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Bees on white cotton

15/08/2012 5:45 am \ 29 Comments \

(to be sung to the tune of Knights in White Satin, of course  😉  )
I was quite taken with the grub roses kbenco has been embroidering onto her knits, and was inspired to follow suit…  so for my latest lingerie set I delved deep into my memory banks and dredged up a few rusty ol embroidery skills…  
There is a single fat little bumblebee on each item.
Tres cute, no?!

The bra pattern is KwikSew 3300 (my review of this pattern here), and the two pairs of matching undies are made using my swimwear pattern, McCalls 2772 view E.  Yup, exactly the same as my previous set.

I used a soft ivory cotton knit from Spotlight.  It is absolutely lovely stuff, but I have only the smallest issue, in that the fabric only stretches one way, so while it all fits just fine it is ever so slightly less easy and comfy than my grey jersey set.   I positioned the pieces so the stretch went where it counts, but I definitely feel a bit more firmly held in place, so to speak.  Maybe that’s a good thing…. 🙂
The fabric is quite soft and spongy, almost with a brushed quality; so to embroider my bees onto those fronts of the undies with just that single layer of the fabric, I ironed a small square of iron-on interfacing onto the back where I wanted my bees positioned.  Then I embroidered the bees, and then ironed a second small square of iron-on interfacing over the back for a neat finished look, ironing carefully so as not to squash the embroidery too much.  I realise the second squares will probably disappear in the wash some day, that iron-on stuff is notoriously prone to unsticking pretty quick.  But it will be fine for a while and I can always iron on a new patch.  The bra joiner bit, having a piece of woven cotton as interfacing sandwiched between the two layers of knit, was easy to embroider on just as is.
For the top-stitching I tried out another of my machine’s decorative stitches… I like how those jagged spikes sorta references a row of bee’s stings.  It’s funny, I use these decorative stitches on my machine like, barely once in a blue moon? and now I’ve used them twice in the past month!  A record!
Oh, and in response to an email question from Sue…  thank you for the interest Sue!  I do all my sewing on these two machines, and in the picture of my Janome in that post you might just be able to make out the small selection of embroidery stitches I have on my machine.  It’s not a fancy machine at all, but it has served me very well for me for many many years and has everything I could want in a sewing machine  🙂
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Red Riding Hood

13/08/2012 5:17 am \ 23 Comments \

…along with requisite “wolf” hehehe.
This is the latest in my attempts to make usable things out of things not being used….
I pulled out of my bag of toss-outs this oversized cotton cardigan along with another old Tshirt tossed out by Tim.  I’ve struggled with this cardigan… the cheerful warm tomato-red colour is a plus but the boxy shape and massive size has always been a problem.  Since day dot, really…  I bought it in 2001; my first mail order purchase whilst we were living in the US.  I was a mail order newbie, and just assumed naively that a small/medium would probably be my size.  When it arrived: well, it was ridiculously big!
Lesson learned!  Incidentally, the lesson ultimately learned was “don’t buy mail order, ever”… but that’s a whole other story  😉

Anyhoo I did not think or know at the time how I could go about returning stuff… so it stayed.  The armpits hung down below my bust level and I had to wrap it half again around my body and tie a belt over, to keep even halfway warm in it.  Stylish, not.  It’s basically been in the camping/washing the car and/or the dog in category since new, and then migrated to my re-fashioning bag at least a year ago.
Using my own trusty custom fit Tshirt pattern as a guide; I cut up the cardigan, re-sized the pieces and sewed it all together again: only keeping the shoulder seams of the cardigan intact, since they were already nicely re-inforced.  Also I kept the neckline band and the wrist bands untouched and intact, and the lower band is also original although taken in with the side seams. When refashioning something new outa something old, it is a good idea to keep and incorporate into the finished garment as many of the factory finishes as possible; it ends up looking a lot more professional and pulled together.  Plus makes it a heckuvalot easier.
I’m slightly obsessed with hoodies lately.  Hood = cool, right?  Right!
The red Tshirt was getting pretty fragile and the fabric was not going to hold up to anything heavy duty, but since a hood is something that just hangs there decoratively most of the time and is not “worn” very much, so I thought the fabric might hold up to the task.
Now my hood pattern from KwikSew 3667 is drafted to fit a crew neck, and my cardigan has a deep V neck.  But it is pretty easy to add on an extra wedge section while cutting out, so the hood will fit onto the V neckline…

I overlocked the lower edge of my hood and simply stitched in the ditch along the outside of the cardigan.

I removed the original buttons off the cardigan (green plastic, which I never really liked either) and sewed in a matching red open-ended zip.
I did have fancy plans to sew on a few decorative pockets cut from the Tshirt also, but after a coupla attempts I had to concede defeat; the Tshirt fabric was really too fragile and they looked muchos hideous.  So the cardigan remains pocket-less.  🙁
Yah, so hopefully the hood might hold up for a while yet.  We shall see.  To be honest, I’m still not head over heels in love with this thing, despite its cool new hood.  Y’know how sometimes something just doesn’t push your buttons, even though it ticks all the right boxes?  It’s “my” colour, it’s got a hood, it fits nicely (now).  It’s got a hood.  Did I mention the hood?  Hoods are cool.  I kinda love the hood.
Well, I guess I’ll look a tad more stylin’ around the campfire than I was before.
I’m counting this one a minor league win.

Details:
Hoodie; my own design, with modified hood from KwikSew 3667, made from an oversized old cardigan and an old tshirt
Tshirt; charcoal and black striped cotton jersey, details here
Skirt;  charcoal stretch jersey, details here
Scarf; details here
Tights; voodoo
Shoes; Django and Juliette, from Zomp shoes

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Spiral leggings

10/08/2012 2:26 am \ 43 Comments \

From my first flick-through
the book I always knew this project was a must-make… the spiral leggings on p
52 of Pattern Magic 3, by Tomoko Nakamichi.
The design is, like so many
in the Pattern Magic series, excessively cool.  A sorta a-ha design; seemingly simple and obvious when you see it laid out like this, but nonetheless innovative and edgy.
I know I’ve raved about the
Pattern Magic books ad nauseum over and over again before, but just allow me
just another small rave… every time I attempt something from Pattern Magic I feel
like I learn something new and profound about sewing and fabric
manipulation.  OK, OK, I know several of the designs
in the book are barely wearable, true; but they are without exception exciting
and forward-thinking.  The process is
about thinking outside of the box, getting out of the rut.   The designs are never
predictable, and never ho-hum,  I
love this sort of innovation in my sewing as well as in my wardrobe!
above 2 pictures from Pattern Magic 3
The fabric I used is a deep purple-grey, synthetic stretch knit from Fabulous Fabrics.   Actually, I bought this fabric specifically for this
project, it is exactly what I wanted.   I bought this fabric with my birthday gift voucher,
from a group of my friends; the other piece I bought with this voucher became
my red dress, and I still have some more of this grey stretch left too, to make
something else.  I have the best
friends! 
above; mine
I drew up the paper pattern
but there was lots of fiddly diddling.  I
needed legs both wider and a lot longer than the dimensions stipulated in the
book!  Well, that’s hardly
surprising, really 🙂  Also I mentioned my fabric was exactly what I wanted? well it was, but there was only
one small problemmo… the fabric stretched just one way, not two.  Or is that two-way, not four-way?? I
can never get that right.  But
you’re getting my drift here I hope….
My point is that the “girth”
of the leggings stretches around my legs in some but only some parts of the
spiral.  A minor technical complication…
I also made minor modifications
to the style of the leggings: as follows:
The pattern is for straight-ish
legs with very little tapering; and after the first try-on I decided that I wanted mine to be a lot
more tapered, to be skinnier around my calves and ankles.  It’s probably hard to
tell from the pics but I can assure you they are substantially skinnier than
the book version!
The other style adjustment
which is probably easier to distinguish between the two, is that my
leggings are form-fitting and “rumple-less” about my hips, while the ones pictured on the model in the book have the rumples going all the
way up the side of each hip, right up to the waistband.  Since I wanted to wear mine not as
pants, but as leggings underneath a dress or skirt, I wanted for the top part
to be tight and smooth and have no rumply bits that would bunch up to make my
hips look falsely lumpy and bumpy underneath a dress.  I prefer for my hips to look smooth and streamlined, not
lumpy and bumpy, thank you very much 
🙂   Just
a personal preference there, of course 
;D
Consequently I drafted and
sewed the top part of the leggings to fit my abdomen snugly.  I cut a tall waistband to be 3cm shorter than my natural waist measurement and attached the waistband to the top edge
using this method with no elastic, and they sit up quite securely and
comfortably and don’t feel like they are going to slip down.
I hemmed using the twin needle on my sewing machine, instead of the band suggested in the book.
All in all, because of my 1(2?) way stretch issue and desire for a skinny-leg modifications; I probably tried these on, pinned, took them off, did a bit of basting and tried them on again… at least a dozen times over; but y’know what? I’m perfectly satisfied.  Last year I devised and made
a pair of leggings I dubbed scrumpled leggings, and these ones are satisfyingly even more scrumply!
Details:
Leggings; from p 53 of Pattern
Magic 3 by Tomoko Nakamichi, made of grey synthetic stretch knit
Dress; body &soul, a
thing I’ve had for about twelve years.  I
probably should copy this one over again, I love it so.  One of those RTW things that I love so
much I probably never will part with it!
Shoes; Perrini, had these
for even longer than the dress, probably 20 years!
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Lemons, lemons, lemons…

08/08/2012 3:59 am \ 62 Comments \

Like many households in Perth at the mo’ we have lemons.  Lots of lemons.  We are overloaded with lemons.  We have lemons coming out of our ears.  To say I have lemons on the brain is no exaggeration!!
Last week I was sad to see one of the boughs on our lemon tree starting to snap from under the weight of a gazillion lemons… so I salvaged all the ripe lemons off of the bough and got this…

D’ya wanna see something scary?  Even after harvesting all those lemons off just one branch, the tree still looks like this…!

So I am on a mission to USE LEMONS…!
I have made lemon curd.  I checked out recipes on the net and found this one, but then made up my own recipe, which uses the whole egg rather than just the yolk.  I consider this to be a far more usable concept in cooking  🙂

Lemon Curd
rind and juice of 4 lemons
6 eggs
1 1/2 c sugar
125g butter

Lightly whisk the eggs and sugar together in a saucepan, then add the other ingredients.  Whisk continually over a medium heat until the mixture has thickened to a custard-like texture then allow to cool in the pan.  Decant into sterilised jars.

I’ve made about twenty jars of lemon curd and given nearly all away to my friends; and they have been surprisingly appreciative, especially considering most of us have lemon trees  😀

Cassie devised this clever idea…

This is mango jelly, made up with the juice from the lemons plus water up to volume, and poured inside the hollowed-out half lemon shells to set.  It can be eaten by scooping the jelly straight out of the half shells, or cut up into wedges like this.  Looks quite pretty on the plate, don’t you think?… Clever and delicious!

Floral arrangement…

I know I know, this isn’t really “using” lemons since they too still have to be consumed at some point.  But one may as well enjoy the visual beauty of laden branches too, yes?  Alongside there is my newest knitting project, hehehe…

I hesitate to mention this last one, since I get a “look” from everyone irl I have mentioned it to…  I am also drinking a lemon a day…  without any added sugar.  I fully realise how strange this sounds but honestly I am enjoying it now.  It only took a few days to get used to drinking unsweetened diluted lemon juice but now I am acclimatised I cannot imagine going back to adding sugar ever again.  I used to add sugar to my lemon juice, but it always bothered me.  I decided I would wean myself off by gradually reducing the amount of sugar I was adding but then I just decided to go cold turkey.  And it worked!  I am getting a good shot of vitamin C, without the extra sugar.   I am cool with it now.  
Juice of 1 lemon, diluted up to a glassful… 

A glass a day keeps the common cold at bay!

I think it is important to note, I am NOT expecting my family to drink unsweetened lemon juice.  For now it’s just me  🙂  For my family, I have been baking a coupla lemon cakes each week.  It’s a good thing everyone loves them….    🙂
And we are slowly getting through those lemons!
Incidentally, does anyone know a good limoncello recipe?
Now perhaps I should start thinking what to do about this…

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Sleeve

06/08/2012 3:45 am \ 34 Comments \

Tattoo-ed sleeves are a “fashion” trend just like anything else, and so hot right now!  (ergo, probably destined to be so not some day  🙂  )  in the meantime I’ve made for myself a new Tshirt that is a nod to the trend…

The sleeves of my Tshirt are cut from an old child’s Tshirt with a graphic print on the front, the second, white sleeve is cut from the back obviously! and the body is cut from another white plain Tshirt, both are recent toss-outs from my boys’ wardrobes.  I got the idea for my new Tshirt when it occurred to me that the print reminded me of tattoos; a swirly print in bright children’s paintbox colours with a thick black outline.

Thinking about a real tattoo sleeve: it continues up and over the shoulder smoothly without interruption; and so I decided a conventional set-in sleeve with the seam on the shoulder would truncate the print and end up looking kinda wrong.  The best style for this look would be a raglan sleeve.
For which I did not have a pattern…
It’s funny; a raglan sleeve, whilst a recognised “thing” in the sartorial world, is very poorly represented in the sewing pattern kingdom, don’t you think?  In terms of population: the almighty set-in sleeve is the over-ridingly dominant species in the gene pool, closely followed by the kimono sleeve and the humble raglan sleeve is verging on being an endangered species!
So I set out to make my own pattern.  Luckily, I have a small raglan Tshirt from  many years ago which has long since passed into Cassie’s possession, so I temporarily repossessed it, and laid it down to trace around the sleeve, and then played around with my own self-drafted Tshirt pattern to fit in the new sleeve with a few minor sizing adjustments.  
So now I have a raglan Tshirt pattern  🙂  
The raglan sleeve is a very tall pattern piece compared to one’s common-or-garden, set-in sleeve pattern piece, so it took up practically the entire Tshirt!  But I tried to get in as much of the design as possible…  and I love the wide and flattering boatneck-line.   I preserved the lower hemlines of both the Tshirts intact to be the new Tshirt’s sleeve and lower hemlines respectively.
My family have all voted this their favourite of my new Tshirts!

Details:
Tshirt; self drafted, made using two old Tshirts
Jeans; Burda 7863 modified, black stretch corduroy, details here
Boots; Andrea and Joen
Sienna; wearing her own fur coat

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A tee or three

04/08/2012 2:31 pm \ 28 Comments \

I have made a few new
Tshirts…
I’ve noticed a few examples
of mixing and matching different colour and/or width stripes in the one Tshirt,
and decided to have a go at adding something like to my wardrobe; using up some scraps and a few more of the old Tshirts in my bag
of refashioning garments…
Below: I took both these
pictures from Australian Vogue, at left is part of a Tommy Hilfiger advert; at
right, from the Antipodium resort ’13 collection.
Quite interesting, yes?
My Tshirt is made from: the baby blue with thin black stripe is cut
from one of Tim’s old Tshirts; the sage green with diagonal white stripes is
leftover fabric from a top Cassie made for herself; and the yellow sleeves are
cut from one of my old tank tops, that was once white and that I dyed yellow
with ground turmeric, here.  The
green/white stripe fabric is an interesting print; the stripe is on the diagonal!  So while it looks like the lower part
of the body is cut on the bias, it is not!  
The pattern is my own
self-drafted pattern, with the sides cut straight down, instead of my usual
fitted-to-the-waist curve, because I wanted to match those diagonal stripes
down each side, this would have been a Mission Impossible with a waist curve!  I’m pleased to say, mission was accomplished.
I’ve also made a coupla new
plain white Tshirts.  I came across
some white cotton knit, leftover from this dress, while searching for suitable
candidates for lingerie, and while I decided it was not suitable for lingerie it
is perfect for Tshirts.  So I cut
out two new Tshirts.  Only then did I remember that I had mentally set this fabric aside for another Pattern Magic thing… (headslap)
oh well!  There is fabric aplenty
still for Pattern Magic things!
These will be great for thermal purposes and just basic useful things… one can never have too many white Tshirts, no?
The only special thing
about these new Tshirts is that I stabilized the shoulder seams with Seams
Great.  This was a gift from
the kind and clever velosewer; thank you so much velosewer!  This gossamer thin tape is new-to-me, and I am thrilled with how unobtrusive and tidy it
looks sewn over those shoulder seams!
The lower hems of the two
white Tshirts were finished with a twin needle blahdy blah, but for the striped Tshirt I
just decided on a whim to go with a simple zig-zag.  Man, but I’m just one crazy rebel, sometimes  😉  If it goes wave-y or funny I can always re-do it with a twin
needle, properly.
 
Details:
Tshirt; self-drafted, from
a mix of old and leftover cotton knits
Skirt; Vogue 1170, PU
laminate, details and my review of this pattern here
Shoes; Perrini, had these
for donkey’s years
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Grey jersey set

01/08/2012 1:13 am \ 33 Comments \

I’ve made another lingerie set  🙂
And I used this terrific bra pattern!   Kwik Sew 3300.  I browsed through the veeery few patterns there are on offer and chose this one as the cutest, and the closest in appearance to the sort I like to wear.  I am happiest in a streamlined little bra, with underwires, and cup inserts or at least a thin layer of padding.  Personally I cannot wear ones that have just one single layer of flimsy fabric, or just lace.
This pattern does not cater for a cup insert, so I sewed the pieces such that I could put some in…  I trimmed the inserts to fit inside the cups exactly and put them in just before attaching the underarm and back elastic edging.  Incidentally, I found (by sitting on the floor of Spotlight with my half-finished bra, comparing it to all the cup inserts…)  that the Birch’s size 16 cup insert fits the 34A cup of this pattern pretty well! it has the perfect depth and just needs a small slice trimmed off each side.  Win!   To stop the inserts from folding up inside or becoming twisted up through washing I invisibly pick-stitched each to the cup lining, around the whole perimeter at about 5mm in from the edge of the insert.
For the two pairs of matching undies I used a swimwear pattern I’ve had for a while; McCalls 2772.  I’ve made five pairs of bathers from this pattern over the years, the latest two pairs here and here, so I know it is a perfect fit for me. 
These panties are made up using the pattern pieces for view E bikini bottom.

I see no problems with using a bikini pattern to make undies, in fact I think it makes good economic sense, since you are kinda getting two for the price of one, no?  All the bra and undies patterns I looked at had either bra or undies, and very few had bra and undies together in one pattern… and the one or two that did unfortunately were not the style I was looking for…  The swimwear pattern I used is not available anymore but I noticed this one, McCalls 5400 … and this is a great pattern since you are getting bathers and undies all rolled in one pattern!

The best thing about lingerie sets of course, is that they use the teensiest lengths of fabric!  I love this cotton jersey knit, in a warm light yellowy-grey marle, than makes me think of gym gear and sweatshirts.  This fabric is partially leftovers from my Pattern Magic 3 Clipped Wings Top and I just had to buy a little extra, which then enabled me to cut out two pairs of knickers.  This worked out well, because I think two pairs of undies per bra is a good ratio to live with.  The panty liners I cut from an old Tshirt.
The decorative stitching for the picot edged elastic looks so pretty, yes?  This is the suggested finishing method for the bra, and I am so pleased at how attractive those triple-stitch zig-zags look.
I sewed a white button decoratively on each item.  I think the plainness of the humble button, its innocence and lack of pretension, better suits the sporty fabric and simple style of this set than anything frilly or feminine.   
Y’know what the fun bit is…? I am really looking forward to choosing interesting fabrics and trims for future sets… I think I’m staring down the barrel of a new sewing addiction!

Before y’know it, I’m going to be churning out beauties like these….

source

…haha!  Just kidding!! ;D


Pattern
Description:
Underwire bra has back from power net, edges finished with elastic, and shoulder straps from tricot.  View A cups are made from lace and tricot, and view B cups are made from tricot.
Pattern Sizing:
Sizes 32, 34 and 36 with cup sizes A, B, C, D; and size 38 with cup sizes B, C, D, DD
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you had finished sewing it?
in essence, yes
Were the instructions easy to follow?
Yes!  The instructions are fantastic, very clear and straightforward.  The method for attaching the picot elastic along the edges turned out really pretty, I love it!  I used the same method for the two pairs of matching knickers too.
What
did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern?
This is a fantastic pattern!  I wasn’t sure about my size to start with; there are no clear directions about selecting your correct size; just directing you to “select pattern size by your purchased bra size”  In Australia our sizes are 10, 12, 14 etc, so I wasn’t sure what this actually translated to in European sizing.  I found a conversion chart here.
The pattern sheet is really well set out, with all the pieces for each size clustered together in separate sections.  Brilliant!  Much easier for tracing out your own size.  Which I actually did, for once  🙂
The pattern doesn’t make provision for cup inserts, and I prefer to have cup inserts; but it wasn’t difficult to work out how to put them in.
Fabric
Used:
Cotton jersey knit, underwear elastic, small scrap of cotton for the underwire casing.
Pattern
alterations or any design changes you made:
I didn’t need to make any alterations to the pattern, it is so well drafted! but I did put in cup inserts, a personal preference, and omitted the lingerie rings and strap adjusters for the straps.  I don’t think adjustable straps are necessary on a bra that has to fit only me. I just make them the right length to start with!   And if they do stretch out eventually over time it is pretty easy to unpick them at the back and shorten them a little bit.
Would
you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others?
Yes, and yes!
Conclusion:
An absolutely fantastic pattern!  I was worried that making a bra with underwires and cup inserts would be fiddly and difficult, but I breezed through this project! because the beautifully drafted pattern pieces went together so well and the clear instructions made it easy, and dare I say, fun?  I’m really looking forward to my next set now.  I cannot wait to check out my fabric stash for small scraps of interesting fabric to use  🙂
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You are all so brilliant!!

31/07/2012 8:52 am \ 7 Comments \

Woa, you are all so fabulously switched on and fashion-icon-savvy!!  hehe, might I just add; far more so than my husband, who had no idea  …   😉
Yes, of course, everyone was correct, I was Annie Hall.  My husband went Hawaii 5-O; in a loud Hawaiian shirt, his bright red jeans, boaters and a straw hat.  And thank you, we had an absolute ball!  we stayed alive; celebrating raining men, proclaiming our will to survive and asking to be taken to FunkyTown until the wee small hours….   
Naturally one of the fun-nest parts of any dress-up party is checking out and discussing everyone’s costumes… there was a Bianca Jagger, and some Abba’s and more afros, bellbottoms, safari suits, psychedelic minis and gogo boots than I’ve ever seen in one spot.  Giving me an illogical desire to hunt down a pair of glossy plastic gogo boots, ahem…. must resist…  
There is one guy in the group who, for every single fancy dress party, no matter what the theme; wears a fat-Santa suit…  He adds some accessory that is a token nod to the theme, this time it was a peace sign necklace … 😀

For those who wanted to enter into the draw… ElleC, I will be contacting you to send you the pattern.

Now, while I was digging through my stuff trying to settle on a costume, I found and initially thought I might wear this old thing… and you’d think surely I must have shown all my “old things” by now, hopefully this is the very last!
I’m pretty embarrassed to show it here, it is a rather hideous waistcoat, that I knitted during my teenage years.  I was pretty into Kaffe Fasset knits back then, and this was one of my earliest attempts at his style of colour mixing and matching.   The triangles design is his but I made up the knitting pattern myself…  it has no side seams, but was knitted in one piece in the round, and just joined at the shoulder seams; then I picked up stitches around the armholes and the front to knit up the ribbed bands.   It was knitted in the intarsia method, and sadly has a few moth holes now  🙁  but that’s OK since it’s not as though I was actually going to start wearing it again, except if we got invited to a bad taste party, maybe  😀

I have made a “new thing” though, a gloriously fashion-forward piece of haute couture…
kidding...!  
My old peg bag finally had the richard and I made another one.  It is all leftover fabrics; a small piece of rust-red upholstery fabric (from my friend C) for the outer shell, and lined with some of the blue-grey knit leftovers from this little jacket; so it is double layer for extra durability, and exactly the same shape and style as my old one (which I also made).  I re-used the same old clothes hanger for the top.  Both my grandmothers and my mother always made their peg bags just like this one, and I have inherited a preference for the style.  Mum goes the extra step of hand embroidering “PEGS” onto hers in beautiful script; if I had half her talent and patience then maybe my peg bag would be a bit more visually stimulating!  Mine has more of a slapped together rustic-chic look about it… hehe

(and I know the accounting is boring and I kinda half-wish I had not started, but I said I would so I will see the year out!  :S) 
…so, some judicious jottings for July

My Raincoat
Nylon Rip-stop; $22.50
Polyester net lining; $4.99
2 dress zips for pockets; $1.98
Open-ended zip; $2.99
Thread; $2.68
Seam Grip; $17.95
Eyelets; from stash
Cord; $1.49
Cord Stops; $1.19
Velcro; $4.00
Pattern; self-drafted
Total cost: $59.77
Seafoam lace lingerie set
Fabric; $13.90
Bra cups; $8.99
Patterns; panties were a free download, and the bra was self-drafted
Hook and eye closure; $2.49
Underwire; $2.49
Total cost: $27.87
Cassie’s Raincoat
Nylon Rip-stop; $12.60
Polyester net lining; $9.98  
(yup, being white = “bridal” = twice the price of the black net I used in mine…!)
Thread; $2.68
Open ended zip; $3.49
2x Dress zips for pockets; $1.98
Seam Grip; $17.95
Cord; $1.49
Cord Stops; $1.19
Eyelets; from stash
Velcro; from stash
Pattern; self-drafted
Total cost: $51.36
(y’know what though? I’m not going to include this one in my year’s total since it is not part of my wardrobe  🙂  )
A Velvet-y Dress
Fabric; $27.00
Pattern; self-drafted
Total cost: $27.00
Peppercorn cardigan
Yarn; $108.70
Pattern; a free download
Buttons; a gift from Mum
Total cost: $108.70
New-Old Hoodie
Fabric; made from all old clothes
Pattern; my own design
Thread; had the right colours already
Buttons; from my stash
Total cost: free
Peg Bag
all leftover free fabric and a re-cycled hanger
Miscellaneous
This month I also
purchased:
Seam Un-picker;
$3.95
Sewing machine light bulb; $7.95
Total cost: $11.90

o hai there…
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