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r all of the kind comments we think he s pretty adorable but we may be a little biased the other challenge has been getting dressed i knew that my figure wasn t going to immediately go back to what it was pre pregnancy but i was honestly surprised at how very very few of my clothes actually do fit right now including some things that i thought would fit decently enough like my tiramisu dresses it s been very strange for me since i was fortunate enough to have a pretty steady weight measurements for most of my adult life and now all of my shirts are extra tight and i literally only have about 5 things that i can get over my hips all elastic waist needless to say i m having a bit of a wardrobe crisis i m especially a little freaked out at the thought of cooler weather hitting and having literally no pants or jeans so as soon as i could find some spare time without a napping baby on my lap i made a thing this is the adelaide dress from seamwork magazine chosen both for its supposedly fast sewing time and for how forgiving it looked like it would be for my post partum figure that and it looked very nursing friendly which is going to have to be the theme of everything i make for my upper half for awhile i think i wasn t 100 sure about the fit since i was never completely satisfied with the sorbetto on me so i opted for the wearable muslin route the fabric is a mystery woven probably a poly cotton blend that was given to me for free when someone else destashed it to my mom when this happens she passes on whatever isn t good for quilts to me while i like the color well enough i thought i d get bored with a solid dress also i don t have the right kind of set in snaps on hand so in the interest of stashbusting i decided to swap those out for these sparkly red buttons that i originally got with a beignet skirt in mind before deciding that a red skirt wasn t something that my closet needed after all and giving away the fabric in a swap i kept the buttons though because sparkly so i m glad i finally found something to do with them to tie those in better i topstitched the placket neckline and armholes in red but i stuck with the blue for the belt and belt loops because i don t want to draw that much attention to my waist while i m hopefully losing the extra weight i ll be honest i don t love this dress it does serve its intended purpose and it did knock an entire piece of yardage out of my stash 2 3 5 yards for the record i guess i just don t feel like it s entirely me i m not sure how much of that feeling is a commentary on the solids or that my body is a stranger that i m having to get to know all over again it might be worth giving the pattern another shot sometime because i do feel that it s more of a fabric issue than a stylistic one i wonder if i d feel better about it if it was in a print or a fabric that draped a little better so i wouldn t have that bit of gaping in the neckline or maybe just a different shade of blue but at this point i m also feeling like this beggar can t be too choosy and there are plusses to the utilitarian stashbusting i don t really have to iron this one after washing and i don t particularly care if he spits up on it i do have a couple of other projects in mind that will hopefully carry me through the warmer portion of the fall and once i get cleared to be more active again hopefully in 2 weeks i figure i can start taking hobbit for walks maybe if all goes well i ll at least be able to fit into my collection of thurlow pants again by the time it gets cold after all they worked until the end of my first trimester where all of my other pants failed so a girl can hope right have you ever had to rebuild your wardrobe almost from scratch how did you deal with it or for those of you who have had kids how long did you hold on to your old clothes especially me mades to see if they would fit again or not posted by becky at 5 03 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags dress sewing stashbusting july 2 2015 9 months in the making believe it or not i can actually do a small june round up although i haven t had a chance to take pictures yet for the most part so this month i finished all of the hand sewing on the second quiet book thanks to a week where i literally had nothing left to do except hang out at my parents while doug was at work and wait to see if i d go into labor all that needs to be done is to sew the finished pages back to back with the machine and assemble the book finished knitting a scarf from a craftsy class that i started last year sometime and i have quite a bit of the second ball of yarn left but i do have an idea for a project to use it on just need the time did not use up any of my fabric stash but i did order 7 yards because fabric com suckered me in with geeky novelty prints got the scrapbook that i ve been working on almost completely done minus a few pictures that just got ordered since i got married i ve been doing one per year running from june to may in order to coincide with our anniversary i seriously love the pocket style scrapbooking it makes it so much easier to keep up i even managed to finish up some older unfinished album pages too oh yeah and i finished this project he was born on june 22 a week and a day past his due date 20 3 4 long and 8 pounds 10 ounces he s 10 days old now and though it s been pretty exhausting it s been fun getting to know this little guy too he s usually pretty happy except when he has to get a bath or i take too long in getting ready to feed him of course when i do feed him then he looks more like this speaking of feeding he s ready for that again hobbit was a very accurate nickname back later posted by becky at 2 39 pm 23 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags knitting real life scrapbooking sewing june 4 2015 pinned there done that the may wrap up the latest two sewing projects both things for the baby were ideas that i found on pinterest and they mostly worked out so i figured i d just show them both at the same time you re getting all phone photos previously taken instagrams today since the dslr is packed with the hospital bag now it s also been rather dreary weather here all week so i apologize in advance for the not so great lighting on the first item in particular i just wanted to get this post done before i m a little distracted ahem thing 1 not the most exciting make ever but it was necessary the co hosts of the small human being sewalong put together a lovely pinterest board that had all sorts of useful items on it among them was this baby changing mat pattern tutorial which i basically just used to get the curve of the top and then completely winged it instead haha i basically just wanted something i could throw into the diaper bag that i could use when i m having to change him at other people s houses those public restroom changing tables fold up to contain potential messes and then throw in the wash i also thought that using up a little more of the leftover fabric from the bag would be nice though sadly i didn t manage to finish the suedecloth off the snap setter i bought for the diapers came in handy for coming up with a hidden closure though i decided to make the dimensions wider longer than the original and leave off the two pocket wings on the side i didn t think they d be very useful with the extra bulk of cloth diapers especially once he s in the larger sizes it s not like i won t have the bag with me at these times anyway the inside is a double layer of polyurethane laminate since i d had to buy an extra piece at joann s to finish off the diapers and had leftovers and i know it s washable even though it makes the inside look a little more boring than vinyl covered cotton prints would have been which is what the original pattern called for i m glad that i had to get a little distance on this one to get the full shot the binding really isn t all that great because i forgot how to do the corners but this one s more of a function over form project anyway at least that s how i m justifying my less than stellar work to myself thing 2 i ve been racking my brains for months trying to figure out what to do with these adorable felt ornaments that my mom made she made a whole bunch of these as favors for my baby shower which had a children s book theme that s also mostly what i doug and i decided to go with for the nursery so we have representatives from all sorts of picture books a fox in socks a moose for if you give a moose a muffin the owls are from a book called who s hiding which is what gave her the idea to make these in the first place the frog and bear come from brown bear brown bear what do you see the rabbit is for the beatrix potter stories after peter rabbit loses his coat and shoes and the penguin is for a book called how do penguins play and also for my mother in law who is completely obsessed with all things penguin as for the dogs they re little felt versions of our malkin and crosby anyway i was originally thinking of making a mobile but was having trouble figuring out how best to make them to accommodate the ribbon loops and not create a potential safety hazard on the crib then i saw this pinterest tutorial for a homemade play gym that s lightweight easy to deconstruct for storage and had felt ornaments and i knew it would be super cheap because i already had everything to make it except for hula hoops i wasn t originally planning on having a play gym since they re so overpriced but it was too cute of an idea to pass up hopefully the dogs won t be all over the baby with this instead of a quilt i opted to make a solid fabric mat because i had yards of this swirly green quilt cotton that i can t remember what on earth i bought it for in the first place that and quilts take longer i also had some solid green leftovers from my last round of geeky bibs and more of those snaps i managed to use up about half of each piece so once again i need to figure out what to do with leftovers oh well i had to kind of wing it on the tabs i did manage to sew them into the hula hoop cover tubes but then discovered that the original length would leave the ornaments hanging way too low so i wrapped them around the tubes a couple of times and hand tacked them down then added the snaps in the appropriate places overall i m quite pleased with how it turned out though the dogs were less impressed aside from following a pinterest tutorial for making a couple of old camisoles a little more nursing layering friendly hacking the ikea curtains and the blackout curtains that we got for the nursery together and starting work on another felt quiet book doctor who this time these two things are pretty much all i have to show for the month which leaves my stashbusting total at somewhere around 3 yards not my best month but i didn t buy any fabric so that has to count for something aside from that doug and i have been working hard on finishing up this project we both did the wall decals but he pretty much took care of the extra bathroom otherwise and he helped with organizing the closet but i took care of dealing with the rest of the laundry and hanging things up otherwise and that laundry was not an easy task because we had the baby shower on saturday between a giant clothesline full of baby clothes that doug s mom sister aunt put together outfits that other people bought us and some extras we hadn t had before like hooded towels and crib sheets i seriously had a pile as big as our larger dog now that that s all taken care of and my music teaching work is more or less wrapped up for the next couple of months i just need to figure out how to occupy myself for the next week and a half or so while i wait for the kiddo to make his debut i do still have hand sewing but finding comfortable places to sit long enough to get anything done on that or read is a bit of a challenge right now i may spend some time playing with my scrapbooks again though since the chair at that workstation seems to work better for me for some reason so i guess this is my last post for a little while until i am physically able to can start sneaking in some time to make things again in the meantime wishing you all lots of summer sewing fun posted by becky at 8 52 am 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags baby stuff real life sewing toys may 27 2015 summer sewing daydreams well here we are about 2 1 2 weeks before my due date sadly i ve reached the point where it s just too physically difficult for me to start any new sewing projects other than the hand stitching i ve been doing on a second quiet book thanks for all the kind words on the last one by the way it was fun between my back refusing to let me sit comfortably anywhere for longer than 5 minutes and my belly getting in the way of both the sewing machine table and my ability to get the leverage needed to work the foot pedal i ve just had to accept that i m just going to have to wait and see what sort of time i can carve out to delve back into this with a newborn i have managed to finish a couple of things this month which i ll show soon but i m coping in the meantime by playing around with pairing patterns and fabrics in my stash to figure out some potential projects that will be forgiving of the changes in my figure that will still be happening easy to adapt to my new lifestyle of mostly stay at home mom i do plan on picking up the music sewing lessons i teach again hopefully around mid to late august so teaching friendly clothes are ok and i don t have to do all yoga pants i don t even own a pattern for yoga pants anyway so there s good incentive to not even go there honestly i ve managed to stay within the recommended range for pregnancy weight gain even though it sounds like hobbit is going to be a bigger baby than i d expected not a 9 10 pounder thank god but still bigger than either of us or our siblings i guess all that nausea has been good for something after all so i m hoping that means that maybe all of those thurlow pants will fit again this fall since i didn t have to give them up until almost the second trimester that would help sooo much anyway here s some of the potential ideas i ve been bouncing around 1 megan nielsen darling ranges dress this one is at the top of the list honestly i ve had this pattern fabric combo bagged up with notions for about 2 years now with the intention of sewing it for the summer to fall transition but other projects kept getting in the way i still really like this rayon challis print though and i d like to see it become something the bonus is that there s so many colors to pick from in the print that it ll be easy to adapt to fall layering with boots and leggings plus it ll go great with the next cardigan i plan to make for myself whenever i finish the quiet book and can get back to knitting instead of hand stitching the gathered tie back 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