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Category: Sewing
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Making messes. Creative ones of course. And looking at the clock, also putting off making dinner to make said messes. Spinning(!) Tuesday showing off some fiber I unearthed from the insane fiber/yarn stash that was hidden behind all the garage sale stuff we got rid of. Did I mention we finally had our garage sale? Hallelujah (ugh why is there a j in that word?!?!) Yippee! We are now the proud NON owners of a storage unit! Still a few things to try and Craig’s List, but after the garage sale I had Bj back the rig up and load…
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Tuesday has a little dress that she loves. It’s a simple soft jersey knit and I wanted to figure out how it was constructed to make her another. So when Bj got a super soft jersey shirt (that also happened to be super skinny fit and small) I knew it was just the thing to try (bottom hem already done after all!). To figure out the size of the dress I just laid the one she likes on top of the shirt and sort of made up a pattern. I just made it wider on top so there would be…
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Oh how I am addicted to this simple fun pattern (free pattern found here). This is the second one I pieced, the first top was pretty much the same as the example. Making up different color combinations is so much fun! I chose to do the back simple, in a Kona solid. I love how it shows off the quilting. Even though I practiced (and ripped it out once one the actual quilt) the swirl was really hard for me to get right. I had to free motion for the first bit before the circle was wide enough for me…
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