A Stuffed Shirt

Children grow. Teenagers grow even quicker. This shirt had already been re-fashioned from the original long sleeve, to a short sleeve when the child's arms grew too long. A favorite, he wanted to keep it.   The white stuff used to be a pillow -- the outer cover gave out, but the fiberfill seemed worth saving. So I stiched the hems closed, stuffed the shirt through the neck opening, pinned and stitched -- which yielded a crooked seam. Lesson learned: If I do this again ( likely ) Stitch the neck opening shut first, then stuff through the bottom hem. I chose to do exposed seams, and used a triple zigzag  for them. The stuffing stays, and it looks nice. I don't have a picture of smiling son, but he has cuddled it daily since it was finished. A success!

99 Skeins and a Cone

Stitches West, 2011
Rumour has it I like blue.

The things one finds...

I stopped at the Goodwill near my doctor's office on the way home. I sometimes find yarn there, usually acrylic, and only very little. This time they actually had several bundles, some kind person had sorted it by weight. I took the two worsted weight packages plus two single skeins of ecru. And a nice basket to keep it in.  Ok, so I didn't need the basket. Bur I liked it. It will give my "hats to be" yarn a spot. And it cost less than the Family Circle I bought at the grocery store.








  When I opened the bundles I found this surprise.
   I wonder what to do with it?

All and all, a good find.

all the yarn

January Sewing so far

It's been a long time, and rather than catch up, I decided to start anew.

I've been ill for a while and not sewing, but things lifted up a little this month, and I made 3 sweatshirt fabric leggings for DD, so she can wear them under her skirts and not be too cold. No pictures, because they left the house with her before I remembered. I did take a picture of her new skirt.

Sunday evening, I decided I should make a drawstring bag, following the instructions that Rowena posted very recently in her blog. I used a scrap of fabric that made it necessary to cut two panels, of a different size than what Rowena posted, but otherwise I actually followed her instructions.
Here's the result:

So, that's 5 projects so far in January, not a bad total...