Hello and Saiph tunic

Well hello!!! Not really sure how to start this and not have it be awkward so I'll just jump right in... I'm Elaine, I've been sewing for a good amount of time but I've been lurking sewing blogs even longer. It's been so long that I've started to feel kind of creepy about how much I know about other bloggers but they have no idea I exist. So here I am! I've been wanting to start a blog for a long time and kept putting it off for one reason or another... I was pretty hung up on the fact that probably no one will read it but I decided... So what?! Also cycle back RE: feeling like a creep. I think it will be fun for me and decided to take the plunge. As a scientist I don't really get to write that often and probably should flex that muscle a bit more often... That's kind of a lie though, because......I reeeeally should be focusing 100% on writing up my PhD but obviously procrastinating something super important is the best motivation for side projects and so here we are. I'm justifying it with the fact that since a lot of the sewing has already been done, I just can take some quick thesis breaks to post some pics and a quick write up? ehh?

For my inaugural post I decided to go with the Saiph tunic I made a while ago, since I have gotten a TON of wear out of it and when I first made it I thought I might not like it that much.. (perhaps mirroring my feelings about blogging... Eh???) 

Pattern: Saiph tunic- Papercut

Fabric: wool silk blend from Mood (purchased a loong time ago)

Listening to: Stranger things, good thing this was a quick make because I could not multi task with that in the background!

Drinking: green chai

This dress turned out to be an amazing boozy brunch dress. So roomy, surprisingly warm, just the right balance (for me) of dressy and casual. I added about an inch to the waist and about 3-4 inches to the skirt portion- I wanted it to be more of a dress/I am pretty tall and I'm happy with the length, though the skirt does kind of fly up sometimes in wintery breezes. I always wear it with tights so I kind of have to say  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it happens. The sleeves were a pretty awkward length... I rolled them up but if I made this again I would probably make them shorter so they are actually 3/4 length. I think they are supposed to be wrist length but my arms are too long, and I like to wear sleeves rolled up anyway. 

For some reason I am like deathly opposed to neckline facings, (seriously, irrational hatred) so I finished the neckline with bias binding instead. I only had black so that's what I went with, I actually don't know that I could have found a better color if I had looked, the fabric is a pretty unique dusty teal color. Maybe grey? Or go full contrast with like a fuchsia? I generally want the insides of my clothes to look nice but color matching stuff like bias binding is not necessarily a priority. This fabric also looks a bit shinier here than it really is, still trying to figure out where to get the best pictures in my relatively dim apartment! 

Other than that, I finished up the insides with french seams, all in all, a pretty satisfying make! I made this maybe a year ago in the wintertime, but these pics were taken in my sweltering apartment in august. Yikes! Despite putting this outfit on in wildly inappropriate weather/all the sweat, I am thinking that this pattern would actually maybe be amazing in a cozy but stable sweatshirt knit. Furthering my goals to wear pajamas 24/7!!! I'll revisit the idea in October, when the idea of tea and sweatshirts doesn't make me want to explode.