It’s no secret that I love my tee pattern, Montlake. When I designed it I was really aiming for a closet staple that could be made in any knit fabric and modified easily to better fit your body and style. I have already shared how I modified the pattern to be made as a tunic and a maternity tee, today though I am sharing with you a Montlake with side slits!
I pretty much start every tester roundup saying the same exact thing, I have the best bunch of pattern testers around. This amazing group of ladies make every single pattern I create so much better and I love working with new to me sewists with each round of testing. My favourite part of a pattern release is definitely this post, so without further ado I am sharing with you the Wedgwood tester roundup! Make sure to click over to the shop and grab your copy of the skirt while it is still marked down.
The Wedgwood skirt pattern is ready for all you lovely ladies.
Every girl needs a pleated skirt in their wardrobe, something I didn’t realize until I started designing this pattern. You see I wasn’t really a skirt wearing girl, sure I wore them occasionally but I just always found something I preferred to wear instead. But once I started sewing and resewing the Wedgwood skirt pattern I realized just how much I enjoy the versatility of a high waisted skirt. You can dress it up with heels and a silk shirt or keep it casual with a tee shirt and converse. I am already dreaming of wearing one of these in the summer with a Greenwood tank and my favourite Birkenstocks.
It doesn’t get much better than pleats and pockets in a skirt, and the Wedgwood skirt has that and so much more. Thanks to all the love and super helpful input on instagram from all you lovely ladies, the Wedgwood skirt is everything I thought it could be. So happy to have it working out and looking great so I can put out the official Wedgwood tester call!
Okay all you ladies with a baby belly I have a really fun post for you today. There are no more babies joining the Paynes so I had to enlist the help of a new sewing friend, Holly, who has the cutest baby belly. I met Holly only a few short weeks ago when she was helping me test the Montlake pattern and I knew instantly we would be great friends. She graciously agreed to help me show all of you how you can easily modify the Montlake tee to be maternity friendly.
Choosing fabric for a pattern is my favourite part of sewing. I love walking the aisles of a fabric store feeling and stretching the fabrics to see how they will behave with the pattern. When designing my new pattern, Montlake I realized very quickly that depending on the fabric chosen the final tee would have a different look. The more stretch in a fabric leads to a deeper scoop neck and relaxed fit. For those fabrics that have only slight stretch it is a more fitted tee. All the looks are great, it’s just a matter of what kind of mood you are in when sewing up your Montlake.
After what feels like a marathon of pattern testing with the greatest bunch of ladies around I am happy to be here today sharing my newest sewing pattern with all of you, Montlake.
This tee is everything you would want out of a new closet staple. With clean lines and a great shape you can view it as a blank canvas to play around with different knits. One of my testers couldn’t have put it better when she described this pattern to me, simple fashion. Sometimes we just need some simple fashion in our lives and the Montlake tee is that.
Sewing jeans has always been on my list of clothing items I wanted to tackle, but there was always something that held me back. The reality is that it was more fear than anything, they were just so darn intimidating. The button fly alone was enough for me to only ever make elastic waist pants, ha! When Lauren of Baste + Gather put out a tester call for her jeans pattern, Birkin Flares, I couldn’t fill out the tester form fast enough. Can I just quickly skip to the end really quick and say, my first pair fit like a glove!
I am a creature of habit when it comes to sewing. If I find a pattern that I love I will keep making it over and over in all the fabrics. When I lengthened the Laurelhurst for my Fall Collection post, I discovered just how much I love that pattern, like so much I want to wear one every day. The natural thing to do is sew up a bunch so that I can in fact wear one every day.
Am I the only person who read that title and immediately started singing Push it from Salt-N-Pepa? Man I love that song 🙂
After seeing the remixed version of the Bellevue pattern that Haley of Welcome to the Mouse House did for the anniversary blog tour, I knew I had to have one as well. It wasn’t until I got the most perfect heather blue terry from Raspberry Creek Fabrics that I finally sat down and cut it out. I already know this is going to be in constant rotation until May.
