[Nicole]

I find some children need time to ‘click’ with swimming Tamara. Its hard if you don’t have a pool.

I made Elsa a ‘big girl’ Sunki yesterday and today I got the bodice made on a vintage frock for Tildy. I am using some gorgeous Cloud 9 organic poplin. So lovely to sew.

Due to me sewing so late we are having Siberian Takeaway for tea. (i.e. a frozen casserole)

[Tamara]

It is just department of education and their lack of decent swimming teachers. No allowance to have him reassessed regardless of only having seven out of ten lessons because they felt inclined to do time trials in the others for the swimming carnival. Being “stuck” in stage two after trying so hard and doing all the practise possible is no fun. My kids just never seem to be successful in passing their stages when they do swimming at school. They have better success with vacswim and swim school (which has now stopped on the weekends). And I put it down to teacher quality.

Anyway, I will put my “to be executed” dress back in my cupboard and add black swimming fabric to my shopping list. And the prints can live to see another day. Then maybe I could make myself a new pair when I get back to them.

I might have to make curtains as my first project post move. Apparently it is far too light in the bedrooms at night :(.

[with love Heidi]

Finally finished the white courduroy bloomers to go with the white courduroy and lace dress and jacket I sewed a few weeks ago! Now to decide if I want to put a lace motif on the back.

[Lightning McStitch]

I may have got this just a little bit wrong….

Lovely piece of vintage silk that needs to be sewn.

Thinking the Weekend Getaway dress could work….

Buy some fabric for a practice run. I think that’s meant to be a muslin, but I can’t bear the thought of making anything just to pick it apart.

Decide that fabric is too sheer and will need to be underlined and, what’s more, I like it too much…

Need something else for the practice run.

Buy a remnant of a completely sheer designer polyester. That will be good to practice the French or hairline seams for the silk version….

However this fabric has a plaid pattern….

So, here I am pattern matching plaid with the sheerest, slipperiest fabric ever. I have to put hairline strips of interfacing on every seam or the sewing machine will munch it and in the back of my head it’s still just a muslin to see if it fits and I like the style!

That’s not quite how it’s meant to go, is it?

[Robin]

Okay, sewing I may not know about, but swimming I do. It’s pretty common to get stuck on a swimming skill. More lessons don’t always help that. Take a break for a while. Play in the water. Have fun!

Lightning, you’ve got a lot of patience!

[meleliza]

Shelly, sadly, it only helps to practice on the real thing. That poly sutff behaves completely differently. However, I do like the idea of a sheer weekend getaway dress with a slip/cami underneath.

[Nicole]

Shelly, SILK PINS they are awesome. I cut my last dress out laying it on tissue paper.

(But there was no repeat matching)

[with love Heidi]

If it’s drapy silk I think it would be lovely as a weekend getaway blouse.

[meleliza]

Plaid? I missed the plaid part. Plaid chiffon? Eeeks. Hmmm, one has to wonder how important it is they match up at all. What about tear away stabilizer? Or wash away kind? It can be very helpful.

[Lightning McStitch]

Nicole, you mean the bent pins that I pick out of the dining room carpet might not be the best for the job? 😉 I’ll look at silk pins for the real thing. Nice tip re the tissue paper as cutting was a nightmare.

Meleliza, of course as far as the finished garment goes pattern matching is not essential. But as an exercise in seeing if I can do it, it’s mandatory!

[Masha Richart]

Sounds like you have set yourself quite a task! You’ll share the finished result, yes? I can’t wait to see.

[with love Heidi]

I’m making my first red Riding Hood Cape from LTTS. I found some coral fleece/nursery fleece in the remanent basket. 1m of pink and 1m of white for a total of $4! Just enough to cut out a large red Riding Hood. I’m cutting the pink and using a purple with glittery bits for the other side.

I’m hoping to get mittens or a bear puppet from the leftovers, the fleece is amazingly soft.

[Nicole]

I finished Tildy’s dress. If that was an ‘easy’ pattern I will go he!

Nothing like topstitching a waistband in place over already stitched in elastic….. I killed a few fairies doing that.

Any hoo, it is being posted off to and OS gal pal. (The pattern, not the dress)

Now I am sewing a delightfully straight forward Puppet Show blouse in white linen.

[with love Heidi]

I had a similar experience with an “easy” pattern from one of the big 4, it made me wonder at their definition of easy!

[Masha Richart]

I love the phrase “Siberian takeaway” and will be absorbing it into my lexicon.

I haven’t lost my sew-jo, exactly, in that I really want to sew – I just have no idea what to make. I’m trying to sew for the kids on a need basis only so that they don’t end up with too many things (as has happened in the past, ahem) – and after my recent jegging spree it seems like they are set. I suppose I could get a headstart on summer, but since high temperatures are still three months away it is hard to get inspired. There’s Easter dresses, but that is also eight weeks away. Though I suppose I could make some Fairy Tale muslins to that end.

I recently acquired a lot of fabric in adult quantities (and I DO need some things) but I don’t know what to make for myself. Maybe a skirt. I already have the Continental pattern, but I’ve been lusting after the Grainline Moss pattern.

What to do, what to do.