Pamela's Place

Nov. 5, 2009

Sewing projects

Sewing:
Three free hours with our toddler down for a nap and a burst of sunshine coming in the window really motivated me to get sewing. I really don't enjoy sewing but I like the projects I get when I'm done. Don't get me wrong I love to work. I'm strange to some people in that I do like to clean and keep up with laundry though these thing certainly get away from me at times! I'm sure there are other moms out there like that and I am no where near perfect nor wish to appear that I think so! But I think we all have our things we like and don't like. Sewing is something I don't really like as I mentioned but mainly because I don't feel successful at it. It takes a lot of trial and error and there are a lot of trade secrets that just don't come naturally.

When I got married and started having children I was convicted about clothing and what the Lord wanted me to wear I realized then I would need to learn to sew. It was and still is very hard to find good clothing especially in our modern culture and especially for girls past size 6! I know some moms find great things at the thrift store and I have found some, it's a lot cheaper this way if you can! I still mainly do buy store bought clothing, as you can see but I like to make some things. Plus my oldest now has an affinity for very old fashioned clothing and to admit so do I. It will be some time before I can make some of the outfits we both would like. But it's fun dreaming. I can make skirts, aprons, pajamas, girl's dresses (with some time) and have tried my hand at a few other things like this handbag and have some experience but am no expert by any far stretch of the word.

My daughter helped cut this bag out and I put it together yesterday. It turned out nicely. It's going to be a bag for a friend's daughter at church next month on her birthday. My daughter asked me 6 months ago to make this and I'm finally getting around to it.

I've also been working on a jumper the last couple of days. I'm hoping to have it completed within the next 2. The bottom is together. The darts are put in on the back. Dresses are hard only because they RARELY fit like you want! I also evidently have a unique shape to the sewing world and if I ever develop an expertise to sewing I would modify the pattern to fit my figure more nicely. I am hoping that despite all of this my new jumper will fit, even if like a tent, lol. Really it's a maternity jumper. We'll see! It's a light weight cotton but will layer nicely I hope. Like the color?

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Nov. 5, 2009 - Thanks for update!

Posted by LarabaK

So glad that your family is healthy again, and congratulations on the pregnancy :-). I do see the blessing of learning to sew, but I'm just not up to it. I do intend to make some curtains soon. Part of it is getting to the fabric store. My mother DID love to sew and used to drag me to fabric stores and I hated it. I still feel sort of grumpy when I walk into a fabric store. Strange the impressions of childhood...

Laraba

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Nov. 12, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by 5lilpeppers

Pam,
Thanks for sharing about your sewing adventures.
You already know my story about how I have two nice machines, tubs of material, shelves of notions and patterns but never seem to have time/ patience for it on top of everyday basic responsibilities. I too have a budding daughter -5 yo. that won't do well in a lot of the modern fare... She is creeping into 7's so quickly! And it won't be long and her sister will be there too.
I need to carve out time to hone the skill because she has been asking me for at least a year now to teach her and make her things! I think it would be such a great experience for us to bond farther.
Michalina just turned 5 on Sunday and she is becoming something so special I don't want to miss the highlights of her girlish interests.
The last 6 months she has grown in more ways than physically!
I too was thinking about just doing some bags/ purses with the girls! They often get book bags and fill them with what is special to them for the day... Daddy bought for Lina's birthday a Hello Kitty bag for getting her library books. I might try to duplicate it... it was way over priced at ten dollars for a simple simple bag -you pay for the motif that is for sure...
Oh, I filled the bag with craft supplies and included a small sewing kit and she was delighted!

As Laraba has shared it is wonderful to have a grandma step in and do projects with the girls! What a blessing for Laraba's girls.

Mentioning blessings has your friend that makes the nursing gowns continued with her ventures? She did a great job with the one you sent me and I enjoy it's warmth all the time!

So glad I stopped by I have been thinking of you and your precious family.

Love, Jacinda

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I'm a Christian home-school mom of five children ages 9 and under. I feel very blessed to have a wonderful husband and five beautiful children. For our 3rd and 4th graders I use Rod and Staff, Sequential Spelling, Saxon Math, and Math-U-See. For our Kindergartner we use My Father's World curricula.