In answer to your question Nicole, the biggies need everything! Miss Chloe just needs a few pretties in the 3-6 month size so they are ready but much more in the next size again – slow progress sewing.
It makes it very difficult when you have a little boy one minute then you see him literally growing in his sleep the next – my mother infuriated me by buying him clothes in a small man’s size which are still a little big but not for long! It’s time to update the male sewing patterns in my stash to accommodate this growth of a nine year old!
And my eldest? well she has decided she wants to make her own things by not using a pattern. I am not quite easy with that but admire her ambition and imagination. I just feel that the use of a pattern first might give her a better first time result and not deter her from trying to improvise in the future. She has suddenly decided it isn’t so bad to sew, possibly because she has discovered she will be doing sewing at school this year for home economics.
But then I think I remember really catching the bug around her age also, so maybe it is a genetic thing.
On the sewing table right now is an improvised version half done of a miracle blanket – because the parcel is very late in arriving and baby girl has grown out of her seemingly running small swaddles. Last night we did the sleeping bag thing and she kept whacking herself but this morning I wrapped her arms and she slept much much better. Just hoping I either get the half made one complete today or the parcel arrives – or both!
