baby things

No, not mine.  More presents for friends.   I know I've been gone a while.   I've been doing bits and pieces of various projects, mending and things I've promised to others.  (Greg's birthday shirt is about a year late...)   This is another very belated present (the baby in question was born in the middle of the January snow storm in Boston.) 

This is Butterick 4784, view B. 

 the bottoms of the legs just didn't want to be elasticized.  Otherwise, I'm happy with it.  I hope the mother will be too. (and that it fits the baby.)

another one bites the dust

snazzy baby gown

One more item off my list - still to go is the seersucker suit and (recently added) a sundress as a wedding present.   Then I am done and can go back to being my happily selfish self.

Anyhow - the baby dress!    This is a christening gown for my friends' new baby.   And it even bears some resemblance to the inspiration pictures the mother sent me.   It is made of french seams throughout AND has my very first lapped zipper.

The over skirt and underskirt are two totally separate sections (I always think it looks nicer when they don't share seams)  The main body of the dress is a very soft cotton, for a happy baby, and the overskirt is a floral lace, for a happy mom.

All the internal seams are french as well, and the sleeves are sewn in between the layers of the bodice so that there are no rough edges to scratch or to peak out where they aren't wanted.   All in all, one of the best jobs of finishing I've ever done - and it will probably be worn for about an hour.    C'est la vie.

However, despite all this, it bears only minimal resemblance to the original pattern, simplicity 2457.   I used the basic shapes, but otherwise went rouge to get more or less the desired look.

So very many things

Excuse the lack of real pictures.  I blame light, cold and the fact that I'm prepping to move and loosing my mind a little.  (New job, new city, happening in three weeks and no apartment lined up just yet.   Getting more than a little bit twitchy)

BUT THERE HAS BEEN SEWING!   Stress reduction through creativity!    But still, I've crapped out of getting good pictures

This dress is in progress and almost finished  - Its a frakenpattern using the bodice from 1612 and the skirt from 2580 - not much difference you think - except I didn't like the gathering in the center front of 1612, so rather than modify the pattern I snatched the skirt from the other.   Its coming along really well and only needs a hem.

bodice

skirt

I have a bolero made for stretch knits is in it's second muslin (but in static tulle, for my friend's wedding)   (Making things for people in a fabric that the pattern was not intended for when that person is 200 miles away is somewhat trying) (happily it has only two seams)

The perfect shrug pattern on burda style

A baby's dress is going to be made with cotton and lace for a christening next month.    However, the baby keeps growing.   I have measurements, but I'm going to put in some serious ease.    Babies are unreliable.

S2457 (view A, but with a lace overskirt and no tucks)

and my boyfriend has requested this, in lime seersucker for the end of June.  (Have I mentioned the now *7* weddings of the summer?   the poor man needs something other than wool.)

V8988 - with fun aliasing from the stripes!

Things are...busy.