Simplicity 7071: The overalls from this pattern are on the baby in the back. They are, indeed, too large for this baby, but that’s because they were made for a larger baby. My daughter has her own ideas about who gets to wear what.

After searching through my Ottobre and Burda Kids magazines for the absolute best knit garment to make with the green knit scraps, I traced a pair of pull on pants. Ottombre made them from velour. I couldn’t tell if it was stretch velour or not. Alas, I was short fabric by about an inch. I [...]

Burda Plus Winter 2003 retro skirt I did not have my skirt fitted. I ended up ripping the whole thing apart and resewing it. The @#$%ing thing was too big. I’ve got to get over my fear of making something too small and trust my measuring & fitting skills. The petersham ribbon didn’t work because [...]

Kwik Sew 2743 OOP I finished the waist and sewed the sides. The elastic is cut. All that needs to be done is finish the waistband and hem. Kwik Sew 3028 Robert’s chest is 41.5 inches, so I traced a size large in the pull-over sweatshirt. He wants a plain sweatshirt out of Windpro with [...]

McCall’s 3085 OOP I had to cut the front crotch down by 2 inches and the side by 1. They are all finished except for hemming. I’m going to wait until I’ve got the serger set up for coverstitch. I’m pretty happy with them. I love palazzo pants. I don’t care if they are in [...]

Well, so much for not buying more fabric. I met a friend from Pattern Review in Oakland on Tuesday. We went to Poppy Fabric, and I found a funky, cotton/lycra twill stripe fabric and coordinating Día de los Muertos fabrics. Then it was off to Stone Mountain & Daughter. Well, we stopped and fortified ourselves [...]

Last night, she was playing with the 14″ baby doll (She has a 6″ babydoll that she chews on), and when she got tired of playing with it, shethrew it down. She managed to throw so that it ended up balanced onits head leaning against the crib leg. It doesn’t sound very funnywhen I tell [...]

Burda Plus Winter 2003 retro skirt Well, shoot. I think I have the skirt fitted, but my facing is too small. I just ordered some petersham ribbon from The Sewing Place because I’d forgotten that I have a fairly large scrap of the blue twill in with the crazy patch stuff. I think I will [...]