My Sewing Hiatus

Hello people, my gosh I feel like I haven’t blogged in freaken ages, probably because I haven’t.

 

My last post was back from flippin July when I made my Nettie and some Chataigne shorts. I made these to take and wear in Europe, which I did..but since then I haven’t really made anything else for me.

So this is what happened..it was August which is crazy birthday month, besties, mine, mums then we pretty much went to Europe for September/half of October. I have sewn some things since Nettie but nothing really exciting and nothing for me really.

I did make another portside bag, which I turned into a nappy bag for one of my best mates Hannah, who was due (and delivered) her beautiful baby Grace while we were away J

I also made her some bibs, a dress, and a cute little changing table packaway thingo (im real motherly)

 

Also the hubs and I were working on a secret project for our first nephew Mason, which turned out really cute.. but was a giant pain in the ass to sew. Fleece, that’s all I’m sayin..

Haha he looks so little on the giant hippo. (burda 9513)

 

I have a whole bunch of things I want to sew, the list is longggg.. and I just bought the Sutton blouse
AND the Alice dress by Tessuti.. Strong willpower I have.

I plan on sewing a lot more in the new year, but that is always my plan. Life tends to gets in the way.

Im hoping I can knock some projects out over my Xmas break, but I think my sew-jo has gone missing.. 

Any tips/tricks for getting her back?

 

Electric Blue

Ahhhh Gotta love Holidays and Christmas and getting money to spend on new things :)
Instead of blowing it all on clothes and shoes (like I normally do) I decided to buy a dress form (which was on special for $175!!) and a whole bunch of new fabrics and patterns :)

Ok dresses..So when I found this fabric online, I loved it and bought it without having a pattern in mind... which is strange because I normally work the other way round :)
It's my first burda pattern, which I found to be a little confusing :| let's just say there was a lot of unpicking..
So the pattern was Burda 7132

I decided to make the dress, which has a worky kind of feel to it.
First dress without lining, and my first facings.. the zip was also extremely long, and it took me a few goes to get it right and even then I wasn't 100% happy with the finished zip..hmmphh anyway here it is..

 

It's really hard to see the pleats at the front of the dress, because of the pattern, but they are really cute:)

Also I was browsing through a thrift shop and came across a $4.50 quilt cover, which I used to make another Butterick B5748.. Eekk I love the full skirts..can't get enough :) I will make so many more of these
dresses, they are fairly simple and only have 4 pieces, which is great!

Gee sorry for the long post :)

Xx