My Sewing Blog

I just finished this sling from the Blessed Designs Comfort Cuddler pattern. It only took a couple of hours. But.............. I don't think it fits properly. Look at my boy in the pictures. He can't really see out. The straps are really slippy also. I need to add a chest strap. I did shorten the straps already, but I should have shortened the body too. I made it with a lovely soft aubergine cord, and lined it with some delicious bamboo velour. I've put a hidden layer of denim inside to strengthen it. The foam padding for the waist and straps came from an old changing mat. It had ripped and I was going to throw it away when I thought the foam might come in handy for something :-) I washed the foam in the washing machine, so I know it won't disintegrate or anything when I wash the sling. The sling has a large elasticated pocket on the front. I wasn't going to put it on, because I wanted to make it up quickly, but the pocket was really fast and simple ...

It feels like this has taken me forever to do! The smocking didn't take too long, but construction took quite a while. then I gave it to my mum to hem. Then I lost a piece of fabric for the pants and had to re-cut it. It was then waiting ages for the button holes. I decided to do them tonight, but I nearly gave up! I just don't like doing button holes. I don't understand how the thing works. There is a little wheel thing on the button hole foot but sometimes it doesn't turn, and it doesn't sew the button hole right. Very annoying . But its done now. Phew! Because I've lined the pants in white its making them look a slightly different colour. But I'm sure no one will notice when they're on. I forgot to get a picture of the little blue leather shoes that match. Nevermind. Will have to get a picture of it all in action. I have another little smocked outfit to hem and add buttons and button holes to. Might work up the courage to do that tomorrow...

This top is made from Blessed Designs #1002. It is a nursing top. You lift the top layer and there are extended armhole openings in the white layer. Very good for keeping your stomach covered! It was so fast and easy to make! I will definitely make this again, but next time lengthen it by quite a bit. It's too short on me. Because I am small it makes me look even shorter! I think if I wear a longer top it'll make my body look longer and I'll look taller. The pink fabric came from my stash. I've had it about 4 years. It's not really my colour though. I just really wanted to try the pattern out. The hems were done on my sewing machine. I was too lazy to set my overlocker up to do cover stitch. I think they look pretty good and quite professional. Picture is a bit blurred though. One morning a few months ago I woke up and just randomly decided to sew this! I neglected my house for the day to sew it. It had just been waiting for snaps. It's f...

These are the finished Fattycake pocket nappies I was making the other day. My hand hurts from applying all the snaps! This is the inner. It's made with a really soft microfleece. Unfortunately the stud part of the snaps are cream, because I've ran out of white studs. The lilac one actually has pink studs on the inside! This is how the pocket works. Apparently it's technical name is a "sham pocket". I didn't hem the edges since its fleece and won't fray. Just thought I'd add these two pictures. I made them a month or so ago. I think they are medium sized Very baby AIOs. These are daddy-proof nappies! I made them so they'd be easy for him to use. Half the time he puts on two covers, or uses a cover with a nappy that it doesn't go with. The light blue is an AIO with a birdseye inner. The royal blue one is a pocket. It leaked spectacularly on its first use. Out of the back too, which is really quite odd. I put R down for a ...

Well, these turned out not too badly. I think. I hope they will work ok. This is a small sized Fattycake. It's made from PUL and microfleece. I stitched them RS together and turned them. I sewed the elastic to the seam allowences. I topstiched really close to the edges, but not through the leg area. The inside. I made the pocket opening at the front, so you don't have to stick your hand into the back of a stinky nappy to remove the insert. I hemmed the edges of th opening on this one, but it does make it a bit bulky. Since its fleece it won't fray, so i've left the edges unhemmed on the other ones. The opening is kind of envelope style. This is a close up of the topstiching and the casing I made for the front elastic. I made a casing on the back elastic too. I still have to add snaps. I've made a lilac one and I've got a pale pink one cut out ready to sew. They are quite narrow through the crotch. I'm not too sure what to stuff them with...

I made these pj trousers a few months back for S with some flannel I'd had for ages. They were from a pattern from Burda magazine. Look what he did to them!!!!! I think he was sliding around on the floor and caught them on something sharp. Or so he says.... I might cut it into boosters for R's nappies. Don't want to waste fabric. Some more mess... a prize for anyone who can guess what this is supposed to be! This is about as good as I can get it looking. It's supposed to be a Fattycakes diaper. I don't know what went wrong. Maybe my elastic was too tight? Maybe I should have sewn it through all layers? Maybe using knit fabric was a bad idea? It's all just curled up and blah looking. It was supposed to be a baby gift too! I'm running low on all my nappy fabrics, so I'm really annoyed at messing this up. I also realised why I never t&t nappies... because I HATE it!!! So much extra work. It looks less professional. And the topstitchi...