Thursday, August 23, 2018

Cold Weather Wardrobe Planning

I sew most of my clothes and am working towards having all of my clothes made be me. Growing up, when the weather changed from warm to cold or cold to warm we went out and bought some new clothes. I still have this habit, except I don't go shopping, at least not for clothes. Now I spend the months leading up to typical weather changing time (sept-oct), planning what I need to fill out the clothes I have.

So I've begun this process already and thought I'd share my methods with you. First, of course, I research. This involves three websites for me, pinterest, ravelry, and a new one called textillia. I usually start on pinterest, looking at my Enchanted Forest Style board to get an idea of the kinds of garments I want and an overall view of where I'm headed fashion-wise.  

Then I go to Textillia, which is Ravelry for sewing. It has lots of sewing patterns all in one place. You can save the patterns you like to your favorites and you have some other stuff like projects and a queue. I go through the patterns that I have saved and match a few with the ideas from Pinterest. This time I knew I wanted several dresses (basic for Mori), but I also wanted some skirts and blouses too. So those are the patterns I choose. Here's the line up for sewn clothes:










I finish off with Ravelry. The reason I work on the sewn clothes first, is that they are faster to make and are often cheaper materials, so unless I feel it would look much better in yarn, or I can't find a sewn pattern for it, I'd rather sew it then knit or crochet it. For this season I needed sweaters and cardigans, but I also wanted some knit skirts and a vest. These are the one I decided on:






The very last thing I do is thinking about and plan out the colors I want to use. I can be very picky about colors, so I always write down what shades I want to use for that season. I also do this, because if I don't, I find that I look for just pretty fabrics and my wardrobe leans to a few colors pretty heavily (too many good blue and green fabrics out there). It's also important to make sure you can create an outfit with each piece, so I need to make sure I either have or will be making things that can be paired. One main way I do this is by doing all of my accessory items (legging, coats, hats, scarves, gloves, ect) in neutral colors. This way I can pair those to any of my more bright colored clothes.

The colors I am planning on using for the fall/winter are:
Cranberry red
Plum
Navy
Ice blue
Brown 
Cream
Olive
Pine
Cooked Pumpkin/burnt orange
Dusty rose
Black
Charcoal
Burgundy 

What does your guys fall or winter wardrobe look like? Anyone have some fall or winter projects going or on their mind? Please share! If you guys are interested in following/checking me out on pinterest, ravelry, or textillia, click on the links and it'll take you to my profile for each of those sites. Hope to see you around!






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