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Made By A Fabricista: I’m Ready for Spring

Hi Guys! Even though I live in South Florida, I am ready for Spring! We’ve had way too many cold fronts come through and I’m ready for our very short Spring season.  We usually don’t have seasons in South Florida, It’s either summertime hot or too cold for us. For my April post, I like to make my “birthday look” since my birthday is April 10th.  Last year I made a pink dress using a Vogue pattern.  For this year’s post I decided to go with something representative of the new season and make something floral, which I love.  I decided to make Simplicity 8558.  This is a Misses’ Separates pattern by Mimi G. The pattern contains sportswear separates featuring pull-on wide-leg pants and shorts with an unlined jacket and crop top.  I made View C, which are the shorts and View D which is the jacket. I decided not to make the crop top and styled the set with a white V-neck t-shirt. For the jacket I sewed a size 20 and didn’t make any modifications to it except not ...