Time for another sewalong!
This time it’s KCW (Kids Clothes Week).
The challenge: spend one hour a day sewing clothes for your kids. Simple!
I’m not sure whether I’ll actually get more than one thing completed in the week, but I want to work on a reversible coat, some trousers, and maybe a jumper 🙂
I may have been cutting it a little close finishing the day before the Spring Top Sewalong on Made By Rae ends, but I did it! I made a top – hooray!
As I said in my previous post, technically it’s an Autumn top, because it’s getting on for winter, but actually it looks quite spring-like with it’s pink and flowers, so I’ll just go along and call it a Spring top!
Some time last year I picked up some fabric that looked like it would be the kind used to make clothes from the clearance table at Spotlight (i.e it was nice and cheap!) I bought it with the idea of trying out making something for me in mind, testing out some patterns before making some nicer things in more expensive fabric.
I used the Meghan Peasant pdf pattern from Sis Boom, choosing the top version rather than the dress. The pattern was pretty easy to follow, with lots of pictures to show you what to do.
Having never made a top before I didn’t really know what to expect. I got to this point, convinced that it was a total disaster and the only person it would ever fit would be a three headed ogre (the adult coathanger above it gives you an idea of size):
 A few pieces of elastic later however, and it actually resembled a top! Moreover, it even fits!!
I am tempted to make another now that I know it fits, but in plain, dark colour. I shall wear this one, even is it’s only round the house, because I made it 🙂
I learnt lots making my top, mainly how not to make it!
Hopefully the next top I make will be even better!
Recently I offered to test a new pattern for some girly crochet baby booties. I thought they would be a good addition to the parcel I am sending for my new niece!
I chose pink to make them super girly and used cotton yarn to make them nice and sturdy (and washable!). I used some beads that were left from some item of clothing I don’t think I own any longer (they came in a little plastic envelope as spares, like you often get spare buttons in case one falls off).
Once I’d finished the first foot the second was easy! Unfortunately, this made the second foot stitches tighter and smaller than the first, so I ended up undoing half of the first and redoing so that they matched!
Here are my finished booties, ready to send in the post:
After my success with the last comforter I made, I decided I should also make one for my new niece who’s due this summer in the UK.
This one is a bit more girly, with pink owls. It is made from minky with double sided satin ribbons around the sides. Just right for a newborn baby girl!
My most recent makes have been some new baby gifts for a friend. It’s been a while since I last made these, so it was nice to get back into making them.
I made an owl minky ribbon comforter:
 The last time I made comforters was before I had a walking foot. Wow-what a difference that makes! I knew it would be easier, but had no idea how much! I top-stiched around the edges after I’d turned it out, which I’d never done before as I knew it would look awful with it sliding around, and look how great it turned out. I was so pleased with this one:
 I also made some bibs. Since they don’t know whether it’s a boy or a girl they’re expecting I made one of each. A girly bib …
 … and a boy bib.
 A whole little newborn set for their soon to arrive little bundle 🙂