This post is
about clothes.
22. Shawl.
I used the
instructions here.
The wool of
which I made it is called tricotene, which -I was surprised to learn- is
unrelated to tricot: it is 100% wool, just nice lightweight material that would
make a great skirt.
New
technique: fringed edges.
I had a hard
time finding affordable purple wool and settled for a beige plaid with some
lavender in it. Time to start studying dyestuffs.
23. Insta-skirt.
I used the
instructions here for a petticoat, and ran elastic through the top
instead of making a waistband. (See here for instant elastic-waist
skirts.)
New
experience: finishing a skirt in one afternoon. Yay!
I didn’t
think it would come out like much, with all that yardage bunched at the waist
(the skirt is just a 72”-long rectangle scrunched at the top), but it actually
looks quite formal and pretty on Loops.
This was so
straightforward to make that I went on to a
24. Not
quite as insta-skirt.
A six-gore
skirt made to measure.
Lesson
learned: To make a gored elastic-waist skirt, it should taper, not toward the
waist circumference, but toward the widest circumference it will have to clear,
which is the hips, even on small children.
25. Bonnet.
A hand-sewing
project, since it is child-sized and therefore consists entirely of miniscule
curves.
26. Circle
skirt.
This is
Loops’ favorite of the lot. Circle skirts have a wonderful swish factor because
of the angle at which they are cut; but, to my surprise, this used up only
about the same amount of fabric as the straight-cut skirts, so I expect we will
be seeing more of these.
27. Butterfly
wings.
I wish I
could say Loops asked for these and I made them to suit; but no, this was the
grown-up of the family deciding that the child needed a pair of translucent
rainbow wings.
Loops
good-naturedly agreed with me.
Tutorial to
follow… if the hundred other projects do not take precedence.
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