I also made a back pack for Arthur, for Christmas …
I’ve made this pattern a couple of times before, for my own children, and Tim particularly loved his backpack when he was tiny. He wore it all the time and would toddle about the house with it on his back, with a few precious toys stashed inside… it was very cute! and he still has it today. It was Tim who suggested one for Arthur too.
Fortunately I still have all my Topkids magazines, including the one the pattern was in! I still flick through them sometimes, and while some of the patterns might be considered a tiny bit dated, especially some of the ones for older kids; there are still plenty of cute ones in there. I’m never throwing them out! Love my Topkids magazines!
I had the dark grey denim in my stash already, and also the red check cotton I used for lining throughout… the latter given to me by Mum when she cleaned out her stash.
I hand drew the letters for his name… transferred them to interfered cotton, cut them out, and stitched them to the pocket piece with narrow, closely spaced zig-zag stitches. I had the velcro, wadding, D-rings and little swivel clip for closure already, but had to buy all the other pieces for the backpack; the red webbing, stops for the straps, and cording. Still though, it’s been amazing to me what I do have in my stash already and am capable of finally putting to good use!
If you’d like to see Tim’s own backpack, I blogged about his yonks ago here, back in the early days of my blog. He still has it today and loves it! This is so heartwarming to me, and I just hope Arthur loves and enjoys using and wearing his own backpack too. If I get a nice picture of Arthur wearing his own backpack I will certainly update here, and put it in 🙂
thank you so much everyone; all your kind words about Sophie mean so much more to me than I can say…
Item 1!
new onesie for little Theo!
Items 3 & 4
little T-shirt and pants for Arthur…
I used some of Tim’s old trousers for the pants… I actually love doing this recycling old clothes/fabrics sort of thing and really want to get back to doing this more again.
That’s it for now! I’ll be more talkative next time, I promise! 🙂
It’s the last day of the month and even though I have several recently made things to write about, it’s all kind of paling into insignificance for me right now since we lost our dear Sophie earlier this week…
Hello! I’ve made a cool new outfit! At least, I think it’s pretty cool, anyway. I think it’s got a strong 80’s vibe; it reminds me vaguely of what the dancers were wearing in Spandeau Ballet’s “To Cut a Long Story Short” video. Oh boy, that takes me back, it was such a favourite of mine.
I’m so happy with this new dress! The fabric is actually very special… Cassie gave it to me last year, the print is one of a suite of designs she created for her wedding stationery and other wedding paraphernalia… she has the designs up in her Spoonflower shop, and she gave some fabric of a different design to Mum (her Granny, obviously)
So, as usual I really didn’t have enough fabric to cut out even a small top… because the pokey out bits on the sides of all the pieces that enable your armpits to be covered actually use up such a lot of the width of your fabric, and if you cut out the pieces as is you end up with a lot of long skinny pieces of wastage. Eventually however, I discovered that you could fold back the said pokey out bits of your pattern pieces, and cut a gusset out of that bit at the top between the armscyes on each piece. Here’s a very rough drawing to illustrate:
I’ve made a new pattern! along with the help of my beautiful partner 
