Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Photos

 Baby sling!
 I wrapped the extra fabric around the back.  I'm very happy with it!  The sling works very well, and fit better and more comfortably than any other sling I've tried.  Iorek loves it!  (Ander, bottom left, approves, also)
 Ander poses for a picture.
 Iorek, aged 7 months 3 weeks, standing!  He's going to take off running any minute.
Here is my first attempt at a onesie.  It is infant sizes, so obviously Iorek couldn't model it.  I love how it came out!  The collar is a bit funny looking, so I need to think up a solution to finish it better.  The snaps worked like a dream.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Update on projects.

Summer is going by far too quickly!  I've been running back and forth quite a bit for appointments, seeing friends before they move away (JenJen!), and finishing things like the rabbit hutch and thank you notes from the wedding.

Yeah, JenJen and I are pretty much awesome.

The hutch is done, except for shingles, which we will make.  These pictures were taken before the roof was put on.




 It is a beautiful, luxury home!  Jon did such an amazing job, and I was glad to help him when I could.  The rabbits love it, too.

And here the first cucumber of the season, next to a bowl of the most amazing lettuce, all from the garden.  I've been getting a ton of greens and not much else, so the cucumber was a big treat.  The lemon cucumbers are coming along nicely, I've planted some more greens, the new beans have sprouted, there are little green cherry tomatoes, and the zucchini and summer squash have large blossoms.  Jon made me some tomato stakes, and I learned that I am terrible at tying tomatoes.  I never got assigned that job at the farm I worked on, beyond clipping tomatoes in greenhouses.  I will post pictures later how funny it looks.  Did I mention that I used orange yarn?

I finished the baby sling and one onesie.  Pictures should follow in the next post.  The sling is great!  I might want to add some padding for the shoulder, though.  The onsie is adorable in the blueberry fabric!  I finished two more skeins of yarn and made a little change purse from 12 yards of scrap silk yarn leftover from the yarn I used to make a glasses case for Jon.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Summer of Projects

I pulled out the sewing machine to do a project for a family member:

It is made from a burlap coffee bag and is lined with a pretty fabric.  It turned out that my machine couldn't handle the burlap, so I ended up sewing most of it by hand.

The weather has been too warm for me to pull out the wool and work on spinning, and I've been neglecting my sewing skills for a while, so I decided to work on a bunch of sewing projects this summer!

The theme that I am starting out with is baby-related.  One of my good friends is expecting, and I figure that this is a good time to start experimenting with what I can sew myself.

Here is a list of projects that I will be working on when I get the supplies I ordered in the mail!

1.  Baby Sling.

2.  Onsies.

3.  Cloth Diapers.
Fabrics: Waiting to get pattern first.

Also knitting:

4.  Baby Kimono Style Sweater

I have a lot of work to do!  I'm hoping that after I make prototypes, I can modify the patterns and sell some natural material baby things!