Little coat for my little girl

I have been really busy with work and kids lately and I had to put sewing aside for a while. It was weird for me to stop sewing after such a full of garments spring and summer. I keep imagining new projects but I never seem to have the energy or the time to even start them. So this week I finally got things moving. I printed this little coat pattern from a russian site:here

 I started assembling the printed pages on Tuesday and I liked so much how the cost was coming together that I couldn't stop working on it whenever I could find a free minute. I changed on the last moment the collar and decided to do the interior an the parts that get in contact with the baby skin in soft fleece. This coat is the size 80 option and I also modified the lining to better mach the back.

I 1st intended to live the simple butterfly applique but then when I did it again separately for the boots I found it interesting to change the coat as well and sewed one butterfly on top of the original one for a 3D effect:

I then did a pair of boots that were to small and had to redo and 2 pieces for the head since the 1st one seemed to busy and didn't like it that much:

I am very happy with the end result and my little girls sure turned some heads in the park.

 

 And she was a bit tired after all the photos and attention:

Autum doll and outfit

   My quest to create a doll for Eva continues. I managed to find some knit closer to skin color this time and the face has more friendly and playful. I love the color of the hair but i didn't do such an amazing job applying it. I need it more yarn but that was all they had for sale. The body shape is pretty lame as well. I should have tried to find a pattern instead of making it myself.

   I was planning on making some matching outfit with Eva but for now I had to settle at a orange suit: puff sleeve shirt with plastic snaps and simple gusset skirt with lace hem.

 The new doll is already friends with Eva. She loves gating her hands in the doll hair:

 I am still not happy with the end result but is a step in the right direction. I may try a 3rd one as well at some point.

Grina - my 1st handmade doll

  It has been a while since I cut or sew something and it started to get painful.   I needed a project to get back in the game. I really wanted to do a doll for Eva and I finally got the courage to try sew one. This one was supposed to be the test drive. It is a little creepy and I really want to try again.The face is machine embroidered and I thought it will be OK to use gray as skin....

   Eva played a little bit with it before making the hair:

 I was not happy enough to make clothes for her as well so I used Eva's baby dresses for the doll. the hands and legs are too thin and the shoulders are awkward, maybe the head is to small as well... I didn't use kind of pattern or measurement. I just cut some free style.

New skort pattern and the 1st Kwik Sew pattern for me

Since I have seen the shorts with crossover in Burda last summer I have been in love with them. My stripes attempt was not that bad but they were very short and tight so I only wore them to the beach.

 My second attempt to make them more city wear was not that bright either ( I should have enlarged the wrap panels as well):

 So I kept wanting a better version of a skort. So when I seen the Simplicity pattern I knew I have to try it as well:

I went from start with 4cm length added since some of the previous versions I seen on the web did seem short. But this time I did the length increase on the skirt panels as well so I kept the look. I have used a beautiful 10% stretch denim that I initially wanted for another pair of cropped Eleonore jeans but the stretch was not enough. And now that I sewed this instead I am happy I did not try it anyway because I did use some Eleonore jeans elements to my shorts: the back pockets and a larger version of the waistband and they still slip a little difficult unlike the blue pair that had the required stretch even if I used more fabric to this waistband and I tensed the elastic a tittle bit to still fit me OK:

Over all I am very pleased with this pair except that the leg is a bit to wide but I plan to sew them again and try fix that issue as well. We will see how that goes:

I wanted a top to match better my new skirt and I tried for the 1st time a Kwik Sew pattern - 3616

It is a nice and very easy pattern. I really liked their tissue paper and the instructions but my fabric stretched a bit at the neck line and my attempt to fix the gap messed a bit with my pattern matching in the front and that really bugs me but still is a soft and comfortable top to wear and the colors go just perfectly with the shorts denim: