Farbenmix Quiara Tunic

Now that the Christmas holiday hubbub is over, I am working on my goddaughter's Christmas gift.  Luckily, the family is used to our gifts showing up some time in January.  When Julien was a toddler, she actually thought Christmas lasted 2 weeks!

At first I was at a quandary as to what to sew for her.  I really don't have many girls patterns (size 10/12) in my pattern stash from the big 4.  As a matter of fact, I think the count is 4.  So, I went on the net looking for tween patterns.  What came up in my search were Farbenmix and Pink Fig patterns.  Score.  I already had them in my stash.  Woo-hoo! The largest size on these patterns is 11, but I do believe that it will be easy enough to size up when the need arises.

Since this was the first time breaking out these patterns, I decided to start with something simple, the Quiara knit shirt.

I decided to make the tunic hoodie because what kid doesn't like a hoodie?  Being an army brat, my GD loves camo.  I had this pink camo in my stash, so I used it as the main fabric and dug out this smiley face fabric as the contrast.  (Someone may or may not have relieved Wally World of entire bolts of knit fabric when they were closing their fabric departments years ago and the price fell to 80% off per yard).

Let me tell you, this pattern is a dream.  I "heart" Farbenmix. 

I even got to use fun stitches for the hem!

If you have never sewn with a Farbenmix pattern, here's the deal.  Although this is a German company, you can purchase the patterns in English.  You do have to trace the pattern, but that is standard with European patterns anyway.  You also have to add your own seam allowances.  The instructions are written, however, you can search the net (or the Farbenmix.de website) for the tutorial, which is essentially a sew-a-long.  These may or may not be in English (the tutorials for the older patterns are in German).  The tutorial for Quiara is in English, and that's what I used.  I was not in the mood to read the steps when I could just glance at the pictures and then read if necessary. 

This tunic, for the most part, was constructed using my serger so it was fast, fast, fast!  This is such a versatile pattern.  The possibilities are endless.  Can you tell I like it??