First and foremost - thank-you for all the lovely comments about my bag. I didn't have a chance to reply to each one, but ... I do appreciate them. I thought of this as a bag for travel, but since I have no plans for travel in the near future, and I couldn't wait to try out all those wonderful pockets, so the bag is now in daily use. Each pocket has its purpose.
My latest sewing addiction is watching videos from SilhouettePatterns on YouTube. (I have to do
something while I eat!) And my favourite
content is ideas for variations on one pattern.
Some I like. Some I don’t
like. Doesn’t matter. I have bought a few Silhouette Patterns over
the years – none of which have yet been so much as taken out of their
packages. That detail aside, Peggy’s
enthusiasm makes me want to run to the sewing room and start cutting up
patterns and fabric to quickly zip up my version of whatever Peggy just
made. Usually this doesn’t happen,
because there’s already a project underway in the sewing room which really does
need to be completed before anything new hits the cutting table. Nevertheless, a few items have been
influenced by Peggy.
And then there were all these scraps that were just too big to throw away, too precious to turn into swiffer rags. Some slicing and dicing of my knit tunic pattern resulted in a two-colour tunic.
More recently Peggy added a flounce to a top. Well, I needed one too! Hers had a kangaroo pocket. Mine doesn’t. I also acquired some folded
elastic, and again, à la Peggy I sewed it down flat along the centre and used
the same elastic to wrap around the neck edge.
The edge of the flounce is just a narrow hem on the serger using woolly
nylon thread. (Elastic would have been
too bulky here, I think.)
I may dream of lovely embroideries and old-fashioned details
to add some interest to my clothes, but sometimes an easy detail – like using
two fabrics together or adding a simple flounce is all that’s needed to take a
t-shirt from dull to a little bit more interesting.
Very elegant knit tops. Thanks for posting, I'm always looking for inspiration. Abbey
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DeleteYour tops are fabulous!!!
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DeleteYour tops are BEAUTIFUL! Can you tell I'm a top lover? I am an avid watcher of Peggy's videos too.
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