Alex moved to the basement bedroom and we separated the two little kids. This was Alex’s room:
Alex had a loft bed and put his dirty feet all over the ceiling, so that got painted first.
The nice thing about painting the ceiling before you paint the walls is that it doesn’t matter if you get it on the walls. Oh, and those solar system glow in the dark things? Very annoying to have to scrape them all off the wall.
Zoe picked purple for her walls. I cleaned the carpet, too.
Looks nice, doesn’t it?
Then I bought some fabric, and learned that organza is not my favorite material to sew.
Two layers of lilac and one layer of dark purple organza underneath make a very girly princess bedskirt.
There were about 4-4.5 yards left in each color…
which was perfect for making sheers to go over the ugly blinds in that room.
The don’t look that dark in the daytime, but I’ve not been able to get a picture in the daylight.
In case you were wondering, 30 yards of organza were used in this room.
Paul is taking the kids to see a play today, Jack was looking for something nice to wear with his pants. Please note, we have a loose definition of nice around here. When you’re four, nice = not sweatpants. His nice pants were in the laundry pile and the washer was already running a load of towels. Since they were planning to leave in two hours, there was not enough time to get his pants through the washer and dryer.
Luckily, I had enough corduroy on hand to make a pair of pants. These are a bit of a repeat of the pair I made before, Kwik Sew 2918 in a 4T. I added an extra 1.5″ to the length and took an inch off the top. I sewed the corduroy completely and then sewed each leg in flannel. I put each flannel leg inside the corduroy, right sides together and then pulled them through and sewed the flannel leg pieces together at the crotch. I folded over the waist about 1.25″ and zigzagged it down with the elastic loop inside.
One pair of pants, ready to go!
I’m still questioning whether this was a good idea, but I didn’t have the right color red to match the skirt I made Zoe for Valentine’s Day, so I went with the white.
This is the tunic length version with a hood and without the cap sleeves. Size 122/128 without a seam allowance added. Since she’s wearing it with a skirt, I think the shorter length might have been better.
This was the first time I’d done machine applique and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s a bit fiddly, but other than that, not terribly difficult. Applique is from Lynnie Pinnie, I left out the circle in the middle of the hearts. A layer of Sticky+ with tearaway underneath it for the applique. Lots of ric-rac and lettuce edging for “curly” hems as Zoe says.
This is one of those patterns that looks a lot more difficult than it is. It sat on my shelf for months before I finally tried it. This is a size 122/128, with 20.5″ of 3/4″ non-roll elastic in the waist. The pattern calls for 5 panels, but if you use two fabrics, you’ll want to add a sixth panel so you can alternate them around the skirt. A simple rolled hem completes this cute twirly skirt.
This tunic length top is from the Winter 2009 Ottobre. The neckline is pretty wide on it, if I make it again, I’ll bring that up some. It’s a little bit wide, but not overly so. It fits like a comfy top. Other than that, size 128 is a good fit on Zoe. This pattern might work well with sweatshirt fleece, though I’d probably widen the sleeves just a touch.
