August in Review

Sewing, Alterations and Mending

This month's sewing focus was all about special occasion pieces and once that was all out of the way, it was back to sewing comfortable basics that fit.  I just want to sew loose and pull-over clothes to wear.  Top L to R:  Butterfly print cotton t-shirt (OOP Vogue 9057, now Vogue 1733), silk flower girl dress (OOP 9072).  Bottom L to R:  Teal coloured crepe pullover dress (Butterick 6784) and orange and gray cotton knit pullover dress (SD Patterns).   

How do you alter clothes that are too small?  This is going to be my focus going forward after I rescued the artwork from a too-snug t-shirt and used some left-over cotton knit from a previous project.  

Stash busting

This month stash-busted numbers were 14.6 metres of fabric, 7 metres of Knit 'N Stable tape, 0.5 metres of interfacing, 2 labels, 1 zipper and 2 metres of ribbon.  I used 3 previously unused and one previously used patterns.  

What's next?  

First up will be another butterfly print t-shirt for someone who was smitten with the fabric I used for the one above.  And then I'm free to sew whatever I want, time allowing of course.  I guess we'll just have to wait and see what comes out off the sewing machine.  

Happy Sewing!