Afternoon all. Hope everyone's preparations for Christmas are going well. I am ignoring it this year and hoping it will go away! The tree is up and mince pies have been eaten, and now - after months of upheaval from building works - I plan to veg out, relax, watch films and sew. Hurrah. For now though I do have a finished object to share...
These awesome dungarees have been made in grabbed ten minute chunks of time. Having a sewing room is an eye opener: you can leave your stuff mid-sew and no-one spills their food on it! And next time you have a spare five minutes you are ready to go again. Love it.
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| Boy growling like a bear. |
I chose this to be my first sewing room project as I have been champing at the bit to make these ever since I saw
Janet's foxy dungarees back in September. The pattern is from the book Wild Things by Kirsty Hartley. And it is a fabulous; full of colour and inspiration. There are lots of projects to choose from, and -although a little fiddly with appliques - none of the designs are particularly hard to sew.
I wasn't being super exact with the details on my bear face, so they are a little uneven and the ears aren't symmetrical, but I care not. It's so jolly cute. I could have sat down and been precise but it would have taken longer, and as I say it really was a grab any time where I could sew project.
Middle boy has been looking forward to getting these since the book
arrived. As luck would have it, I had the perfect fabric in my stash: a deep brown stretch velvet. I have had it forever and not known what to
do with it; so, I am glad to have finally found a use for it. Because of
the pile of the fabric, I had to use a walking foot as without it the
fabric bunched under the needle. All praise the walking foot!
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| Whilst trying to push over the car boy models the back of the dungars! |
He seems very pleased with his bear outfit and it's the little details like the clawed pockets that make it for me. All in all, an enjoyable sew and I am looking forward to making something else from the book next year.
Right, some presents to wrap, then some more sewing!
