Posts Tagged ‘Sewing’
Sitting Owls
Things have been a bit owl crazy around here in the last few months. When mum and I went to the craft show the other month she bought this very cute pattern for owls that stand up around your house. We’ve made them at craft group, and everyone has made multiple sets. Except maybe mum?!
Here is the blog of the woman who created these cute little things!
Anyway, I have two families, plus a little green one, plus a blue one Nana made me for my birthday! They are a range of sizes, and I want to make a rainbow of them. Below is the start of my rainbow of owls. I need to go and buy a few more pieces of fabrics in colours I don’t usually buy. I started these last week when Naomi and Jo came over for some craft. It was really nice to craft with other people. That’s one of the things I love about craft group.
Usually at nights I just do things by myself, and find satisfaction in people from the internet loving my creations (that would be you all!), and while that is definitely still the case, it is fun to have people to talk to while I make things! Does anyone else feel like this? To be honest, I have this hope that my children might like doing arts and crafts as well, and then we can all play together and make fun things.
The start of my new rainbow of owls!
Tiny little owls!
The finished dress!
Yesterday was a public holiday for some of us on the Sunshine Coast, which makes this another long weekend. Two in a row, and only a three day week inbetween! Usually I love this week, but this year it happened to be three incredibly stressful days, so it wasn’t so great. 
It made me appreciate the long weekend though!!
I kicked off my lovely free Friday with some old Food Safari episodes, and sewing some last things on my dress. Luke and I spent a bit of time together at the movies seeing Iron Man, which was really good. How much do you want the tech that he has when he’s making digital scans of things etc?! I would watch the movie again and again just for that (and Robert Downey Jr, haha!). I FINISHED my dress last night, after some size modifications, and I am so happy that it’s done!
I somehow managed to make the dress like 4 or so sizes too big, which was kinda annoying, because I measured it and what not. In the end it means that my modifications have made the dress a bit less neat. A bit of a bummer considering how much unusal effort I put into actually MAKING it neat. There’s a lining in it for peat’s sake!
Anyway, it was really quite big around the sides of my torso, so I just sewed in the edges down to the waist. I took the waist in only a little, and kept the hips and skirt as they were. Trying to bring them in would have been too much hassle, because of the in seam pockets I made, so I left. I actually quite like it with a bit of a full skirt.
Speaking of those pockets, I’ve got the pattern for them available to download here. I’ll most likely put it up on burdastyle as well. If you use it, let me know! I’d love to see what you make with them!!
Would instructions be helpful? It was actually quite complicated, so if you don’t know how, I would suggest instruction. I used these ones…
We forgot to go to our friend Kim’s birthday party last night, and I blame the public holiday for making me think it was Saturday!! I woke up at some stupid hour this morning in a panic because I realised we’d forgot! Not cool…
I’m hoping the rest of the day will envolve some baking, menu planning, grocery shopping and relaxing. What do you have planned this weekend?
Tags: download, dress, inseam pocket, pattern, polkadots, Sewing
The spotted dress
My long weekend project is this dress:
This is my first attempt at hard core dress sewing since I use to make my own clothes in high school. Needless to say that it’s quite different to the sewing I’ve been doing since then- mostly just straight simple lines on bags and quilts.
I will say though, all those quilts and bags have served their purpose, as far as sewing skills go- This weekend I’ve been sewing the straightest lines ever!
So, because this being my first piece of clothing sewn in a while, it meant that I wasn’t exactly prepared. It took me two trips to Spotlight yesterday to get together everything I needed (including a new pattern).
I started out wantng to make this coffee date dress, which I could download free from burdastyle, because there a few great tutorials to walk you through it. I even got so far as to sticky tape the whole bloody thing together before I realised there was seriously no way this was going to fit me and that I had NO WHERE NEAR enough fabric. *sigh*
Anyway, I found a new pattern to try, and a similar fabric to buy and started cutting/sewing.
During the day I got a fair bit of Stargate watched with Luke, because I spent a lot of time pinned things together and cutting them out and what not. I got NONE of the other jobs I was meant to do done. Alas. We will do them on Monday as we celebrate the birthday of our beautiful Queen.
BTW when people say we should become a republic they forget about the awesome public holidays and athletic competitions we get to win because we’re in the Commonwealth. I love the monarchy. I even followed them on twitter for a while. 
Anyway, back to the task at hand. My dress.
I wanted it to have in-seam pockets in the dress (did I mention I haven’t sewed clothes in FOREVER?! Talk about jumping into the deep end…), but for the life on me can’t find a free pattern online! So I decided to make my own. I’ll post it up here once I’ve perfected it so that other people can use it too.
As I was searching for a pattern, and reading some blogs, I stumbled onto this post by Rossie on pedging to talk more about PROCESSES, and not just finished products when we blog… It’s pretty interesting idea, and one that is inspiring me to write more posts like this!
Tags: dress, handmade, polkadots, process, Sewing, spotted dress
