Easy Breezy

After finishing the quick knit dress, I wanted to make another quick pull-over dress, but I don't have a lot of appropriate knits, so I wondered if I could combine bits of Simplicity 9406 with McCall's 5675, a pull-over shirt pattern for wovens.

I've made shirts from this before, using view C, and always with short sleeves (although not always the same style of short sleeve), so I knew it was fairly quick--the biggest hassle is the pressing-folding-pinning needed for the bias neckline finish and tie ends. (I'm going to  try to remember, next time, to press the binding before sewing it to the body.)  And the way the armscye and sleeve cap fits together is just fabulous, no need to hassle with little bits that don't quite want to smooth out.  Adding the length and flare to it by tracing the knit dress pattern was no problem and it's really comfortable but...

Maybe we can call this a vaguely wearable muslin?  (It's actually really cute with a belt, but belts don't stay put over my mom belly.  So.)

When the weather is warmer, I might at least wear this around the house, because...I mean...it certainly looks like a housedress...

The 1990s, You Say?

I wanted to do something quick, and with a...somewhat out of date print synthetic jersey knit--so, hey, why not use an outdated pattern, too?

I've gone up a pattern size (...um..at least...) since the last time I used this pattern, but I'd apparently only used the higher neckline view then, so I was able to cut out the lower neckline in a better size, then added tissue to the edge of the back piece to grade it up a size.  I left the sleeve cap alone, and it  fit well enough that I'd forgotten that I'd forgotten to alter it until after the sleeves were sewn on, so...that worked out.  I did make the short sleeve shorter, for purely aesthetic reasons (as opposed to my usual "the sleeve is shorter because there wasn't enough cloth left to eke out the length shown" reason.)

And I made the whole dress shorter, too--again, for aesthetic reasons, since there's still a lot of this cloth left, so no need to scramble around limited resources.

I did a Meh job on stitching the hems--I'm so much more accustomed to facing necklines, instead of just plain turning 'em.  And I remembered to press the sleeve hem allowances before attaching them to the dress, so I wouldn't have to wrestle the whole assembly around while trying to measure and iron things.

The result is not great, but it's definitely acceptable

I feel like I was dressing the way I often dress my dolls.

Speaking of dolls, I used a bit of this giant gray floral print to make a doll dress

 ...and Chip is always around...

Trolling

So a generous friend recently sent me a big box'o'doll stuff, with a bit of cloth thrown in as well.

Cloth like this

Which I did use for a doll dress!

...but there was much more of it, so I used it for a shirt for me...

Temporarily Diverted (well, not really any more 'temporarily' than usual)

I'd decided that my next project would absolutely be making something to wear from a fabulously horrible vintage unlicensed troll print sent to me by a friend.  I shuffled through my patterns and eventually settled on one I wanted to use...but...didn't feel like sewing that particular thing at that time.

But!

I was reminded of another pattern that I'd been wanting to make again, so I thought I'd go ahead and pick out a fabric and make that really quick!

But.

While looking through the cloth stash, I spotted a group of prints that weren't in a color range that I usually use, but that harmonized well, so...another patchwork future quilt top happened.

It's about 50"x70" and used up almost all of these prints (what's left can easily be worked into the back), so it turned into a decent stash buster.