I did a little garment sewing this weekend! I was practically jumping out of my seat when Rae asked if I would test the big girl version of her Geranium dress (which is a child version of her Washi dress). I had been eagerly awaiting the Geranium in sizes for older girls.I expect this dress to get a lot of wear so I took the time to make French seams on the skirt.
I also fully lined the yoke.
I just love the little notch detail in the neckline.
It adds a bit of style without being "over the top" for young girls.
Miss P is thrilled with the new dress in this fun orange print from Jennifer Paganelli. This is the size six with a little extra length.
The making of the dress went so well that Miss P is making HERSELF a top from the same pattern. She chose which variations she wanted to make and is well on her way.I let her use my big Bernina for this one. She thinks the Bernina is really cool and more fun to sew on than the featherweight. She likes that I can set it for slow sewing and there is no danger of accidentally going too fast.Stay tuned for Miss P's top AND the release of the Geranium for older girls. You will love all the variations you can get with this pattern.
Flashback Skinny Tee
P is a skinny girl. Seven years old and all of 40 pounds. Usually when a shirt or top fits her in the shoulders it is way too short and doesn't even reach the top of her pants. Not a great look. So, she usually wears shirts that look a bit big on her.Enter Rae's Flashback Skinny Tee pattern. It seemed like this pattern was made for Miss P. I cleaned out my dresser on the weekend and found an old shirt of mine that P liked. We cut it down and made a great new shirt for her. This is the first shirt that has actually FIT her in years! She loves it.
The pattern is super easy and I was able to keep the existing sleeve hem and neck finish of the original shirt with careful placement of the pattern pieces.
She likes the top so much that she had to wear it for the rest of the day - which was spent threshing the black beans that we grew this year.A few weeks ago we pulled up all of the black bean plants and wrapped them in old sheets and put them on our upper porch to finish drying (we didn't want the beans to fall from the pods into the garden). Yesterday was the perfect crispy warm fall day for threshing.First we wrap a big bundle of plants in a tarp. Then, P's favorite part, we thwack it with a stick to pop the beans from their dry pods.
Then we pick out all of the plant parts making sure there are no beans left in the pods.
What is left on the tarp is a pile of black beans mixed with chaff.
On a breezy day we will pour this mix from bucket to bucket and let the wind carry away the chaff and we will be left with black beans to store for future meals.
Yesterday was a perfect fall day!I also found the perfect pattern for the top of P's Elf costume for Halloween! She'll be a skinny elf in a Skinny Tee!
