Sick day sewing

I am on day four of having the kids at home sick, which means I have missed out on both my Sewing Club, but also my weekly Tuesday morning sewing.

So today I decided to sew, and leave them to their own devices!

Thea hung out with me, cutting up bits of scrap, passing me pins and generally chattering away.  Oscar read in his room (love it when they get to that age!) so I didn't have to resort to a DVD babysitter :)

Today I made one thing for each of them - Thea some shorts and Oscar a new school book bag.

My husband gave me his star wars pillow cases from when he was a child, and as Oscar is still Star Wars mad (as are most of his friends), I thought he would be the envy of his classmates with a book bag.






For Thea, I gave KID Shorts pattern from Made a go - Dana's patterns are so easy to sew and to follow, and this one has heaps of different variations.  I chose the flat front with front pockets version.



I made it in knit so didn't bother finishing the seams - nice and quick for kindy!

Until next time,
Melissa

Who doesn't love yellow?

I found two t-shirts at Save Mart, one was grey/yellow stripe and the other was plain yellow - perfect for a three tier girls dress I had seen from Prudent Baby

So I made a few modifications to the tutorial.  I had to make the pattern bigger (and I made it quite big so will fit for a while), I didn't have enough material to make a lining for the bodice so I needed to finish the edges another way.

Using an existing garment can make sewing quicker as you can use the hems that are already there.  I always hate hemming :)

Around the edges I used fabric from the tshirts to create a binding.  The best thing about knit is you don't have to overlock it!  This is just for kindy so I didn't want to spend too much time on it.  Stretch might be my new favourite fabric ;)

Next up was a jumper for each child as they were running low.  Again I just used what I had - an old merino jersey of mine for Thea, and some merino I picked up at a fair a few years ago.

I used the Flashback Tee pattern again.  I swear, this is my new favourite pattern - so versatile, especially as it goes up to size 10!

For Thea's I wanted to add some colour, so a pink striped pocket on the front 'girlies' it up.

And my cutey seven year old even likes his jumper, and let me take some photos of him!  Pretty unheard of these days...

Both kids are going to wear their new clothes when we pick up nana from the airport tomorrow.

Until next time, Melissa

Flashback Tee into Dress

Today on my sewing morning I whipped up a dress for Thea, and it was that quick.



I used Made by Rae's Flashback Tee pattern, but added lenth and some width to make it into a dress.




While Thea is four, I made a size 6 - and it still could have been bigger!  The dress originally had long sleeves but they were very tight so I chopped them off and added a nice stretchy ribbed band.  Next time I would definately add more width or get a material that stretches more.



I wanted to add some more detail so stitched on a heart.

This pattern has infinte possibilities, plus will take your kids from 12m to 14 years so it's a good one to have in your stash.

Thea's happy anyway :)



 

 

 

 Till next time, Melissa