[scgoble]

I am also sewing nothing thanks to a colossal fabric-buying failure. I ordered half the amounts I actually needed for two projects. One is easily reorderable, but the other is a popular print that’s already out of stock. So I guess instead of leggings for myself I’ll make child-sized ones. ARGH.

[with love Heidi]

How frustrating scgoble! How much fabric do you have? I tend to use 1.5m for leggings for me and I’m 6 feet tall and not slim. I got a pair out of 1m by using a different fabric on the top and since I wear tunics, dresses or skirts over them no one knows!

I have made half a pair of puppet show shots on my new sewing machine, it is so very lovely to use! The heel tap pedal (to raise or lower the needle) and the Free Hands System (a bent piece of metal on the front of the machine that allows you to raise the presser foot with your knee) are both amazing and I have already used them multiple times! And the presser feet! So easy to change and so well designed. The change is so easy that I have already changed multiple times in jus the Puppet Show shorts. Seriously loving my new bernina (380) 🙂

[Mama_Knowles]

I am almost done with the waldorf doll, all she needs is a belly button and some hair. The hair will have to wait till payday and a short shipping time. ; ) I am hoping to get at least one cloth nappy sewn for her tonight. She is all wool stuffing and smells so lovely. I love to cuddle her so I hope Sarah will love her too . I see a tiny sized O+S doll wardrobe coming! On the list so far is pj’s, tea party dress, puppet show, play date and fairy tale dress. I want to make Sarah and dolly matching clothes. : )

[with love Heidi]

That dolly is sounding so lovely and you seem to have made her so quickly. Looking forward to seeing her when she’s done:)

[Nicole]

I am longing for gift sewing, I have nearly wound up the camp clothes.

Working on a Vintage dress for Zara and still need to cut Tilly’s PJ’s.

Actually, I shall go and do that now!

[Masha Richart]

scgoble and Heidi – do you have a good leggings pattern to recommend? I have lost nearly 30 pounds following the birth of #3 and am finally feeling confident enough to wear leggings and tunics – but I only have one pair.

Sharon, I second that that doll seems to be coming along very quickly! I can’t wait to see it.

Today I am hoping to cut out two Playtime dresses for the girls – one in a polka-dot fine-wale corduroy and the other in a plaid French terry.

[marycds]

I’m about half way through the Book Report dress. I’m loving it but I say that about every Oliver and S I make. The top section is a super cute print I found at Nancy’s Sewing Basket in Seattle and the bottom is a brown lightweight denim I bought at a store here in Phx that sells fabric by the pound called SAS. Talk about both ends of the fabric store spectrum. Tomorrow I’m off to buy buttons to fit those belt loops.

[Tamara]

Isn’t it a cute pattern Marycds? I made several for my daughter and one was short sleeved for spring.

I have been putting fabric in its rightful spot and planning and dreaming of what to make with it all. It won’t be happening today as I am rearranging and cleaning it up! I did find some of my silk dupioni stash that had obviously fallen off its hanger and fell behind some things. I knew I had it somewhere and now I am not looking for it, it turns up! It always happens. Hoping for all to be right with the nook before tomorrow so I CAN sew. I have those skirts I really should do – top of the list to get out of the way before moving on to completing some things that haven’t quite been.

Then it is on to making some teacher gifts ahead of time just so they actually get something other than chocolate!

I might even do some brain storming exercises with Imogen as to what she would like to make her friends for christmas – she got her very first friend present the other day and has been “shopping” ever since.

[lattemama]

I have a new-found appreciation for all the work Liesl and her crew puts into the patterns. I was about to start cutting the dresses for the girls last night when I realised I had a few pieces left to modify for Isabel’s dress and, wow – it is quite the brain workout to make sure all pieces match up.

Good news though, I have all pieces prepared now and maybe tonight’s the night. After dance class. And dinner. And grocery shopping…

[Robin]

Masha, I just used Cake Patterns Espresso Leggings. It’s a PDF pattern with a twist. It takes you through a number of measurements and then has you transfer them to the pattern. It took me a few minutes to figure out, but it was really cool to make. I liked the waistband construction too. You sew the elastic together first and insert it before the waistband is sewn. The measurements are based on waist size and range from 25″ – 50″.

http://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=39_643_657&products_id=15191

[scgoble]

I use McCall’s 6173, which is very easy to put together. I bought the electronic version of the pattern, which is not a PDF but instead uses some kind of stupid proprietary software that you have to download. So while I like the pattern itself, the process is super annoying.

It takes under 1.5 yards of 60-inch knit, but the one I ordered was too narrow and I only got a yard of it so there is no way to get more than one leg on there. D’oh!

-Camille

[with love Heidi]

I haven’t used a commercial pattern. I narrowed the legs on my yoga pants pattern and changed the waistband from fold over to elastic. I drafted my yoga pants from my favourite ones from Supre about 6 years ago! Sorry not to be able to help with a commercial pattern.

[Masha Richart]

Ooh, thanks, ladies! I took a look at the Cake one and I love that it is a custom fit; going to try that! Camille, I have used that horrid proprietary software. It was so irritating – never again!

I cut out my two Playtimes last night. One is a coral colored finewale corduroy with yellow polka dots. I was going to do the French terry too, but then remembered that I had another cut plus a scrap of the same corduroy – green with brown dots. After I began cutting I realized that the dots on the scrap were slightly larger than the dots on the rest – so the sleeves will be different. But the coordinating dresses are going to be cute! Hope I can get some sewing in today.

I gave the hacked Music Box to my friend this week and she LOVED it. It looked adorable on her daughter, too.

[Tamara]

The nook is getting there with the rearrangement and will have to be in working order before next weekend as apparently we are having a sleepover. Rather excited about our first ever “because we want to have a sleepover” sleepover. Our guest loves crafty things so we are now in the planning stages of a fun and very crafty weekend it seems. Put it this way, the option to use the sewing machine will be offered! We are thinking pillow cases – which of course are a requirement for such occasions.

So the nook needs to be tidied up more over the weekend and then I might have some time to actually make those skirts before the girls take over.

[Nicole]

Looking for help here Ladies!

I am making Elsa a vintage dress and she badly wants a yellow exposed zipper at the back!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/motherof5/10740570586/in/pool-ftf

I would like to use an invisible zip BUT I do not have one long enough so It will be a few days wait to have it posted out.

(I am a girl who likes to finish something before starting something else)

She is 14 and it is her dress……I don’t hate the yellow zipper AND it is very easy to change it at a later date…..

What do you think I should do?

ALL opinions gratefully accepted.