7 Years Old

It had to happen. My baby has gotten another year older. Which I suppose means I am getting older too. Oh joy!

Every year it seems hard to believe that my kids are no longer the babies that I brought home, in what seems like, not so many years ago. They are growing up, and becoming their own person. It is lovely to see and to help them to learn. Though it does mean that each year they are getting closer to becoming an adult and will eventually move out of home (though I guess in another 7 years I may not be feeling quite the same as this as we hit teenager territory??)

An is usual, a birthday means mummy made clothes to mark the occasion. This year, I decided to ask for a little input on what the birthday girl wanted and we went through my patterns together to find one that she liked. She chose the Zucka skirt from Farbenmix. I then dug through my fabric to find something that would work for a more summery version - I have plenty of cord for a wintery version, but that is a few months off. The stripes are like a nice light stretchy denim, and the cupcakes are a cotton that she has wanted ever since I bought it ages ago. I really wasn't sure about the combo side by side, but as I was putting the skirt together, they just worked.

For the top, I liked the look of two in Ottobre 3/2010, so I asked DS to pick the one he liked best for his sister. He chose number #32, but without the ruffles. To match it to the skirt I chose a few different colours of Stella and went from there. Again, like the skirt it seemed to not work until it was sewn up. I added the cupcake embroidery to liven the tee up (I managed to put it on a bit low, but never mind).

Both patterns are size 122 and I am hoping will last for 12 months size wise.

DD chose a Fairy Castle Cake for her birthday this year - and I really must find some dummy cakes! There was a lot of chocolate cake that went into the making of this, and it probably isn't fair to send it home with all the guests! As it is, we have the whole bottom layer in the freezer.

All in all, DD had a lovely day. (I forgot to mention that the day started with star shaped pancakes, thanks to a great aunty for the silicone shapes!)

Cheers!

A Birthday

Was celebrated last week. My boy turned 7! I still don't know where all those years went. One moment he is a baby, wanting constant feeding, next he is at school, can read by himself and needs a bigger bike! (Which luckily was a birthday present).

As seems to be the tradition since I began sewing, my kids get a new outfit for their birthdays. DS actually checked to make sure I was making one :) And when I handed him a present to unwrap, he said "Ohhh it's from Mummy. Must be new clothes". Well then, no surprises there.

I had fun picking the patterns, as he is now a size 128 (euro sizing for those thinking he is a giant lol). So that means for a lot of the Ottobre patterns, he is in the next/bigger size range, and there is some seriously cool boys wear for older boys.

Some influence for choosing patterns came from a piece of fabric I received in a Crafty Mama's swap from the lovely Lissy of handmade - homegrown. It was a woven in black with awesome dragons on it. I knew immediately that I wanted to make a button up shirt. But heading into winter and with only just enough fabric to scrape a short sleeve shirt from, also taking into account the fact that DS really didn't like button up, collared shirts, I was in for a challenge. The pants fabric was some widewale cord that I had been hoarding for years! The t-shirt fabric was a remnant of a stretchy knit - probably a cotton/elastane blend - beautiful to sew.

1/2007 had exactly what I was looking for! A button up shirt, combined with a long sleeve t-shirt (#31). Perfect. Even better, the pants paired with it in the magazine (#32), were just what I was looking for. DS loved it!






I also realised after beginning to sew the t-shirt part, that it was navy blue not black like the shirt. But it works well. I had to fussy cut the sleeves in the dragon fabric, and didn't notice that the blue dragons were different sizes at each selvedge. But these are unimportant details - it looks great overall - and I am finally getting to the point of "blind man....galloping horse" about my sewing (ie: it is perfect to my hubby, it is only me that notices the fiddly bits).

Little boast for the binding - look how great it went on with the twin needle :) Though the stupid needle decided to skip when I did the hem and I had no more, so I won't show you that.



Oh, and a sugar laden cake :) The Treasure Island cake from the Womens Weekly Kids Cake Book.


Cheers!