[needlewoman]

Really looking fwd to photos of your new outfits, Jsewit, and thank you for encouragement, RTWG about the After School trews. After I read the pattern a couple of times, I felt much less intimidated – thank you Liesl (again!). Is all this wardrobe planning for next weekend for attending a Show (the Show), J? Look fwd to pics of outfits, and hope the day is a happy one.

Finished the Book Report, and bound the hem successfully. Too busy washing domestic items (to take advantage of lovely sunny day here) to wash the dress but did manage to tidy up sewing room a bit, and get my little nest slightly more organised. Little vest finished too other than buttons/holes, and I’ve planed to make my first Sandbox pants in dark brown cord with remnants of bicycle print for pocket linings (Size 2).

It’s seemed churlish to ask Liesl and Todd about new patterns (for the American autumn) while they and S are enjoying their trip OS. It sounds greedy when there is so much else to sew in the O and S collection, but I’m really looking fwd to the release of new patterns soon in hopes that at least one might be able to be used before the Australian winter ends. I seem to remember that this time last year, the O and S team had released the new season’s patterns. Given the wish list, I really keen to know what’s been decided on.

[with love Heidi]

Are you thinking of the Firefly and hula Hoop release? I think they may have been around this time last year but I didn’t think the Fall release was until late Sept early Oct.

[Tamara]

Yes A show needlewoman! The first little one for the area. The next one is in a fortnight and has a special birthday (80th) and tht is the one we mostly enter in. But I promised the kids we’d go net weekend as we have never been to this particular one. And hence the NEED to sew. It might exhibit spring weather so I have to be on the watch and besides I had great intentions of entering something but mucked it up on the last turn and the scale was all wrong! Oh well! It was fun while it lasted.

I might actually enter one of my “special” tops in the 80th celebration one as they have a lady’s garment section now. We will see how we go.

So this afternoon I will sit down with Imogen and go through the coloured drill I have and get started on this outfit. She wants to wear this blue fedora everywhere (even to school) so I will have to work that in he ce then need to be a rainbow I guess.

N’s easy, he can have cargos and I can do a colour block t shirt and he’s all set. I havent got the corduroy yet but am expecting it today in the mail. I am going to be rather pushed for time over this but hey what the hell! A good excuse to divert the attention and still sew. Might sneak a bit of handsewing along on the excusion on Wednesday or something.

[Masha Richart]

Finished the first day of school Ice Cream Dress. Love it. But it’s too big. I should have made a lengthened 2T instead of 3T. She’s not quite 4. It will fit great next year, though. I don’t think we will graduate to the next size range until she is 6 or 7! Guess I had better get comfortable lengthening all these patterns.

Younger daughter (not quite 3) is potty training and very keen on going to preschool with older sister. She is also asking for a first day of school dress. I don’t know whether she will be going, but I think I will inaugurate my Family Reunion Dress pattern for her. I just can’t decide whether to try to steer her towards prints or solids.

[Mama_Knowles]

We have finally moved and some sewing is calling to me! I have to finish up Caspian’s tea party pants suit up and the two middle boys are wanting some camouflage pants to go hunting with grandpa so I will have to pull out my field trip pattern for the very first time. I think I just might have to make the baby two pairs with some black and tan cord for fall/winter too.

[Masha Richart]

You’re back! I’m sure just itching to get going. I’m anxiously awaiting delivery of my Field Trip pattern from the summer sale …

[Mama_Knowles]

I have seen so many wonderful versions of this pattern but have yet to use mine, I am very excited! I am afraid though that my daughter will want a pair of the camouflage pants as well.

[with love Heidi]

Camouflage pants would be great for a girl, at least any who get as in things and as dirty as the ones I know! 🙂

The dad of the kids I’ve sewn cargoes for requested “some dark ones for them, in like black, so they don’t show the dirt”

[Lightning McStitch]

I love the Field Trip pattern, and since my order of sale patterns arrived today I’ve just drafted and cut out some wee little size 2 pants in a lush stretch cut corduroy.

They’ll go perfectly with the Music Class blouse that’s cut out and waiting to be sewn….

[Masha Richart]

Was all ready to cut the Family Reunion out of some purple stretch poplin younger daughter picked out of my stash. But then I saw that the only size I’d traced was the 3T and I am so glad I thought to check the forums for a sizing thread. She is a pretty average-sized almost-three-year-old and I think that I’d better go down to 2T. But I find tracing even more tedious at night than during the day – sunlight makes it easier, I think – so I guess I’ll start tomorrow.

In the meantime I need to get DD1 on board with a new Ice Cream Dress for her first day of school – the 3T lengthened just swallowed her whole and I really don’t want to send her in it. It is nice that she likes it, though.

[Tamara]

Welcome back Mamaknowles! Glad the move is over.

Today in my sewing nook….. Pleating my two other continental tops and take one to work on while the kids do piano lessons.

Put the scraps away in their respective spots – saving some for the new Art teacher to use as I have heaps!

Working out whether it would be better to redo the Wizard of Oz pants or devise a “stink Moody” outfit for N to wear for bookweek dress up (we are both on two minds). Find black fabric to make an EJ12 girl hero outfit for Imogen (apparently it has to be black not the other multitudes of book cover ideas).

And all that in between cooking up a storm (due to the sudden increase in appetites) and the other usual stuff before 2.30pm

[Robin]

Ok, I have the school photo dress ready to sew – traced the pattern, figured out how to add the scallops to the yoke, cut it all out, and zigzagged the pocket and dress panels. And I really don’t want to work on it any more. What is my problem? Usually I don’t want to do any of the prep work and just want to sew.

I’m laughing at your post Tamara. Sophie has decided she wants to be Hobbes from the comic Calvin and Hobbes for Halloween. He’s a stuffed tiger. So much for my dreams of Alice in Wonderland.

[Tamara]

I actually suggested that we stuff all the laddered black school stockings and cover a pillow in black fabric with a bit of red in the middle, attach it to the back and go as “Charlotte” from Charlotte’s web! But no Imogen wants to be EJ12 girl hero (just because she’s a spy) which is just black pants and a black shirt but we have an old set of headphones from the computer she could use as her spy headset. It isnt recognisable really. And N was wanting to be the Wizard of Oz where we would recycle the costume and alter the pants that I made for his assembly item but we have since changed our minds to dress as Stink instead and I am quite ok with that if I know what the character wore in colour.

Our dressup day is Monday which is a surprise as it is normally a Friday so the simpler the better for costumes this time around.

Today I am not sewing. Last night I completed the top I started at something like 2pm (because Murray took the kids to piano) – I was going to pleat the back but decided against it on this particular one. I just have to heam a pair of pants and thread elastic in the waist for N to wear on our excusrion of the area today – a magical history tour (wink nod!).

[Masha Richart]

Drafted the pattern for younger daughter’s Family Reunion dress today. It’s an 18-24mo with two inches of length added. I slashed the pattern and everything, then redrafted the hem facings. It was actually quite satisfying, something I don’t often say about pattern drafting! Then I got all the pattern pieces and interfacing cut out. She chose a rather vibrant purple stretch poplin from the stash. I still need to mark the pleats on the main pieces, but then I can sew. Hopefully I’ll be able to get started tonight. Husband will be playing soccer after work which usually means that he (conveniently) comes home just after I’ve put the kids down, and then wants to hang out. But I may just point him to the TV and retreat to the sewing machine.

[Tamara]

Absolutely! You need to hang out with your buddies too! Hubbies think they can have all the fun!

No sewing for me as yet today – busy playing teacher to a child home feeling exhausted from the excursion yesterday (a simple act of not drinking enough I think). I had planned to get started on the rust coloured corduroy field trip cargos for our day out on Saturday but I don’t think the day out is going to happen this weekend – something has to give when the other end of the bargain is not being kept and quite frankly I don’t mind staying home. I have that much sewing to do and time is running away!

So this afternoon after school hours I will plant myself in the sewing nook and see if I cant get some more stitches made on something – what I don’t know but like I said there is heaps to get on with.