Miss P has been enjoying some extra time at home during our COVID-19 quarantine and has been spending a fair amount of it sewing. Her biggest project so far has been this blouse.
We’ve been in a “use what we have” mindset and she chose some fabric that I had thrifted several years ago. I don’t know anything about the fabric but it was enough to make this cute blouse. She made a few adjustments to a pattern that was originally my mother-in-law’s.
She has been watching videos by Bernadette Banner and wanted to try hand stitching the entire blouse. She spent many hours stitching the seams, whipping the seam edges, top stitching, and making button holes. I think she did a beautiful job.
She said that was enough hand stitching for a while so machine stitched her next project.
She wanted to make a new backpack out of some grey canvas I had on hand. She drafted out a pattern but then found there was not enough of the canvas. She then, scaled everything down and made a lunch bag of the same design. Again, she did great work.
She is now working on a bag from Betz White’s book, Present Perfect.
