2013 Sewing

Finished Objects:

Refashions:

• Blue Knit wrap dress
• Macaw appliqued pyjamas

Made from scratch:

• McCalls 5975 Dress - the pink zombie dress
• Burda 2012-08 Dress 121 - the green meanie dress
• Self drafted - Jungle January dress
• Simplicity 8882 - black shift with french darts
• BurdaStyle Magazine 2013 02 126 Knit top
• Vogue 8382 - vintage cotton
• Self drafted - blue floral mesh maxi skirt
• Budgie appliqued pj's for tigerboy
• Self drafted - orange pencil skirt 
• Self drafted - pink/purple cotton shell top 
• BurdaStyle Magazine - knit skirt

Abandoned: 

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Italics means that it's left over from last year (yep, pretty much everything on this page).

1. Sew the buttons on the cushion covers I made from the fabric we bought in Ecuador.
2. Make coasters from Ecuadorian left overs.
3. Sew the Vogue shirt dress. - cut out and ready to sew
4. Make Simplicity 2497 (yes, I was going to draft it but got the pattern cheap) 
5. Use Mum's scrap of Egyptian print (left over from a dress she made when she was at school) as a trim on a dress.
6. Sew a princess line dress.
7. Make an empire sheath dress.
8. Copy the pattern of my fine white sleeveless top.
9. Test the Singer sewing machine. Works really well - pity it's missing the bobbin cover and I have to use the Janome bobbin case in it because the original was rusty.
10. Make this cape. (McCalls 5913 or 5764) - WIP
11. Make this funky scarf.
12. Draft & make a black short sleeved bolero (woven fabric).
13. Make a red short sleeved bolero (woven fabric).
14. Draft & make a black long sleeved shrug for winter (knit fabric).
15. Make padded covers for my ergonomic chair. that chair got tossed in the house move
16. Vogue 8633 - coral linen - (might rethink this fabric choice)
17. More Summer pj's for Tigerboy November
18. Winter pj pants for Tigerboy & his Dad. ($1/m flannelette from Spotlight).
19. Cover for the chair in my studio. Half done - Jan
20. Butterick 5608 (pattern courtesy of  Mary - how nice! That was a pattern I'd had my eye on for a while)
21. Linen pants for tigerboy
    
 

Techniques to learn and/or use

1. Piping.
2. Invisible zip. - used in Mcalls 5845 - Jan 
3. Lapped Zipper - used in Vogue 8382

Refashions

1. Blue kimono dress - make a new skirt that is not a size 000 from the red jersey dress I have never worn
2. Plaid shirt
3. Pink & brown maxi.
4. Black and white wrap dress.
   

Mending

1. Hem black dress - that one inch will make a big difference when I'm wearing flats!
2. Hem the crazy coloured dress and fix that funky tie thing.

Oh, there are plenty more - this is just what was left from last year (and the year before).