February in Review

Sewing, Mending and Alterations

Clockwise top L to R:  Tessuti Apron (free download), two cotton sateen dresses (OOP Simplicity 2372), foam block cover (self-drafted pattern), raw silk dress (OOP Simplicity 2372), foam block cover (self-drafted sewing blooper).

Mending projects kept me busy this month.  There was a small tear and undone stitches around the pocket and elastic openings of my pajama bottoms that needed some attention.  These black wool pants were hanging out in a pile of clothes that didn't fit until I lost some weight, tried them on and welcomed them back into the wardrobe.  They just required a new hook and eye stitched back in place.  This dress has been only worn once so far and ended up having two inches removed from the hem.  I hope to get more wears out of it now, it's a very comfortable dress.  And another fitted sheet had the elastic replaced.  

2024 Challenge

I can not call my pledge to sew #NoMorePolyester a win this month.  I still have quite a bit of thread and zippers that contains polyester.  And these were used in some of my projects.  Fabric wise, it was cotton and silk that ended up on the cutting table.  

Stash busting and Additions

Stash busted this month:

• 8.8 metres of fabric 
• 0.9 metres of interfacing 
• 5 --- 55 cm invisible zipper
• 3.30 metres of basting tape

This month's additions were:  

• 10--20 mm black buttons
• 4--1000 m spools of blue thread
• Hannah Top and Dress pattern (PDF) by DG Patterns and the re-issued DVF wrap dress (Vogue 2000) were added to the pattern stash

So, that means that the total stash busted counts this year are

• 21.8 metres of fabric
• 2 metres of Knit 'N Stable tape
• 6 metres of trim
• 2.8 metres of interfacing
• 3 sewing labels
• 4 buttons
• 2 metres of elastic
• 8 spools of thread
• 3.3 metres of basting tape
• 5 invisible zippers

And the total additions this year to the stash:  

• 10--20 mm buttons
• 9 spools of thread
• 6 patterns
• 7.8 metres of trim

Happy Sewing!