...sweaters in May! With no summer weather in the foreseeable future (or spring for that matter) the baby needs many and luckily there a quite a few old sweaters of mine waiting in the recycling suitcase. More to come.
* E is wearing one of her T-shirt pants. Pattern here.
(pants Ottobre 1/2011, sun hat Little Things to Sew, vest improvised, bloomers IPB)
Hurray for a week full of sewing; It's been great to see all of these fabulous creations in the flickr pool and to know myself in the company of more than 500 seamstresses!
We're back in Edinburgh so I can get ready for kcwc 2012. I can hardly believe it has been a year since I participated for the first time in this special week of sewing galore (and made all these clothes that are already to small for my cubby baby). The photo is not quite representative of my ambitions for the coming week as our sling sewing days are certainly over. Now E is very much part of the action and wanted to have a look at all the patterns perused. If you haven't already head over to Meg to sign up for this year's kcwc, I'm looking forward to see all of your creations. With my own sewing time being less than it used to be, I enjoy looking at your inspiring projects (be sure to also check out Meg's talented guest posts this week) all the more.
Hope you all had a lovely Easter weekend. We're currently in Germany presenting little E to her impatient extended family and recovering from a very wonderful weekend of celebrations (and food). Before leaving Edinburgh I made a batch of these little bunny hats for E and her cousins and friends. The project is super simple; I just drew a rabbit hat straight onto the fabric (the width is her head circumference divided by 2, and from there on I just eye-balled the size for the older kids), cut out two pieces and sewed them together. The seam-allowance is taken care of by the stretch of the fabric and the twin-needle did a good job as always. Next year I might be a bit more ambitious in my Easter efforts, there is so, so much awesome inspiration whirling around the web right now!
Normally it's the mother who deservedly get all the gifts when a little one arrives. Not that, being a mother myself, I mind this gift and attention bias, but in this case a made a baby gift especially for the dad to be. Since he is sartorially very versed and can tell a liberty fabric from a mile away (probably the only person in the country who would ever exclaim 'wicked' upon seeing my fabric scraps bin) sewing something for him and baby was really quite obvious.
The patterns for the baby outfit come from IPB and the bow-tie pattern is from Martha Stewart. Having made a bow-tie which was slightly on the small-neck side before, I was glad to come across this nice tutorial on how to make the strap adjustable.
Sewing the pocket square I simply cut and hemmed a 13'' piece of the ohso soft Liberty Pepper fabric. All pieces individually did not take longer to sew than 30 minutes which is the maximum time my little co-pilot is still happy to play under the desk.
We are off to Germany in April and I started working on my gift list for all the lovely people we are going to see there. This gift trio is for one very special lady who just turned four and who we sadly don't see very often. That's why a thought it would be fine to go a bit overboard with presents and make her three instead of one. Although to be honest, indecision what to make and sufficient fabric to sew all three pieces played also a part.
First another penguin. The book gives one yard as fabric requirement, buying one meter of the black denim I had easily enough to make two backpacks. The denim was quite sturdy I made only parts of the straps out of it as they would have been a bit too bulky for my strap adjusters. I’m not entirely sure where her colour preferences are right now, but thought it would be a safe bet to insert a pink zipper (topstitched with pink yarn) and to choose a flowery lining. Since I sewed all while entertaining a little baby and being distracted I actually made the very same error I made with the first penguin: attaching the lining to the backpack with the zipper closed. Bad idea...
Number two is another dress from this book, dress B. I followed the pattern more or less, but made it bubbly by gathering the skirt hem together with the lining and adding piping on the pockets (I’ll post a little tutorial soonish). And, having a big headed girl myself, I made some extra room by cutting into the back of the yoke.
And finally with the very last sad rest of the flower fabric (used for the first time here and bought on a trip to New York in this fabric elysium) I sewed a little bucket hat.
Sewing for a four year old is definitely fun!
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