I’ve made a new little top and skirt, as well as a few other odds and sods … so here’s the thing.
I bought a batch of 20x “circa 2022” labels at the beginning of the year, used these up in 6 months, and so bought a second batch of 20. These are neeeeeeearly finished! and now I’m basically on a mission to use them all by the end of the year. I have four or five to go… let’s see if I can make it! aieeee, it’s going to be tight!
First up! a little brown top…
this is our own Booragoon top pattern… and like Cassie with the ones I’ve made for her, I’ve found it to be such a wonderfully comfortable and useful little top to make and wear. I used the leftovers from this little tee I made for myself at the beginning of the year; scrummy merino from The Fabric Store, in colour Nutmeg, bought last year.
I’m wearing it above with my BamBam Pietra shorts, first blogged here. The fabric is cotton drill from Spotlight, the shorts are made using Closet Core Pietra pattern, adapted to have no elastic waistband and a centre back zip.
next up! I made a little white skirt…
Yes, it’s kinda of mini-length, thus the tights and boots. I think it will be a winter skirt! This is another of my own patterns that I’m hoping to release next year some time. The fabric is again cotton drill from Spotlight, obviously the same fabric as my BamBam shorts just in the white colour way. Yes, I really liked it! It also came in a dark green colour way but I figured I had bought enough already…
The skirt is fully lined and closes with a button and a hook and eye over one of the side pockets.
Here are some other little basics I’ve made recently too, to which I did not attach any labels. Necessary things, but not really label-worthy things, unfortunately!
A simple double-layered neck warmer using the very last Nutmeg merino as my top, above.
I’ve also made a five more pairs of little sockettes, using the now sadly unobtainable syttochprytt ballerina sock pattern, adjusted as outlined here.
All the fabrics are either leftovers from other things or old T-shirts that I’ve kept for this very purpose.
A brief update: I’m going so well on my not buy any new fabric pledge! I have to confess to feeling the desire for new fabric every now and then, but have quickly managed to overcome it. Mostly by forcing myself to go to my stash and sort it out. Always a great cure! Anyway, I have plans, lots of lovely plans for the fabric I do have… aaah, so many plans, so little time!
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