June and July were a bit crazy. We started with a trip to Hawaii at the beginning of June that put be behind in life coming home. We also brought a neice back with us to stay the summer. I had my back mostly rehabbed and stupidly decided to lift weights. That but me back to worse than in January when I first hurt myself. I literally spend 2 weeks taking ibuprofen to go to work and coming home and laying on ice packs. It was miserable. Needless to say, I didn’t go upstairs or do any sewing. Luckily I had finished 4 items for June before I hurt myself. I had goals to hit all of the categories but ended up happy to have 4 items made. I had surgery on July 13. I had to recover for a few days, so I got a super late start on July. Plus I had to finish a final exam for a nutrition certification I was taking. I barely finished 4 items for July on the last day of the month. Sadly, only one follows the 52 week sewing theme. But, I’m happy I made 4 items. Hopefully not that I’m feeling better I can get more done.
for July, I followed the theme for the pics on the left, but not on the right. Those themes were mix patterns and rainbow inspired. The other 2 themes were history bounding and sew without a pattern. Those didn’t happen, but I did make myself a summer shirt and Kaylee a dress.
For July, I didn’t follow themes except for 1. Themes were upcycle, something to make sewing easier, and bathing suit or outerwear. I am counting the shorts in the bottom right as hack or mash a pattern. I had to hack things to have enough fabric to make the shorts. I pieced the waistband together. I also hacked the pockets. They were made with a bias binding that I didn’t wNt to do so I made them regular.
My other projects there were a dress for Kaylee (also accidentally hacked because I just an extra front piece for the lining back. I had to piece a piece on to make it match the back because I didn’t have enough fabric to recut it. The next shirt is mother shirt for me with multiple patterns again. And finally I sewed up red shorts I had cut out for Benjamin ages ago.
