Deb

Wendy I can’t agree more about what a buzz it is seeing my made clothes being worn again. I just received a gorgeous photo from the UK of a beautiful girl wearing my daughter’s outgrown dress and it felt like such a gift to me!

Oh (slaps forehead) i have that one – it has a racerback style tank too from memory.

Could we please have a men’s version of the sketchbook pattern? Enlarging is a nightmare and I could accept my nine year old wearing Liesl and co because it would look the same as the kid’s version. I cannot jusitfy buying men’s clothes for him though.

Haha! I need to do that! I saw this gorgeous dress a friend was wearing at church a few weeks ago but of course didnt have the camera – she bought it in New York!

Another way of doing what Katybellabug said…. Using up all available hard drive space on saving pictures of garments you want to create!

When you have sketches by your kids of things…[Read more]

When you walk out of a shop, not loaded up with bags, but with camera shots of everything you want to recreate.

When your mother tries to buy your children rtw clothing in adult sizes because the kids rtw doesnt come anywhere near them and you are so disgusted with the fit you throw them in the good sammies bin and sew new ones.

When you sew a tractor costume instead of using boxes.

When you have your children heaving sighs of relief after a…[Read more]

When your mother tries to buy your children rtw clothing in adult sizes because the kids rtw doesnt come anywhere near them and you are so disgusted with the fit you throw them in the good sammies bin and sew new ones.

When you sew a tractor costume instead of using boxes.

When you have your children heaving sighs of relief after a…[Read more]

When your mother tries to buy your children rtw clothing in adult sizes because the kids rtw doesnt come anywhere near them!

When you sew a tractor costume instead of using boxes.

When you have your children heaving sighs of relief after a fitting!

When you exclaim that you need to clone the kids in order to fit the alterations properly because…[Read more]

Yes I second this too!

@Sarvi if you ever want to make something purely for the fun of it then know that i’ll be cheering you on! I seem to be about 50:50 these days on things that are practical and useful, and things that stem from an idea that just had to be made to preserve my sanity! that creative itch can be so strong.
I don’t know many people with older kids, but…[Read more]

…when you no longer have any idea what you were talking about in your own post earlier in this thread…

A couple of you ladies have touched on the very good point that even when you receive in abundance, there is still a creative itch that one wants to scratch. I guess I’d never ask myself, how many poems are too many? How many paintings are too many? And yet even though I put as much if not more time and effort into my child’s clothes, I still feel…[Read more]

I would love a Liesl + co raglan tee. I have tried two other patterns out there in PDF land and I just know L+C would fit so much better. Sigh.

I bombed out! Ran out of time was away from the machines (and my stash for a few days and now have to make clothes for the boy so he looks decent for his sister’s christening.

I hope to get going after the 27th and then it will be a probably skirt per day thing to catch up.

I wonder if there is a way to make the dress but have a detachable portion to reduce it to a tunic? Wouldn’t that be fun to work out?

Up to my second muslin for the sketchbook shirt in size 12 with heaps of mods.

I wonder if there is a way to make the dress but have a detachable portion to reduce it to a tunic? Wouldn’t that be fun to work out?

Up to my second muslin for the sketchbook shirt in size 12 with heaps of mods.

I absolutely second @justsewit – I would absolutely make both items for me (and my husband) to wear; maybe not together, but I would definitely wear a polo for work (in fact, I do quite often), and my husband does as well – and my husband and I both live in sweats in the house.

When you leave a clothing store empty handed because you could make it better/higher quality.

(Stripes and patterns not lining up in RTW drive me insane!)

@April Henry, I am planning on making this soon in the size 8 as part of a sewing swop. I have 27 drawstring bags to make for the school and it is next, after that project.