KCWC: Day five/six

Time Spent: um... honestly, only 15 minutes or so...

I ended up frustrated because I read the instructions wrong and caught some of the top into the stitches and had to rip it out.... So instead of sewing I cleaned what I have been ignoring during this sewing week. 

Picture if you will, vacuuming while holding a baby and the 3-year-old holding the handle because he wants to help. It took twice as long to vacuum, but Hero loved it and the house got cleaned... I consider it a successful day.

Project Sewn: top/dress for Pretty (from Amy Butler's Little Stitches book). . . still.

Status: done! (this morning)

I think I did well during the first few days of this challenge, but I put too much pressure on myself to finish something new each day. So with that in mind, I still plan to make a few shirts for Hero, but I'm not planning on doing that today. Perhaps tomorrow. Today, instead, I am going to spend some time with my hubby and go to dinner and women's conference tonight.

KCWC: Day four

Time Spent: 12pm - 1:30pm and 3pm-4pm and 4:45 - 5:30.

The kids were being exceptionally good yesterday and letting me sew. So I definitely made up for the day before. 

But I have to clarify. When I put these times, it's what I consider time spent, but I don't get to sew solid through that time. I stop to help Hero with going to the bathroom or a toy repair; listen to him tell a story; pick up Pretty; feed her a snack; and all the other things that are continuous in a mother's day.

Project sewn: top/dress for Pretty

Status: almost done.

I got so much done. I ran into some confusion about the instructions and had to spend some time undoing. Plus, I think I switched the width and length for the bottom part. I'm at that point in this project where I wish it was done, and it's not, so I'm burning out on it. It doesn't help that I'm not sure I like the way the fabrics combined... opinions?

I plan to get this done today, then work on something for Hero. Bloomers to match this will just have to wait.

KCWC: Day three

Time Spent: 3pm - 3:30pm and 10pm - 10:15pm

Pretty kept waking up just when I was getting into my groove. Both times. And after she woke up at 10:15 with teething pain, and spent an hour up, I was done. (And then, to add to my fun, she woke up again at 2am and stayed up until 4... teething is crappy).

Project Sewn: top/dress for Pretty

Status: cut out, marks transferred, and that it. fail...

There's just not much to show today. Here's how I left my ironing board/project table last night... Hopefully I'll do better today. 

(do you like the fabric? very fall, eh?)

KCWC: Day two

Time Spent: 10:45am - 11:15am  and  3:15pm - 4pm

In the morning, Hero is at preschool so I thought I would get the full hour in then (and some), but Pretty decided to stay up until there wasn't quite the full amount of time, so I took time later when Pretty was napping again, and Hero was playing toys and watching a movie.

Project(s) Sewn:  finished skirt for Pretty, belt for Hero, warhol dress for Pretty. . . in that order.


Status: all completed!!


This skirt turned out just as cute as I hoped.

I used Dana's (from Made) formula she wrote for resizing her market skirt to determine the width of each layer, but the length and added ruffles where my idea. I think it turned out a bit to full and plan to try again.

The next attempt will be a bit skinnier, and use different fabrics for the tiny ruffles.

After I finished it yesterday, I put in on her for size and the little princess ended up pooping on it before I got around to taking pictures. So it had to be washed. But I'm glad it worked out that way because it gave the little ruffles time to fray in the wash.

I've been meaning to make Hero a belt for a long time. He outgrew the little ones, but the nice bigger ones are still too big. Enter the madra toddler belt. 

Last, I up-cycled one of my old band t-shirts. This is from The Ataris concert I went to when I was 18 with some friends. I loved this shirt, but after 2 kids, I just don't fit into it anymore. Shocking, I know. But I just couldn't part with it. Now I'm glad I didn't! It makes a cute dress.

There are designs on front and back that I made sure to center. 

It looks cute layered, too.

I think Hero might be shorted this week. I need to find more projects to make for him. Maybe a 90 minute shirt is in order? (Can you tell I'm a fan of Made?)

KCWC: Day one

Time spent: 11:15pm - 1am

I had hoped to sew in the afternoon, but the kids would not cooperate and nap at the same time (and in Hero's case, at all). Then I was going to sew right after they went to bed around 9pm, but the Husband wanted to watch a movie with me... so I ended up sewing late into the night.

Project sewn: skirt for Pretty of my own design.

Status: SO CLOSE!!!

It got most the way around the hem and then I ran out of bobbin thread. Noticing that it was so late, I decided to call it quits and finish the project today. Pictures on the model to come!

KCWC: signing up with elsie marley

I've had this button on my side bar for about a week now, I don't know how  many of you noticed it:

Click on over to check out the official-ness of it all, but basically, by signing up, you are committing yourself to sew for 1 hour each day working on clothes for the kiddos! At the time of writing this post there were already 335 people signed up! 

I have a few projects in mind, and I'm going fabric shopping tonight to pick up some things for it. I'm excited! I will be sharing my progress through out the week, even if it's minimal. (You may end up staring at pictures of me cutting out patterns. . . I hope that's ok!)

But before that all starts, I have a project I'm going to work on tonight that will help with this upcoming frenzied week of sewing. I'll get it posted as soon as it's done!