What is Kids Clothes Week? You can read about it here, but it is basically a lot of sewers dedicating an hour (or more!) each day for a week to sewing kids clothes. Anyone can participate- sign up here and sew along! I've wanted to join in the past but never have. This time I'm ready and I'm making it happen.
I spent my spare time the past couple of weeks planning what I'd make, gathering fabric and patterns, and even cutting things out so I can pound out as many items as possible this week. I'll admit my 'to sew' list is ambitious, but I figure I'll sew what I can and the rest will get done eventually.
I'll try to post each day on what I accomplished the day before, so this week will be busy busy. I'm about to wrap up my last bit of prep, but first, here's what I've got planned:
- Geranium dress for Caroline for our upcoming family pictures. I've been doing some embroidery for this piece, so I'll probably tackle this first
- Fancy Pants leggings to go with it. She's a long and skinny gal and even leggings seem to fit either short or baggy, so I'm hoping to get a good fit from this pattern
- Storybook Woods Bonnet, also for the family pictures
- Bimaa sweater for Charly
- Another Geranium for Caroline, probably a shirt rather than dress.
- Raglan sweatshirt refashion for Charly
- And if I'm being really ambitious, a Nituna coat for Charly. I'm dying to make this- I just picked up a wool coat from the thrift store to upcycle.
Now that I look at my list, I doubt I'll get more than half of this done. Hey, a girl can dream right?!
(Let's not talk about how much TV my kids are likely going to watch this week.)
