Repair Pair

 When the friend very generously brought the inherited sewing stuff a few years ago (thanks again!), it included a lot of clothing that had probably been purchased to be used for craft purposes.  A lot of it was still fine--I kept a few pieces, let my friends pick out things they liked, and donated the rest.  A lot if it, though, had also been cut into.  Again, I kept a few pieces to use as doll cloth and let the friends take any they wanted, then put the scraps aside for years before deciding what to do with them.

A lot ended up in the scrap-filled floor pillow, but I realized a few pieces actually could be repaired.

Skirt Into Fall

After I made the blue corduroy shorts, I still had a lot of that fabric left.  I felt like making a long skirt from it would be good.

Then my brain started complicating things: it demanded a center front button placket.

Well, I thought, that still wouldn't be too hard--might even be possible to make without a pattern, just gather the waist into--

"No," the brain said. "It should be an A-line skirt."

Well...OK...I do have an A-line skirt pattern with a center front seam that could be hacked...

Buuut I really didn't want to do that.  So, I checked the next JoAnn pattern sale and purchased two possibilities: McCall's 7981 and 7906.  7981 has some non-gathered views that are pretty much what I envisioned, but 7906's pleated (and top stitched!) waist shaping was also really appealing, so I decided to go with that one.

 

But.

I am still getting a feel for sewing things with waists, and my waist measurement, last time I measured (which was when I was still planning to make this) was somewhere between 16 and 18.  The finished waist measurements are printed on the pattern, so I decided to risk things and go with the 16.

At this point, however, I also decided not to jump right in with the corduroy, so I grabbed something from the stash that's not my usual color scheme, but was just the right length that there's not a whole lot of it left over.  After a few days of sporadic sewing, I ended up with this

Halloween Patchwork Jumper: The Video

 When I made the Halloween-print patchwork jumper just over a month ago, I also recorded bits of the process to make a video.  I may have gone too far in the "you don't have to record every single step" direction, and that long, tedious project ended up condensed to about 6½ minutes

Chair-y

 Several years ago, I thrifted this chair

Yeah.

In Between The People Here

 As the kiddo's birthday approached and he hadn't asked for anything specific (he knew he was getting a better computer), I asked once again if he wanted anything in particular.  Ever in pursuit of the meme, he said "Amogus."

Of course there are official Among Us plushies, but, not only were they not available at that time, I also knew he would be happy with something, shall we say...very off-model.

So.

I didn't use any patterns and it is terrible and he grinned so much when I gave it to him.

Weighty

 I have recently started following Buried Diamond.  I like the sewing projects a lot, but it was the post about making pattern weights with resin that really set something off within me.  I have been interested in resin for years, but nothing quite made me want to finally acquire the necessary materials like seeing those pattern weights.

And it just happened that JoAnn had a big blowout weekend sale that did not include resin but did include a 60% off coupon that I could use on that full-price resin, along with a 40% off coupon I could use for a basic 4-cavity round soap mold (and another 40% off coupon put toward some moldmaking compound so I can make my own designs for jewelry use in the unknown future.)

And so I jumped right into my first resin project ever, with four layers each and loads of research into when the best time to add the embeds and the glitter and the next layers, and it being a lovely day so I could open EVERY window and put a window fan set to exhaust in the nearest one.

I demolded them the next morning and here they are

Blues

 I made the striped knit shirt two posts ago fairly randomly, and the blue corduroy shorts in the last post I made specifically to go with the striped knit shirt, and the temperature dropped a bit so I felt like today would be a good day to debut the ensemble.

Then I messed up the light levels for the pictures, so...blurry.

I ran errands today and 2/3 of the cashiers complimented the outfit!

I'm mostly happy with it--next time I make the shorts, I need to fiddle with the crotch curve, because things conform a bit in places where they should be skimming, but it's promising enough that there probably will be a next time.