FINALLY I'VE STARTED

Why is it that when you finally get round to doing some long planned sewing, you never have exactly what you need! Even though you were sure you did !

Remember this ?

My T shirts makings from April, well last night while watching a film I'd seen before I decide to get going... so of course the first thing I find is I have no decent sewing needle, the only two I can find are with a eye so small you'd only be able to thread a single tiny strand of cotton through and another that's really too thick for what I need to do.. but since it was all I had that's the one I had to use.

I managed to do two last night and another two this morning before I gave up, the needle was driving me nuts!

So these are the four I managed to complete.

First up is Agnes in the first one I finished, I used a random mix of lilac and purple buttons in mixed sizes.

I'm quite pleased with the result.

Then I moved on to using some ribbon.

I placed it round the neck and hemline, not as good a match colourwise as I would have liked for these trousers but I do love the pattern on the ribbon. Tatty kindly models.

To my shame you can see the stitching on the ribbon , this is due to the thickness or the fabric at the hem and the needle!

Another Ribbon this time just a strip down the centre of the T shirt. I think that the small yellow centre in the ribbon matches well with the bright yellow cords which Violet kindly models.

Love these colours on this ribbon and it's nice to finally find a use for it.

Finally Claudia in Pink, this time I used a couple of pink flower buttons and a tiny bright pink ladybird button.

Looks nice with the pink cords.

So here they all are together two Ribbon based and two Button.

so four down and six to go! But only once I have been out shopping for some proper sized sewing needles and some more cotton, which is another thing I only seem to have left in certain colours!

This is waiting for after the shopping trip..

I knew that ribbon would come in handy..... now how to use it........





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