Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Back in the saddle again

Storm bought me a sewing machine a few years back for christmas. I wasn't really inspired to do any sewing until now....

On one of my trawls of the blogs I came across a tutorial for a kids outfit made from a man's T-shirt. It looked interesting and easy enough so for my first foray into sewing since god know's when I launched into sewing an outfit for Sydney.

Now, it has been a while since I last created anything "stitched" so it took me 2 attempts to get it right with the lace. For some unknown reason I also decided that it was silly to refer to the actual tutorial and worked it out from my addled brain. I had to make some changes to adapt around some of my mistakes but as long as you don't look too closely it should work. The tutorial included a pair of pants with it but I decided to cheat and make a skirt instead.

It's cute and a good start to my sewing addiction.

I made this little flower thingey because it looked a little bare around the neckline. Overall, I'm happy and have learned a lot for the next project.