From the Sewing Room

I recently had a rather large shopping accident at Fabric.com, and decided I needed to get sewing to help justify spending so much money.

I made Katie an Olivia pinafore from panda fabric, lined in a bamboo print.

I fussy cut the back to have the cute panda family visible.

I used plastic snaps instead of buttons.  Then I got really daring and used a striped knit to make the Olivia under dress.  No hood, since I didn't have enough fabric for it.

The sleeves are a little long for her, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Hannah got a new dress, too.

The sleeves and bottom band of the skirt are Chinese characters.

The bodice and skirt are Japanese kokeshi dolls.  I feel a little bit weird about mixing cultures like that, but maybe it's enough just to know that they're not the same?

I managed to drop off the Farmer's Market quilt I showed you recently for Project Linus (after it rode around in my van for over a week!).  I've started on 2 scrap quilts, and I went through a bucket of scraps, cutting out small and medium sized blocks and then setting the rest aside.  All those leftover scraps (4 mailing bags worth) went to a friend whose daughters have taken an interest in sewing.

smaller blocks scrap quilt in progress

Getting the scraps out and getting the dresses finished feels really good.  I hope to be more productive in the sewing room this year.


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