Peasant Style Top

I thought I would attempt a top this time, I've not done sleeves since my very first project and I don't really count that as it was what I like to think of as mindless sewing. I was following a pattern with the help of an experienced sewer, I really had no idea what I was doing and in the end I didn't really retain any knowledge of how I did certain things...like sleeves...

So following this tutorial by the wonderful Prudent Baby I gave it a go.



Here is Aimee showing off her new shirt!



I couldn't resist the red check, it's terribly cute! I want to do more now in heaps of different colours. ^_^

Until Next time!

Spotty Skirts

After finishing some dresses and skirts I was feeling pretty confident that I could make a skirt without any pattern. I remember seeing a picture in a magazine of a double layer skirt and thought I would be able to manage it myself.

So using the techniques I'd learned from the Itty Bitty Dress I made Aimee my very own Double layer skirt.



I love the spotty-ness, reminds me of a ladybug.

I also fooled around with some scraps and managed to create a matching headband.

Aimee makes everything I make look so cute!

Refashionista!

While surfing the interweb for new ideas and new discoveries in children's sewing I learnt about Refashioning.

One day I cut the legs off a pair of my horrible old jeans that were covered in paint as It was far too hot to wear them otherwise. I was almost going to throw out the scraps of denim when I realised there were large patches of denim without pain splatters on them and decided to see if I could get enough scraps to make Aimee a skirt.

Here is the result!






I made the band out of a super stretched t-shirt my partner would never wear and made the flower to cover a small patch of black pain splatter.

I'm quite pleased with the result and though it's not very fancy, I'm proud that I used stuff I already had to make it and I made it without a pattern!

I got the idea for making this skirt after seeing this tutorial Homemade by Jill's Guest post on Kokodesigns

Happy Sewing everyone!