When I started making the Paddington Bear shirt for my nephew, I very quickly decided that he needed a red bucket hat to go with it - just like Paddington wears. I had already downloaded the free Oliver + S bucket hat pattern, and it was perfect!
Of course I had to make one for my niece, too. Hers is a yellow floral with brown floral lining.
Both hats are size Medium (3-5 years), even though my niece is almost 3 and my nephew is 15 months - the internet says the hats run small. From pictures, it looks like the hats fit well and are adorable.
They are fully reversible, and I used this tutorial to finish them without any hand sewing. I hear that the kids like the hats. Which is good, because the dog didn't like it at all.
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Saturday, September 17, 2016
Friday, September 9, 2016
Paddington Bear
Early this summer, my sister-in-law and I went and shopped the Hancock's Fabrics closing sale. She found an adorable Paddington Bear print and asked me to sew another button-up shirt for my nephew, like the one I made for his birthday. I asked about sizing, and she suggested that a little more room in the shoulders would be nice, so I got to try my first attempt at altering a pattern! I added a quarter inch to each shoulder seam, as you can see in the picture above, for a total of half an inch of extra width across the shoulders.
Then I sewed up the shirt, just like the last one - except this time I remembered to use Nicole's trick of cutting the collar interfacing into two pieces to make the collar fold extra nicely.
I put the shirt in the mail last weekend, and this morning my sister-in-law sent me a picture of my nephew looking very handsome in his new shirt!
Then I sewed up the shirt, just like the last one - except this time I remembered to use Nicole's trick of cutting the collar interfacing into two pieces to make the collar fold extra nicely.
I put the shirt in the mail last weekend, and this morning my sister-in-law sent me a picture of my nephew looking very handsome in his new shirt!
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Knitting this Summer
I didn't post much this summer, but I did knit! I've been working intermittently on my navy shawl, and I knit almost a whole sweater:
I'm excited to have another (hopefully) presentable sweater to wear to work and church. And I'm worried about running out of yarn. I started with eight balls of yarn, and I have just under two left. All I have left to do is the second sleeve and the i-cord edging around the front edges and neckline. I'm steeling myself for the possibility that I may need to unravel my (machine washed and dried) swatch to finish. We'll see how it goes.