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Shelley, @lightningmcstitch<\/a>, shares her holiday sewing. \u00a0If, like me, you’re in the Northern Hemisphere hopefully the sun and sand in this post won’t distract you from the variety of beautiful and functional Liesl + Co garments Shelley features!<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy holidays everyone! Quite what that means depends on where in the world you are and what holidays you\u2019re celebrating\u2026.
\n\"4
\nHere in Australia it\u2019s summer, so holiday sewing is all about beach wear and keeping from getting sunburnt. But it\u2019s also Christmas, of course, so there are gifts to sew as well.<\/p>\n

We recently had a family holiday to Fiji where we spent a week sea kayaking and camping in remote villages, and then a week at a very luxurious resort. If you\u2019re in the northern hemisphere and it\u2019s cold, I hope these pictures will warm you up. If you\u2019re downunder, then what follows might be the inspiration for some easy, last-minute sewing gifts, or maybe to book a holiday!
\n\"neckline<\/p>\n

First up, we all needed lightweight, long-sleeved Ts to wear while paddling. This is the Metro T made for myself and my daughter using the women\u2019s pattern<\/a> and my son and husband with the men\u2019s pattern<\/a>. The fabrics are all \u201cathletic knit\u201d \u2013 the kind of lightweight, breathable, synthetic stuff your gym t-shirt might be made of. To surprise (read: annoy) the kids I used my Silhouette Cameo cutter and some heat fusible transfer to put our names and kayaking images in the back neck. Less scratchy than a label and no confusion about whose is whose.
\n\"girl<\/p>\n

It struck me that the Wynwood shorts pattern<\/a> would make perfect swim shorts. So, I made a pair each for Audrey and me using sueded, polyester microfibre fabric, which is light, quick drying, and the type of fabric that boardshorts are usually made from.
\n\"woman<\/p>\n

The boys\u2019 Metro Ts looked equally at home at the resort as they did in the kayaks. As an aside, I was taught to play backgammon in my teens by a Turkish neighbour and my family hates playing me because nobody ever beats me.
\n\"teen \"man<\/p>\n

Though I didn\u2019t make it for the holiday, my Sintra dress<\/a> that I took along turned out to be the perfect thing to wear for pre-dinner cocktails and a game of pool. (I learnt to play pool during my university years and almost thirty years later I remain useless at it. Qu\u00e9 ser\u00e1.)
\n\"woman<\/p>\n

While the Sintra dress worked in the resort, back in the villages there is a more conservative dress code. Nobody wears hats or head coverings of any sort, and women are expected to keep their shoulders and knees covered. I had forgotten about this, but luckily, I\u2019d packed my Cinema dress<\/a> and it was perfectly modest in its design, yet cheerily loud in its print.
\n\"two<\/p>\n

Our kayaking guides were a Fijian local, Semi, and a hilariously good-fun Canadian, Russell. I\u2019d decided I needed to send them a gift each after the trip and set about making them a kayaking Metro T each.
\n\"group<\/p>\n

Semi knew everything about the local area, the islands, the villages, the tides, everything. He quietly steered us through the island chain, spotting turtles and picking the best beaches for lunch. Out at sea, he wore a hat that his mum had made for him that was woven from coconut palm fronds. Somehow it stayed on his head even when the wind picked up and the sea got choppy. I was quite in awe of that hat, and had Semi\u2019s mum run workshops in hat weaving I would have been signed up already. I made Semi a Metro T and cut and fused a stencil to represent his awesome hat.
\n\"blue<\/p>\n

In contrast to Semi\u2019s quiet efficiency, Russell was everything else. We discovered he could do pretty much everything so long as it was adventurous, barely a good idea, and guaranteed to raise a smile. In the eyes of the kids (and us adults if I\u2019m honest) he was too awesome for words. At least, that was, until the last night\u2019s dinner where dessert (a tinned pear on a biscuit) was meant to be served with whipped cream. And it turned out that Russell couldn\u2019t whip cream. In his defence he didn\u2019t have a whisk, let alone an electric beater, but that didn\u2019t stop us from ribbing him about his failure as a guide and host.<\/p>\n

So, Russell\u2019s metro T has a white water kayaker with an egg beater instead of a paddle! Lest he forget he couldn\u2019t \u201cwhip it\u201d. I added a self-drafted hood to his long-sleeved T as when he was paddling he wore a hood to keep the sun off his neck and a baseball cap to shade his face.
\n\"green<\/p>\n

The last bit of sewing happened after we\u2019d got home, and it\u2019s currently wrapped and under the Christmas tree\u2026 the Fijian word \u201cBula\u201d is an all-purpose greeting. It\u2019s said with a friendly enthusiasm that\u2019s infectious. We also heard Bula used to describe a party shirt. The colourful, printed \u201cgood\u201d shirt that would be worn to a Kava ceremony or a Lovo feast. On our last day in Fiji, I popped into a market and bought a cut of fabric to make my husband a Christmas Bula shirt
\n\"black
\nThis will join his growing collection of short-sleeved, straight-hemmed All Day Shirts<\/a>. It\u2019s quite a quick sew without the sleeve cuffs and there\u2019s a blog post showing the short sleeve modification<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From our family to yours: Here\u2019s wishing you a happy holiday season, whatever that may be.
\n\"family<\/p>\n

Thank you Shelley for sharing your Fiji holiday with us! \u00a0I hadn’t thought of using the metro t-shirt or Wynwood shorts patterns for swimwear, and I’m inspired to look at how to use my Liesl + Co patterns in new ways in the coming year. \u00a0Where are you wearing your me-made garments? \u00a0Tag us on Instagram #lieslandco<\/a>; we love to see what you’ve made and how you’re wearing it!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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