Sew Sister

Chef for a day

For the last couple of days I've been busy sewing a new Chef's outfit. The green spotty Chef's outfit I drafted and sewed a few years back (bottom pics). It's way to small now so I'm sending it over to the girls so they can have fun with it...

For the Italian Chef I drafted the apron and then used a DD ring for the joining of the neck strap. I'm not too sure what I'm doing with the waist ties yet. At the moment they are long enough to tie in the front, but I think I prefer tying them at the back. I don't think it matters much to the Chef though...

For the hat I used a free pattern over at YouCanMakeThis. I cut out the youth size and then embellished the finished hat by making a Italian flag.

The new Chef's outfit, I think he'll be making Pasta...
It's not pressed I forgot to do that before I took the photo!

Way too small now...

And a little to big for the girls...

Halloween

My ghost and witch for Halloween...

Both are made with a balloons for the head, one black, one white. I used a permanent black marker pen to draw the face on the ghost, then Voile (I was de-stashing) was used to cover the balloons. Then I used matching lace to tie off the fabric from under the balloon head. Next I went looking for the witches hat in the dress-up box to complete the faceless witch...

It's daylight savings here so it's not dark till really late...

A Spicy Sort of Day

While cleaning my pantry I got side tracked by my messy spices, so I decided to make new spice jars out of old jam jars. Have you ever used chalk cloth to make spice labels then glue to attach them to the lid? What glue did you use?

The fun I had with glue, don't try P.V.A. glue it doesn't stick the labels well onto the metal lids. Don't try UHU glue, it just bubbles and eats up the chalk cloth. In the end I used a spray on adhesive which worked well, thank goodness...

Also I didn't have a chalk marker pen to write up my spices, so I used an old chalk pencil to mark the lids. It's all a bit 'rough and ready' but it's okay I can live with that, because no body sees my spices. Except the whole world now thanks to the internet...

Chalkcloth: www.fabricfixation.co.nz

A Busy Life of Disasters

Sewing is now becoming a distant memory for me, so sad my life has got so busy...As many will know I live in a city that has been damaged by earthquakes. My numbers up and they want to fix my house, but I want it fixed properly so I have a battle to win...Just like many other people in Christchurch who are fighting for their rights and trying to preserve the equity in their homes.

Also I've been throwing out anything I can't move or pack up, as soon I may have to pack up the whole house to get it fixed. I hate this, I might as well move, it just seems such a pointless task... My sewing stash is safe though.

To make matters worse I managed to kill my Mac. How did I do that? Too many photos, too many sewing sites saved, taking snap shots of everything and hoarding them all in case I might need them.

But I guess having 13,000 photos in iPhoto was just too much. I trashed them all but they all came back into iPhoto with 13,000 photos of one Iris... So I spent most of my time clicking on 13.000 Irises to get to the original photo and then saving them all to an external hard drive. Then it happened the Mac died...

Live and learn though, I should have backed my computer up ages ago, But I've managed to borrow a laptop for now and this time I'm deleting as I go.

Happy Sewing everyone...

Faux Fur Burda Vest

What did I wish for most when sewing with faux fur? A pair of duckbill scissors to trim the seams to reduce bulk. I didn't have any, so I had to settle for nail scissors. But I do covet a pair...The truth be told I covet everything to do with sewing.

This was pretty much an easy sew except for the fur...the bulk was a bit difficult when lining. But I got there in the end and there was fur everywhere. I'm sure fur went up my nose as well!