Sewing on Sunday

What have I been up to in the sewing room this week?
I'm, glad you asked. :)

No more peg pouches...yet.
I have bought the fabric for some more but I was busy finishing off peg aprons this week.
The very exciting news is that I sold five peg aprons to another mum at school for Christmas gifts from my Made It store...

These are the two new ones I made this week.

The smaller spot has sold, the larger spot is still listed.

I also made two too cute skirts for my Miss 5 from leftover fabrics.

Gotta love leftovers!!





Sew...what have you been up to in your sewing room this week?

The Christmas Dress

My sewing machine has been working over time lately!
And for a 20-something year old basic little Janome, it's been doing a brilliant job.
I do love my sewing machine!!

After I finished the 9...nine...Christmas aprons, I had small piece of the gorgeous birdie fabric left to make a Christmas dress or skirt for my Miss 4. I needed to match it with some other fabrics but I knew that wouldn't be difficult because there are so many beautiful Christmas fabrics around at the moment. So I went to Lincraft and chose red spot, and red owl & hearts fabrics.

And Miss 4 helped me pick this pattern...


McCall's 5838

 I hadn't made a Christmas dress for her before...I know...slack mum!!
But I was excited about making this one.
It turned out I didn't have quite enough birdie fabric for the frill, so I added an extra red spot frill.
So, after cutting out 12 pattern pieces (I wouldn't call this an easy pattern) and spending all day sewing (I wouldn't call it quick either) I was very, very happy with the end result.

And so was Miss 4, who "really, really, really" loves it!

And today I think my trusty sewing machine (and I) need a rest!

Girl's Skirt and Matching Headband

Again, with left over fabric from aprons, I made this cute little skirt with matching headband.
No pattern necessary.
I cut one rectangle 14cm x 75cm from dark blue.
And another 20cm x 110cm from the print fabric.
Sew seams at the back in the dark blue and the print fabrics.
Gather the print onto the plain fabric and stitch.
Make a 3.5cm casing at the top of the plain section leaving an opening for the elastic.
Sew a narrow hem at the bottom.
Thread 50cm of 2.5cm wide elastic through the casing and zigzag the ends together.
Sew the opening of the casing closed.

For the headband I used a rectagle 10cm x 52cm.
Sew the short ends together to form a circle.
Fold or iron 1cm along both long edges.
Sew the ends together of a 50cm length of 2.5cm wide elastic.
Slip the elastic into the headband.
Hold folded/ironed edges together, stitch as close to the edge as possible.

Girl's top and pants

This is the other outfit that I cut out last year but didn't get around to sewing until now. So, it too is too small for my little girl, but hopefully is just right for her cousin!

I used Butterick pattern #5017

Mix & Match Girls Outfit

Last year I cut out 3 outfits for my then 18mth old little girl.

I just finished sewing 2 of them, but now that she is 2 1/2 they're too small.  Oh no!

I used McCall's Pattern #5028



















Here's how they turned out...

Cute, huh?

Etsy??

Girl's tiered dress

I just finished this dress for my 2 year old daughter.

 

I made it using McCalls Pattern #4817.

 

I want to be 2 again!!