Two Pillowcase Dresses and Half a Hat

Ooops, I started this post almost a week ago but never got it completed. I had spent the weekend before last plodding away at some pillowcase dresses. Initially I made this first one from an online tutorial I found. It's cute but wasn't what I was looking for so I wrapped it up with a box of crayons and stuck it under the Christmas tree at the girls' daycare. Pressies were being donated to the local woman's refuge. Hopefully whoever receives it likes it and hopefully it fits. The "categories" they had given for pressies was for little girls 0-3, which is rather a large bracket so I wrote 18mths-2yrs on the label in the hopes that it makes it's way to someone that is not already too large for it. That being said, it did fit my girls (tried it quickly) and even though they are 19mths they are almost the size of your average 3 year old so maybe it'll be okay. And if it goes to a younger child, well, next year.



Then I looked at pics of finished ones I liked on the net and watched some youtube tutorials and then I came up with this. It still needs it's ribbon so kinda just looks like a square with it's corners cut off at the moment. I think I'd like a nice lime green. A trip to Spotlight is in order. Just not sure when I'll get there. Maybe not til Friday. I'll get some nice ribbon for the blue one I want to make as well. Hope it looks nice when it is actually all finished. And on one of the girls.

I did it with French seams and everything. Oh, how I love youtube tutorials.

It was the 2nd last lesson of my sewing course last Monday. I started working on a hat. A Lazy Day sunhat. It has sizes for kids and for adults. YAY! I want to make a couple of hats for the girls and one for me. I'd forgotten to measure their heads before I left home and seeing as I had mine own head with me to measure whenever I wanted, I started firstly on mine. Here it is half finished.

It's a reversible hat and this fabric will be the other side. I need to start keeping an eye out for some more grown up looking fabrics as I have stuff that's more little girly. It was a bit tricky picking out 2 that were suitable to be stuck on top of my head. Hopefully these will work okay.

Progress

A sewing blog without progress photos is really rather boring. So, thougth I'd share a snapshot of where I am up to with the first Christmas dress. I haven't done any more since my class on monday night so this is it with the skirt and lining gathered and joined and then all of that attached to the bodice.
Elastic around sleeves and neckline and sash around waist to come. Need to purchase a new bit of ribbon for the sash around the waist. The colour I got is, I think, perfect (a lovely light purple), but I've decided that I'd like it a bit thicker. I think. At least I'll go and see if there is a thicker version of the colour I want. Hopefully I'll get to finish it off on the weekend sometime. Mostly likely Sunday.

I want to do Santa photos with the girls tomorrow. I have the below batik fabric that I was thinking would make some cute pillowcase dresses. Wonder if I'd have any chance whatsoever of getting some knocked up tonight. They look pretty easy so you wouldn't think they'd take a massive amount of time to sew.

Hmm, but then again I was considering a spot of late night shopping tonight with my sister and I do have these gorgeous skirts my mum bought the girls last year (sorry 'bout the sideways photo. I have rotated it and deleted and re-uploaded a few times but it's just not happening) that they've been waiting to grow into. Mum is coming with us to get the Santa photos so it'd be nice if the girls were wearing her skirts. I'm not a fan of dressing them exactly the same but I can go with tops and shoes in different colours. Yeah, I think I'll do that. The pillowcase dresses can bide (might add that I've been searching for a tutorial that I like the look of and have found this one so when I do get there, I'll follow this).

Oh, and um, Two Little Fairies Fabric may have had a sale on her facebook page on Wednesday night and I may have purchased yet more fabric. But how I could I not? It was sale!