There's a bit of sewing and non-sewing going on over here. I want to try and participate in 'Me Made May' this year, where I can wear 'handmade by me' for the month of May, so I'm trying at fill the gaps in my wardrobe! More on that later though, I'll show you what I've been doing for everyone else...
I gave the girl free choice of fabrics at Spotlight to make an outfit for her bestie's birthday party. (We'd actually bought a long sleeve denim dress from Target she'd had her eye on, but was too hot and uncomfortable!) This light top (not sure the fabric, but a pain to sew and heaps of thread pulls, grrrr!) suited the day much better! I used a pattern, but ended up taking it in and adjusting so much, I may as well have cut a rectangle with a whole for the head!
I made the leggings too, from a tried and true pattern. It's a ponte stretch (from Spotlight as well) and she adores them! They have the gathered elastic bit on the outer leg, gives em an extra bit of cute. Hmmm, something about this outfit makes me think in about 20yrs I'll hear 'How could you let me go out in THAT?? It's pretty out there!
We ended up buying a denim jacket, as the fussiness and umming and ahhing over styles, fabrics etc was doing my head in! Gone are the days when I can whip something up and she wears it regardless- I have a pile on non-worn handmade stuff to prove it! I made the leggings again, though, she's pretty mad on leopard print at the moment.
I also made some bags for a happy customer, she chose some great fabrics, definitely not my colour schemes, but a real pleasure to sew with. Another fave pattern by You Sew Girl (but unfortunately discontinued)
A little extra pillow for her son...is that the cutest pillowcase you've seen? I joked that they would all have names within a day!
We had a lazy long weekend a few weeks ago, and we joined Cam for another basketball game- and another Tigers win! We're officially fans!
We had a great long day out, with dinner and a play at the park on the way home. The perfect weather made it easy to chill out!
I finally dug into my wee Liberty stash and ran up this pattern, which I'd printed forever ago and hadn't made up! I'd also been after a cute pincushion, similar to these.
I also cut up some scraps and made a bigger one, gosh, it is sooo cute!
I've been carrying the bigger one around all week, despite not having a minute in the workday to do any knitting at the moment. It makes me smile!
Hope your last few weeks have been stitchy and smiley too!
Back soon to show you some clothes.
3 comments:
Loving your girl's leopard legs. Never too young to start on animal print I say.
I rather smitten with those bags. They are gorgeous.
I saw that leopard print at Spotlight as well. I suspected it might have been tricky to sew and sounds like you had that experience. I do like the outfit you made your girl though. Very cool....
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