[Mama_Knowles]

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I am with you on sewing bug for boys! I have sewn more for my toddler daughter over this past year but now I have so many wonderful things in to sew my little men. After I finish this next dress for Sweet pea I am moving onto finishing up some pj’s then two outfits for Mr W. He wants two sandbox pants in cord and two sketchbook shirts. I have this odea for a tea party pants overall in charcole gray cord I am dieing to makje the baby! This might have to be bumped up on the list. 🙂

~Shaon~

[lattemama]

Traced the bodice for a muslin of the Fairy Tale for Sofia. I think she’ll fit perfectly in a size 8.

Isabel is so far off the scale for size 12 I’m not even sure it’s worth it to try and grade it. I have enlarged it one size (into a 14?) and I’ll cut out a muslin from it for her to see if the armscye and neck line looks ok. With wide enough seam allowances I can let it out until it looks nice on her I suppose.

She liked the idea of the crinoline and I have a feeling she wants it in a shiny satiny fabric. We’ll see what we end up with.

[Tamara]

I printed out a pdf version of the Field Trip top and pants last night and now owe dh a ream of paper (or there abouts hehe!) I’m not getting started on that yet though as there are other more pressing things that have to be finished first.

Lattemama I love how Isabel is loving the pretty flouncy look of this pattern. Such a pity that you had to size it up so early in the piece though. Having said that, that is exactly the same reason why I printed my pdf out because I am worried I will have to do alternations before I start! You are on a winner though – I have seen so many little girls (older and younger than our girls) wearing styles like this lately. Maybe suggest the crinoline and a lovely floral fabric?

Sewing for boys these days is amazing because of the choice we have now. I had just one pattern for my son prior to finding Oliver+s and now I have enough to get me through sewing a whole wardrobe! How cool is that?!

The doll’s dress wasn’t made – I spent half of my hour (in between finishing work and getting kids) at work chatting and talking babies with my boss (and I had heaps of fun doing so clcuk cluck!) and then the next part reading emails and getting sorted before collecting kids off the bus.

The doll’s dress will be finished though as no one else will be home to distract me!

Tamara

[cybele727]

I have on my table

a pair of pj/lounge pants for my son (pattern made by me-but so ridiculously simple that its nothing),

a hooded dress for the WeeGee (again by me- I am nervous about this one- as I have to finish the pattern pieces for the banding at the bottom of the hem),

2 pairs of field day pants for my son; and

a couple of hopscotch shirts.

Oh and a few mother daughter totes for christmas gifts and a few hand rolled hems to sew on some fabric squares to make scarves for Christmas.

Before anyone says, “wow you are organized.” It is a plan…doesn’t mean it will happen! 😉

Jenny

[lattemama]

Tamara – Isabel’s all for the solids these days. She does not share my taste (which is fine) and is very unadventurous when it comes to patterns and colours. It’s so dull, but what can you do?

[Tamara]

Will she go for tone on tone? Like a damask look? What about something with embroidery the same colour? It’s funny how they are set in their ways as children – can be very frustrating from a creative stand point.

I daren’t let my daughter near my stash without my watchful eye – she’d raid it and I’d have nothing left! But pieces cut up all over the floor from her “efforts” to make something without a pattern and without my help. Summer holidays I am sitting and sewing and teaching her a thing or two because she wants to learn but I am so time challenged right now that it is me who is hesitating. At least then she can pick a pattern and I can show her how to make it properly and it will give her the confidence to make something with a pattern and trust that it will be successful rather than having the endless piles of scraps on my floor! We will still have them but they will come out of the $2 bin!

Cybele I make plans all the time – and don’t keep them! So you are definitely not alone.

I have one doll’s dress ready for buttons – it took all day to make this thing which I ain’t too please about as it seems that time is zooming along and I am getting slower and slower! Ho hum! Next is attaching the blessed frill to the wretched Edwardian daygown (which I vow may well be my last ditch effort ever at heirloom sewing!) After that is finishing off my second Book report (the one with a twist) and then I have to pack up these lovely items ready to take them to the show! Yippee!

I was supposed to do a christening outfit and a lady’s outfit but I have simply ran out of time and this is all I can at the moment. No wonder people who work don’t put things in shows! It is a lot of effort!

Happy sewing weekend everyone.

[with love Heidi]

Still going with my grey trench, it’s looking good now with it’s contrast binding and hopefuly I have fiished with my seam ripper for this project!

Jenny, I’m also already thinking Christmas presents, 6 or 7 Harry Potter costumes!

[with love Heidi]

Still going with my grey trench, it’s looking good now with it’s contrast binding and hopefuly I have fiished with my seam ripper for this project!

Jenny, I’m also already thinking Christmas presents, 6 or 7 Harry Potter costumes!

[cybele727]

Yay! I finished the dress I designed, using the book report cuffs. And I sewed a mother and daughter tote bag. One christmas gift down. Woo hoo!

here is the dress: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybele727/7988638870/

And here are the cuffs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cybele727/7988633429/

I really have to sew my son some field trip pants and those pj pants. He feels so left out of the sewing loop, yet once I make something for him, he’s like… “meh.” So I am like, “meh back at you.” He just doesn’t care about clothes.

Once I do those, it is all about that Mother-Daughter Tote bag for Christmas for everyone! LOL.

[with love Heidi]

lattemama I was thinking that if the bodice is too small could you make it in something with some stretch? just to give it some extra give. Maybe something stretch panne velvet would make a nice top or a similar fabric to what you were thinking with some stretch.

[Tamara]

I thought I was on the home stretch of this project I was working on. Unfortunately the pattern and fabric requirements were SERIOUSLY wrong! I am not happy (Jan!) So now it is lying in pieces for me to tend to amongst the array of mess I have to clean up – but not now!

This was intended as my smocking project for the show and well now that is number three exhibit not going in.

I put it like this, I’m a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to showing something. It HAS to be good in my eyes to even be a thought. I would rather have three well produced projects than three rushed projects that look really , well, yuk!

So I have three that will go and the other three will just stay home and think about their behaviour!

Besides, I noticed my son going around the farm in his good clothes – which is telling me he is badly in need of some play clothes and so the devotion to all things wearable begins – next weekend!

[Nicole]

I am so pleased to get back to my machines today.

Elsa’s birthday skinny Sketchbook jeans only need a waistband. That leaves me tomorrow to make Zara’s trousers and tee.

They will be 13 on Tuesday!

~Nicole~

[needlewoman]

Hi, I’m a middle aged woman living in South Australia who has been quilting for about 20 yrs and making clothes for kids for longer. Most of the “children” that I made clothes for 25 years ago are now having children of their own, and I have had to catch up with 21st century patterns for children. Right now, I am finishing a couple of pinafores for a pair of twins that celebrated their first birthday 10 days ago. Their mother loves lime green, so I have lined some orange/green apple fabric with Denise Schmidt’s wobbly squares patterned fabric. I have used the same fabric to make “clown collars” (pleated), and pants to match. It’s been a lot of work to make everything twice, but the pinnies will look very sweet when adorned with orange buttons. Will try to work out how to post photos when they are washed/ironed.

[theknittinganxiety]

This weekend I sewed a Sunday Brunch skirt and a puppet show shorts. This week I need to sew a bedtime story PJ pants for a friend of mine, size 3 years. I want to sew another puppet show shorts because they are adorable. And I already have a 2+2 skirt cut, just need to sew it.

[needlewoman]

Have posted photos of Twins’ pinafores. Last button sewn on today, and to be delivered tomorrow.