A Hobbit style Patchwork Robe

 

Oh yeah, look what I made! 
Yes, it's a Hobbit inspired patchwork robe for my son Joe's birthday.

It was quite the journey making it. I ran out of fabric, I ran out of time. I also had problems with the pattern but in the end, a little miracle happened and then it was finished!

My son absolutely loves his robe, he looks super hobbit-ty in it!

If you'd like to see the epic, almost Hobbit style adventure that I took with this sewing project then click here.....

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Sewing a tea towel (dish towel) dress

 

Please be in awe of my latest sewing creation, this fabulous dress made from an old vintage tea towel and the dress itself is made from 90% used (upcycled & free) fabric. 

The pattern is the Joy Mini Tea Towel Dress, you can grab it here: https://tidd.ly/41Rnvlc and yes, it's worth the money as it has the best 'sleeve pattern, insertion' that I've come across in all my sewing.

I filmed myself making it & have a major question to ask you, so please click here to see me make it & tell me what you think.

I made a 4xl top with a 5xl skirt. The pattern was super easy to follow, I was originally going to add a ruffle to the length of it but decided to leave it at this longish tunic length. If I find that I'm not wearing it because it's too short then I'll add a patchwork ruffle to make the dress longer.

I'm definitely going to make more of these as it was such a fun sew, I LOVE scrap fabric and using free fabric is even better! If you want to see how I sourced free fabric then I've got a couple of videos up on YouTube here..... so check them out for yourself.

This is what the back of the dress looks like (below) not as cute as the front but still pretty cute! I'm now off to source some more cute vintage tea towels to make lots more!

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Eco: 'unpaper' towels or bench wipes

 

Have you heard of 'unpaper' towels before? You may call them bench wipes or cloth wipes or reuseable wipes/cloths. You can use them instead of paper towels, use & wash then use again. No waste.

Can you tell what these were made from? 

I made them from the kids old bibs! I found the pile of them in the back of the cupboard as I could never figure out what to do with them when they out grew them!

Yes, I could have donated them to the charity shop but they're old & stained and they'd probably have been tossed in the shop's bin. The wipes were so easy to make, I just sewed a seam across, trimmed the top off then zigzagged along the edge. Easy. A quick satisifying project that didn't even take 10 minutes!

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Scraps to usefulness: curtain tiebacks

I 'uncovered' a window the other day aka, tidying up all the stuff in front of it so it lets more light through! So the next thing I wanted to do then, was to let in even more light and the best way to do that is to make curtain tiebacks as they pull the curtain back all the way to let the daylight in.

I couldn't decide on what fabric to use, so I used the one that 'fell' out of the cupboard, old jeans!

I then used all the fancy stitches on my machine along with all the odd remnants of thread to make it colourful. After trimming, I edged in remnant binding stripes and voila.

Curtain tiebacks for the backroom!

And now on to the next stash busting project, I wonder what I can make next!

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Scrap busting: a mini bassinet for a doll

 

Would you believe that this little toy cot/bassinet is made from scraps? Yeah, it sure is and here's the photo to believe it!