My Sewing/Craft books shelf

For proof of meeting the Sewing/Craft books challenge, I thought I'd take photo and post it here to hold myself accountable!

Nice collection, eh?

I've been referring to some books for a while however I have not really used much from most of the books so the challenge is just what I needed.

I've been getting lots of nice comments about the skirt I made for my girl, someone asked if I plan to sell some... lol!

Next project will be from Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Craft, especially the one with pinboard! Give me a week or so to gather materials and when it's all done, I'll post photos here then.

Till then, cheers!

Skirt done!

As per the Sewing Book Challenge in previous post, I've completed the skirt I set out.

Here my happy girl's wearing it - she already make dates on wearing the skirt to, etc. Cute.

Full of smiles, eh?

back of skirt

front

close-up details

My tag "Chookie."

Twirling the skirt time

Comments about making this skirt:

1. I won't make it again in a hurry although I might with lighter fabrics - it is much more complicated for a 'beginner'. Also it is not so visual enough for me to see where things could be going at.

2. I think the author was trying to cram in too much info and not enough clear steps and possible ideas or tips in each pattern.

3. It was my first time using velvet fabric and didn't realise it would be so stretchy and shed so much. It took me much longer to get the top skirt done, compared to the underskirt.

4. My girl had so much fun choosing bits to decorate her skirt. All those ribbons were the cut-offs from the clothes - you know those the shops use to hang clothes, etc. Not wasted here, eh? The little hearts were felted and beaded, I got them from Spotlight on special a while back and now they're on her skirt. I refused to go shop to buy anything to add to construction of this skirt - quite determined to use what I've got around here.

5. My girl's already eyeing a jacket and a shirt from the book - so I might make them one day later in the year as I am not keen on going back to that book. heh.

What do you think?

Cheers till later!

You sure it's June already?

Ack!

Oh well... My excuse is that I blinked... would you accept that? :D

Anyway, I've been surfing, creating, cleaning, planting, dreaming, reading and such for few months. And I'm working on a skirt for Jackie and this comes up in a good time cos of this:

Basically the Challenge is to use up a pattern or idea from each sewing book we've got on the shelf every month to make it worthwhile to keep that book on shelf.

What do you think? Could I do it?

Well at the moment, I've got this book:

{image from Amazon.com}

And I've picked a skirt pattern called Insa Skirt which is double layered skirt for my girl. When it's done, I'll take a photo of it. Looks great at the moment anyway.

I will make a tutorial next week on a pouch I made other month and another tutorial on a sandwich bag I created last year to sell at a market which didn't sell as well as I thought, but my kids and I love them. Go figure!

Cheers till later!

It's BOY Month!!

Already both Made by Dana and Made by Rae are hitting it straight hard with tutorials that cater for boys!!






Gonna do the slippers for 'everyone'! :D


The pants is on the top of sewing to-do list anyway so it's nice to have visual examples to follow!

So let's follow those two sites and sew as much as you can for our boys, eh?

Cheers till later!


Oh for those who wonders, I've had to do nil sewing for last 3 months due to the renovations in my study, as well into most bedrooms! Argh! Mess everywhere! Oh sorry its "Organised Chaos everywhere" - better? ;)