Finished!

The sunnysuit is finally finished. I'm the slowest sewer ever. It was started before Christmas! It's not perfect, but not terrible for my first try at sewing something bigger than a dress for a 5'' doll. The buttonholes were traumatic for me. On the bib you can see that one buttonhole is slightly higher than the other. I briefly thought about ripping one out and repositioning it, but after studying the dense, minuscule stitches I realized ain't nobody got time for that. So it stayed put. And it drives me NUTS.

This is the base pattern. I added the Madeira appliqué and the embroidery. Hopefull I'll have some time to finish my version of the pattern soon so I can post it here (for free of course!).

*The base pattern was printed in 1936 and was never filed with the US copyright office. It is in the public domain. 

Jumping on the blog-wagon

Just to have a place to chronicle my full size sewing endeavors and hopefully share my patterns with others who will find them useful. In the past I made teeny doll clothes. There are only so many details you can squeeze on a 3 inch long dress, so I'm branching out to bigger things. :)

I'm currently working on a little sunsuit made from a reworked antique pattern and inspired by this vintage romper I saw on pinterest.

TESTING

Move along...

nothing to see here!
Yet.
Eventually I hope to have lots of posts, photos and freebie pdf patterns!