Category: Caitlyn

Caitlyn, Seasons, sewing

Old News

 

I’m late, I know. Halloween is so last month. We’re less than 10 days from Thanksgiving. Everyone else has already posted their Halloween Costume Posts and moved on. It’d be neat if I had some sort of reasonable excuse, but I don’t. And now, it sounds like Caitlyn’s Halloween costume was some amazing, intricate thing. She had been asking for a mermaid costume “with a real tail.” She was apparently fully aware that this would prevent walking, since requests for such a costume would move on to descriptions of locomoting in roughly the style of an elephant seal. How this …

Caitlyn, sewing

Adding inches

 ,

It seems Caitlyn’s pants are always too short. Sometimes this condition coincides with wear and tear, and then we call the pants “grubby” and she wears them for things that involve dirt and mud (p-patch work parties, walking in the woods, puddle stomping, etc). And sometimes the pants are in perfectly serviceable shape. They are just too short. I don’t know why it’s never occurred to me before to just make the pants longer.  I’ve had this blue floral fabric in the stash for ages.  I’ve also got a red and white print that makes me think of red bandanas …

Caitlyn, Seasons

Back to School

 

Caitlyn has been pleading for pigtails as a hair style for at least a year, and I have finally caved. I’ve never been fond of the hair style and I may have been concerned it would take too long for Miss Fidget. But she holds still, more or less, and will even hold half her hair to the side so that the part is mostly straight down the back of her head. We’ve also discovered that this is the current best hair style for circus class, since there’s no lump of ponytail on the back of her head to make …

Caitlyn, family

Caitlyn’s new cousin

Caitlyn has been eagerly anticipating the arrival of her newest cousin, pretty much ever since she was given the ok to talk about it. And yesterday she was able to hold the baby. She’s talking already about babysittting, which freaks me out a bit. I guess it’s true that Caitlyn will be 12 when this little one is 6, and they probably could be allowed to walk to the park together or something, but it’s entirely possible that I won’t be ready for that when the time comes. Save

Caitlyn, sewing

Birthday Skirts and Making Do

I didn’t finish them in time for Caitlyn’s birthday, but I did eventually finish the thrift store experiments, or at least part one of said experiments. I had started out thinking I would make the dress version of Patterns by Figgy’s Tee for Two. But, as previously noted, there isn’t enough fabric lengthwise in an 5x large shirt to make a dress that wouldn’t be horribly indecent on my tall offspring. I’d run into this t-shirt dress pattern a few times and almost made the Figgy’s dress as much as I could have and then added in tiers of contrasting …