with love Heidi

Worn with her butterfly top.

This is my very first Oliver and S make, I’m really pleased with it and so is daughter number 3. Thank you for your lovely pattern and great sew along.

You could try two rows. I have just attached the collar to mine (6-12 months) and it took a little bit of careful manipulation. Hand basting is very beneficial to tame it in. I’m using interlock and it can be temperamental.

And I too stuffed the first front with the placket! Did it the wrong way around!

How did your skirt turn out? Please start sharing photos of your finished skirts here to be entered in the contest (all skirts can be entered).

I want photos, (stamps foot)

😉

No not too much at all! It would be adorable!

That sounds so cute!

I can’t seem to get the picture up there :/ I put it on my flickr so once I get to computer, I’ll put up a link

Ok quick update! I did mash up the puppet show and tea party play suit and I’m posting a picture of the results! I’m pretty pleased, except that the fabric I chose is pretty awful. But that’s what I get for trying to shop my stash. I guess I’ll just have to make some more. Also, I think I’m going to hand embroider some sail boats on the front. Is…[Read more]

Ok quick update! I did mash up the puppet show and tea party play suit and I’m posting a picture of the results! I’m pretty pleased, except that the fabric I chose is pretty awful. But that’s what I get for trying to shop my stash. I guess I’ll just have to make some more. Also, I think I’m going to hand embroider some sail boats on the front. Is…[Read more]

Day four is now up 🙂

Good morning sew-alongers! Day three has now been added.

Happy Tuesday! For those of you who are sewing along with us this week, day two is now up!

I definitely had one folded back and the other out. The fabric was a pique knit. I have too much neckline and not enough collar. And now that I’ve worked it over a bit, I am certain I exacerbated the problem, even though I tried to handle it delicately. 😉

I may try the box pleat. It is a girl’s shirt after all. Either that or the 12…[Read more]

Heidi I think that would make the problem worse in this case, sounds like too little collar rather than too little neckline. I made the 5 in two very different fabrics (a stable interlock and a soft, floppy wool knit) and the firmer fabric was fine, the softer one had a ton of excess neckline. I put in a big box pleat at the back neck. It’s really…[Read more]