern was L-XL so I measured the difference in inches between the large and extra-large pieces then multiplied it by 2. Then I took pattern paper and recreated the pieces but made them 2 times smaller, including some alterations in the bottom half of the shirt. I think this will help me with creating my own patterns later without tracing old patterns or clothing.
When it finally came to sewing the shirt, it was a breeze. It felt good to get back at it again. It was also my first time making button-holes, and I didn't even have a button-hole foot for my machine but I figured out a way!
This is the first shoot where I styled myself 100% in clothes that I made! These plaid pants,"Rachel Plaid Pants," are a throwback for me. I made them Spring '17. My mom shot me in a random neighborhood in a town close by. Most of the photos were taken in front of an apartment complex. But the featured image with the plaid chair, we found that location as we drove around. There was a random chair in front of a nice lima-bean green garage--it was perfect.As we continued to drive around we scouted locations for my next shoot (it's going to be something exciting and different ;)).I'm super exciting for the next couple projects that I will be posting soon!love,laurI am styled with:Plaid pants (that I made last spring)Air Max 97sA cross-body camera bag (found at my grandparents')