Kids clothes week days 3 and 4

And so it continues, my frenzied but favoured and very much looked forward to time in the sewing room. This week I am on a high with the commitment to join in sewing Kids clothes for one hour a day for the whole week.

I cannot, I confess, sew for just one hour! If I am in for one hour I am only just getting started and would be most displeased to be pulled out of my creative zone before another hour is up. This is why I decided that seeing as I finished off the pants I had started on Wednesday, I would bog myself down and finish from the start, another item of clothing. Enter the Afterschool shirt!

I apologise sincerely for the less than professional photos! I didn't "do" photography at school and perhaps I should have!

I decided to follow the "travelling" theme of the week and use some rather precious fabric I had saved from the Children at Play fabric line by Sarah Jane. I had intended on making my son some sketchbook shirts with this but he has grown so significantly that the pattern is now too small for him and at age almost ten, the fabric looks a little too babyish for his tastes now (unfortunately!) So, I felt a little guilty cutting into it and a tiny bit reminiscent of the fact that it was once Noah's choice and I am not sewing for him. But look at the result though. A very cute little shirt!

Once I had finished the shirt I felt ready for something else and was actually starting to panick a little also. Along with kids clothes week, there was also a sew along on the Oliver and s forums which allowed one the chance to enter and win two pdf patterns. So I decided to jump headlong into making the butterfly skirt and it took me all of an hour from scratch.

So all in all a good day's worth of sewing! Chloe has a whole new outfit and I feel like my creative time has been well used!

And here she is!

Parachute pants for play

It's Kids clothes week and I have decided that it is high time I joined in. Not that I don't sew, like, all the time! But I just thought it would be fun to actually make sure I made it into the sewing room everyday.

So I made a pair of Parachute pants from the new Oliver and s pattern and I have been using them on Chloe quite often. I felt that more pants were needed so, seeing as the first pair took only two hours to make (including cutting), I decided I would make some to start the kcw experience off.

All three were in the same size as the first (6-12 months) but this time I went without the ties. It wasn't that I didn't like it. I do think its cute! I actually ran out of the ready sewn bias I used in the first pair. So that's why it was omitted.

This pattern is a great way to use up scraps. I bought a metre of the pink fabric and have some still left over even after using pieces to make all four pairs!

So without further ado, here they are!

And here's the pair I made first!