I continue to now and then write reviews for patternreview.com, or as I like to call it, “Thin mid-to-upper class white women who sew tailored dressy stuff get all the attention and no one gives a damn about my whimsy!“* Today Nels is sporting the rather way-too-awesome Ready Set Robot shirt:
Zig-zag topstitching, which is a THING I ADORE:
Nels can, & does, like to button:
OH SNAP did I line that front placket up perfectly? WHY YES
Tuff, but fair:
Best thing ever is that Nels loves the shirt. This is a good thing; he literally will not wear something I make if he doesn’t like it. Yay robots, red, and orange!
* For instance arguably one of the awesomest things ever sewn, my Narwhal baby bunting, only reaped one comment up in that site. Seriously, people? GAH!
Kelly,
If the readers of that website cannot appreciate the exquisite awesomeness that is your narwhal bunting or Nels’ kick-ass robot bowling shirt with orange buttons, then they don’t deserve to see your whimsical masterpieces!
You make sewing look FUN and seeing what you make inspires me and gives me hope that maybe I could sew like you if I kept at it. Please keep sharing your art!
Thanks,
Lindsay
Well I pretty much clicked through to say the exact same thing as Lindsay, so instead I’ll just remark that Nels looks fantastically beautiful in the photograph above.
Aw, thanks you too!
Lindsay, my exact hope is to help inspire people to sew and make sewing their own. Then they will show me their stuff and re-inspire me and it will be just a big, huge CIRCLE OF LIFE except with lots of sewing, while one ignores housework or grumpy husbands or kids who are tearing the house apart.
Anyway, I appreciate the compliments. And yes, Lindsay, you can sew like me. If “sew like me” means make many mistakes and cuss a lot, then every now and then have a resounding success! Because even with EVERYTHING I’ve sewn I still screw up, tons. Weird.
I love it when you find that thing that a child enjoys wearing (or doing for that matter) My mom made all our clothes when we were little. And i still remember some of my favorite outfits.
My mom sewed for us when we were little but she gradually stopped. I do remember she made my Halloween costumes every year – and could always be counted on to really rock it.