Philosophia

Today I got out the sewing machine from the storage cabinet. I usually hand stitch, which I have been told many times by numerous people is all good for giving whatever I make a “personal” touch but is also a waste of unnecessary time. So, in order to save some time (which now that I think about it isn’t really that precious to me during my holiday period anyway) I decided to make some overalls for Molly using the machine.

It took me about 1 hour to work out how to thread it, and when I finally did I realised to my dismay I had threaded the wrong colour. After coming across numerous mishaps like this, I was finally on my way! (By this time it was already noon).

However, what I hadn’t counted on was the fact that since I was basically making clothes 1/12th the size of adult clothes, it was pretty much impossible for me to use the chunky sewing machine. I probably wasted more time unpicking what I had done and redoing it than I would have normally by hand stitch. In the end I did end up handstitching the majority of it anyway.

Anyway, enough babble about that, here are some pictures:

I really like Molly in overalls, it brings out her farmgirl-ish look. If only I could weave, and make a straw hat to complete the look!

The little bird in the second picture was another one of the patterns I followed from Puchi collective. I finished it about 3 days ago but was waiting for a day with good natural sunlight before I took some pictures:

Once again, for more of these pictures, you can go to my Flickr account . Thanks for looking, and sorry about the excess of craft entries lately!