August Sewing Report

 

You can see by the beads of sweat on my arm that this month ended hot and steamy in my sewing room. My sewing room is non-air-conditioned, but if you've been around for any length of time, you all know that I relish the hot, hot days. I'm not complaining at all!

It has been a funny month weather wise. We had a week of cool weather that reminded us all that fall is around the corner. Then we had a week of hot and humid weather that made us all think we had been transported to the Everglades.

Anyway, I will start at the beginning......

One of my boys ripped my downy comforter. I really like this coverlet so I wanted to repair it posthaste.

The patch is not much to look at, but it counts as the first sewing project in August.

The next sewing project was a repair on a Christopher & Banks dress that I really like. I had split the side seam on the right side of the skirt.

The fabric was in pretty bad shape at the split. The stitches and pulled through the weave of the fabric as the two sides were pulled apart, leaving the fabric frayed and damaged.

I used some iron on adhesive webbing to glue new fabric to the back side of the dress fabric. Then I restitched the seam and stitched the patch in place with some matching thread. 

The thread blends in really well. I am happy with how this turned out. Hopefully, the other side will not split. I am a little worried about it.

The next sewing project that I accomplished was to finish a skirt that has been in my UFO pile for 5 years. All I had left to do was make and attach belt loops and hem the skirt. I was able to do both tasks in one afternoon! I'm glad to be done.

To form belt loops I cut a 2 inch strip of denim. (1.) I folded it in half length wise and pressed it. (2.) I opened it back up and the folded each edge towards the center. (3.) Fold the strip back down the center, this time encasing the raw edges.

I stitched two rows of stitching on the top surface. 

Then I cut the band to proper belt loop lengths.

Last I stitched the belt loops on to the skirt.

I decided to start sewing a dress for myself. I set to cutting out the pattern. This is a See & Sew pattern for a shirt dress that I found at a thrift store in PA. At the time that I found this pattern I was wanting a shirt dress really badly. I consider this pattern a particular gift from the Lord. I had been looking at shirt dress patterns and pattern reviews online trying to pick out the perfect pattern. And then this pattern came into my path for only 25¢. It has only one size in the envelope. Thankfully, it is a size that will fit on me.

Another nice thing is that this pattern had never been used before. I cut the pattern pieces and cut my fabric pieces.

I have finished the collar. This is a type of collar that I have never sewn before now. It came together nicely. It was nice to try something new.

This was the first time sewing a sleeve like this that has a tab to button when the sleeves are rolled up. I do like sleeves like this, so it is a nice feature of this pattern.

I have one more week before homeschooling starts. This is my chance to get this dress finished. After school starts there will be much less sewing progress to report. 

I'll see you again in September and let you know how it goes.