sewing garments

I love to sew - just finished a blouse from quilting cotton. It's perfect! But I'm not - so it's a fraction tight. But that's Ok - as I'm on my way smaller.

I found a pattern that I loved - then realized, it wasn't the pattern at all - it was the fabrics! I got a teal and chocolate brown print linen and made myself a lovely shell that washes like a dream. I intended to make chocolate pants to go with, but didn't buy enough material. My usual M.O. is to buy more than I think I need, and then add a bit for luck. This time I tried to be skimpy, and I got bit. I may make it into a skirt - though I seldom wear skirts - but I have enough for that.

I also have two lovely batiks that I just got for blouses.

And a gray for a pants pattern that I have perfected for my current size and shape. I made two wool pants recently, and they fit well and look trim.

unfinished, but beautiful

Why start something easy?

My first quilt was a baby pinwheel - and I hand quilted it. But it was made of a seersucker-like puckery material. Sewing bias edges hard? It was for my first baby, and it was small, so it got finished.

And I made a couple of window draft killers that had tumbling baby blocks on them - not quilted because they had foam inside. - inset seams - no problem?
And they had to be finished - we were cold.

Then my daughter's quilt - she wanted a storm-at-sea pattern - or maybe that's the one I wanted to do for her. It got finished - years later. I didn't know it was supposed to be a difficult pattern. Quilting helped to flatten it.

Then I took a class and actually made a quilt for my son in a pattern called round the twist - a British expression for crazy - because it makes you crazy to do it. It got finished.

Since then - nothing finished - but 12 - count them, 12 projects on my walls -unfinished -right now.

more CIC sox

Some of these I had finished a long time ago, but they are now in the envelope, addressed,a nd ready to mail on Monday

Yarns are KnitPicks, Steelhead, KnitPicks, and Elsa Williams Tapestry Wool