For the first time I can remember, I'm pausing in the middle of a project because I decided to order something for it--it could have been completed just fine without it, but I really wanted to add the details.
I would easily have finished it yesterday if I hadn't decided to be fancy(ish).
In the meantime, I'm working out some more doll sewing patterns to share, allowing me to enjoy the laser printer we just got.
I had some fabric that I had bought as a clearance bolt--I thought it was something I got when the local Hancock Fabrics went out of business in 2007, but it's not in my photos from then. I did use some of it in a project photographed in 2013, but, beyond that, all I really know is that I'd had it for a long time, and I originally had a lot of it.
I recently decided it would be good for a shirt. But...long sleeve or short sleeve?
I decided on long sleeve, grabbed McCall's 6613, and got to work.
I got a piece of printed cotton, from the craft thrift store last year, that I wanted to make into a shirt. I just finished finally making that, using the modified Burda 7831, which, at this point, I can assemble fairly quickly.
I was delighted to find that the print repeat was designed so that the motifs near the selvedge edges fit together perfectly with a 5/8" seam, and that meant I could effortlessly pattern match the front bands, which just seemed like it would be such a fun touch.
But.
I was later extremely dismayed to see that, once everything was sewn and overlapped, that meant that my Most Loathed Sewing Thing happened: the pattern repeated directly next to itself on either side of the seam/opening, and there was nothing I could do about it
I don't say this lightly, but...ðŸ˜
This time it used two fabrics from the last visit to the craft thrift store: an innocuous rib knit and an "I never would have worn anything even remotely like this back then" 1990s sweatshirt fleece, and I combined them both with McCall's 5070, an "I wouldn't've worn this back then, either" 1987 raglan sleeve sweatshirt pattern.
...and I'm honestly not sure if I'll wear it now, either
After cutting the previous project, there was a large(ish) piece of fabric left that was just enough to eke out a little T-shirt for me.
Here's another project made (mostly) with fabric gleaned from the last trip to the craft thrift store.
This one's for the kiddo!
More craft thrift store fabric, another modified Burda 7831, changed up a bit with some lace from deep within the stash
A few weeks ago, I posted a bunch of doll dresses I'd sewn, saying I needed to change my serger thread before I could sew the rest. Well, I did and I did.
The two lower right dresses are made from fabric purchased at the intervening visit to the craft thrift store, so this is a few more dresses than I expected to sew. Still, they're sewn, and I will offer them around certain doll circles in the near future, and proceed to sew things that can use white serger thread (I'm already partway through another modified Burda 7831 button up shirt, using the pink background fabric in the photo, which is also fabric from the last trip to the craft thrift store.)
