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A vintage flash card now part of my Halloween decor.
For some very nice illustrations and cut&fold crafts visit: the toymaker Halloween section. For next year I'm thinking the 'Papel Picado' banner would be nice done with felt, stitching around the cut-outs.
Happy Halloween!
3 hats, 2 pairs of sunglasses and one skipping rope found the other day in the pocket of J.T.'s backpack. Miss Z has a tendency to take things and stuff them into small spaces...must make mental note of this...throwing them over the fence just isn't her style...she sure know how to make her mum loopy! Bless her, the dear!
M did up a spooky banner which was visible a couple of days ago but it has disappeared...ooooo....spooky! Hoping it makes another appearance sometime soon...in the meantime...bannerless. Ta da!
The coat is finished. A bit big but whenever I make anything for the kids I always make it on the big side so they can get a lot of wear out of it. Nothing that a little rolling-up of the sleeves can't fix and why not with that hot pink lining!
To make it easier for Miss Z to do up her coat on her own I did faux buttons. That is, buttonholes which I didn't cut open with buttons sewn on front and snaps on the inside.
Went to Crafty Nest today (lots of beautiful stuff!) and purchased the sweetest little brooch for Miss Z to wear on her new coat. It's a brown crocheted flower with a cute little wooden squirrel adhered to it's centre.
Oh, in reference to Gwen's comment, the hats are still missing! Miss Z is one little tornado who rips through this house every couple of minutes. It's been a couple of weeks now when on one of her mess-making sprees she turned her bucket of outdoor wear upside down and spread the items far and wide. I do know of two hats that are missing for sure. She claims to of thrown them over the fence! I've gone through everything inside and out! Thanks to Marsha Mellow for the link to some funky hat making instructions...Miss Z might get a hat to go with the new duds...if so I'll be moving her outdoor wear bucket to a top shelf.
and and and .... how about that banner! A big thanks to M who is constantly trying to liven things up here at ol'Fred & Toots - much appreciated!
Signing off...happy Saturday night y'all...I'm off to finish Mrs. Henderson Presents.
Calling on 'Molly Ringwald' from 'Pretty in Pink' days I have dissected a nine dollar men's sport coat only to transform it into a coat fit for Miss Z lined with pink satin and all. I looked around at the shops a bit but just couldn't find what I was looking for so on a
recent trip to the Salvation Army thrift store an idea came to me. I used McCall's pattern 2403
. It's an unlined coat pattern but when dissecting the sport's coat I paid close attention to how everything was put together so I'd have some idea how to attach the lining. Just amazing all the lining, interfacing, little pockets - quite the detail in what seems like quite a simple coat, all for 9 bucks. For the coat I made there was a lot of hand sewing at the end for the hems and stitching up some of the lining but the whole process was very relaxing. You can see a bit in the underneath picture on the left the layers of lining/interfacing that was in the front panels of the coat. It was just thin, stiff fabric all neatly stitched in place. Whatever was there after I cut out my pieces I left as-is to heft it up a bit. If one is going to attempt this all I can say is "iron, iron and iron some more". I truly believe that is key to any sewing project.
All that's left to do is sew on the buttons then I'll post some 'finished' pictures. As J.T. can attest the whole thing was done in a matter of days (any type of sewing project around here puts the house in a bit of upheaval so it doesn't happen too often much to my dismay). J.T. figures it will be more work getting Miss Z to wear it then it did to make it. I have a few tricks up my sleeve.
