Tag: Sewing

Second and Third outfit

I’ve spent many hours over the last week making a couple of pinafores for my two neices. Firstly I made the pattern out of some really cheap green poly cotton and then made the two dresses.

All the seams of the dresses have an overlocked stitched edge to prevent fraying. Oddly the straps took me the longest time, especially since I had to unpick 7 of the 8 cause I sewed the wrong sides together (late nights aren’t the best for thinking)

The pattern has pants to go with the dresses. Unfortunately I only had time to finish one of the pants.

To add to the dresses, last night I also made a few hankerchiefs for my father in law. They are great practice for sewing tight clean and straight seams.

Overall I’m pretty proud of my effort. While if you look closely there are some stitching mistakes, the dresses and pants hang correctly and evenly. I’m learning pretty quickly and having a lot of fun along the way.

I’m also developing a new habit of picking up outfits andrew and I have and analysing how they are constructed.

Sewing update

I was just talking to Elizabeth and we have confirmation that the nappy mum and I made didn’t leak! Sammy even decided to test it with a poo.

Mum got a new sewing machine last week and is learning to sew again by pressing all the new buttons. Her other machine is over 30 years old and still going strong minus the light so it is a very new experience for her.

Our snap machine should hopefully be arriving next week.

Sewing adventures

A few weeks (possibly months) ago, I asked mum to teach me to sew again.

I thought we would try with some baby clothes for my godson Samuel. I figure it is more fun when making cute baby stuff and also Samuel won’t complain that something is a little off.

However mum was keen to try making modern cloth nappies, so with a bit of research and a bit of internet shopping, I got everything ordered and printed a wee weka pattern. We spent the morning watching a couple of videos of various parts of the process I had downloaded and then got to making sure we understood all the instructions.

Here is our creation:

This is the nappy without velcro. It is an All in One pocket nappy.

This is the final nappy with velcro. We used velcro for the first nappy and now that we have the hang of what we are doing will get a snap machine for the rest. Velcro is fine for sammy at this stage, but as he gets older I’m guessing he will work out how to pull it off.