May | 2011 | Musings of a Seamstress

I almost completely forgot about the sew in last night! I didn’t manage to do much last night but what I did do was make a new pair of PJ pants for my husband. They are made with a 3 yards of a woven cotton with a Batman print on them. I made him a pair of Superman ones several months ago and I don’t think I ever posted about them either because I know I don’t have a picture of them.
I used my TNT pj pattern Butterick 5153 for both. The only other thing I worked on last night was the double ring wedding quilt. I am getting very close to having the major parts quilted. Once I do that I am going to go back through and quilt the purple diamonds and sew on the binding. I am still debating if I want to go back through and quilt a design in each of the large yellow centers though. It will take me so much longer if I decide to do it, but I think it will make it look much nicer. We’ll see.

On another note I made my husband a vest using Simplicity’s Project Runway 2870 a couple of weeks ago. He was out of town for work all week so I could not get any pictures of it until yesterday when he got home.

Materials used:
1 yard of black suiting fabric
2 yards of black lining
10 black 5/8″ buttons
1 yard black fusible interfacing

In the end I opted not to put any pockets on this version. I originally was going to do welt pockets. Even after reading the PR review’s that talked about the wonky instructions for them I still decided to go with them. The original left side piece got discarded after I became so frustrated I had to walk away for several hours. I really should have made a sample welt pocket first. I had plenty of this fabric left over so I just cut a new piece and moved on. The only changes I had to make to the pattern were lengthening it by 2″ for his longer torso, which then meant I had to redo the button placement. I think it originally called for 6 buttons in the front and I ended up putting 8. He really likes it though! I am definitely going to make this again for him real soon.

There has been a real lack of sewing for myself as of late. I don’t know why. There are plenty of things I want to make myself but I have been putting so many other projects ahead of that. Last week I made 2 new strands of patriotic felt garland for my Etsy shop. And before that I made a new pair of pj pants and pj top for a friend.