Why am I so excited about a rather shapeless, overly long, plain grey dress? Well, you see, this dress used to be one of my very own t-shirts and now it fits Abner perfectly!
Do you see why I'm so excited yet? No? Let me spell it out for you...I'm excited because I didn't use any pattern whatsoever (side note: I love words that are actually multiple words smushed together). Get it now?!
I cut down the neck, shoulders and fit new sleeves all on my own. I didn't even measure for Pete's sake! I just ran my rotary cutter over the t-shirt and said, "that looks about right", sewed it up, and voila...perfect fit! Sleeves, people! I made perfect sleeves without a pattern!!!
OK, I think I can calm down now. At the moment the sash is just a scrap of fabric I had left over from the anniversary quilt. But, I hope to make a slightly more colourful version soon.
that is delightful! way to know your sewing and the size of your kid! ;-) i hope some of your perfect-sleeviness rubs off on me one day.
ReplyDeleteby the way, the word verification was "abicarba" which is totally the perfect thing to say when mysterious pasta arrives on my plate.
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of sleeves, I just ran into that sleeve problem on the dressing gown pattern I borrowed from you...ugh. Way to slow a project down, stupid pattern!
Super cute!
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ReplyDeleteGlad you like it Andrea! One of these days I'm going to get you sewing for your own little one!