More sewing for your’s truly.  I think part of the joy I get out of sewing is making patterns and sewing things that fit me.  This tends to backfire occassionally when I spend hours making something for myself and then it doesn’t fit.  Very frustrating!

Here are a couple of tank tops that I traced off a CAbi one that I own.  Unfortunately, the CAbi knit had a lot more give, so these are a bit on the tight side.  Not horrible, but not the best fit in the world.  More unfortunate in that I used my expensive Spoonflower knit for the pink/yellow one.  Oh well.  It fits and it matches my hot pink cargo pants rather well.

If you would like to…you can also VOTE for my top as it is one of the finalists for Spring Top Sewalong at Made by Rae.  I’m pretty sure I am only a finalist due to the fact that I designed the fabric, as the top itself isn’t anything inventive.  Voting starts at 8 am CST today and goes for 24 hrs.  I could win some prizes for sewing stuff.   

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(I had to crop it square for the contest, so you can’t see my face in the contest shot)

Then we have a dress that I used my cross-front top pattern with the little sleeves.  I added on a band and then 2 circle skirts to the bottom.  I did some shirring around the neckline.  I really like how this fits and am planning on making a similar dress in black.

Here’s another one of my tummy-tuck pencil skirts.  This one is a black twill, and I imagine it will be worn lots and lots this summer.   I don’t think it will work well with tights, unless I get a slip.  Twill is too “sticky” to work with tights, really.  I also need to figure out how to make this top, or one similar.  It has a really good shape, but lots of pieces.  I bought it at Express last summer.

**While this may look like a summery outfit it was still cold last week….I wore a sweater.  And those heels were killing my feet by the end of the day.  Clearly, I took this picture in the morning before work, as I am still smiling.

Then here is my muslin for a bra-less summer maxi-dress.  It needs some work, not the most flattering, but Anya found it to be a beautiful dress.  Probably because it was so poofy.  I made it from a striped cotton woven and lined the bodice pieces with a white cotton knit.  The back is shirred.   Front view…not bad.  Side view…look pregnant.  I only really plan on wearing it around the house in the summer, so for a house-dress it will work.  I definitely will adjust some things on the next version.

As you can tell in the first photo there was a small person in the room bothering me.

I didn’t get all of this done last week.  I got most of it sewed up on Mother’s Day when I was given some time to get some sewing done.  No sewing happened last week.  Just too busy.  I’m hoping to get a few things done this week.  There’s another little girl birthday, so I imagine she will get a dress like all the other little girls.  I haven’t even shown the last one I made yet, either.  Hopefully next week will be some little kid sewing.