My name is Charlotte, sometimes known as Ms Lottie, occasionally as The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady. This is my blog, where you'll find me writing a lot about my quilting and textile arts and a little about my family's life in a small seaside town in New Zealand. Haere mai!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

A Finish!

I've been working up to making some clothes for myself.  I'm not a sempstress.  I didn't take Home Ec. at school.  I took what I thought at the time were loftier subjects like art and graphics and design.  And here I am, neither an architect nor an artist, wishing that I'd had the foresight to learn some true sewing skills.

I've made a few garments before, but so few I can list them:
A dress for my daughter,
A pair of trousers for me,
A dress for me.

And all done long ago.

But I'm sick of buying clothes that I don't really like but can't afford the ones I do, or garments that don't fit or flatter, or tee-shirts that I know were probably made by some poor bugger in a sweatshop somewhere.

Then I read this post by Chunkychooky and it motivated me so much that.....



I made me a nightie!  I am very impressed with myself.  I followed this tutorial from Sew Mama Sew!, used an op-shopped sheet and shirt, and I wore it to bed the same day I started it.

I was so chuffed with myself that it almost made up for the bad bad bikkies.

And thank you all for your suggestions about the disastrous biscuits.  I'm going to do a marathon bake tomorrow and freeze a whole lot of my good recipes so I have bikkies at a moments notice.  Then I'm going to dry out the yucky ones, crumble them and use them as muesli (granola), cheesecake base, and a slice base and maybe try a crumble topping too.

9 comments:

  1. this is absolutely lovely! I love it so much I want to make one for myself! Off to look at the tutorial. I don't know how to read clothes patterns, so wish me luck!

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  2. yay!! that looks great. Cath inspired me too..now to actually act on it.
    I'll check out the tutorial.

    happy day to you Ms Lottie

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  3. woohoo! Go YOU! I love that you have used recycled fabrics...you have inspired me too!

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  4. WOW!! that is bloody ace!! good on you I am so thrilled that I inspired you!! Yay for us!!!

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  5. Lovely nightie!
    My thoughts exactly re. making clothes. I have a growing list of things I want to make, and am collecting fabric and op-shop finds to use!
    Good one!

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  6. You've done a great job on your little nightie.Cute! I use to do a little more sewing in my younger days. I was pretty good back then, but as time goes by, I find pleasure in other crafts. I see some of the garments I made in pictures now and then, and I can hardly believe I did that.I even tackled a little boy's shirt with collar,pocket, sleeves, buttons and button holes. I can't believe I made that.But that was long ago.

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  7. My sewing machine is broke :( I can't yet afford to fix it so I'm doing everything thats emergency by hand.

    I can't say I've had much success with clothes but my sis is really good there. I'm afraid I just wear whatever is available, second hand and cheap. I do have one or two 'respectable' outfits but even they are mostly hand downs.

    Your nightie looks pretty good :)

    viv in dunedin

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  8. That's very cute, wow, I am still too scared to tackle clothing.

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