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A Stuffed Shirt

Children grow. Teenagers grow even quicker. This shirt had already been re-fashioned from the original long sleeve, to a short sleeve when the child's arms grew too long. A favorite, he wanted to keep it.   The white stuff used to be a pillow -- the outer cover gave out, but the fiberfill seemed worth saving. So I stiched the hems closed, stuffed the shirt through the neck opening, pinned and stitched -- which yielded a crooked seam. Lesson learned: If I do this again ( likely ) Stitch the neck opening shut first, then stuff through the bottom hem. I chose to do exposed seams, and used a triple zigzag  for them. The stuffing stays, and it looks nice. I don't have a picture of smiling son, but he has cuddled it daily since it was finished. A success!

99 Skeins and a Cone

Stitches West, 2011
Rumour has it I like blue.

The things one finds...

I stopped at the Goodwill near my doctor's office on the way home. I sometimes find yarn there, usually acrylic, and only very little. This time they actually had several bundles, some kind person had sorted it by weight. I took the two worsted weight packages plus two single skeins of ecru. And a nice basket to keep it in.  Ok, so I didn't need the basket. Bur I liked it. It will give my "hats to be" yarn a spot. And it cost less than the Family Circle I bought at the grocery store.








  When I opened the bundles I found this surprise.
   I wonder what to do with it?

All and all, a good find.

all the yarn

January Sewing so far

It's been a long time, and rather than catch up, I decided to start anew.

I've been ill for a while and not sewing, but things lifted up a little this month, and I made 3 sweatshirt fabric leggings for DD, so she can wear them under her skirts and not be too cold. No pictures, because they left the house with her before I remembered. I did take a picture of her new skirt.

Sunday evening, I decided I should make a drawstring bag, following the instructions that Rowena posted very recently in her blog. I used a scrap of fabric that made it necessary to cut two panels, of a different size than what Rowena posted, but otherwise I actually followed her instructions.
Here's the result:

So, that's 5 projects so far in January, not a bad total...

38 hats

Lord Willing and Creek Don't Rise, these will be on their way to E2 for the 310 hats.

The white bits are tags with content and washing instructions.

Do you recognize this pattern?

Sometime i recently I saw a picture of a vintage  pattern I liked  on some website or other. I said to self: "Self, you can draft that, and it would look good on you". But I didn't bookmark the website, or save the image to my computer.  It's gone from my browser history as well.. so I'm hoping someone can help.. I lost the details of the neckline. The in the  pattern illustration was  at least one view was in  a pinkish color. It was a two piece "dress" -- actually a Top and skirt, but I think it was called a dress.

The skirt was pleated and flared, much like my sketch above, though it could potentially be even more flared.
The sleeveless top  was princess seamed -- whether shoulder like the sketch, or armhole I don't remember.Neckline could have been a sweetheart or square or maybe even scoop -- not V neck, though. At the hem of the top the princess seams went into slits rather than closing all the way. Probably a 1950's pattern.


Help?

( If you recognize it, leave a comment! )