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domingo, 16 de mayo de 2010

X gone Y 8: Good girls wear polka dots



I really like wife shirts.They're becoming a basic in the shops, and you can find them to low prices, Yatt for example has a really cool collection of tees for this summer.

But yet again, you can DIY this kind of shirts in a couple of seconds, because if you're not one of the MGMT and they're a basic in your wardrobe you maybe don't want to spend 10€ in a tee and you prefear to DIY and save some money.

You just need to find the right place where you have to cut.

So maybe you'd like to try it with one of your old tees and if you like it, buy one. (Sure, yeah. That's like the lame excuse of download music so if you like you'd buy it later...)

1) Fold the tee making sure the sleeves, the hem and the neck coincide.

2) Put pins in the sleeve and neck so it remains together.

3) You need to mark with your burmester ruler the armhole.




4) Do the same with the neck.

5) Once you had do it with the neck, then you need to sharpen the neck making a new line so it looks good, because if not the neck would be heart shapped and we don't want that.

6) Cut them carefully.










Now, this is optional, I chose to make a pocket with the rests of the sleeve.





7) You need to prove on the tank and make a mark in your breast.

8) Use the sleeve to draw a pocket of around 5cmX4cm.

9) Now sew your pocket over the mark and make sure the fabric is straight. If you want you can use a thread of a different color.

Finally I put this shirt with this polka dots skort that by the way are in the shop already and you can get them to really low price.



SHORTS: X GONE y
TEE: X GONE Y
HAT AND SHADES: H&M






miércoles, 14 de abril de 2010

First time for everything

This was the first item I updated about in the blog. And like it doesn't really look perfect in me and so many people liked it, I thought that I should make a GIVEAWAY.

There's always a first time for everything. Cause in that entry was the fi
rst time I announced there would be surprises in the blog. So here comes the first one.

You can have this dress for FREE!!




It used to be a summer coat and with some darts it became a summer short dress. Now it can be yours.


You just need to follow both blogs (Confessions of a Singer an
d X gone y) and also leave a comment in this entry.

On JUNE 1st I would announce the winner.

Is a Medium size (Girls between 36 and 40)



martes, 6 de abril de 2010

XgoneY 5: New Showing Season (Yeah)



Today I learned two facts:

1. The other day I watched (Almost for the tenth time) the documentary about The House of Chanel. Is a really long series that we watched last year in school, but the other day I watched it on TV. Anyways it was about the women who make the dresses. Those women are my heroines. Some people admires Karl Lagerfield, who I think is a great designer, but I admire those women. The patience they have and how they hand sew the very same dress several times. I would had insult him if he had make me do the same dress three times. Fact. Said is I don't get payed as well as they do. I do it for the fun of it, so I'm making an exercise of patience.

And I suppose that's what happened to me today. I was working in the pattern of an overall. It looked kinda cool, I could already picture myself sporting it and becoming it my favourite summer outfit. And thanks to Boyfriend who told me to sew it over museline first, I would be able to sport it with the gorgeous shocking pink liberty flowers fabric I have stored for it.

But I definitevly hate to work in a pattern and then when you had finished your work it doesn't really works as it looked in your head, so you have to do all of the work again.

2. That amazingly, for relaxing after a moment of insanity where I was swearing in Catalan as usual and breaking my pattern (Something I regreated later because it was a stupid mistake kind of mark 20 when it was 30.) I raised the volume of Brand New in the stereo and while listening New showing season (Yeah) I was dancing around and bumped onto a bag where it was the dress I was thinking on work in long time ago. And the ideas of what to do with it just kept coming to my brain with the chorus.

When I started in the Fashion world I used to cut and paste. The technic of cut and paste is something all of the Fashion students of the EASD of València are familiar with.
Definition of Cut and Paste: Buy a sewing magazine (Usually Burda) and join together the parts of different patterns so you do the desired garment.

It sometimes looks great, other times looks like shit, but now I use to do it all of the time straight over the clothes because is easier, cheaper and gives you the chance to work with the sewing knownledge you have. Join a sweater and a skirt by the waist, cut some jeans and make a dart in the hem so they are suddenly hotpants(We'll talk about it soon) or make a dress look different with darts. I already postend how to do this before, but it was an easier dress, now we're going to complicate it a little.

Youre goint to need:

Scissors, your sewing machine (Or you can do it by hand if you want to), , a measurement tape, pins and a pencil.

Skirt:

Take the pattern of your skirt. And cut throw the dart till the end. Now join together the two sides of the dart. Your pattern should have a bell shape now. The hem of the skirt now is wider.


1. Take the measurements you need. In my case I wanted the size 36. Measure your breast circumference, your waist and your trunk measurement. Take a look to this post in case youhave doubts.

2. In the case the dress is not your size unsew the sides till the sleeve of the dress.* So you can make a dart in the sides.

*If it was necessary unsew a little bit of the sleeve.

3. Mark where your breast line is.

4. Measure the dart of the breast and mark it.

5. Measure the trunk measurement and mark it. There is where your waist is. Mark the line of your waist with a pin.

6. Mark the same measurement -3 in your back. That's because our breast dart is going to measure 3cm so this way the two sides measure the same.

7. Now you have your waist line, mark the line with a pencil and cut around 5cm down the waist line. That's your sewing hem and now you have the skirt and the upper side.

Make sure it looks good, prove the dress as many times you need to make sure.

9. Mark the modifications with pins.

10. Now you must sew first the breast dart.

11. Sew the rest of the darts.

12. Join the sides.

13. Join the skirt with the upperside of the dress.

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Hoy he aprendido dos cosas:

1. El otro dia ví(Por décima vez) el documental de Le Firme Chanel. Es una serie de documentales sobre el proceso creativo de la firma que vimos el año pasado en clase, pero el otro dia iba de las costureras. Definivitamente son heroinas. Alguna gente admira a Karl Lagerfield, que creo que es un gran diseñador, pero yo admiro a esas mujeres. La paciencia que tienen y como cosen a mano el mismo vestido una y otra vez. Si hubiese sido yo habria acabado insultando al mismisimo Karl. Seguro. Aunque no me pagan tan bien como les pagan a ellas. Yo lo hago porque lo encuentro divertido y es un excelente ejercicio de paciencia y aprendizaje.

Y supongo que es lo que me ha pasado hoy. Estaba trabajando en el patron de un peto. Quedaba genial y ya podia verme llevandolo y convirtiendolo en mi prenda fetiche esta temporada. Y gracias a Boyfriend, quien me dijo de coserlo en muselina primero, aun podré hacerlo con la maravillosa tela en rosa fuchsia y flores liberty que tengo.

Pero definitivamente odio trabajar en un patron y que cuando lo acabe no funciona como pensaba y tienes que hacer todo el trabajo otra vez.

2. Sorprendentemente, para relajarme despues de un momento de locura transitoria mientras chillaba insultos y rompia el patron (Algo de lo que me he arrepentido despues porque era un error tonto y podria haber vuelto a usarlo) He subido el volumen de BRand New en el Stereo y mientras escuchaba New showing season (Yeah) y bailaba me he dado contra una bolsa donde estaba este vestido. Y las ideas simplemente me han venido a la mente con el estribillo.

Cuando empeze a estudiar diseño de moda utilizaba mucho la técnica del corta y pega. Esta tecnica es algo que casi todos conociamos en la EASD. Consiste basicamente en comprar una revista de costura como el Burda y juntar diferentes patrones hasta conseguir la prenda deseada.

A veces funciona a la perfeccion aunque otras veces el resultado apestaba. Ahora hago la misma tecnica pero directamente sobre las prendas, es mas barato y fácil y te da la oportunidad de trabajar con los conocimientos de costura que tienes.

Juntar un sueter con una falda, cortar unos vaqueros y hacer una pinza para que sean unos hotpants (Hablaremos de ello prontob) O hacer que un vestido sea completamente diferente con pinzas.

Ya postee como hacer esto antes, pero era con un vestido facil, ahora vamos a complicarlo un poco.

Vas a necesitar:

Tijeras, la máquina de coser (O a mano según tu experiencia), una cinta metrica, alfileres y un lápiz.

Instrucciones:

Toma las medidas que necesites. En mi caso queria una talla 36. Mide la circunferencia de tu pecho, tu cintura y tu talle. (Mira el post de tomar medidas por si acaso)

Para la falda cortaras por la pinza hasta el final del patron. Asi, juntando los dos lados de la pinza tendras el patron de una falda evasé

2. Si el vestido no es tu talla descose los lados hasta la manga* asi podras hacer unas pinzas en el costado.

*Si es necesario descose un poco de la manga.

3. Marca donde esta tu linea de pecho.

4. Mide y marca la pinza del pecho y cosela. Como siempre no debera medir mas de 3cm de ancho.

5. Mide el talle y marcalo. Ahi es donde esta tu linea de cintura. Márcala con un alfiler.

6. Marca la misma medida de talle -3 en tu espalda. Esto es porque la pinza del pecho va a medir 3cm asi los dos lados mediran lo mismo.

7. Ahora tienes la linea de cintura, marcala con un lapiz. Corta 5cm por debajo de la linea de cintura. Este sera el margen de costura.

Asegurate de que te viene bien, pruebatelo las veces que necesites.

8. Marca las modificaciones con los alfileres.

9. Cose la pinza del pecho primero.

10. Cose el resto de las pinzas.

11. Junta los lados.

12. Junta la falda por la linea de cintura con la parte superior del vestido.

13. Plancha todas las costuras.


miércoles, 31 de marzo de 2010

Some things are perfect as they are.


The other day I found a gorgeous dress in a street market. I was in love with it. Big flowers, oversize. I was thinking on what to do with it until I saw myself wearing it.

Perfect.

Then it came yesterday. Perfect items just came coming to my hands. A really short skirt, some people would call it top, I call it skirt, is a matter of semantics, or a gorgeous brand new turquoise blazer that I would wear as soon is clean.

But then, as we kept proving items and making photos of them, it came the perfection made dress.

It started like a joke, kinda with the sentence of: Oh my god, Jose, look at this! And following up the laughs the ideas just kept coming to our minds. Like cutting it or something like that. And it was just 1 euro so I thought, whatever, just buy it.

And I did.

The surprise came when I put it on.

Then it was awesome. The dress was like made for me. I just couldn't take it off. I just wanted to sport it. I even had lunch with it. I felt like a princess, like a Prom Queen nominee. Then I came home, and my boyfriend who respects but rarely shares my fashion sense told me that it looked great, and that some maid of honor must had give it to charity.

And then he started calling me Marla Singer, I really don't care. I love the tragedy of the character and Helena so It just made me think on her words, that someone loved that dress and then gave it up. Or some really mean bride forced her best friend to sport it. Because the dress is awesome for just wear it in summer, but not for a wedding in anyway I'm just not touching anything of it. I love it.


Some second hand clothes are perfect as they are. I rarely find something that fits me, I use to have to restore them, which is mostly the reason on why I started this blog and now, in the health of my relationship and my dressing room add some items I think you guys would like to buy in the other blog/shop. They're unique, something I can promise you because I made them. I love second hand clothes, something is truth, they don't use as awesome fabrics as they used back then.

So along this week I would open the shop with new items. You can buy them or you can get the idea of how to make something similar in this blog.
I won't update with anything I hadn't share the making off here first, which is the reason on why I hadn't open the shop yet..

But in my career as expertise in vintage and second hand clothes I must say that some things are perfect as they are. I hope you also had find something you love and can sport without doing anything to it. But if you didn't, I would keep updating with great and easy DIY projects so we loose our fear to buy something that obviously don't fit, but that you would love to wear.

After the last shopping sprees, the whole idea of X gone Y is loosing its point, but I'll keep looking for things to restore, I just love to do it and is also a good exercise for my patterning and sewing classes.

P.S I hadn't forget the pattern of the dress. I would update it soon, just my PC seems to don't want to work the Macromedia applications lately.

lunes, 22 de marzo de 2010

Hairextended


Still with DIY (Dye it yourself) projects. I have to love bleach. Is just the best invent ever, how something can look so different with just bleach, and this vest would look even better, or let's hope it does, when Jose and I are done with the idea I have for it.

A couple of days ago I found out that Lulila had nominated me for a meme. I don't really know how does it work, but is kind of cool because reading all of the people that answered you find out things about people you read everyday.

So here are my answers

Un maquillaje(make up):
L'Oreal Volume Shocking Mascara


Una prenda de vestir( a piece of cloth):
un peto de flores.


Un grupo de música(a music band): Le Tigre

Una marca nacional(a spanish brand):
La Casita de Wedy.


Una marca internacional (an international brand):
H&M


Un diseñador(A fashion designer):
Juan Vidal


Un lugar de veraneo(a place for the summer):
San Juan (Ibiza)


Un famoso(a famous person):
Pepe Rubianes


Una comida(food):
Cualquier cosa con French Mustard


Una bebida (a drink):
Café con leche de soja fresquito.


Un hobbie:
Leer


Una peli (a movie):
The United States Of Leeland


Una serie(A TV series):
The Big Bang Theory


Una inspiración o personalidad a copiar(someone you admire):
Pilar Rahola


And oh, yeah. I got hair extensions finally. I'm not really used to long hair, but I love it!

jueves, 18 de marzo de 2010

X gone Y 3: Is a sunny day in the neighbourhood


I love this weather. One of the multiple good things about living in Valencia is that the good weather comes in March. Is almost spring, we're in holidays, Fallas. I'm having really nice holidays, resting, partying with moderation, which is a point in my New Year's Ressolutions' list; and also sewing and doing tons of projects.

Like I'm kinda driving you crazy with all the sewing I wanted to update an easy tutorial mostly because the guy I'm stealing internet of right now (ONO seems to be also on holidays) seems to start to figure out that he's sharing without knowing, so I need to be quick.

With the sun and party clima around we went to the market on Wednesday morning and we bought some pretty nice spring stuff that I'm already working on.

Tons of denim, for make hot pants for this summer, cause I love them and I love denim. In all of its kinds, acid, dark and dyed, bleached... The latter, is something you must do.

I suppose you had noticed the MUST, I don't want to sound imperative but you MUST do it. I mean, pay 20 bucks more for something just because someone had the brilliant idea to bleach them and make them look old SHOULD BE illegal.

So please, just do it yourself with some old jeans, is funny and an interesting exercise of patience.

I think everybody knows how to bleach something.

Use bleach.

Plain and simple. I remember once in Summer School doing some summer course of sewing when we made hippie style tees. With ropes and all the deal.

Well, I'm not actually going to teach you how to do that, I mean everybody knows how to do that.
Actually I think everybody knows how to fill a cube with water and a glass of bleach and put your jeans in... and wait until the color is gone the following day.

Ok, maybe this tutorial is kind of a lame excuse to show you how this old jacket i bought now looks like a complete different piece of cloth...You got me.


But I just think it looks awesome and that everybody can do it.
You just need bleach, water (Obvio) and sandpaper. I'm sure your dad or boyfriend has some at home if not buy it, is pretty cheap and would last you long. Well, take the sandpaper and pass it in the wrists, hem, neck, pockets. Wherever you feel like make a hole or give it a fray effect.

Just remember to do it when the cloth is dry. And also after you had bleached it wash the cloth alone a couple of times in the washing machine, just to evite you unconfortable situations with your mom wondering why the hell her favourite jeans have bleach stamps and you pretending it wasn't you but it was obvious it was you because your brand new pair of bleached jeans were in the same laundry basket (True story and also true long time grounded, good old days back in high school... sigh)

Be creative with the sandpaper. That's the trick. I also use it to break jeans. I mean I make a cut and then I pass it a little throw the cuts so some treads come out the fabric. Just don't exceed and don't make the cuts too nearby if you're not pretending them to naturally join after a while and become a really big hole in your tight/knee. (That's what happened to the jeans that spoiled my mom's fav jeans.)

Try the trick of the sandpaper, It would make your holes look great and natural.


Secondly, we speak about features. I was in the Fashionalistas page a couple of weeks ago and also in Autor de Toi. It was awesome, more with all the amazing comments people left in the page and even more when Fashionalistas chose me as the look of the month and appeared in Hello Valencia with some people I really admire, like Laia or my lovelly Jose.

Hello Valencia is a tourism magazine, my mom for example gets it in the bank, but you can buy it in any bookstore, which doesn't really has a point if you're not a tourist, cause we Valencians kinda have the AU (Agènda Urbana)

But again, it was an honor. So thank you, thank you very much to these different sites. I'm going to put them straight in the right of my blog just for maybe in 30 years come back to look at it and say to Jose, who would be totally working with me, or I would be calling him on the phone and telling him: Hey, we were in a magazine once... and then keep sewing whatever we're sewing for some Young Tirane at the same level of Cool Fashion designer with green hair and a tattoed body who would talk Catalanglish because that would be the trend then.

Until then, let's going to enjoy our 15 minutes of fame.


And finally but not least the Great Pilcuis of Oh my Dior nominated me for an award!!!!!
She's a really great girl, with great ideas, who updates tons of interesting stuff in her blog and also always, absolutelly always has good words for everyone.

I was never nominated so I'm just really going to follow the instructions in her blog and copy and paste them here so the nominees know what to do.

And also tell her thanks, tons of thanks for nominate me, that means some people actually reads me and also that actually they enjoy what I write here, which is a joy for me and the whole point of make a blog ;D.

Rules for this award:

1. Put the logo on your blog of within your post.

2. Pass the award on to 12 bloggers.

3. Link to the nominees within your post.

4. Let them know they received this award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the love and the link to the person from whom you received this award.

The number 5 is done, so I'm going to do the 2 and 3 and I would try ASAP tell the nominees in their blogs that they had been nominated.








Mademoiselle Pitifu

Lovin' Trash (Trash is truth)

Marcos Batuecas

Jade Purple Brown

Nina's Vintage

Preetandpoor



jueves, 18 de febrero de 2010

X gone Y 2: Elastic ugly jeans gone funny treggins.





Poneos en situacion, un mercadillo de Valencia.

Murmullos, gentio. "Calcetines, tres por un Euro nena." "Ajos. Dos bolsas un Euro." "Pantalones estilosos, dos por un Euro." Ahi, me pare. Me sorprendieron dos cosas:

1. Escuchar la expresion estiloso...

2. Que la mujer que habia gritado eso en cuestion vendia flores.

Pero al final del puesto, tenia una mesilla con prendas. Hállome sorprendida otra vez, puesto que no eran de segunda mano, eran noves de trinca.

Faldas de cuadros "Como en el internado, esto es lo ultimo." me dice la Señora. No puedo evitar sonreirle, y me convezco a mi misma de que voy a comprar algo solo por lo bien que me cae.

Pero esque todo era muy cohent.

Pero mucho, mucho. Hasta que aparecieron estos pantalones, que oye, son cohents a mas no poder, pero al ver que eran elasticos me dije a mi misma. Si, en pantalon seran feos, pero y en leggins para la primavera?

O mejor dicho, y en treggins?

Asi que compre la falda y los pantalones y me puse manos a la obra esa misma mañana, puesto que es bastante facil convertir tus pantalones rectos o de campana en skinny.

Aunque hay algunos condicionantes:

1. Te tienen que venir bien, porque si no te quedaran bolsas en las caderas. (Si no es el efecto que buscas, que puede que si)

2. Si son de campana muy ancha, el tutorial cambia. Ya lo veremos otro dia. Asi que coje unos rectos o unos pantalones de pitillo normales.

Los materiales que vas a necesitar son una cinta metrica, una tiza para tela o un lapiz; tijeras y tu maquina de coser.

1. Pruebate los pantalones del reves y marca donde estan la rodillas con una linea.

2. Mide tu circunferencia de rodilla y de tobillo y dividelo por cuatro.

3. Mide el largo que deseas de pantalon.

4. Marca en el pantalon donde estan tu tobillo y tu rodilla. Puede que la linea de tobillo cambie y ahora lo quieras mas corto, pero la de rodilla siempre sera la misma.

5. Descose por la parte de dentro del pantalon desde 5cm mas arriba de la rodilla hasta el bajo. Esto es porque la mayoria de los pantalones se les empieza a dar forma un poco mas arribe de las rodillas.

6. Ahora crea una linea recta para eliminar la campana. Si es un pantalon pitillo pero no muy ajustado en el tobillo crea lineas hacia dentro. Depende del modelo que quieras.

7. Asegurate de que el bajo mide como minimo 2cm mas que tu tobillo o tu pie no pasara y se te rompera al ponertelo. Si son elasticos como es el caso de estos pantalones entonces pudes meter mas de lo que mide tu tobillo.

Recuerda: Cuando digo tobillo digo 1/4 del tobillo.

9. Cose por la linea.

10. Cose el bajo.



sábado, 13 de febrero de 2010

Las Pinzas

Las pinzas son amigas. Esta es una maxima.

Ahora que me he introducido un poco mas en el mundo del patronaje y la confeccion me doy cuenta de que hay mucho mas detras, y entiendes la frase de tu madre de "no te preocupes, te pongo una pinza y ya esta."

Y esque teniendo las caderas anchas como las mias, las pinzas durante mucho tiempo, me sirvieron para poder llevar vaqueros ajustados pq obviamente me sobraban de cintura pero no en otros lados. Aunque dicho sea de paso, este es el primer año que llevo vaqueros ajustados porque quiero y no porque quedan mejor que enseñar las bragas cuando viene la familia a comer un domingo. ;D

Pero las pinzas tambien sirven en otras partes, como para meter un vestido o conseguir que una prenda te ajuste en un lado o en otro, o tenga cierta caida.

El concepto de la pinza es bastante sencillo: Es un pliegue cosido en la tela de una prenda de vestir.

Imaginate que tienes una falda que te sobra 3 cm.

A mi me sirven en su mayoria para conseguir que ciertas prendas de segunda mano se conviertan en algo completamente diferente añadiendo o quitando pinzas. O que una blazer de la talla 40 me sirva.

Has de tener en cuenta, de que cuando te sobran mas de 8cm la pinza ya no puede hacerse bien, puesto que esos cuatro cm corresponde a la diferencia entre dos tallas. Y meter dos tallas afea las prendas. Pero si que pueden ser lo largas que quieras.

Lo que tienes que tener muy encuenta es que la pinza no ha de notarse. Asi que si cuando la marcas, se queda un pliegue feo, busca otro lugar donde hacer la pinza u otra solucion como descoser y coser otra vez con las medidas reales. (Cosa que veremos en futuros tutoriales)

Con la falda, por ejemplo puedes hacerlo facilmente, ya que ya sabemos el proceso de construccion de una falda.

Las pinzas son practicamente invisibles, solo ha de notarse la costura.

Por ejemplo.


He conseguido que este abrigo de primavera largo se convierta en un minivestido peligrosamente corto.

¿Nunca has estado en una tienda de segunda mano y te ha gustado una prenda y te ha venido un poco demasiado grande? Pero era tan chula y barata que la has tenido que comprar.

Antes solia solucionarlo con mini cinturones pero ahora me siento y con una pinza en el lugar apropiado consigo una prenda completamente diferente.

Los pasos que he seguido en esta en cuestion son los siguientes:

1. Marcar en el abrigo la altura de la cintura.

2. Cortar 2cm mas hacia abajo de la linea marcada (Linea de cintura). Dando lugar a dos piezas. La de arriba y la falda.

3. Hacer una pinza en la espalda del abrigo.

4. Coser la pinza y planchar hacia el costado.

Ahora la parte de arriba mide menos (de ancho) que la de abajo. Bueno, lo suyo es unir falda y parte de arriba frunciendo a medida que vamos cosiendo.

Como? Muy facil.

5.1. Une con dos alfileres los dos extremos de las prendas.

5.2 Cuidadosamente frunce la tela a medida que coses. Este efecto se llama embebido, las que sabeis coser sabeis a lo que merefiero.

6. Plancha las costuras de la cintura hacia arriba dando lugar a que el canesu (Parte de arriba de la prenda) se superponga a la falda.

7. Sobrehila las costuras si lo ves necesario. Esto dependera del material. Si éste se desilacha pues hazlo o al quinto lavado te quedaras sin prenda.

Y ya has convertido un abrigo fino de verano en un vestido para esta primavera.

Preguntas y dudas en el apartado de comentarios.

P.D Si le das a seguir al blog pronto recibiras muchas sorpresas!! Aun las estoy preparando pero solo puedo decir que habran sorteos esta primavera, eso o mi novio me acabara echando de casa gracias a mi costura compulsiva ;D


Y pronto, cómo hacer una Bandage Skirt de piezas.