Sewing for Autumn!

After my disaster of a fabric bowl, I thought I'd turn to the medium that I am most comfortable with to make myself feel better - sewing with fleece!! I love love sewing fleece. No hemming, the fabric is forgiving enough to hide mistakes... I just wish we could wear fleece all the time! hehe

Anyway, I made two ponchos for the kids. I used this tutorial to make it and I just added a hood (again, just using 2 rectangles for it). I told my kids to choose a theme for their poncho.

My daughter grabbed a small soft toy she had of a mermaid and insisted that, that was what she wanted to wear. So her mermaid went on, and I decided to make purple bubbles all around the mermaid to hide the fact that I attempted to do arm holes before realising that the poncho was too small for arm holes. Oh well, the purple bubbles (which are actually a sparkly type of purple) seem to have done the job of hiding that mistake!




My son chose the Teletubbies. So I made a Dipsy poncho for him. The Dipsy antennae I filled using fabric bits and threads (I've been saving the threads I cut off during other sewing for things like this). The yellow "TV" for Dipsy also doubles as a pocket.



.... I quite like how it turned out until my DH said, "oh he's a green condom!" Erm... you're right, I think he does look like one. But then that makes Dipsy completely weird.....well weirder than what he already is....



Okay, different topic. I have to say, I am very very proud of my Mum! My mum recently decided to throw out her silk scarves but then rather than just throwing them out, she went to a dressmaker and got her to make little tops for my daughter!!

Here are two of them!






I love the little frill at the bottom and what a fantastic idea for unwanted silk scarves! And isn't my mum cool for getting into the reconstructed clothing spirit of things!!