[Mama_Knowles]

Nicole, I love the playdate dress you have made! I can’t wait till this pattern is on PDF!

My son’s football team won the first play off game yesterday so I have decided to make Sweet pea a cheerleader outift using the 2+2 skirt and the hopscitch top fot it. The teams cheerleaders are going to be there for any of the games from now on so I thought this would be nice. I only wish I had thought of this sooner!

[beachmom]

Mama_Knowles, It’s so cute to see the little ones playing football! My son is an a 125 lb. league but the littler ones practice at the same time and I always get a kick out of watching them play.

I’m working on a pair of jeggings for my middle daughter and I have a pair of Sandbox pants cut out for the little girls too. I’m going to try a different kind of pocket on the back. Hopefully, I’ll get them done this week!

[Nicole]

PlayDate dresses finished and blogged.

Birthday boxer shorts ”on the go” for Son&Heir.

Four Burda school polo’s cut and ready to sew(yawn)!

Sketchbook shirt sized up with a collar variation,for Son,cut in Modern Workshop(the Pink Ken Done look fabric),waiting to sew before Monday WITHOUT him noticing.

Five pairs of Sketchbook shorts need to be cut in navy drill for school shorts.

WANT to be cutting my Lisette fabric into Lisette patterns for me!

What are YOU sewing at the moment?

(Or dreaming of sewing,that counts)!

[Mama_Knowles]

Lol, I dream every night of cutting out fabric and sewing. (and I wonder why I am so tried by morning!)

I am hoping to get a Raggdy Ann costum sewn for my daughter between tonight and tomorrow. I think I will be useing the Family Reuion dress for the Raddy Ann dress. After that I still have a peguin back pack and a lunch box to sew. I keep saying this so maybe I will just get to them, I know a toddler will love it I would.

[Tamara]

I’m dreaming of sewing lots of things but what I’m REALLY doing is planning projects with a view of having them published!! Lots of designing, lots of smocking and lots of sewing are all waiting in the wings.

I also have to plan the Christmas sewing projects for school to show the teacher on Thursday – just simple stuff that will take a session to do and get through the whole class of year 2’s and 3’s within a five week allowance. I’m just thinking decorations but you know what happens to the head when there are ideas whirling around …. stay focussed!

See this is the downside of having so many things cut out ready to sew! You get side tracked!

Oh well! I got a fabric parcel in the mail today so I’m a happy happy girl!

[meleliza]

After much headache and a bit of back pain, I’ve very nearly finished the sewing for baby girl’s birthday party on Saturday. Large scale large repeat border print. Mitered corners. Nuff said. Tomorrow, 4 dozen cupcakes. Saturday, party! Then Halloween costumes for boys. Batman and Super Why, specifically. Then, and only then, can I get back to fun stuff like a red Beignet or some play clothes for baby. She needs a music box jumper and maybe some kind of warm cozy ice cream dress.

[Tamara]

Meleliza how was the party??? You’ve probably been too busy to post some photos on the flickr group… Would love to see all the hard work you’ve put in.

It’s a long weekend here in Western Australia, delayed because all the Commonwealth Heads of state have decided to grace us with their presence … including her majesty!! We get to keep her until Saturday afternoon when she scoots back to her big house in London.

Because it’s a LONG weekend, I’ve decided to celebrate by doing some serious sewing – and I mean serious stuff ladies! I have shortie sleepover pyjamas to make and a container full of things cut out and waiting patiently to be addressed.

Hip hip hooray we get a holiday for the Queen’s Birthday (thanks to CHOGM) and I can sew and sew and sew…

So… what are YOU sewing?

[meleliza]

Thanks for asking. I’m still sorting pix of the party stuff but will get them from my photographers today. Meanwhile, here’s a picture of my birthday party dress: http://queenoftheflies.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-palette-challenge-2-peony-pattern.html

How nice to have a holiday for sewing! Yesterday my son’s kindergarten was closed and my patents took both boys to the Strasbourg Railroad for the day. In addition to lots of housework, I cut and sewed a popover dress for the hope art project and got halfway through their Halloween costumes! So fun.

[beachmom]

I’ve finally started working on Halloween costumes. Blech. There are so many other sewing projects I’d rather be doing!:)

[meleliza]

This is the first year my boys have really wanted to dress up. They were on board with the trick or treating concept, but not costumes. Last year, my husband threw sheets over their heads and took them to a neighbhorhood famous for it’s Halloween craziness and they loved it. This year they asked for batman and super why and I am actually enjoying the sewing. I don’t get to make much for the boys and they are really thrilled, especially my oldest who came to tell me what a beautiful job I did with his batman cape. Aww. I wasn’t planning on a costume for the baby. Dent seem right to keep her up late when she doesn’t know what’s going on, but i volunteered to read a spooky book at kindergarten on Monday and the teacher expects a baby costume. Any good last mounted ideas?

[Tamara]

Ok, a lady bug, or a really really good one …. THING ONE!! Red clothes and a blue wig is all that’s needed – quick and easy ‘cos you only have two days.

I had my first experience with Halloween and trick or treating when we spent twelve months in the UK as a child – I was 8 and did the sheet over the head thing and it was great fun. We are only just catching on her in Australia. Lots of parents don’t see what the fuss is about and others think it another excuse to put on a party. We personally don’t trick or treat, because sheep don’t eat human food lol! and our neighbours are 5 km’s away so it would mean mum driving around the neighbourhood getting lost lol. I would love to give my kids just one real trick or treat experience though just so they really know what Halloween is (these days).

I’m about to apply the elastic to a pair of swimming (boardies) made out of this really groovy hawaiian print. I just hope they work out. The fabric is ripstop (or so the tag said) and I’ve never made boardshorts or any swimwear for that matter before so this is a trial run today.

[meleliza]

My husband grew upon the UK and they didn’t really do Halloween, but he did have costumes sometimes. I think I’m going to make her a sunflower because I happen to have some gold colored felt to make petals and I happened to see a template on Martha Stewart.( I love thing one and two but am saving that for my boys one year.) I’m making a green music box jumper to wear with her sunflower petals. Not crazyvas that dress was in my queue anyway. Currently, the boys are wearing their costumes all the time. Second son is off to the grocery store with dad in his super why cape nd shirt. Lol.

[Tamara]

My sewing weekend wasn’t as I had expected. I ended up spending Sunday at Royal Perth Hospital with my mother in law. We had a phone call to come straight away on Saturday evening and I’d only just gotten home from shopping and taking the kids to swimming. I got home at 6pm and we left for Perth by 6.30pm with everything at home taken care of.

We prayed all the way down. I think I had some sleep when we got to my parent’s house, about 3 or 4 hours and then we went straight to the hospital after breakfast etc. We had to say goodbye. Everyone came, even my sister in law who lives in Melbourne but with the “perfect” timing of Qantas grounding flights she had to leave her husband and daughter at home.

We spent the day, went back to try and rest and then returned to relieve my father in law. I think we had Hitler nurses on as even though she was in a shared ward and only three of us (my dh, my nephew whom she raised and myself), they told us only one at a time. We took turns to sit by her bed but I didn’t, I let the boys do that. Matt is only 16 and he lost his mum just shy of his tenth birthday. He needed to say things to Ev and I had to be the one to encourage him with a tiny pep talk.

We got home at 2am with my children sleeping soundly in their beds but I was up again at 5am – praying for her departure to be peaceful. She passed away with her husband and her daughter by her side at around 8.15am yesterday morning.

Now I have to find an avenue somewhere in the craziness of the week, to sew clothes for a funeral.

[Nicole]

I am sorry for your loss Justsewit.

I finally made some thing for me,a Lisette dress,took the time to make a muslin for the bodice and it made such a difference!

Today I am knocking up some ideas for Mermaid costumes for the R/1 presentation night.

After a ”tip off” I found some Modern Workshop print to make the Seashore dresses for the the little girls for Christmas presents so those sizes need to be drafted.

5 pairs of Sketchbook shorts for school and 4 polo’s(ran out of fabric) are waited to be sewn.

So,what are you up to next?

Go on,share,you know you want to!

[Mama_Knowles]

Justsewit,

I am so sorry to hear of your loss, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.