My Sewing Blog

Here's what I made on my mini sewing challenge week... Thursday: A small Chloe Toes pocket nappy. Yellow PUL outer and a mocrofleece inner. Friday: I made the star print pocket Chloe Toes, and also put snaps onto the AIO. I used red lycra binding on the microfleece inner pocket edge. I don't know if it is the same stuff as FOE. It looks and feels exactly the same, but I decided not to make the whole thing with the red in case it leaked or something. Cat was getting in the way when I was taking the photos! He was trying to catch the cord on the camera. Saturday: Medium sized Poquito Pants. This is the 1st pair I've made using FOE. I wasn't too sure if I'd like it or not, but it turned out really nice. It's fast and easy to make them this way too. Sunday: Made another pair of medium Poquito Pants - t&t version this time. The knit fabric is really stretchy and seems quite fragile. I didn't sew a size tag on. Might go back ...

It's going quite well! I've got 6 completed items. Two more almost prepped to sew tonight. After that I'll probably be making snap in soakers for the nappies I've made recently. I've also joined a bag swap on my sewing group - which is kind of exciting! I don't have my swap partner yet, so I don't know what I'll be making. I want to make some bags for Christmas gifts this year too. Here is a little preview of some of the completed items: x3 Chloe Toes - one is an AIO the other two are pockets. Here is what the boy was up to while I was trying to put snaps on them. Tipping a bag of snaps out all over the window ledge.... Playing with the snap press. He was trying to put a pen through the hole in the handle. And, his all time favourite thing to do... fiddle with the radio! He has been sleeping a bit better now. I noticed he has some new teeth at the back, so maybe that's what was causing him to wake up all the time. Poor thing!

I'm giving myself a mini challenge. To sew one item or complete one UFO every day this week. I've started the week on Thursday since we'll be out all next Thursday evening. I completed one item on Thursday, and one last night. So its going well so far! Not too sure what I'll work on this evening, but hopefully I'll get a chance to cut or apply snaps during the day so I'm ready to start sewing this evening when R goes to sleep. Will post pictures of everything next Thursday. Once I've done that I'm going to start on some Christmas sewing!

Well, I got my fabric! I also got some really lovely patterns this week too. All I need now is time to sew with them. With a boy who seems to wake every half an hour after he's been put to sleep time isn't something I have much of :-( I just wanted to make a post about home education. For the first time ever I feel like we are getting somewhere and that I know what I am doing! I've finally got all the stuff together that I need for this school year and I've been busy scribbling down some sort of a time table. I wanted to post it here so I don't lose it! This one is for S - who is nearly 7. He is doing Christopherus 1st Grade, and his time table pretty much follows what they've set out. September 2 weeks - getting ready for school 2 weeks -Language arts (introducing the alphabet) October 2 weeks - Language arts (introducing the alphabet) 1 week - Nature 1 week - Holiday November 4 weeks - maths (introducing numbers) December 2 weeks - Language arts (introd...

Gah. Still waiting for my fabric. I found the tracking thing on Paypal and it said that it left the US on the 3rd of October. So that's not too bad. I'm sure last time I looked at it it said that it had dispatched on the 25th of September! I was starting to get worried about it. It'll probably be here by Friday. I made my 1st Chloe Toes nappy last night. Its a pattern I've been wanting to get forever! It was actually a bit trickier and more time consuming that I had expected. And the blades of my overlocker made a horrible job on the soaker :-( I looked them up online and they are very expensive :( We have ordered a family railcard, and when I get that I think I might take a trip to Stirling and see if they have any - and probably eye up the embroidery unit for my sewing machine. I think its £495. Eeeks. But maybe it might be on special offer or something. Not sure if I'll have an awful lot of time for sewing (not that I ever had much time for sewing!). We've b...

I'm sure I must have put a pic of them somewhere... These are some KCK Ones I made for someone from our home education group. The flower and ladybird one is a modified KCK One. I put a snap down rise on the front, something like a Bumgenius - not that I've actually seen a Bumgenius in real life. I might make a snap closing one at some point. I think the wings would need to be shortened just a little bit, and I'd probably put two rows of snaps to stop wing droop. The paper in the pic is an instruction sheet I printed out. I think the colours look really pretty together. The royal blue seems a bit out of place I think. I did have a yellow and a red cut out, so it was a selection of primary and pastel colours - but I've run out of labels and aplix now. I used microfleece for the inners of these, but I'd like to try suedecloth. I plan to order some to try out, and I think I'd like to get a few cuts of PUL in colours I don't have. Like some greens ...