Two Masks and Planning with Cutting Out...

 

 

Made a little bag I made into two masks a couple weeks back. Cute lizards! Had been fabric left over from jammies a few years ago. Used a cute fat quarter in checks for the linings.  Used the rectangle mask pattern with the MimiG elastic method - love that hybrid. My family likes that too. 

 

 

 

Planning to sew these five projects - have cut out 2 of these plus a poncho and two doll outfits. I like a pile of projects cut out - a large pile. Cutting is not my favorite part of sewing, so doing it over a couple of weeks and then sewing at my leisure is my way of countering that. All are just the tees except the New Look with the jacket - that is going to be the kimono jacket in a lovely red with floral Asian fabric I bought from the classifieds on PatternReview.  Four tees are from the fabric I bought from Girl Charlee.  

 

 

Here are the two dolly outfits and the poncho. Good old REAL KWIK SEW pattern with the nice white paper. Extremely easy poncho pattern. The doll outfits are one for 18" and one for 14".  But I am not sewing at all until I get everything cut out. I have enough pink cotton sweatshirt knit left after cutting the poncho to make a nightgown, so I am going to draft a pattern for that from one I have that I really like - very simple.   Stay tuned and stay safe!

 

 

Little Asian Quilt #4 Finished and Two More Masks...

 

 

 

Bound and finished. Now it is covering the extension table on my Brother Pacesetter PS500.  Scrappy quilts might be something I do a lot more of over time, but not any time very soon.   Somehow I ended up doing a couple more masks, one is a bit smaller than the other, so we'll see how that fits the wearer! These are from a pattern I drafted from my Vera Bradley mask but somehow they don't look the same. But the fabric is cute. Lined with white cotton. 

 

 

So now there are four more masks to make - two like these and then two others, and my cutting out has progressed to two doll outfits, and then I need to cut out some tops from the knits I bought. Two are silly prints that will light up my mood when I pull them out! :) 

Kitty Quilt #4...Masks and Kitty Quilts with Cat...

 

 

See? They are kitty quilts. ;)  He seems to like them a lot...

 

 

 

Now here is the last batch of masks and the next kitty quilt ready to be quilted with deco stitching again this time. 

 

 

 

That's about it for an update. No more masks for awhile anyway.  The quilting on the little Quilt #4 will commence very soon. Other planning going on - planning is always fun, even when changes are made. :)

Looking Back To Nurses Training...

Here is my finished Student Nurse Uniform. Based on my own Junior year outfit back in the day, some differences exist. The blue checks are the right value of blue but not the plaid we had, and the collar and cuffs were separate then and we had to put the uniform together every day. :) I purchased the white tights and little white shoes, but the dress and Bib-n-Apron and cap had patterns. However, I redid almost everything about some of the patterns and combined them in this outfit. The patterns I used were all Rosie's Doll Patterns.  The dress is a reworking for front opening of the Vintage Dress. The Bib-n-Apron is the Pinafore Dress, the sleeves on the dress are from the Drop Waist Dress pattern. Cuffs were self-drafted.

If I make another one it will have a small scale plaid, and a redesigned collar - one piece collar all around. This has a two piece collar. :) I sewed little buttons on the front of the dress but it really closes with hook and loop tape. As does the bib-apron. Our bib and aprons back then were separate as well and we had to assemble that piece of our uniform too. That was very practical in terms of staying clean - the apron helped a lot. They deleted that from the uniform in the year after ours. Glad I wore the traditional uniform and had the traditional cap. :) This was a challenging and fun project.