Pattern Interest: Made for Mermaids Catherine Top

I have seen a few photos of the Made for Mermaids Catherine Top, Tunic & Dress pattern sewn up and they all have grabbed my attention.  I've never made a Made for Mermaids pattern and PDF patterns are not always my favorite. But, this one keeps grabbing my sewing thoughts and makes me think of ALL the possibilities of using some of my jersey knit fabrics in my stash.

Made for Mermaids Catherine Top

Pattern interest

Inspirational Photo

Pattern Line Drawing

I'm still working on the white button down shirt.  Almost done!   Just hemming, buttonholes & buttons.  The fit is A+! and the fabric is perfect cooler weather weight.  I'm excited to wear it!

Hope you're sewing up a storm!

Until next time.................

Bonnie

What's Up?

Dear Hubby & I are the worse selfie takers!  But at least we continue to try!  He took me out for a date this past weekend. Dinner, a movie & coffee on the way home!  I'm a homebody so going out is a big deal!  

Date Night

I finally got around to wearing the leopard print duster I made here.   Girl M has worn it several times already.  It's nice now that we wear the same size.  Double the closet!


It was a little chilly yesterday morning for Church.  That's my it's cold, hurry up & take the picture smile!  The turquoise sheath dress I made for Easter last year and was huge on me but the duster covered it up enough for morning service.  I'll fix it this week.

Sunday photo

 I bought this skirt for Girl M for Christmas.  I can't wait to wear it too!

Girl M. Sunday photo

I have been working on a white button down shirt for myself.  It's slow sewing.  I've made/re-sewn the collar and collar stand three times.  It just doesn't look good enough.  Are you your worse customer too?  I hope to have pictures soon.

I have a tote bag full of patterns from Joanne's pattern sale & my Ebay purchases that I need to categorize and put photos into my computer but I want to sew.  Better keep my sewing mojo going.

Hope your having a great week & Happy Sewing

Until next time...................

Bonnie

Happy New Year

No sewing going on during the holidays.  I'm sad, but I did get in the sewing room a clean up a little.  It will be ready for sewing when we get back from Georgia.

I like this Sunday photo of Dear Hubby & myself sometime this Month.  I made the red dress........that counts as sewing!  I need to alter it, but I wore it anyway.

Sunday photo

Girl M took a photo on Christmas of us.  Dear Hubby has lost a total of 65 pounds!  I am so proud of him.  His Doctor has reduced some of his medicines and hopefully in the next few months will take him off of some.  I've lost 112 pounds!  I want to loose about 36 more pounds by my Birthday in March.  Sounds like a good goal plan for the upcoming year.

Christmas 2019

I  hope you ALL had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!  I am grateful beyond measures for all my readers and those who comment, keep me motivated, teach me new things and to new friendships! 

Happy New Year!

Bonnie

Christmas Sewing

Our oldest son & DIL host a themed Christmas party every year.  This year's theme was The Grinch.  We always have a great time & enjoy spending time with them.

I purchased iron-on's for our t-shirts. 

Grinch Party Shirts

My shirt

Twin needle stitching

Dear Hubby's Shirt

Girl M's Shirt

Boy AJ's Shirt

I needed two additional napkins for Christmas dinner.  I purchased the poinsettia fabric from my local Wal-Mart &  I used a simple rolled hem to finish the edges.

Napkins

Boy F. has a friend who has a 2 year old little girl who loves trains.  It's hard to find girly train fabric.  I realized while making this dress that I've NEVER made a little girl's dress!  It was fun.  I used Butterick 6239 for the dress.

Butterick 6239

Train fabric

I purchased the fabric from FabricMartFabrics.com

Rosette with train button

Our Sunday selfie:

Merry Christmas

Sewing has halted until after the Holidays. 

Until next time....................

Bonnie

McCall 6073 Gray Stretch Velvet Knit Dress

I really made this dress prior to making Girl M's version but I just now had time to post about it.  The fabric didn't stretch as much as my previous ITY knit versions of this pattern so I need to loose a few more pounds before I wear it out.

McCall 6073 Stretch Velvet Knit Dress

Back View

McCall 6073

I drafted my own sleeve and cuff.  It took a little trial and error to remember to have the fabric nap going the correct direction.

Cuff

I finally wore the McCall 7803 top I made in November.  I tried to take a photo before Church.  Better than the sewing room photos.  The top is very comfortable and I think I can make a smaller size next time.

McCall 7803

McCall 7803

 Sewing has slowed down due to the Christmas Holiday.  I hope to get back into the sewing room soon.

Until next time.................

Bonnie

Emerald Green Velvet Knit Dress

Girl M wanted a dress from a piece of beautiful Emerald Green Velvet Knit that I purchased from Fabric Mart Fabrics.  I used her usual TNT A-line dress, tapering the skirt to make it a little slimmer and I made the sleeves fuller with a cuff. 

Sleeve & Cuff

Sleeve

Velvet Knit Dress

Collar

Sleeve

 The fabric was a little bit of a headache.  I suffered through it but I think this fabric needs a pattern that has simple lines and not many pieces.

Sleeve/Cuff

My Dress Form had  a wedgie!

Back View

Girl M 

Christmas Nails

Until next time..............

Bonnie

Vintage Pattern E-bay Find

I won this lot of vintage Anne Adams pattern on E-bay for $2.00!  Some are postmarked 1967.

Are those not the most beautiful patterns?  They don't make them like they used to!

I'm off to sew something new!

Until next time...........

Bonnie