I have a list of things I want to sew. This was not on that list.
Of course.
Simplicity 8951 is from 2019, so the fact that I used it before the end of 2020 (just barely) is novel for me
I did, once upon a time, hack a shirt pattern to make a similarly-shaped cardigan, but I decided, after making that, that it...might...be better to have a proper pattern.
But of course I couldn't bring myself to follow all of the instructions for said pattern. So.
The kiddo had a dentist appointment yesterday. He's been doing virtual school and so had left the property twice before this since the spring lockdown, and he didn't get along terribly well with the mask I made for him earlier, so I decided to throw together a new mask for him
Finally edited together the video files recorded when I made the black wool crepe newsboy hat:
it was...so boring to edit, mostly because I talked a lot and that meant I couldn't do the fast edits like in the previous sewing video experiment. Next time I feel like doing a sewing video experiment, I'm probably gonna plan to (figure out how to) do voice overs.
Whenever that may be.
As with most of my recent videos, this is not meant to be watched! It's meant to provide hobby-adjacent background noise, for the times when that's the kind of thing you want.
It is a fundamental truth that I will never again assemble anything with quite the same chaos as the stew shirt.
But it also a fundamental truth that the drawer in which I keep cuts of knits intended for doll use is very very crowded. So. I decided I would again assemble a patchwork of knits and use Kwik•Sew 1650 to make another sweatshirt for the kiddo.
The nature of the cloth curation for potential doll use meant that there was a clear coherence in the color palette, which I figured would be a mark against this project in the kiddo's eyes, but I guess he still perceived it as chaotic enough
Plus, y'know...birds
Made these leggings years ago, outgrew the waist a few years after that, finally added a ribbing/elastic band last week, posting it here as a record of Things Sewn
will resist wearing it with the previous dress to reduce Star Trek vibes.
I had an idea to make another patchwork bomber jacket, this time from knits, and largely inspired by the way a lot of the left-overs from recent projects looked good together. I didn't honestly, though, think I'd wear such a thing, so I put the idea aside. Then the unexpected vet fees happened, and I revisited the idea with the possibility of auctioning the jacket toward that.
With that idea in mind, I started cutting squares. Knowing I would use a different pattern than I used for the last patchwork jacket--a different pattern with a much larger size range--I knew I'd need more patches than before. I cut up all the left over pieces from the previous projects, scrounged through the doll knits drawer for more, and still came up a bit short. From the larger yardage knits, I chose a velour that I had no ideas for...then realized that it was a cotton velour. (It was part of the friend's generous sharing of a relative's fabric stash, thanks again!) As soon as I realized it was cotton (or at least cotton-inclusive), I wanted to make it into something for me. Something...long-sleeved.
So I started by cutting the sleeves (from the "no longer anywhere near the correct size but I keep it anyway because sewing shirts from it 15 years ago really changed--for the better--something in my relationship with sewing" New Look 6217) and then very quickly realized there really wasn't enough of the cloth left to make an entire bodice.
I was still determined to make something from this.
I laid out the front side of New Look 6217 to use the armscye, then used New Look 6068 in the correct size to fill out the rest of the front...then arbitrarily cut a dramatically curving "empire" height bottom edge for that piece. I repeated the combination of patterns for the back, using the edge of the front piece to determine where to cut the relatively straight lower back edge. "Empire" is in quotes because it ended p way too high--like, above the fullest part of the bust high.
So. Having realized that I had cut what was, essentially, a yoke...from a slightly heavy purple velour...I had to pause to figure out what to use for the rest that wouldn't result in looking like a background character from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
After toying with using a woven, digging through my fabric to find something suitable, and failing, I remembered an extremely synthetic knit I've had a lot of for a long time. I made an effort to stop second-guessing myself and used that
I'm not saying it doesn't look like something from ST:TNG...
Had to say Goodbye to my ever helpful Floof this morning
Her assistance will be missed very much.
Another fast Quik•Sew 1650 sweatshirt, nominally View A but I accidentally cut the length needed for View B and decided to go with that.
Took a break from making random things for The Child to make a random thing for me. I had cut the pieces for this a while ago--the fabric is what was left after making this hoodie, and the pattern is...uh...possibly the same shirt used to make the spiderweb lace edge layering shirt, so that would be McCall's 5058 from 1990. It certainly seems to have the same boxy, "wait, I probably could've gone down a size or two" look as that shirt.
But. I had cut the pieces, including doing Creative Thing™ to compensate for not having quite enough yardage, then...decided it was a bad idea and folded everything up and put it back into the cloth stash, with the idea I could cut pieces from them for some other project. Then I managed to completely forget that I had done that and thought it was remnant yardage, so was surprised when I got it out and found it was already pattern-piece shaped.
I decided, enh, might as well throw it together
...which probably will be used as pajamas. Anyway. In the continuing effort to both use up remnants in the knits stash and to make clothes for the growing tween Child, I, for the first time, used the pants part of Kwik•Sew 1650 and the green knit left over from the last green hoodie I made for him...which was just a bit short of what was needed, so I called in a bit of that Halloween cat print interlock (turned 90° off grain) last seen in the horrible stew shirt and here we are
This project for the kiddo really was quick, in large part because I had cut out the pieces...um...a while ago (honestly? I probably intended it to be a shirt for me, so, yeah. a while.) So all I had to do was sew.
Yep, just sew. Not even a hint of using the iron.
Many years ago, I had a 1960s "party idea" book that my friends and I enjoyed because it was mostly, to late 1990s eyes, really terrible. The idea that I liked the most was called a stew--you'd get every holiday decoration you had and put them all out at once and combine the refreshment and activity ideas of all the holidays as well.
Not being a party kind of person, I never got anywhere near throwing such a party, but this shirt I just made for the kiddo...well...
you can maybe see why I was thinking of that party idea.
