Patrones 272 - the Fall fashion holy grail
16 September 2008, 13:22The new September Patrones that’s on sale now is quite possibly the best they’ve ever created. Almost everything in it is wearable, and made with normal fabrics you can actually buy without having a couturier’s budget and contacts – entire sections full of classic winter coats, tons of CUTE capes and cropped jackets, and a plethora of wool trousers. One whole feature is JUST high waisted skirts and trousers, and another is entirely vintage dresses! Even the maternity section is styled in such a way that every piece can be worn by the breeding and non-breeding alike (showing two photos of every piece).
I’m actually feeling overstimulated and giddy just flipping through it. #264 used to be my favourite issue, but this one has totally trumped it.
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Finding Patrones to buy can be notoriously tricky, but trust me when I say this issue is worth whatever you pay for it, whether it’s in pounds, euros, dollars, or English biscuits (thanks, Cintia!!).
Here’s some of my favourites, though I actually had a really hard time excluding any. I could’ve chosen the entire magazine, I swear…
This is a knit dress so I think the button-down front is just for aesthetics, but I love the sleeve detail. I’m not in love with the buttoning, though, so I’m feeling pretty confident I’ll take the sleeves off and do that on another pattern’s body, Frankenpattern style!
Here’s another knit dress, gathered in the Grecian style and with absolutely lovely gathered, bracelet-length sleeves. The waist section is a different piece, rather than just gathered above and below it, which I also found interesting. I think this style really rests on having the perfect, slinky knit, so I’ll have to keep my eyes out next time I’m on Goldhawk Road.
I’m in love with this boxy little jacket! At first I couldn’t quite figure out why they kept calling it (and another style) “Japanese” but then I realised that this must be what the Spanish call dolman sleeves! I just adore the sleeves and the bust lines and that beautiful back seam! This pattern calls for wool, but the more I think about it, the more I want to make this out of the green sweatshirting in my stash, using a standard zip closure and adding a hoodie. It’s kinda going for the “couture sweatshirt” look I love in this ASOS jacket.
This wool A-line skirt just looks SO wearable! The wide waistbands are always very flattering (especially if you bone the inside so they don’t wrinkle when you sit down!), and the added zipper is both pretty and functional, and it’s even got big deep pockets! This is a look I could wear all winter long with thick tights…
This is my favourite dress from the vintage dresses feature – I’m such a sucker for the airline stewardess look… I love that in this dress the back view is the interesting side, and the front is only anything special with the sewn, raised central detail (it’s not a separate piece, but rather topstitched).
And finally, here are two trousers from the high waisted feature (with both skirts and trews!). These call for stretch wool suiting, which I just happened to impulse buy off eBay last week. I really like both of these and I’m torn which one to make – the Spagnoli trousers have that front leg seaming that works so well on me, but the Jucca ones look to have more usable pockets and a more conventional waist styling…
This issue has just got me so excited for Fall sewing that I’m finding it almost hard to focus because there are too many things I want to sew NOW!. I mean, just this Saturday I sewed up the better portion of the wool and satin three piece suit in my hive of activity. I’ve got just finishing hand sewing left on that and already I’m got a mental pattern battle over what to start next!!
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Sister, you’re not kidding. This is beautiful.
— cidell Sep 16, 02:03 PM #
This looks incredible. I wish it weren’t so impossible to get one! I just saw you on ikeahacker (http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/2008/09/ikea-fashion-parade-ii.html), cool!
— marni Sep 16, 02:15 PM #
This turned up on my door step yesterday. I wasn’t expecting it (the 13th mag of my annual subscription!) What a bonus. I also picked out the purple dress and grey wool skirt as pieces that I have to start now. I need to spend the rest of my lunch break studying the line drawings and working out how I will get the time to sew it all.
Can’t wait to see what you get started on.
— Zoe Sep 16, 02:19 PM #
Thanx for this sneak peak on the current patrones issue. Love them all! Definetly need this issue!
— senaSews Sep 16, 02:48 PM #
Beautiful I need to have this magazine. So I did some online-research. Looks like a lot of German speaking poeple like this magazine. And there is a place you can get a subscription. 12 issues for 123.05 EUR. (For the USA it would be 139.10 EUR.) I am just not sure about the Spanisch sizing compared to other European countrys or the USA. Since you already own a magazine you might help me out with this?
And here is the link to the site you can buy Patrones: http://www.modeinfo.com/oxid.php/sid/4daf87c0070ed18fc916aa4cde7a43b8/cl/details/anid/47f5a30e666072.58472706/Patrones//listtype/search/searchparam/patrones
— Annie Sep 16, 03:42 PM #
Much cute stuff here. Love the little dresses on pps. 18-22.
— Lindsay T Sep 16, 04:36 PM #
Thank you so much for posting this preview!!! Gives me something to look forward too. :-)
— Leslie Sep 16, 11:02 PM #
I keep hoping BWOF will give me some high waisted skirts, but so far not much luck. Dang! I am soooo jealous. I wonder if this issue will be available in Germany when I’m there next month? But I’m probably dreaming…
— trena Sep 16, 11:52 PM #
I just got my mits on this issue too and agree that there is so much good stuff in it I don’t know where to start!
— AllisonC Sep 17, 01:37 AM #
I gave in and bought this from Ebay yesterday – I am promising myself I will make at least 3 things from it to justify spending the money!
— Kath Sep 17, 11:44 AM #
Wow, that looks amazing – we should meet so I can look at the pretty pictures… Er, and so we can see one another and stuff too, obv! Yes. I have a million sewing to do, as I am hopefully going back to work soon and have virtually nothing to wear, ack.
— anwen Sep 18, 02:54 PM #
Hi Melissa, I found out where to start after all, the boxy jacket that you also highlighted. But I am stuck on my muslin and posted a message on PR – Marji kindly suggested that you might be able to help – forgive me for just copying & pasting my post here;
I’m making a muslin of jacket 12 from the latest issue of patrones (272) and have hit a problem. I can’t read Spanish so I just have to figure out what to do from the line drawings and fabric cutting layouts (after a few years of deciphering BWOF instructions this is not too bad!).
The jacket appears to be unlined and after tracing and cutting all the pieces I’ve realised that there are no neck facing pieces. I know often the facing pieces are included on the main pieces, but in this case they are not and the fabric layout does not show them either. I guess I need to either draft a facing or add a lining (both of which I think I can do). However, since I am so inexperienced with Patrones I suspect it is me missing something obvious rather than a Patrones error. Any thoughts, shall I just go ahead and make a facing? You can pm me at PR if you don’t want to clutter up your blog, my name there is Allie in Hong Kong, sorry for the really long comment!
— AllisonC Sep 18, 04:20 PM #
ooh, wish this was easier to get here in the states. and that i wasn’t on such bad terms with every sewing machine i meet.
— Ana Sep 18, 09:16 PM #
oh my god. WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS TO ME.
can’t wait to see what you make…
— oonaballoona Sep 19, 10:45 PM #
I have a feeling dolman sleeves are called “kimono sleeves” in Czech, so that would be similar case to the Spanish name of them.
— Hana Sep 23, 11:37 AM #