Summer sewing

 

Lily did a horseback riding camp so I made some leggings for her.  Made another pair with pastel rainbow dots too but never took a pic.  This fabric didn’t hold up well but the other did.

New shorts in a smaller size for Brandon. Added the zipper on these but I don’t like how it turned out.  

Tried some socks this summer.  Here I was trying to use lace, but I didn’t have enough of the other lace I wanted to use and this one was super thin.  Still got the socks made.  I also experimented with faux flatlock or regular seems to see which looked and felt better in socks.  

New school outfit for lily

New smaller size workout shirt for Brandon

Aaron needed a Fanny pack or something to hold his phone during marching band.  I saw this pattern at bag of the month club and ended up joining.  I’m excited to see the next 2 months patterns coming up. I loved the way the gusset attached with nice clean corners.  Aaron likes the bag so much he has requested a larger one. 

Made lily a lunch kit this year.  It has leopard print on the inside.

More socks.  These ones short ones for lily.

Made a pair of jeans shorts.  They took forever and are way too long waisted for my liking, and too big.  Obviously they stretch more than anticipated but I used the recommended stretch denim.

Another new school outfit for lily

Socks for me

New wallet for me.  I ended up only using the interior.  I had troubles with this because it was super sticky.  I had cut it out on my cricut, and the mat left a residue.  I should have cleaned it up before sewing.  I still use it because it it tiny and matches my purse.

A summer shirt for lily

Another summer shirt for lily

The rest of April and May projects

 Wow, I thought I had posted through the first half of May, not April.  I’m always so far behind.  Most of my sewing was done at the beginning of the month this month,  work has been busy the second half of may plus just end of school year…

Here are May makes from the last post until now.  

This is my latest bag.  I finished it in April, and forgot to take a picture of it for a couple of weeks.  I love how big it is, and how many pockets it has just in its design.  It is my first bag that was not bound.  

Brandon wearing his rooster shirt.  

Three more shirts I made Brandon (he has lost a lot of weight and dropped sizes, so he needed some new shirts.  His favorite is the rooster one in this stack.  Hence the picture of him wearing it.  

I made theses matching dresses for Lily and I for Mother’s Day.  I love the pattern and feel of the fabric.  It is Bamboo.  I was going to make the same pattern but the double cross over made it past my confidence to modify to a lily size (modify to not have a bust but fit more straight.). I ended up buying a similar pattern for her in an actual kids size to save myself from messing up my nice fabric, and get it done by Mother’s Day.  

This is the first shirt I made Brandon after he lost weight.  He also loves t his one because he has the nickname bear.  Not sure why when I upload photos here they come out in a random order.  I add them in a group but select them in order taken which is chronological and they come out all weird.

I like this pattern and have made 2 shirts from it both of which I have managed to spill bleach on.  This time I used a different type of fabric.  This is bamboo Lycra so super comfy.  I love this style to throw on over leggings after work because it is a bit longer and has a fun drone.

Here is a shirt I made for me with the left over fabric from my mom’s shirt.  This cut was a remnant that had more than a yard which was nice since it let me get a shirt out of it.  The back is plain purple though, but I don’t care.  This one should be right next to my mom’s shirts, because I finished it just after those.  

Here is a dress that I had in a box for ages.  I started cutting it out, then. Didn’t have enough fabric to get the bottom piece cut because it was cut in a big spiral type shape.  I finally got a solid that matched well enough to use for the skirt. 

I made a couple of shirts for my mom - one for her birthday and one for Mother’s Day.  She snapped some selfies for me.  

Really happy about the selfies today since I accidentally erased the picture I took of this shirt.  I love this fabric when I went and picked it up.  Too bad there wasn’t enough for a shirt for me.

Most of February, March and half of April sewing

 So not sure how I haven’t posted since January.  I was called as RS president at the end of that month and my number of clients increased so I haven’t had nearly as much sewing time but I swear I posted in February.  I guess not.  Here is the rundown of things I’ve made since January -in no apparent order because that is how they decided to upload and I’m too lazy to change it.

I finished this purse back in March on the actual week that was sew a bag of wallet.  I had been working on this for months.  I started it last year but my sewing machine broke.  When I got back to it i had to get new faux leather for the strap because they had been clipped too long.  Then as I was working I kept finding new pieces of hardware I was missing - even down to zipper pulls at the end.  Had the zipper - no pulls.  The last bit of missing items was the binding.  Luckily that only required a trip to Hobby Lobby and I finally finished the bag.  I love it.  It is a great size and I can never believe that I made it.

I made this for Lily for Valentine’s Day but forgot to give it to her until after Valentine’s Day facepalm🤦‍♀️

She loves it though.  Same pattern I had pattern tested that she is so fond of because it shows her belly when she lifts her arms.  Ugh!

I finished this in February and thought I wouldn’t be able to use it this year because it was a warm February but we got a few more cold days and I was able to use it.

This is my latest shirt.  I just finished it yesterday.  I’m still debating doing the sew the alphabet at Sinclair - I may do some but not all of it.  This is my B - the pattern is called Brooke (I think)

I just did the vinyl here.  Made this for a client of mine that has been with me a couple of years.

This was a buy on a whim and has quickly become one of my favorite shirts.  I made my favorite raglan pattern for make your favorite patter and 52 weeks.  I accidentally cut it on the v neck line, but am really happy with how this turned out.  I’ve used this pattern tons for sweatshirts but never for a t-shirt.

Another shirt I made for a client.

This is my latest Mommy/Daughter set.  Lily loves tigers, so this seemed like fun.  Fabric is made from recycled water bottles.  I love that.  This pattern is my letter A for Sinclair sew the alphabet.  It is named Alana.  I love that it has pockets and was easy to color block because this was retail at Sew Dynamic and there was only so much of each fabric.  I love how it turned out.  I’ll keep it for a long time.  Lily will grow out of it by next year.

This was a fun make - I wanted new long pants for work but black gets boring.  I got this panel from The Styled Magnolia and went to work figuring out which pattern I could use to make the flowers go down one leg (they are in a wavy pattern on the print). I also wanted one leg all black to justify using them as work pants.  I was left with the skull from the other side of the panel so I made a matching tank top.  I used a striped mesh on the back with criss cross straps to be used as my 52 weeks something with an interesting back.

I had to sew something with batting.  I really wasn’t enthused and had picked a small narwhal made out of a sock but couldn’t make myself want to do it.  Then I stumbled across this pattern that I had downloaded free from Patterns for Pirates a while ago and decided to make a poop emoji for Lily.  She loves this emoji for some reason.  Too many brothers I think.

This is my pilates shirt.  Red because my regular work shirt is red.  I originally bought this shirt in a medium to fit my shoulders then took it in in the sides before adding the vinyl.

I feel like I have made more than this but this is what I see with pictures right now.  I did make another purse that I finished last week.  I also have a shirt that I will finish today - it just needs a hem and other topstitching.  I also am working on pattern testing a no waste pattern.  That has been interesting but not super successful as far as fit goes.  I need to go see if I can resurrect them somehow.  They were originally for Duncan but the shirt is way too feminine looking.  The pants could be ok, but they are too tight in the crotch.  I’m going to see if there is any way to make them wearable.

The rest of Jan sewing and crafts

 

This is the fair play top by empty hangar patterns.  I pattern tested this one.  The collar confused me more than it should have but I got it done.  I originally wanted to do blowers and black but was using scraps and cut them out mirrored -oops, so a new plan arose.

Finally after a new machine and a teflon foot for the new machine, I was able to sew this together.

This was a 52 weeks of sewing project - use my most recent fabric.  These are from a mystery remnant bundle from The styled magnolia.

This shirt came from another mystery scrap bundle and is another one I was pattern testing.  This is the Hulili by Eunoia

Another Hulili by Eunoia

I only tacked the vest to the shirt here so it didn’t come off when dancing, but it was my project for the day.

Labeled these boxes when my cricut was still new.

This one is the Meena also by Eunoia - also pattern testing.  This is the first one I made.

This is the second one I made.  Was going more for a sweatshirt look in hopes she will wear this one.  She won’t wear the pink one above.  She isn’t a fan of long sleeve shirts.  

This is my most recent project.  I bought a new laundry basket for our bathroom because both of our plastic ones were broken.  Then I labeled them.  Of course I didn’t realize they could only hinge one way because the other 2 Saul dry baskets we have similar to this are non directional.  I labeled 3 out of the 4 on the wrong side.  Darks is the only one I labeled correctly and that one is too dark to read - go figure.  I really just wanted to practice with heat transfer vinyl because i want to make shirts for 2 of my clients and I don’t want to ruin them.

Jan week 1 crafts

 This year I’ve decided to post more crafts than just sewing.  I say a fun page in another group that was a coloring page to color one square for each day of the month you did a craft.  That inspired me to try to craft something daily.  I just got a new cricut and it is easier to get something done there than try to do a sewing project so I decided to branch out.  So these are my projects for the year so far.

Jan 1made a cute music sticker on my cricut. My cricut was new and I had some svg files that I got when I bought a package of png files.  So I learned how to import an svg file.  I didn’t get it to release form the transfer paper onto the wall though,  it is still on the wall of my music room half one the wall and half still stuck to the transfer papers. Here is what the sticker looks like.  So much weeding I really want it to stick to the wall.  I think the orange peel ont he wall maes it not stick well.

Jan 2 - I learned to cut leather on the cricut.  I cut out a keychain lip balm holder.  Did not finish.  I wasn’t sure o the size, but it got cut out.

Jan 3 I started sewing the keychains and Jan 4 I finished them.  They were a gift for my running friends.  We are the herd so do cow theme stuff quite regularly.

Here they are all.  I filled them with some of my favorite chocolate mint chapstick that I make.

Jan 5 I tried to make another keychain out of some scrap leather I had from cutting out a purse.  That failed miserably.  I looked it up and I think I need a Teflon foot, but I’m going to try tape on the bottom of my foot or tissue paper over the leather first to see if that helps the problem I had with it feeding correctly. Sadly this day I also went to my class on how to use my machine.  Sadly this problem didn’t occur until after the class.

Thursday I also learned how to do heat transfer vinyl on my cricut.  I had cut the bear out when I did my introductory class on the cricut.  I got the c and the bag with my heat press.  

Friday I cut out a little panda on the cricut.  Lilys table is called panda table and she wanted a sticker to put on her table at school so before school we got this cut out and se took it with her to school.  Below is what he looked like.  I didn’t take a pic.

Saturday I finally did my 52 weeks of sewing project and made a jar opener with scraps I had.  Goal was make something from scraps this week.  I was going to use the keychain out of scraps but when that didn’t turn out I had to fixture something else out,

Today I wanted to do something with Lily.  She picked making earrings on the cricut.  We had some issues with the glittery faux leather.  It would t stick at all to the mat so it isn’t Buffett.  Thankfully the white on top helps hide the imperfections.  

December sewing

 

This was my week 48 challenge.  Make something new.   I actually made 2 of these and 2 skirts to go with them.  I’ll have to take pics when we wear them again.  I had this fabric and decided to make a batwing style shirt with them.  I actually ended up buying 2 new patterns.  I used the one by Sinclair.  It needed some modification to not be so low in the back and I should have used a different fabric for the binding at the neck to be sturdier, but it is wearable, and lily and have matching shirts and green maxi skirts that aren’t identical just both green to go with them.  

An extra project.  Sewing fabric from my stash.  Brandon has been getting cold lately and this is a nice fuzzy fabric on the wrong side that I thought would make a nice cozy oversized sweatshirt 

Week 50 challenge.  Something for your head/ears.  This is a pattern I’ve wanted to try for quite some time but haven’t.

Bought a scrap pack of bamboo French terry from the styled magnolia.  I had to play with how to use it but it was nicely themed fabric.  I made this and a shirt for me and still have some plaid left over.

Made another pair of sweats for Ben after he bought another pair or two that are entirely too short.

Another styled magnolia fabric I picked up on retail this month.

I used this shirt as week 50. Sew something for yourself.

Elf day for lily.  I made a quick had and collar.  It was too warm to wear the Gnome shirt above.  Wondered if we’d get to wear them this season but it got down to 15 a couple of nights ago so the shirts got worn.

Week 49 sew a holiday gift.  Made slippers for lily and Duncan.  Then Aaron saw that they were camo and wanted a pair.  He ended up really liking them.  They are reversible but I don’t foresee either boy wearing them on the brown side.  Lily may wear hers on the purple side if she keeps track of them.

Here’s my gnome shirt.  Slightly different.

Yet another shirt I made this month from the styled magnolia retail another bamboo French terry.  That fabric is so comfy.

November sewing

 I got a decent amount done this month considering how busy it has been.  Lots of sick or out of town clients helped work be less busy so I could sew more.  I addition to getting my projects done for 52 weeks of sewing, I made myself a new sweatshirt.  (Top right). I had wanted to try the pattern because I was interested in the cowl neck.  However it looked ridiculous on and pulled funny, didn’t lie right… so I switched it to a regular neck band.  I love the shirt and the little side pockets. Sadly it is way to tight in the shoulders and neck for me so it got passed to lily.  I made myself a regular raglan shirt to match lily because it liked the pink and the black leopard.  

My 52 week projects were a pj shirt, a fun skirt for lily.  I hate ruffles, but lily loves them.  I wanted to make something tinier but didn’t get it done with thanksgiving week and cleaning and regular stuff that needed to get done so the shorts were the tiniest thing I made last month. I did those as part of a sew a long that Teal hosted.  My last project was bowl covers for something for the kitchen.