Look at me go at the moment with the blog posts eh? Pacing myself and setting tasks for both being creative and everyday living I think is working. Don’t get me wrong, I still have bad days but I’m off back to work next week on a phased return. Now for some Valentine’s creations! If you are easily offended by swear words and rude prints then don’t read any further!!

If you check out my January 2021 creations post, I use Trello for breaking down tasks and I can check them off as I go. Set myself an hour at most to be sat at my machine sewing each day if I can. If not, to beat myself up if I have to miss a day or so.

Since I’ve been at home recovering and in between home schooling, the creative juices have been flowing freely. So I thought I would make the Hubby some nice sewn gifts for Valentine’s day.

I had offered to make him a T-shirt for a long while now, you know how it is when you just wanna make stuff yourself.

Wendy Ward Felix T-shirt

I am ashamed to say I’ve had Wendy’s Sewing basics for everybody book for over a year with good intentions of making things out of it but never got round to it.

The book itself is great as it’s based on five core basic patterns with full variations and instructions to make twenty different designs in both woven and knitted fabrics for any gender, age or body shape.

So I decided to make the hubby his long awaited T-shirt using the Felix pattern. I used Bamboo Jersey in Charcoal from Pound A Metre at a steal for £10 for 3m. Unfortunately, It is no longer available. It is of superb quality and just what I wanted without it being too thin and drapy.

Tracing out the pattern was ok as it was only 4 pattern pieces. I managed to get the last of my tracing paper used out of it. So that’s another thing to add to my shopping list. Yeah, I even taped together the off cuts!

As with T-shirts the construction is quick and easy when using my overlocker. Yet, for some strange reason my knife decided not to trim anymore, It was squishing the fabric! So I ended trimming down the seam before hand and then overlocking.

I used Wendy’s technique of basting the neckband in before securing it with my overlocker and was in perfectly.

Mr Singer came out to play for twin needle hems where I used black thread for a bit of contrast and worked really well.

I had to use an quite apt garment label by Kylie and The Machine and use as it as bit of a feature. The hubby quite liked that.

Here is the Tee. It’s a great fit with the raglan sleeves and made a size 43″ chest which fits his broad shoulders nicely.

Thread Theory Comox Trunks

This has been on my sewing list for a few years now but never managed to master the fly bit till now! Hurrah!

Tamlyn shared this jersey in our Felicity Fabrics Blogger chat. It was meant to be the perfect under crackers for the hubby. It is from Little Legs Fabrics, where they have a varied range of fabrics.

To be on the safe side i went for the size 39″ and made the front fly option. The hubby has informed me that he doesn’t use the fly so I could of saved a load of head scratching!

Thankfully, there is a fabulous tutorial on Thread Theory’s Blog showing different options. Next time round, I’ll size down and leave out the fly.

They were a pretty good sew to make and will be making them for him again. Maybe, I’ll use the jersey band option rather than plush elastic for a cleaner finish inside. I will lengthen the leg too so they are more like trunk length. Who doesn’t love a cheeky Kylie and the Machine garment label?! Yeah, there was a lot of threads to tidy up too.

Memade Card

I used my Cricut explorer Air 2 to make the hubby’s valentine’s day card. I used a simple heart and kisses SVG and cut out on glitter and plain cardstock.

Rather than going to overboard, I kept it simple and the hubby liked it also.

I am really cuffed that I was able to make my hubby all Valentine’s day gifts and think he really appreciated the time and effort I put into them which want counts.

Received goodies

The lovely Caroline and Fliss of Felicity fabrics sent us ladies a lovely bit of shortbread biscuit with the cutest icing ever. It was lovely with a cuppa of tea.

No valentine’s day breakie is complete without croissants in the Kendall household. Had a Chinese takeaway for tea followed by making a start on this book that Mr K bought me for Valentine’s day. I even made my own bookmark with my Cricut machine too.

Did you manage to make your loved ones any gifts this year so far, even if you don’t celebrate Valentines day.

Happy Sewing

Sal

xx

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Now if you haven’t heard about Wow Fabrics before, where have you been?!! It’s a fabulous family run company that can print any type of print you’d like into 13 different fabric options!! But here is a little bit of info about them:

The fabric company with the ‘WOW’ factor. Based in the heart of the UK, and with an international reach, and using our in house state of the art digital printers a process known as ‘sublimation’, we’re able to offer high quality bespoke printed fabric for all of your fashion needs.

Wow Fabrics has over 50 years combined experience in creating bespoke printed fabrics and textiles, producing items for worldwide licensed brands such as Star Wars, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story, Pokemon and World of Warcrafts., in addition to working with small and startup businesses.

With competitive prices, extremely fast turnaround times, no minimum order quantity and extensive knowledge around placement printing and products, and a strict quality control in place, we’ll help to give your creations the ‘Wow’ factor.

Also there is many different fabric options to use so at long last no print is just set for one type of fabric!!! Yay!

Now you all know me by now, i am a sucker for a cute and quirky print and this fabric just fits the bill nicely! I picked J226 Yummy Cookie Love Heart Food Print on Liverpool base fabric.

I was a scaredy cat and didn’t make a dress but used this fabulous fabric to make myself a Tilly and The Buttons Juno Shortie PJ set. This pattern is from her latest book – Make it Simple which it really is and its a range of patterns from using woven fabric to jersey and in between.

Now on reading the measurements and on previous makes recently from her book at started with a size 6 for the shoulders, size 7 for Bust and Waist and finally a Size 8 for the Hips. I decided for a bit of contrast, i used black ribbing for the neckband.

The instructions on altering the bottom pants were easy to follow and i added an extra 3 inches to the length of mine as i ain’t one for showing masses of wobbly legs hahaha!

As usual, when i ever i try a fabric that i haven’t used before, i try a few stitch lengths to see which one holds the best and turns out Mr Singer behaved with a short zig-zag stitch. As always make sure your bobbins are full, nothing wose when running out of thread at the bottom when you are nearly finished!.

These do really sew up really quickly and i added a Kylie and the machine “You can’t buy this” label to the neckband whilst sewing it in place. Which of course was quite apt for these unique Pjs!

Now to be brave of using Black thread for my top stitching detail! Yeah… i like to live dangerously!

Then onto sewing in the sleeves, hemming the Tee and then remembering to pull the ends through on the threads on the right side to the wrong side and knot. Phew one Part of the Pj’s made! Yas!

Now onto the Shorts!

I lengthened the shorts by 6 inches are i ain’t one for ‘short’ shorts! but that was pretty easy to do in the book as Tilly shows you how to make the PJ long pants that were close fitting into short style and it’s not as hard as you may think.

These were a breeze to make as they are elasticated and they were sewn in no time at all and finished my hem with twin needle stitch and voila here is cute set of Pjs!

Happy Sewing!

Sal xx

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Oh this is going to be one yummy post people, I can’t guarantee that you won’t be wanting your own set!!

The lovely Danni from Oh Sew Quaint had sent me this ever so gorgeous Fondant Fancies for myself to review

They were packaged up with lots of love and care in plenty of Tissue Paper and there they were all lovingly waiting to be opened up! I must say not even out of the box they look absolutely mouth watering!

Once i opened up the Box, i couldn’t believe of how life like they are!! They do look good enough to eat my youngest son see’s them on the Table and asks if he can have a bun!!

They are a great weight too and the box of 8 do the job for placing on a quite a big pattern piece like I’ve shown here whilst cutting out the Moneta Dress by Colette Patterns which was my 1st Design Team Project for Sew Crafty.

The Box is handy in itself to keep them all nice and safe too so its a win win here!

In-case you missed my little video on Instagram here it is showing you how cute they are!!

A video posted by Sally Kendall (@theyorkshiresewist) on Feb 2, 2017 at 5:40am PST

So if your not sure where you can order these pretties along with Scrummy Doughnuts and macaroons!! yes you heard me right! Then head on over to Danni’s shop at Etsy or over at Sewcrafty to get your Sweet ‘fix’!!

Again a very big thank you to Danni for letting me have such a beautiful and well made set of Pattern Weights!!

Sal xx

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