I found out about a discount fabric place just out of the central city, so I spent a couple of Queen's Birthday hours looking around there. Fortunately, TLM was quite happy to accompany me, even though there was absolutely no promise of Dora fabrics (there weren't any). She even went around giving cuddles to lucky rolls of fleece and silkys. She was very keen indeed on the costume section, and at one point I worried that I would end up buying a length of sparkly sequinned stuff for goodness knows what.It's probably not surprising that I ended up spending far more than I intended to, but I did get quite a few items:
- 3 x 2m lengths of knit (including one of merino), from which I intend to sew at least 3 winter tops
- some white cotton and interfacing, for collars for the two refashions I am still procrastinating over (the bogan shell top and the mens shirt -->women's top)
- a bag crammed with trims of all sorts, which ought to be handy for all kinds of TLM-related sewing
- and a length of pink polar fleece for TLM's scarf.
We made the scarf that afternoon, based on some instructions I found in a library copy of Sew What! - Fleece. We cut a piece of the pink polar fleece, cut tassles into each end and hand-sewed some sequinned, pale green trim at each end. TLM chose both the fleece colour and the trim.
I think she liked it. At the very least, she doesn't have an excuse to wear my scarves now.
3 comments:
Like the scarf! It looks like a project even I with my rudimentary skills could manage. Perhaps this weekend.
Cute! Always great when they like what we've made them.
mtnw: yep it was easy peasy. The hardest bit was lining up the trim on both sides of each end and handsewing it down without turning my fingers into mini-sieves.
antoinetter: it sure is. What has put me off trying to sew for TLM in the past is the possibility that she'll refuse to wear it.
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