Right on schedule, the trees are blooming and the patch of violets in the front lawn is providing the first whiff of springtime. I’m going to see the younger daughter this weekend so decided to finish up that slip I was making for her. I had it all finished except for the lace around the [...]
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Spring Has Sprung
Posted in Sewing For A on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Red Sleeveless Blouse
Posted in Sewing For A on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This was my first experiment changing around the TNT shirt pattern. Unfortunately, it is a little loose on A, so I need to raise the armholes about 3/4″-1″ and take the sides in a little. Still, her sister pointed out that she can certainly wear it under a sweater in the fall, so not a [...]
Shirt Ideas
Posted in Sewing For A on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the basic shoulder-princess shirt pattern fits A very well, the pattern can be changed around to make different styles. My daughter saved some pictures of blouses she likes, and I sketched up some variations of the basic shirt: THE BASIC SHIRT BASIC SHIRT WITH SHORT SLEEVES AND ROUNDED COLLAR SLEEVELESS SHIRT WITH NECKLINE [...]
Shirt Muslin
Posted in Sewing For A on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
That makes three IKEA sheets I have completely used up in the last few weeks, a green one, a black one, and a white one. This shirt was a practice shirt for a short-sleeved version. I used a sleeve from another pattern (pattern number is lost in the mists of time). If this looks OK [...]
Black Work Shirt II
Posted in Sewing For A on July 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a lot of topstitching on this shirt, and I’ll probably do the same to shirts I make in the future because it gives a nice smooth line and easy pressing. The IKEA sheet fabric is easy to work with. The pattern started out as New Look 6628, but it has gone through so many [...]
Black Work Shirt
Posted in Sewing For A on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the home stretch on the black shirt. Just have hems and cuffs and buttonholes/buttons to do. Looks pretty good for an IKEA sheet, I think. I’ll try to work on it a little today but here’s what I will be doing this afternoon: I have to put up the plums the husband picked off [...]
Blue Shirt
Posted in Sewing For A on April 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some things about this version of A’s shirt are working and some aren’t. I changed the darts to princess seaming, but the back didn’t look right, since it belled out a bit. When I redrafted the back, I moved the back darts closer to the side seam and this made the side back panel narrower, [...]
Pink Paisley Pajamas
Posted in Sewing For A on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Finally got the buttonholes and buttons in these PJs. This was the first time I have ever used Gutermann thread to make buttonholes, and boy, my Kenmore did not like that at all. The thread kept snapping halfway through the buttonholes, but I kept trying and managed to finish them all. It was hard to [...]
Skirt Finished
Posted in Sewing For A on November 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This skirt was tough to hem because the interlining seemed to stick to the outer fabric and each hem stitch had to be taken very carefully so as not to catch the outer fabric. Other than that, it was really easy to make and fits great. This is going to be a TNT pattern that [...]
Another Shirt Remake
Posted in Sewing For A on August 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I pulled out another husband shirt with a worn out collar and remade it into another work shirt for A. I tried a different sleeve with about 1/2″ less cap ease, and it looks a little better, but I think I’ll take out about 1/4″ more from the front only. Here it is on Betty. [...]
