I’ve made lots of Closet Core patterns’ Ebony tees and dresses for others and this is the first one for me! I finally used this absolutely beautiful, delicate grey/green wool knit that I bought in Tokyo, one of of our trips over there. It’s beautiful stuff, with an almost lace-like texture to it, but unfortunately it had developed a few little moth holes over the years since I bought it.
So I fixed these up with some carefully invisible mending. Yes, I know visible mending is all the rage nowadays but personally I like my mending to be of the other sort if possible.
See my ghost-like hand up there?! The knit is very sheer, so I fully lined my Ebony tee using the leftovers from my recent Forest Nettie, from two posts ago… I had just enough to squeeze the Ebony pieces on for a lining!
I stitched the outer and lining together around the neckline, and under stitched using a wide, shallow zigzag stitch. I also handstitched them together at the underarm points, just to anchor the lining inside secretly.
This is the latest thing in my use-12 challenge for the year, where I’m making a little capsule wardrobe from 12 pieces selected from my stash.
I’m also wearing this skirt from Vogue 8363, drastically modified, and self drafted tights
In the last week we had another mini lockdown, and I kept myself busy by making some much needed things for Theo…. bibs!
These are made using the piece from Butterick 5583, and the fabrics are all scraps and leftovers from other projects. One of them is from one of Cassie’s old skirts, another two are from Craig’s old shirts, and one of the boys’. The other cute prints are all from the leftovers from Craig’s surgical caps, fabric originally from Spotlight. The backing is thin cotton towelling, that I already had in my stash too.
Some of them have completely useless, but also completely adorable little pockets. What can I say, I couldn’t resist!
I made 10 in the end, and I also made a few masks for Cassie, just in case she wants to match her baby. Masks are newly compulsory here again, after a few months without them, so it’s becoming more necessary to have a little supply on hand…
I’d made a few more for myself as well during me-made May, which fell on the tail end of our last period of compulsory masks; here are some of my favourites. These are also from out of those cute surgical cap leftovers. I have successfully and completely used up all these fabrics now, yay! The pattern is from Trend Patterns…
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