I’ve launched these on their journey to Ohio, where they will meet and mingle with siggy blocks from 56 other people before selecting a representative to bring 56 blocks home to me. The end result: a quilt with the names and locations of all the 57 quilters participating in this swap! The blocks are easy to make. I’d love to find a better way of signing them, though, since my pen tends to catch and drag on the fabric a bit. Maybe a slightly fatter pen tip? Save
And one last Clothing Caitlyn post before I move on to quilt blocks and garden photos… While suffering through one of my fabric acquisition outings for non-Caitlyn-related projects, Caitlyn picked out this blue fabric. I thought it was sweet, so I picked a pink for contrast and planned to make her a skirt. I really need to think things through before I start them. I had a simple skirt-with-flounce in mind when I bought the fabric. That shifted to a tiered spin-able skirt when I started measuring and cutting. And when it was all done, I realized that what I …
And here’s the last of my completed KCWC things. This is McCalls 6387. I picked up the fabric on a whim while at Stash, and while I love the print, I think it’s too small for this dress. It’s got these sweet little daffodils on it and you totally can’t tell for all the gathers. It’s cute and simple… and a bit too big. I held the pattern pieces up to Caitlyn several times but there’s almost two inches of extra space in the width of the finished bodice. Check out how much fabric is bunched up there between her …
So, KCWC is over. I didn’t finish everything I’d cut out, so I guess we can officially call me Over-Ambitious. And with Caitlyn’s illness last week, I still have one item left to do. That one will wait – I have 57 siggy blocks to make! But first: the other things I did finish. Can I say they are KCWC finishes if they weren’t finished in the proper week since they were part of my KCWC plans? This is McCall’s 6062, view A, cousin to this dress. I’ve not made a lot of tops, if you don’t count shirts for …
I like to think I would have finished everything I had cut out for KCWC on time, despite the (probably) 11 mile bike ride on Saturday. (Yeah, I know, 11 miles isn’t much to regular bicyclists, but we’re new at this. And Caitlyn’s riding a bike that’s too small and doesn’t have gears. Forgive me if I’m over here all impressed with us all for that outing.) But Caitlyn woke up sick Sunday morning. There has been no sewing. There’s been no anything, really, just holding a bucket and her hair for her, then layering her with cool cloths. I’ve …
Last year, I made Caitlyn a sunhat. For whatever reason (misreading the pattern, getting carried away), I bought a lot more fabric than I needed. I offered to make Caitlyn a skirt out of the leftovers and promptly buried the fabric in the piles of “pending” projects. But it’s KCWC! I found the buried fabric when digging through the piles for other fabrics, and now there is a skirt. I drafted a pattern of sorts for this, mostly by using the assortment of lines on my cutting mat/board. I started with Caitlyn’s waist measurement (although it probably would have been …
