February Giveaway!

Here is February's slightly late giveaway, but just in time for my birthday tomorrow! In honor of the illustrious day of my birth, I present to you:

Butterick 2137, a 1960's pencil dress with sleeve and collar variations in a 36 bust!

McCalls 3240, a 70s pattern for a yoked tunic/dress with or without giant ruffle and crisscross ties! (36 bust)

McCalls 4085, a 70s A-line dress for a maxi or mini. Mmm, just look at that mini with a slit! So fun cause you get to wear tiny shorts under it (wat?). Lady in blue looks like she stepped of the set of Star Trek. 34 bust.

 And finally, Simplicity 8820 in a 36 bust! A 70s sailor wardrobe pattern makes all the garments you will ever need: a bra top that looks like a sports bra, wide leg pants, an actually cute sailor dress and a costumey sailor coat, which it seems you can also wear sans pants. Who needs pants anyways?

Winner receives all four patterns and I will mail them anywhere! Leave a comment to enter by Monday, Feb 25 at midnight and I will choose a winner next week! If you want, link to an even funnier 70s pattern! Just to get you started:

Image from here, and there's more!

February Goals

First, I have to recap my January goals to see if I made any progress:

1. Cut out coat fabric and baste to underlining- CHECK!

2. Make Stephanie a birthday dress- CHECK!

3. Make a 70s sundress- CHECK!

Extra bonus- learned how to add bra cups to a dress

4. Make the hilarious pajama set- CHECK!

Extra bonus- I made a pair of slippers!

5. Make a pair of gloves- I have them cut out and one thumb is partially attached. (That sounds like the lead in to all those horrible medical shows I love)

6. Draft pattern for my military-inspired dress- I bought some thread to match (bronze green) and I plan on doing that this weekend.

February Goals!

1. After putting out both of the quilt I made for the pajama photo shoot, it made me look at them closely. I love my quilts, but they are made to be used, and they get washed in the machine. There are quite a lot of seams coming apart, so I need to mend them.

2. Sew the outer shell of the coat, Vogue 755.

3. Make this dress, Simplicity 2918. I am going to make the one on the left out of this blue geometric fabric. The squares are made up of squiggly lines, if you look closely.

4. Make this dress, which I have made before here. I wear that dress all the time. It is cute, but loose and comfortable and it has pockets. I bought this fabric over Xmas at that giant fabric store in Portland, and I already had a bunch of grey buttons.

5. Make this dress, McCalls 5972. I want to make the one to the right because it has an interesting collar.

6. I want to finish my gloves too, and sew in my labels into everything I have made. I always forget to do that.

7. I also bought the Pendrell pattern from Sewaholic. I am so stingy- it was hard to actually pay more than a dollar for a pattern, but I love Tasia, and it is good to support independent pattern designers, too! It might not get here from Canada for awhile, so that might be a March goal.

8. Super important! I just bought my and Andrew's tickets to Oregon for Anna's wedding, so I need to hem my bridesmaid dress!

So, we'll see. I am always open to making things on a whim, as well, so who knows!