Even though it’s raining and windy outside we’re feeling summery in
the losing my thread household. We have booked a little summer break and are
looking forward to heading off to the British seaside next month. With that in
mind I made S some beach clothes…
First up… after testing the Willow and Co Ash jumpsuit I had
to try one of the other patterns from the Wanderlust collection. Now that I have
a little boy I thought I’d take a look at some of the unisex patterns and went
for the Mulberry tunic designed by Olga from Kid Approved. There are some other
Mulberry tunic examples here and here from other bloggers.
I have been waiting for some time to use this neon pink bias
binding! Kerchow! Actually applied the bindng incorrectly, not the fault of the
instructions but my printer ran out of ink so I couldn’t see the picture
properly and I only figured it out afterwards, never mind - it looks okay! I made a size bigger than the size chart as
I wanted it to fit over other clothing (and also I’m hoping it’ll fit next year
too).
I topstitched in pink...wish I’d used white now. The
topstitching looks a bit wonky in the middle – it was tricky to get to lay straight, I think it's because the pattern is
not designed for such thick fabric and the construction in this part has stitching through 5 layers,
so getting the perfect finish with towelling was tricky, but it doesn’t matter. We like it!
I left the neck opening, opting against using buttons and used
an embroidery stitch to finish the edging on the neck, hem and sleeves. I think
it works well with the towelling but my husband thinks it is too open. Let me
know what you think… I used an overlocking stitch to put it together so the
seams are finished but not too bulky.
And now for the shorts...
To go with the hoody I made cut off denim shorts from some
jeans S has grown out of. I frayed the edges with a quick unpick (it was chilly when we went ot the park so she didn't wear them together for our photo shoot).
There’s a blog series which just finished on Elegance and Elephants called 'Let the kids decide', designed to encourage makers to let their
children to have a creative input into their clothes…Normally S has very strong
opinions on what I make and what she puts on in the morning so she is heavily involved
anyway (she won’t wear it otherwise!) but I wanted to include something solely
her idea in the project. I was thinking of a floral pattern for the shorts but
I asked S and she suggested waves which was much better than my idea!
Ironically I missed the deadline for that event because she decided not to pose
for photos (oh well!).
I used a stencil cut from card and decolourant paste to
create the pattern and then picked out details with a Sharpie pen. Find out how
to use the paste here on vera luna’s blog that’s where I found out about it! I
was disappointed at first because it didn’t come out with as much of a contrast as
I had thought it would but the more I get used to it the more I like it.
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| Just after the decolourant is applied |
Not without mistake but at the end of the day it’s just something
fun to put on at the beach and it was fun to make too. Can’t wait for our holiday now!
