First up I have been working on Everything Your Mama Made, ladies essentials sleep bra. I bought a 2nd hand a vest top that has fat-shrinking support through the body. I thought this would make a good addition to the bra so I have cut this out with the bra front. The bra front is the outer fabric of the vest top. I ran out of vest top for the back so I decided to cut up a too small pair of leggings and sew the legs together to make the back. I already decided to use the elastic from the leggings waistband as the underbust band for the bra. The fabric is thinner than I'd like but I don't want to use the good stuff if it's not going to work. I forgot to take a before picture of the vest top but here are the leggings.
Nothing exciting. Just plain old leggings. This is how they look currently.
Hopefully June will bring the mock up of this bra completed and I can move on to the good fabric. I am undecided whether to include the power mesh type stuff in this mock up or not. Watch this space.
Secondly, last month, I worked on making a pair of Over it all's in age 6-12 months. Another goodie from MBJM. I cut out the outer fabric and was just waiting on the solid pink jersey to come in my order today. Unfortunately the pink was refunded as it was out of stock so now I have this gorgeous fabric cut out and nothing to match with it.
I considered making it reversible with a different fabric but I kinda had my heart set on a plain solid colour. Again, not sure exactly yet how this will progress but watch this space!
And thirdly, and I think lastly, I made a new hat for my 4 year old B. I previously posted about the matching pair I made for B and her baby sister. Well Mummy very daftly tucked B's hat into my pocket while out walking. B should have worn it but you know 4 year olds! I gave said 4 year old a piggy back and when I lowered her down I slid her over the back pocket that the hat was hanging out of. I believe that is when it fell out but having baby in the sling on my front I wouldn't have been able to see it. After around 30 minutes of playing in the brook we went to go home, realised it was missing and could not find it anywhere. We were all very tired so even decided to go back the next day to look properly. There was no hat. I imagine someone picked it up which is great if another little girl or boy will enjoy it. So now B (who screamed every second of the way home for her lost hat) needed a new hat. She only wanted one that matched her sister's hat. Of course being stupid I promised her another matching hat despite using up every bit of fabric on the first 2. I went back to my original source. No luck. I tried eBay and found both fabrics but only available from 2 different suppliers and as part of bundles with other fabrics I didn't want. I love my daughter but this is not an acceptable solution. So I let her loose on picking her own fabric. Well, almost. I narrowed down a selection of affordable ones that I knew she'd like and let her choose. She chose well. Princesses on 1 side and sparkly unicorns on the other.
I love the unicorns. They are beautiful and the fabric was nicely thick and lovely to work with. I fussy cut the princesses because there was a lot if white space in between and I didn't want lots of partial of princesses. I wanted to see the whole of them. This was my first time being picky. I usually just get as many pattern pieces fitted on as possible and think fussy cutters are wasteful but this was totally worth it for a good outcome. I won't be sewing this way on a regular basis but the hat is pretty.
Just look at all this wastage between the pieces. Hopefully I can fine some use for them.
I did follow some advice that suggests to use the hat top from the next size up. This made it easier to attach the hat top to the sides but did seem to make the hat finish up a bigger size.
I feel I've had a pretty busy month. Lots happening but not lots finished. I know we are half way through June when I am posting this but, ya know, 5 kids, lockdown and crafting leaves little time for blogging! I'll get straight on to June's update.
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