more pants from shirts

I couldn't resist, went right out the next day to goodwill and brought home a pile of ladies' shirts. cut them all up and got to work sewing.

Eamon chose the green flowers for himself.

look for them soon on etsy

kid pants from dad's old shirt

My son's been going through a growth spurt, so today i decided to make him some new "snuggy pants" (his name for comfy cotton knit pants). But i didn't have anything that wasn't spoken for in my stash of knits.

So i pulled out my bag of t-shirts for reconstruction projects, and found one of daddy's old shirts.

You can use any pattern you like, or make up your own. I modified one for size 3t leggings, to make the pantlegs wider, looser.







sew the inseams, the crotch seam, turn the waist band, (the bottom of the legs already have the original shirt seam)













measure, and insert the elastic into the casing (21" here)








overlap elastic and sew, close the waistband.









voila
i'll be heading to goodwill soon to find some fun stripey t-shirts for more snuggy pants, i'm betting this works w/ sweatshirts too

whole lotta knittin going on

well, after nothing but crochet projects for months and months, in the last few weeks i've picked up 2 knitting projects

the first is an Edwardian collar for my friend's birthday. i found the pattern late one night on etsy while looking at steampunk jewelry, etc...


but that ones on hold for the moment, partly because my friend is out of town for the month, and because the collar has gotten so big it barely fits on the needles and i need to figure out how to proceed. (i think some dp needles may be involved since i don't have circular in an 8)











but also because i found out another friend is starting chemo, so i really wanted to start work on a hat for her...












the pattern for which i found on ravelry.com, which i just recently joined, and am excitedly using to organize my stash and find new project ideas.

ooo, ooo. and i finally learned (after 12 years of knitting) how to properly hold my needles, with the working yarn in my left hand. a friend at the park offered to show me how when i was right in the middle of figuring out the buttonholes, so i had to decline. but later at home i tried it out, and it finally made sense.
i credit crocheting for that, a year and a half of holding the working yarn over my left pointer finger, and doing YO with a hook (as opposed to wrapping yarn around each time w/ fingers on my right hand) finally trained my brain (and fingers) to do the same thing with knitting needles. wooohooo!