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Carmella Jumpsuit Review
A Fibre Mood Pattern
I have a new make to share! This is all about my recently finished Carmella Jumpsuit from Fibre Mood. Fibre Mood is a new to me pattern company and I loved the experience of sewing up one of their patterns. Of course, I had to make some small changes to the pattern to make it my own. I’ll be sharing some of those changes below.
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The Pattern
The Carmella jumpsuit is an oversized jumpsuit pattern drafted with a button placket and collar, long sleeves, a long cuff-able inseam and a waist tie. The collar has sweet little rounded corners. I made some tweaks to my pattern as you can see. My inspo was the Tradlands jumpsuit that keeps popping up all over my Instagram. See photo below.
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This pattern does not include a seam allowance. I repeat, Fibre Mood patterns do not include seam allowance! Don’t worry, it wasn’t all that bad honestly. I jumped right into cutting out the Carmella and decided I wasn’t going to fuss too much over perfect seam allowances since I was going in blind, no muslin or anything. Seam allowances were added as I cut my fabric using my rotary cutter, can you believe that?
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Cutting
Literally all it took was placing the Carmella Jumpsuit pattern pieces onto this linen/rayon blend from Joann Fabrics, securing them with my trusty pattern weights (giant washers from the hardware store) and using my ruler to add 1 cm all around.
That is, all pieces excluding the Collar and Collar Stand. Those I added only 1/4″ because I prefer that. Plus, listen to this, when cutting the interfacing I added no seam allowance at all! Yup. No interfacing in the seam allowances and, Voilà! No bulky seams, simple as that. I did my best to eyeball even seams around some tight curves and all came together pretty well I think.
Note: I used Pellon EK130 knit interfacing which I love for button bands that need some softness. I use it for most things but remember to use a pressing cloth when applying. It likes to leave a sticky residue on my iron. And I might as well mention that I have EZ-Off for those occasions when a quick iron cleaning is needed.
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Sizing and Mods
Since I knew I wanted to wear my Carmella jumpsuit with or without a waist tie I decided to size down one size. The pattern has a lot of ease built in. I also removed a few inches from the length of the pants as I wanted them to be cropped (when do I not, right?)
Based on my inspiration I really wanted short sleeves which was easy to do. I wasn’t sure how short I wanted to go so I held the pattern piece up to my arm and tried to determine a safe amount to chop off. Using a sleeve from another pattern that you like would be a good option, too. I sort of know from experience how to widen the bottom of the sleeve sightly to make hemming easier.
Another thing I wanted was to swap the inseam pockets included in the Carmella pattern for patch pockets. I basically sewed the jumpsuit pattern together which was all pretty intuitive as I’ve made plenty of shirts. After a quick try on I determined around how big I wanted my pockets and cut them out being sure to add seam allowances. I increased the size of the chest pocket slightly, as well.
Finally, I ended up skimming about an inch off of the top of the shoulder at the armscye. The Carmella Jumpsuit is drafted to have a slight dropped shoulder look and I didn’t love where it was sitting with the shorter sleeves. Starting at the top of the shoulder with an inch and tapering to none towards the underarm worked well. Then, I attached the sleeves as normal.
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Final Thoughts
I am really loving how my this jumpsuit turned out. The Carmella pattern was the perfect starting point for what I needed. I love the button placket and the sweet coconut buttons purchased on Etsy. I can see this being great for fall layering as well as summertime. The more utilitarian styling over a Monroe Turtleneck (Tessuti Fabrics’ FREE pattern) and with Dr. Martens is such a comfortable look for me.
Before I go I wanted to let you know that I finally tried PDF Plotting which has been recommended to me by several sewing people. The shipping is a bit pricey, but if you’re prepared and want several patterns printed for future projects, it is such a time saver and totally worth it. Honestly, the pattern themselves are so inexpensive to print that I wonder if it actually saved me money in ink and paper. I highly recommend them here in the states. xxx
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4 Comments
Jo
You look great! Such a great look.
Angie Hook
Thank you so much! <3
EMMALINA
Hello.
I love the jumpsuit. Do you offer pdf of your patterns or do you just show your creations.
Thanks so much for inspiring.
EMMALINA ??
Angie Hook
This is a review of a pattern that is linked here in this post. Thank you.