Fun with Knits

Good news everyone, I'm making progress on my bagged projects and feeling a little less frazzled.  Luckily I had the stash busting theme of "Sewing for others" in my head and cut out mostly knit patterns for kids.  Few things are as quick and satisfying to me as serging together small brightly colored garments.

Since I'm a Kitschy Coo pattern junkie the Mini Penny Pinafore and the Girl's Skater Dress baggies got broken out first. Here they are frolicking together on the table. So happy together is playing somewhere in the distance.

The Mini Penny is all Lillestoff yardage left over from other projects.  There was just enough of the Matryoshka jersey to squeeze out the center panels. Now I have 2 largish squares that I'm holding on to for no reason.  It just seems wrong to throw precious Lillestoff away, The Precious!!

Also have got to remember for the future to buy more than 1 yard of solid red jersey.  Since it works for both boys and girls I need MOAR for my 3 kid models.

The Girl's skater used up almost all of the fanged clouds jersey bought long ago from The fabric fairy.  That jersey doesn't have a lot of snap to it so I did the neckband and cuffs in ribbing.  This particular ribbing behaved more like interlock so I didn't have to cut down the length of the pattern pieces at all. Excellent /\.

Now that a couple of things are sewn up for my niece, it's time to move on to her brother.  I was very taken with the new ShwinDesign's Anytime at all Tee pattern released last week. It probably has something to do with the boy model who is just adorbs. The design it's self has several styling options that will work for either boys or girls. I'm starting with the color blocked option to use up some narrow scraps lurking in the stash.

Master Desmond will get one of these later if he's nice and stops trying to steal my bobbins. "It's a wheel Mommy! A wheel!" Back you little beastie, go find your own wheels.

Since I've been having fun sewing with knits, I've decided spread the fun.  Back when I had an office job there was a Barnes and Noble in walking distance and I bought way too many books. One of them was the Built by Wendy "Sew U Home Stretch" book.  It's a nice book for learning how to sew knits and do some basic pattern hacking.  I don't use it much, so it seems right to pass it on to someone else.

It has a crinkled page here and there, but the patterns are uncut and no pages have been removed by idle toddler hands.  I'm also gonna throw in 2 yards of 60" wide rayon/cotton/lycra jersey.  It's heathered yellow/green with a navy stripe.  Light weight with very little rolling, originally from Marcy Tilton who always stocks nice knits.

If you'd like to be entered in the give away then just leave a comment saying so.  I'll pick a winner next Monday, may the odds ever be in your favor.