There's nothing much to report on my sweater. Still plugging along on it. I keep forgetting to look up the pattern for the other sleeve for Charlotte's dress, and I haven't gotten around to starting Kieran's sweater yet.
I have, however, done a fair amount of sewing the past few days. I'd found a
tutorial for turning an adult's button-down shirt into a toddler's dress, so I wanted to turn one of my old button-down shirts into a dress for Charlotte. Following that link, I also found a tutorial for making some bloomers from the sleeves, so I'm going to try that, too. I need to get some more thread, though. I think the dress turned out well. I had the white material already, as it had been given to me at the same time as the sewing machine. I'd just never found a use for it before now.
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| these will be bloomers | |
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| dress front |
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| sleeves |
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| dress |
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| modelling the dress | |
I also had an Oertel moment (those who went to uni with me will understand this reference). I'd noticed a pile of clothes that had been outside for at least a day, so I scavenged. I found a couple of button-down shirts in there, and one was suitable to turn into a dress for Charlotte. I'm going to try cutting the other one down for Kieran, as he's outgrowing some of his other button-down shirts. We'll see if it works. Here's the dress, though. It hadn't been hemmed yet in the photo.
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