Sewing Feliz

I finally did it, I traced the pattern and started sewing it. Not sure why I waited sooo long to do it. It's a day project with kidlet interuptions.

I started off by making a 98/104. which would fit, and be a little big. But I should have read and if I did, I would have seen that it would fit a 24" chest. There's no way Miss Mad has a 24" chest. She's barely 20". For the first dress, I used some fabric from a Sewingmama, littlewillow. I didn't have enough fabric to make the straps the length they were suppose to be, but they work.

At least I know that she'll be able to wear this dress for a long time. :)

Here's the back of the dress with all of it's ruffles.

Since this one came out so big, I thought I'd try it again and this time work with the smallest size 86/92. I didn't include seam allowances, thinking it would fit better. It's still big in the chest. and the length is almost too short. Don't ask about the fabric combo. she picked it out. and being 3.5, well I guess you can wear whatchya want to wear and it doesn't matter. Just not the combo I would have choosen, ya know.

Save a Sack

Save a Sac
Save a Sack
Creative name? I need a name for the little sacks/bags that I'm making. I'm in the process of making 30 for Carson's school. For his birthday snack, he wants goldfish. And instead of sending plastic baggies or paper cups to put them in, I thought I'd make little sacks for them.

They aren't as detailed as the ones that I'll have at the craft fair in Vanc. There's no "handle" on the school ones. I'll get pics up as soon as they are done. like tonight. cause well they have to be done for tomorrow!

The great thing, they can be used for other things, like collecting treasures!

Farbenmix Olivia turns into a waterproof fleece hoodie

So as the weather is changing here in good ol' Portland, I realized that Mad hardly has any long sleeves.Especially ones that she can wear over a shirt out in the rain.

I was going through my patterns and knew that Olivia works well for a shirt/hoodie with just a knit fabric. (see previous post of Carson wearing his knotted hooded shirt)

I figured why not make one for Mad. I did cut the hat down a bit (about 2" off the top) and rounded the back of the hood, taking off the knots. I also used a long sleeve that I knew I liked the length of. So off I went and took the Olivia pattern 98/104 and chopped the "skirt" portion off and instead of curving the sides, I straightened them out. I also had to cut the neckline larger to fit her head. (did this before sewing on the hood, good thing I checked, I would have hated to have to rip the hood off!)


If I were to do it again, I would make it a size bigger, as the fabric stretches, but not too much and it's kind of tight on her.

Pics to come, need to charge the camera.

crafty linky links

pencil bag
hand me up
ruffled skirt
easy skirt
wrap dress
morsbag
jeans to apron
labels
felt barrettes

Sewing Time Farbenmix Style

Another Olivia from Farbenmix. Black knit from a bunch of fabric I got from one of my mom's co-workers. The pink skulls from Cynthia at ZBG. THANK YOU CYNTHIA!!!! This is my favorite dress pattern for sure!

Another Farbenmix pattern. It's Taja. the shirt is suppose to have more of a curved a-line thing going on, but I cut it straight to make it more "boyish". Carson loves his hoodie. I think he was feeling left out since sis was getting clothes made. Fabric is flannel from Joann's via Danielle. THANKS DANIELLE!!!!

Last Farbenmix pattern I have to show. This is Greete. It's a jumper top and bell bottomish pants. The top has buttons in front and at the bottom of the top is little ties. Hard to see, I know, someone wouldn't stay still for the pics. This is the only one I could get that wasn't blurred.

wowsers 2 posts in 2 days!

So I had an hour yesterday and after getting my pattern pieces cut out, here's what I made of my time.....Farbenmix Olivia pattern. Thin knit that says Little Miss Sunshine.

I didn't have enough fabric to do long sleeves, so these are 3/4 sleeves. The stripes on the sleeves don't quite match but the body stripes do. (insert little banana dancing here, LOL)

And the crocheted Jack Skellington hat I did that came out way to big for Gman. It fit's his daddio so I'm in the process of making a smaller one. I wanted to add that I was inspired to crochet this hat after seeing this over at etsy.

what I've been doing

Dora dress size 2T one of the big name patterns
Mad picked out the fabric. She looooves Dora.
Cape and pants set for one of C's friends up the street. I made up the pattern for the cape. I still need to tweek some things to it. and I will never sew with satin again! it slips tooo much!
Pants of set. Lined with thin blue fleece, same as inside of cape.
Small longies, Belladonna Designs pattern and yarn. For sale at Zoom Baby Gear in Portland.
Large soaker also for sale at ZBG.

Pants for Gman custom sized just for him. BDD pattern and BFL yarn.
Front of pants.



There's more of what I've been up to but I forget to take pics of them before they leave the house. I've also made a peace fleece small soaker, another pair of longies in hand dyed cascade 220 in yellow, reds, and oranges, a double sided kid's mt for an mdc mom's daughter, uhm I know there's more but I can't remember right now. Oh a jack skellington crocheted hat for Gman's birthday. Ah how could I forget HP robes for Halloween. Those pics will come soon.

So I got a couple of Farbenmix patterns in the mail from a coop and I'll probably be mia while I sew up some clothes for miss M.