Darcy Struble

I’ve gotten so that I really dread patterns not from the small group of ones with instructions I know I can trust. I’d rather alter (even significantly) a reliable pattern.

The clock is ticking on Christmas sewing over here too — sounds like many folks are in the same boat. I’ve got a set of handkerchiefs 100% finished. 2 Lullaby pants, a…[Read more]

And gracias for this one as well!

Awesome, thank you! Putting the words pyjamas and pajamas into this thread for future use!

Bumped for @Sarvi

Bumped for @Sarvi

Bumped for @Sarvi

Bumped for @Sarvi

Well my memory must be fading in my old age, the Bedtime Story also have a one-piece pant. Huh!

Good luck! I bet having a story book to go along with getting the clock will be very useful. Sending you zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs

Another vote for a clock. The ones my girls have is called the Tot Clock and it is entirely too expensive but desperate, sleep-deprived parents will pay anything, right? My oldest girl did not start sleeping through the night routinely until she was nearly 4 and like you, we tried a lot of things. I did the “Mama is too tired” routine when she…[Read more]

Enormously helpful, thank you so much!!

Very Heath Robinson of me, but I would lay the Music Class front yoke over the Sleepover front. I would place tracing paper over that then re-draft the front with the centre front of then new pattern piece finishing the same width as the Sleepover.
Then I would re-draft the neck of the front facing to match the new neck line, but attach the…[Read more]

Oh my, so cute!

I would use the Music Class collar and the top yoke to make to front.
Trixie is crying but I will come back and explain further

@Nicole and any others, I am going for this look:

http://cdn3.notonthehighstreet.com/system/product_images/images/000/661/398/preview_parry_stripespj%20NOTHS.jpg

Could I do as you did above and maybe just square off the neckline a little more? (See how on your daughter’s shirt the ‘points’ are a little more rounded)?

I bought a big 4 pattern…[Read more]

@Nicole and any others, I am going for this look:

http://cdn3.notonthehighstreet.com/system/product_images/images/000/661/398/preview_parry_stripespj%20NOTHS.jpg

Could I do as you did above and maybe just square off the neckline a little more? (See how on your daughter’s shirt the ‘points’ are a little more rounded)?

I bought a big 4 pattern…[Read more]

I am almost out of time to sew
Pj’s for Christmas, doncha know?
A pair of bedtime
Would be completely sublime

I worked on the school days jacket yesterday. I decided I should have done it earlier but time has been taken away with appoitnments. I want keep plodding away at it today.

I worked on the school days jacket yesterday. I decided I should have done it earlier but time has been taken away with appoitnments. I want keep plodding away at it today.

I’d do exactly what mkhs suggested. It is lovely.