Unfortunately, I didn't really have any new fabric to play along with. Turns out that Japanese fabric is expensive in both America and Japan. Sad. But you know what's not expensive? Cutting up your old stuff!
Here's a shirt I made for Cosette using an old hoodie that I no longer wore:
I used the same pattern as here but left off the ruffles and put on a bow instead, for a French twist. She looks like she should be holding a baguette, right?
And then I cut up an old maroon shirt of mine to make this envelope tee for the baby on the way:
The t-shirt pattern is from Growing Up Sew Liberated which is an amazing book. I originally bought it for the Waldorf Doll pattern, as I left mine somewhere in the U.S. I want to make everything in this book, though! We'll see about the sizing when the little one comes.
The pants (from this free pattern) are from flannel that I found after digging around for an hour in a big fabric warehouse out in the country here. I could only find 2 types of flannel, and I bought a meter of both...and I think both are ugly, but oh well. The saleswoman looked at me like I'm crazy to buy such strange fabric.
The funny thing about Japan is this--the good crops are really lacking here, meaning cotton, wheat, etc. So, cotton flannel and good quality cotton clothes are hard to find, which means baby clothes are funky and not super soft. You can buy polyester fleece, but that is about it. So, if you go to the store to buy a pair of sweats, usually the inside is unfinished--meaning no cozy fuzzies on the inside of the sweats! It's really weird. Japanese kids are cuties, but Japanese kids' clothes are a whole different story...
Anyways, now I am excited to cut up some more clothes!
P.S. Remember my new sewing machine? We are not friends when it comes to knit fabric, even when I am using a needle specifically for knit fabric. I am pretty much done with knit fabric. Grrrrr...
Luckily, Seamstress Tiger feels my pain!
5 comments:
Oh, that stuff's cute A.J.! Save $, be crafty, make beauty..I'll say! By the way, when is Cosette going to grow some hair? (she's still cute, always will be. )
Love that shirt (oh and i see that was a dress you made for Coco - I remember now - I mean Cosette). So cute. Makes me want to sew baby pants!!! And have a baby to wear them since I may have missed that boat (: My baby is turning into a little boy way too fast! Anyway my super expert sewing friend always comments about knit - says not to even bother sewing Knit - so there must be a super secret out there somewhere (or super costly machine) to sew knit!
That shirt is adorable, so cute!
Wahh! Why did I just see this post! Love Coco's shirt! So cute! I love Coco's hair and am glad you didn't chop it off! Missing you!
Love that shirt!! too cute! I've been looking into getting that book too, so nice to hear good things about it!
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