Aaaaannnd the final major Christmas sewing project! Another set of Figgy's dresses for my honorary kids on the West Coast. I decided to try to make some fun and festive dresses for the holiday...
The final family Christmas present was a tie for Dad. The hardest part of tie making is finding good fabric - you need to buy special tie silk (which so far I've only found...
Next step: my first ever tracing-off of a RTW garment! Admittedly, a very, very small project but a trace-off nonetheless.
For the non-sewing-minded among you, this is where you copy a piece of clothing you...
Well, I was none too pleased with my last coat muslin. It was just sort of... hanging there. So! Out came the ever-brilliant Fit for Real People, and I got to some hard-core adjusting....
Next up in the Christmas present queue: Mum!
This was a funny one: there was me, getting all confident about sewing for everyone, and then, a reminder that I still have a long way to...
At last! I spent most of November and December sewing, but I couldn't reveal anything, because they were all Christmas presents. I fear that I may have set too high a precedent for family...
First, a confession. Really, this is no selfless sewing: the oxytocin hit I get when seeing small people wearing my outfits is more than enough to outweigh the effort it takes to make them....
